Raze of Hope Ministries

01/07/2026

We pray for the family

01/04/2026

01/04/2026

Tamela Mann dominates the 2025 NAACP Image Awards with two gospel wins. Relive the night’s highlights and celebrate gospel music’s finest! https://bit.ly/41GXnco

01/04/2026

Remembering S. Henderson

01/04/2026

Because of You, Haiti Has Hope ❤️🇭🇹

As 2025 comes to a close, our hearts are full of gratitude. Because of your generosity—and the courage and resilience of the Haitian people—hope is taking root even in the most difficult circumstances.

✨ Here’s what YOU made possible this year:

🌾 Families in Crisis Found Stability
After Hurricane Melissa, families received emergency food and seeds, goats to restore incomes, and building supplies to repair homes—preventing starvation and restoring dignity.

🏃🏽‍♀️ Displaced Families Found Hope
As violence forced millions to flee, 1,000 displaced families received food, seeds, goats, and school support—giving them the means to begin again.

🌱 Livelihoods Grew & the Land Healed
Through our Tree Currency Program, thousands of farmers increased incomes, earned seeds and tools, attended trainings, and planted over 127,000 trees.

👩🏽‍💼 Women Built Stronger Futures
672 women received microloans to start or grow businesses, support their families, and step into leadership.

🎓 Students Are Learning & Leading
Your generosity funded scholarships, internships, teacher salaries, and school supplies for 1,300 students—many of whom would not be in school without you.

💛 Together, We Are Raising Haiti.
Each achievement reflects your belief in the strength and potential of the Haitian people. Thank you for walking with us, believing in Haiti, and helping raise hope where it is needed most.

As the year ends, please consider making an end-of-year gift to help this vital work continue into 2026.
👉 https://raisinghaiti.org/donate.html

Thank you for your compassion. Thank you for your generosity. Thank you for helping raise Haiti. 💙

01/04/2026

Sharecroppers, just before moving to Southeast Missouri Farms.
Year 1938.

01/04/2026

Most people don’t realize this, but Black Egyptians are not a theory. They are history.

For thousands of years, Egypt was not separate from Africa. It was formed by it.

The Nile was not a border; it was a lifeline, carrying people, culture, faith, and power from Nubia (present-day southern Egypt and Sudan) into Egypt itself.

This matters because one of the most skipped-over chapters in world history occurred around 744 BCE.

That’s when Piye (Piankhi), a Nubian king from Kush, entered Egypt, not as an invader, but as a ruler who believed he was restoring order. His reign marked the beginning of Egypt’s 25th Dynasty (c. 744–656 BCE)—a period when Black African pharaohs ruled Egypt.

After Piye came kings like Shabaka and Taharqa (r. c. 690–664 BCE). Taharqa ruled one of the largest empires Egypt had seen in centuries, restored temples, defended Egypt from Assyrian expansion, and governed from cities along the Nile that had always been African.

These were not outsiders.
They were Nile Valley Africans, ruling Egypt as Egyptians.

Yet this dynasty is often rushed through in textbooks—if mentioned at all.

And this story does not end in antiquity.

Black Egyptians still exist today, especially among Nubian communities whose ancestry stretches back thousands of years. Their languages, traditions, and histories are living evidence that Blackness in Egypt is not symbolic or retroactive; it is continuous.

What confuses many people is this:
Ancient Egyptians did not define themselves using modern racial categories. Identity was shaped by region, culture, language, and allegiance, not by today’s racial labels. When modern frameworks are forced onto the ancient world, history gets distorted.

This isn’t about claiming Egypt for one group or taking it from another.

It’s about restoring what was removed through oversimplification.

Egyptian history is African history.
African history is complex, interconnected, and far older than the stories we were given.

Sometimes the most important truths aren’t denied—They’re quietly skipped.

If this expanded your understanding, read deeper, question gently, and pass it on with care. History grows stronger when we tell it fully.

12/10/2025

Opelousas City Council meetings let's pray