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Founded: January, 2005/ Established:
September 2005
Down Memory Lane
2003
SOULS
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PREPARING TO
LEAVE FOR THEIR 2003 SWITZERLAND TOUR
Left to Right
Dennis Murray, Chris Taylor, Eva Taylor, Scott Guthrie, Jason Smith,
Eddie Hershman,
Jeanette Harris, Shannon Watkins, Kerensa Gray, Frances Jones, and Emma
Watkins
(Not in the photograph: Lucretia Berry, Kenneth Watkins, Isaiah Thomas, Jr. and Sr., Jason Owens, Angelo and Craig Taylor )
2005
Souls Won ministries opens doors
in South Cumberland
Exciting "Grand Opening" and
Singing Ministry Group Pictures from 2005
The Original Announcement
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Worship services and events will soon be taking place (across the street from Domino’s Pizza, at the former Tri-State Teen Challenge building) at 12 W. Industrial Blvd., Cumberland, Md., beginning with a
“Grand Opening” celebration there on September 18, 2005, at 3:00
p.m., hosted by both Pastor Kenneth and Pastor Shannon Watkins, and other surprise guests (local pastors, and possibly Mayor Lee N. Fiedler, and Michael Mudge of the Virginia Avenue Betterment Committee, featured musical guests, and many others!). There will be
a ribbon cutting ceremony from 3:00-3:30 p.m., and the dedication service will follow at 3:45 p.m. at the Kingsley Grace Mission Center, 130 Virginia Avenue.
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Regular, weekly services will begin after the grand opening. Services will be at 3 p.m. on 9/18, 9/25, and 10/2. Services will be conducted at
11 a.m. each Sunday thereafter, beginning on 10/9.
Pastors Kenneth and Shannon
Watkins, of SOULS
WN
Outreach Ministries, and Mayor Lee N. Fiedler, City of
Cumberland
12 W. Industrial Blvd., new home of the outreach
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More Pictures at Bottom of Article
By Jennifer Raley, Times-News Staff Writer
Monday, September 19, 2005 10:33 AM EDT
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| Pastor Kenneth Watkins of Soul's Won
Outreach Ministries, left, goes over the afternoon's agenda with
Michael Mudge of the Virginia Avenue Betterment Committee at the
dedication celebration for the new ministries center Sunday.
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CUMBERLAND - Singing, hip-hop
dancing and praying are among the many activities that are about to
begin at the newly opened Souls Won Outreach Ministries in South
Cumberland. "It's a tremendous thing for our community," Mayor
Lee Fielder said following Sunday's ribbon-cutting ceremony. "It's
a tremendous outreach for so many people and it's really good for
Cumberland."
The ministry, located at 12 West Industrial Blvd. near the intersection
of Virginia Avenue, will focus on providing positive choices for area
youth, said Pastor Shannon Watkins who, along with her husband Pastor
Kenneth Watkins, founded the outreach.
"We want to give back and bring people together," Kenneth
Watkins said of his non-denominational, multi-racial ministry. The
Watkins founded Souls Won Ministries, a local gospel recording and
singing group, in 1996 and have ministered at a variety of festivals,
conferences and college and church events.
"The greatest thing is just the fact that they bring something
different to the table that will touch the teen-agers," Pastor
Matthew Ellis of the City of Refuge in Cumberland said of the Watkins.
"Teen-agers won't have to be like them - they'll be like the
teen-agers."
Ellis said the outreach will be attractive to people who may not be
interested in attending a traditional church.
"It's just an awesome thing
for so many people," said Joseph Harris who traveled to the
ribbon-cutting ceremony from Washington with his wife Jeanette who sings
with the Watkins and has a music video that is played on the BET
channel.
A food and clothing bank may also be established at the outreach, said
Kenneth Watkins.
"This neighborhood just needs many groups working together to bring
a spirit of renewal to this neighborhood," said Michael Mudge of
the Virginia Avenue Betterment Committee.
Services will be held at the outreach on Sept. 25 and Oct. 8 at 3 p.m.
and at 11 a.m. each Sunday beginning on Oct. 9. For more information,
log onto http://www.communitydoor.org/soulswon
Jennifer Raley can be reached at jraley@times-news.com.
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Left:
Back row - left to right: Katina Fairfax, Christopher Taylor, Joe Watkins, Vicki Holmes,
Angelo Taylor; Front Row left to right: Pastor Kenneth and Pastor Shannon Watkins (founders);
Inserts: Left - Ev. Emma Watkins, Right - Julie Ann Boyce.
SOULS
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MINISTRIES 2005
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Right:
SOULS
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MINISTRIES BAND
Left to right:
Greg Staub, Chris Taylor, Don Robinson, Kenny Watkins, Dennis
Murray, Angelo Taylor, Joe Watkins
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