06/20/2026
Celebrating community, faith, and financial empowerment! 🌟 Today’s incredible panel and celebration marked a powerful beginning. We felt truly fortunate to reconnect with familiar faces and forge new connections. It was a day filled with limitless possibilities.
At the 2026 Juneteenth Celebration, the Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Panel—presented by of Franklin County —ignited a sense of hope and empowerment. The panel consisted of our own DeWayne Lee from Healing Hearts Counseling Center, our dear friend (and guest at Party in the Park) Kyle Overmeyer of KO Addiction, our new friend Kwame Kilpatrick of Kwame Kilpatrick Ministries, and Robert Mackey from Village.
Speakers shared deep, life-changing wisdom and highlighted their powerful written works:
✨ "Freedom must be fiercely protected and continuously built upon... We will learn, we will build, and we will teach!"
— Tammy Doby, CEO & Executive Director of UMADAOP.
✨ "Freedom delayed is freedom fought for... Freedom restored!"
— Timmy Richardson, UMADAOP of Franklin County
✨ “Everyone wants to be accountable until they’re held accountable. There has to be grace in holding other people accountable.”
— DeWayne Lee, Hearts
✨ “Accountability is key to being a restored citizen!”
— Kyle Overmeyer (Founder of KO Addiction and Author of the best-selling memoir, "Prison Prodigy: Power, Prison & a Purpose Reborn")
✨ “Nothing is more beautiful than being able to redeem your name.”
— Robert Mackey, Village (Author of the upcoming book, "Steadfast Principles")
✨ "Nothing you do is small! If you are going to do the work that God called you to do… since it’s a calling, you have a responsibility to do more!"
— Pastor Kwame Kilpatrick, Ministries (Author of the memoir, "Surrendered: The Rise, Fall & Revelation of Kwame Kilpatrick")
Pastor Kwame Kilpatrick also dropped essential truths on true wealth and breaking free from keeping up with the Joneses:
* The Culture Trap: We fail to make good purchases because we are addicted to culture and looking good, instead of making good financial decisions.
* Redefining Wealth: Shift the focus from "how do we pay for it" to how we love and enjoy life in moments. The best moments in life are completely free. Stop chasing labels!