Quarterly Faith Community Meeting

Friday, September 24, 2021
1PM

1PM Direction Home Intro – Carla Bayonnet (DHAD)
1:10PM Nurse Jane Dancy – COVID-19 Efforts in Faith Communities
1:30PM Bishop Johnson –  Grief Recovery in Faith Communities
1:50PM Health & Wellness Classes, Hosting Opportunities – Lori Smith (DHAD)
2PM Closing Remarks

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COVID-19 Efforts in Faith Communities

Jane H. Dancy obtained her nursing degree from the Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Danville, Virginia. She completed her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Malone University, in Canton, Ohio. Ms. Dancy has also attended the Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED-Akron) in Rootstown, Ohio.

Mrs. Dancy has over 35 years of nursing experience with a background in community health specifically infectious disease prevention, investigation, infant mortality, and adult health. She has hospital based nursing experience in high risk maternal child health, endoscopy, and internal medicine.

Currently, Mrs. Dancy is a member of Mount Calvary Baptist Church (MCBC) and the Mount Calvary Nurses Health Initiative under the leadership of Jeffrey A. Dennis, Senior Pastor.  The mission of the MCBC Nurses Health is to provide current health information focusing on disease prevention, and the reduction of health disparities in the African American community and other underrepresented groups. Working cooperatively with the members of the MCBC Health Initiative, the mission is accomplished through utilizing a holistic approach to servicing the community and concentrating on the mental, physical and spiritual health of all participants. Mrs. Dancy is the Nurse Liaison and a health educator for the MCBC Health Initiative.

Mrs. Dancy is an active member of the Akron Black Nurses, and the American Heart Association. She has been a member of the Brown Mackie Advisory Board and the Racial Reconciliation Ladies Group in Canton, Ohio.

Jane is married to her loving husband of 38 years Joseph G. Dancy. She has a son Matthew who along with his wife Kyrsten reside near Columbus, Ohio. Matthew and Kyrsten are raising two lovely granddaughters Adrienne and Layla who are the apple of their Gigi’s eye.

Grief Recovery in Faith Communities

Bishop Flanvis Josephus Johnson, II, better known as Bishop Joey, is the Organizer and Senior Pastor of The House of the Lord® church in Akron, Ohio and the Presiding Bishop of the Beth-El Fellowship of Visionary Churches. As a visionary, Bishop Johnson founded Johnson Leadership Institute (formerly known as the Pastoral Mentoring Institute), where he utilizes his powerful gifting to train and mentor senior pastors and other church leaders to be more effective in their local churches and to make an impact on today’s society and generations to come for the cause of Jesus Christ.

As a lover of The Holy Scriptures, with keen intellectual curiosity and an insatiable appetite for reading, Bishop Johnson founded Emmanuel Christian Academy and Logos Bible Institute to present opportunities to both children and adults to become educated and equipped in the foundation of God’s Word. Bishop Johnson is a biblical theologian and an interdisciplinary aficionado of biblical truths often teaching by unveiling the character of God and His ways.

Bishop Johnson has an open heart to share his materials and reading with Pastors and leaders to enable their development and ability to shepherd their congregations. 

Direction Home Akron Canton Overview

Carla Bayonnet, Supervisor of the Aging and Disability Resource Center and Assessment Team will be on hand, as always, to provide an overview of Direction Home Akron Canton programs and services and to answer any questions.

Offering Workshops and Classes

Lori Smith, Training Coordinator for Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging and Disabilities will discuss the different types of health, wealth, and wellness workshops for older adults and those living with disabilities and how you can help instruct, offer, or host these classes and all the benefits involved. Also, information on Matter of Balance and Tai Ji Quan workshops - what are they, how you can refer individuals from the community and how you can become a workshop leader.