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Greetings:
My name is Raymond L. Davis, Founder,
Chairman/CEO of Genesis Network and Counseling Center,
Inc. (GNCC), an Atlanta based
501c(3)non-profit organization celebrating 20 Years
1990-2010 of “Community Service to America” and the 2010
Dining Out REDD™ National Spokesman. On behalf of our
Executive Directors, Officers, our Board and Ex-Officio
Board Members, our Staff and most of all, our clients we
have served across America dealing with Health issues
from HIV/AIDS to Heart Disease and many other community
and faith based initiatives and programs. For more info
about Genesis and our 20 year journey, visit our new
website under construction at
www.genesis-network.org.
You may visit my website at
www.raymonddavis.com
for a small bio and my 25th+ Silver
Commemoration as an HIV/AIDS Survivor. My upcoming tell
all autobiography, (I’m not telling you the name, yet,
nor all the drama…LOL), scheduled to be released this
summer 2010. The late Paul Harvey would say, “And now
for the rest of the story”. Things I’ve wanted to say
for 25+ years and answer that personally I have never
shared with America. Politics has been apart of my life
since I was about 7 or 8 years old. In 1997, I
officially began my political career in Atlanta for City
Council, District #3. As a candidate for City Council, I
made HIV/AIDS a top priority and all health issues. I
have always had other important issues during my public
service life. On May 24, 2010, I will announce my bid to
run for the United States Congress, House of
Representatives, Georgia, 5th Congressional
District. Visit my congressional website under
construction at
www.RaymondDavisforCongres.com.
I will become the first American to run for the US
Congress disclosing having AIDS.
I am elated to have my big sister in ministry for all of
my life, Gospel Recording Artist Babbie Mason,
as the 2010 Spokeswoman for Dining Out REDD™. She’s
known me all my life, both her and her husband Chuck
Mason, has served as Ex-Officio Board Members for
Genesis for 15 Years. Babbie does double duty as one of
the Co-Spokesperson of the National Red Ribbon Campaign
and Partnership’s Faith Based Initiative. (NRRCP) Please
visit her website at
www.Babbie.com
for more information. God has blessed her with nearly a
five-decade career in Gospel and Christian Contemporary
Music, Author, TV Host, Stellar and Dove award nominee
and winner, Grammy Nominee, Song Writer/Publisher, CEO
of “Embrace”, (A women’s praise, worship and word
conference), Founder, Mason Hill Music and Studio 1117,
2009 Gospel Choice recipient of the “Tomas A Dorsey
Award”, Inductee of the 2010 Christian Music Hall of
Fame and the 2010 Female Christian Vocalist and Inductee
of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Her ministries have
touched thousands of people across our great Nation and
the World. As Founder, Chairman/CEO of Genesis, I
personally thank her for relentless walk with me over my
25+ years of living with HIV and AIDS, always giving
words of encouragement and prayers along the journey.
Genesis is also proud to have one of our National
program’s named the Babbie Mason School of Music and
Performing Arts. Babbie has a scripture coming from the
book of Jeremiah that is stated in every concert
she performs and 29:11 reads,
“For I know the plans I have for you,”
declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm
you, plans to give you hope and a future.” NIV
Dining Out REDD™ is a national benefit event for
monthly, weekly, and individual days for Health Issues
and diseases that have been officially
recognized by the President of the United States of
America, Secretary of Health and Human Services, the
National Institute of Health, and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. Almost two years ago, we
at Genesis brainstormed for a way to bring back to the
forefront of HIV/AIDS in combination with each and every
health disease that infects or affects all of us as
American’s. Heart Disease is the #1 killer of all
Americans and Complications due to AIDS is the #2 killer
of Americans.
We thank all American’s for their support from around
the Nation. It may be in New York City, at a Casino in
Las Vegas, a nightclub in Los Angeles or San Francisco,
fine Restaurants in South Beach, Miami, FL, a bar in
Billings, MT, getting
“chilled
in the Dakota’s, serving up Margaritas in Texas or New
Mexico; A little spot in Chicago, shivering from the
cold, a proposal of marriage in Vermont, Iowa,
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Hawaii and maybe soon in DC,
where the President and First Lady maybe hanging
out for a little lovely night, prestigious restaurants
in Atlanta, good old southern cooking from Alabama to
Mississippi, getting Cajun or French in New Orleans, a
sunny day in Seattle, a rainy night in Georgia, Cheese
Steaks from Philly, and so many unique cities filled
with great traditional food cooked for hundreds of
year’s and now apart of America somewhere, be HEART
Healthy.
Dining out REDD™ purpose is to involve all
restaurants, nightclubs and bars to help curve
American’s overall quality of life which pertains mostly
with our eating habits and our health. Many diseases we
hear about each and everyday but there are thousands of
healthcare issues we never heard of before unless it
happens to ourselves, families or friends. Folic Acid
is a disease that I had never heard of until just a
few days ago. The places that many American’s frequent
often which ultimately leads as a major part of our
overall healthcare, which includes not only our physical
health but our mental and spiritual health. We invite
you to become an Individual Partner, Proud Sponsor or
Major Sponsor for Dining Out REDD™. We are pleading with
the Private, Fortune 500 Corporations and the entire
business sector to reach out and help us win the war
against HIV disease that is almost 29 years old. It’s
now the 21st Century, and we’ve entered into
the second decade and HIV/AIDS is still full of
stigmatism, homophobia, based on gender, and can you
believe even race? Haven’t we been there before in the
20th Century? HIV/AIDS is an equal
opportunity disease. Whether you’re Black, White, Asian,
Latino, Caribbean, or American Native Indian, it’s
infecting us all. Dining Out REDD™ will make it a top
priority to focus on every healthcare issue that we can
that is infecting Americans and affecting lives all
around the World. |