DREAM

My own life has been a parade of battles and triumphs….seasons of struggle and crisis that have produced incredible miracles. I have learned that struggle is merely proof that you have not yet been conquered.

God has called and anointed me to help you achieve His dreams and goals for your life.
What is your BIGGEST dream?
Yes, your obstacles might appear insurmountable today. Yes, you might be in the struggle of your lifetime right now. But get your faith up!

Your dream….. inner happiness….. is being kindled within your heart even as you read this page. New life and energy are about to spring forth within you. Miracles will be birthed in your spirit even as you read this.

So, do not give up now.

Hold onto your seat…. You are about to be catapulted out of your crisis! God is going to bless you more than you can imagine.

Need Answers

Do you need answers…. And you need them NOW? Are you facing a crisis in your life that seems insurmountable… and you do not know how much longer you can take it?

Maybe your marriage has crumbled.... or your family is turning against you.

Perhaps you have lost your job… or you are continually running out of money.
Maybe you are in constant physical pain or your health is failing.

Or maybe you are not even sure why you are alive... and you have had thoughts of ending it all. Suicide.

Maybe you are facing the biggest battle you have ever had... and you do not know if you have the strength to fight any longer.

Perhaps you are not even sure what is wrong… but you know you are just not happy and fulfilled like you want to be.

You need answers. You need Wisdom.

Keep reading. This is the information for you. The ANSWER to all of the above struggles is contained within these pages.

The fact that you are reading this page is proof of your willingness to learn.

When you are teachable, you are reachable.

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ARE YOUR FRIENDS REAL OR FAKE?
By Bishop Michael Bates Sr.

GOD WANTS TO SET YOU FREE FROM FAKE FRIENDS!


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The Powershift

The Powershift coaching is chock full of insights from the success guru himself. Michael will personally share his sercrets on such topics of:

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
•How to Design Your Dream Life,
Then Lead it Effectively!
•How to Turn Failure into Fuel for your Future.
•How to Master Your Network, to increase
Your Net worth!
•How to Burn Brightly without Burning Out.
Get Balance!
•How to Find, Maintain, and Enhance your
Passion towards Your Dream!
•Get $treet $mart. Wall $treet that is!
•Tapping into your Wellspring of Wealth
through Real Estate!
•Mastering the art of Negotiation!

MINISTRY AND CHURCH DEVELOPMENT
•How to build a Church Staff
•How to find Diamonds in the ruff
•How to break a small Church mentality
•Success vs. Significance
•Transitioning out of Denominationalism
•Staffing your weakness and much, much more!!!

To register, contact us at:
www.calvarychristiancenterstl.blogspot.com
www.michaelbatessr.blogspot.com
www.powershiftlearningcente.blogspot.com

Frustrated by the rising prices of Gasoline? Running low on faith-fuel? Welcome to Calvery Christian Center where you can FILL UP FOR FREE! Your Sunday drive is WORTH THE TRIP when your destination is Calvery Christian Center, St. Louis. There’s nothing REGULAR about us – you’ll fit right in. Everyday there are hundreds of opportunities to MAKE A DIFFERENCE in your community and in the lives of others through the impactful outreach ministries of Calvary Christian Center. Come join us and make a difference.


The faith-fuel and the service are FREE!

PREMIUM SERVICES
Sunday Morning Worship @ 9:00am*
Sunday Morning Worship @ 11:00am*
Sunday Evening Gathering @ 6:00pm*

Top off your tank during the week through our regularly
Scheduled services or several ministry opprotunities

SUPER MID-WEEK
Tuesday – Bible Study @ 7:00pm

*(Nursery and Children’s Church available)

Bates Letter

Bishop Michael Bates
Economist/Lecturer/Author

The recession and constant change in the economy is costing you thousands. Yes, you!
It’s wasting your time, costing you cash, and squeezing precious resources from your life and your business. Obviously, the financial markets have transformed our lives for the better over the last 25 years. Despite the financial collapse, we have not fully utilized economic trends for its one primary purpose: to get us what we want. Bishop Bates is a economic/finance speaker, consultant and author. He helps organizations achieve maximum effectiveness and profitability through the use of economic trends, diversity strategies, creative capital formation, and their own personal skills. His presentations provide simple but powerful real-world solutions bundled in an entertaining message of passion, energy and statistical analysis.
Please feel free to browse the market sectors below that he specializes to see how Bishop Bates can help you and your organization.

