"One coach will impact more young people in a year than the average person does in a lifetime. So who's coaching the coaches? " - REVEREND BILLY GRAHAM

You are invited to the 2014 Fellowship of Christian Athlete Fundraiser

Our new and exciting format is designed to entertain as well as inform our audience on the impact FCA is making and how people, like you, can make a difference in the lives of student-athletes throughout the Quad Cities and Surrounding Areas.

When: Thursday, April 10^th

Time: 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.

Doors Open at 6:00 p.m. Get there early to purchase raffle tickets & view prizes

Where: Stoney Creek Inn • 101 18th Street Moline, IL 61265

Refreshments & Snacks Will Be Served • Business Casual Attire

The night will include a Live & Silent Auction, Testimonies, Interviews, Awards, and Guest Speaker Aaron Kampman.

Aaron is a retired American football defensive end and outside linebacker who played ten seasons in the National Football League. He played college football for the University of Iowa. He was drafted by Green Bay Packers in the fifth round of the 2002 NFL Draft, and also played for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Here is your chance to make a difference today!

Sign up to be an Automatic Monthly Partner from now until April 10th and your name will be placed into a drawing for a TOSHIBA 40" HD LCD TV

Reserve your seats today by contacting Connie at CHelm@fca.org or 309.762.8871

The Moline Public Library welcomes Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholar Donna Pierce, as she presents Meals on Wheels: Great Migration Recipes Ride the Rails North on Wednesday, April 9^th at 7:00 p.m.  This program is free and does not require registration. 

Meals on Wheels is presented as part of the six-week series Created Equal and Changing America, which explores our nation's civil rights history through film, exhibition, and presentations.  More information about the series can be found at molinelibrary.com/createdequal or by contacting the Moline Public Library at 309-524-2470.

Before the Great Migration, 90% of all African Americans in the U. S. lived in Southern states. Between 1915 and the Civil Rights Movement in the 1970s, six million black people changed their address from the segregated and "separate but equal" Jim Crow South to the urban north. Several Illinois cities have come to be known as destinations of the Great Migration including Alton, Peoria, and Chicago.  Using cookbooks and oral history, Ms. Pierce will explore migrated recipes such as smothered chicken, chitterlings, black-eyed peas, barbecue, biscuits, grits, greens, banana pudding, caramel cake, and peach cobbler. For many Illinois children and grandchildren of uprooted families, these recipes transplant them back to a South (with ties to Africa) many of them have never known, except through stories and photographs.

Donna Pierce, former Assistant Food Editor and Test Kitchen Director for the Chicago Tribune, is a Chicago-based contributing editor for Upscale magazine and a columnist for the Chicago Defender.  At the Tribune, she shared the first place award for Best newspaper Food Project in 2008 with Bill Daley, having won two first place awards for her columns in previous years. Meals on Wheels, a Road Scholars program, is presented by the Illinois Humanities Council, which is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Illinois General Assembly (through the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency), as well as by contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations.  

Created Equal: America's Civil Rights Struggle is made possible through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of itsBridging Cultures initiative, in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Changing America is presented by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of American History in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The traveling exhibition is made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.

Local support for Created Equal and Changing America has been provided by Friends of the Moline Public Library, WQPT, and The Moline Dispatch/Rock Island Argus/QCOnline. 

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Dr. Arthur Pitz will discuss slavery and the struggle for freedom in his presentation The Underground Railroad on Tuesday, April 8^th at 7:00 p.m. at the Moline Public Library (3210 41^st Street).  This program is free and does not require registration.

The Underground Railroad is presented as part of the six-week series Created Equal and Changing America, which explores our nation's civil rights history through film, exhibition, and presentations.  More information about the series can be found at molinelibrary.com/createdequal or by contacting the Moline Public Library at 309-524-2470.

The Underground Railroad wasn't a railroad and it wasn't underground, but it had "conductors" and hiding places.  It was hazardous to participate; nonetheless, there were a significant number of abolitionists who risked breaking this law.  This area saw participants involved in aiding fugitive slaves escape to freedom. Dr. Pitz will discuss how much we know of this railroad in our vicinity, how it worked, and its significance.

Historian and Professor Dr. Arthur Pitz has taught extensively throughout the Quad Cities for over 40 years.  He received his PhD in U.S. History from Northern Illinois University.  In 2000, he was the first ever recipient of Black Hawk College's Diversity Award and in 2009, was appointed guest curator by the Putnam Museum to create the exhibit Davenport's Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1974.

Created Equal: America's Civil Rights Struggle is made possible through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of its Bridging Cultures initiative, in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Changing America is presented by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of American History in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. The traveling exhibition is made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.

Local support for Created Equal and Changing America has been provided by Friends of the Moline Public Library, WQPT, and The Moline Dispatch/Rock Island Argus/QCOnline.

QUAD CITIES - The Epilepsy Foundation of the Quad Cities will feature guest speaker John Lancial at its April 3rd Support Group Meeting.  John is a member/runner of Live Uncommon, has climbed a number of mountains (including Mt. Ranier) and has epilepsy.  John will deliver his inspirational/motivational talk at the UnityPoint-Trinity Moline campus.  The meeting starts at 6:30 with presentation beginning shortly after. There is no charge - everyone is welcome. Light refreshments will be served.   

For more information contact the Epilepsy Foundation at 309.373.0377 or email toefqc@efncil.org. 

Epilepsy affects 65 million people worldwide.  Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder in the U.S. after migraine, stroke, and Alzheimer's disease. Its prevalence is greater than autism spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease combined.  1 in 26 will develop epilepsy at some point in their lifetime:  that translates to over 14,700 individuals in our Quad Cities region.

It's time to talk about epilepsy.