Financing/ Foreign Capital/ New Market Tax Credits/
" Recession or Not ALL BUSINESSES are always Seeking Financing"
* Recession has Frozen Credit Markets/ SHOW ME THE MONEY
* Small Businesses Administration
* Small Business Creates 80% of the Jobs All Need Financing

Diversity/ Minority Business Development/ Human Resources
"Affirmative Action is Law , Diversity is a Philosophy and Profitable"
* Human Resource Departments/ Increasing Revenues By Employee and Consumer Diversity
* Procurement Department/ Increasing Revenues Through Minority Business Development
* Diversity is Profitable

Non Profit / Social Entrepreneurship/ Fundraising/ Trade Association
"Non Profit Doesn’t' Mean Non Profitable; 21st Century Non Profit Business"
* 1.9 Million Non Profits in USA and Growing / For Profit Joint Ventures
* Creative Fundraising for Non Profits
* You Don't Get in Life What You Want But What You Negotiate ( Brand Value of Non Profits)

Sports/ Business of Sports
"Sports is a Universal Language and How To Leverage if for Business Development"
* # 1 Export of the USA
* China Building 4 New NBA Stadiums
* The Business of Sports
* How to Do Business with an Athlete

Economic Development/ Government/ Community Based/
"Strategic Alliances in Growing Business and Jobs in a City, State and a Country"
* Chamber of Commerce’s
* Economic Development Departments
* City Governments
* National Conference of Mayors
* National Association of Local Government
* Sports as an Economic Development Tool

If you would like to email his Managing Director (Karen Wright), please do so at lynn_slp@msn.com (She’ll get back to you, but give her a little time; she’s busy!).

How Hooked Are You?

Debt is like an economic cocaine: how hooked are you?

Voice of Calvary

Bishop Bates has addressed the needs of the community and has focused on issues relative to economic empowerment, health, education, housing, crime, the elderly, youth development and problems associated with the care of children within his community.

"Our social and civic institutions- families, churches, schools, neighborhoods and civic associations-have traditionally taken on the responsibility for providing our children with love and order; discipline and self-control; compassion and tolerance; civility and respect for legitimate authority; fidelity and honesty. However, for this generation of children, there has been a serious breakdown in the ability of these institutions to pass on these basic values to our children. When these institutions fail, others may need to step in." (Bishop Bates, 1991)

Bishop Bates is the Founder and C.E.O. of "Inner City Breakthrough", a comprehensive, community-driven program that provides the following:

Drug & Alcohol Rehabilitation

Mental Spiritual Rehabilitation

Food Pantry

Social & Career Mentoring'

Temporary Housing for the Homeless & Seminars on Career Planning

Programs currently on the drawing board include:

Computer Literacy School

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Center

Monthly Career Fairs

Recreational Center & Gang Prevention Counseling

For more information or to order teachings, please contact Bishop Bates at: bishopmbates@aol.com.

Minimize What's Behind You & MAGNIFY WHAT IS BEFORE YOU...

Today you entertain yours and yourselves. Who are you saving your social skills for? If you're living in a life of solitary confinement, something is wrong!!! Are you in love or in need? How do you know? If you do not value yours and yourselves existence and presence, you are in need, and not in love...

NEVER GIVE YOUR PAST MORE THAN YOU GIVE YOUR NOW. If you give your past more than you give your now, your future will ne dark. Now let's talk about this four letter word LOVE. When you give it to someone who is WORTHY, it will come back, GOOD MEASURE, PRESSED DOWN, SHAKEN TOGETHER, and RUNNING OVER!

The song by William McDowell, "I Give Myself Away," is by someone who has given themselves away-- Love is not love until you give yourself away. When you invest in an empty opportunist, it will create pain that makes the soul sick and the mind cripple.

Who can restore what they've taken from you and OUT OF YOU?? Not only did they take something from you, but they took something OUT OF YOU!! Who can restore what they have taken, but God? He's the only person who can give it back. Why don't you let Him... why don't you let Him?

Your PASSION for LIFE will take you FORWARD!!! Stop living just for others. Today, it's you and yours! EVERYDAY SHOULD HAVE A THEME... This has been a PowerShift Moment by Michael Bates (for more, join me on Facebook at Michael A Bates Sr)

ARE YOU READY TO TAKE THE LIMITS OFF??

Dear Co-Laborer in Christ,

I have two questions to ask you:

1. Are you ready to experienc success in the things that matter most to you?
2. Are you ready to walk in a level of faith that produces massive results?

Well now is the time to take faith to another level! Bottom line, I want to make sure you win in 2010!! I will leave no stone unturned and you will see the results... Now, I know that everyone won't choose to be a part-- It's not for everybody. In fact, it's only for those who believe that God desires for His people to live in the best, drive the best, and go first class in life... those who are READY TO TAKE THE LIMITS OFF!!!

Those who come, will be serious about going to the next level, and willing to make the necessary investment to get there.

The Little Boy In a Man's Suit

From International Life Coach and Pastor Michael Bates: Upcoming CD DVD BOOK

A boy is the first phase of being a male. The boy-male relates to the presence of his penis, a human sex organ that performs a fertilzing function. He is the possessor of XY chromosomes and is the carrier and giver of seed. He is an initiator, not a receiver.

A little boy in a man's suit acts like an adult-- Sisters, when you have a little boy in a man's suit, he is beginning to learn about himself. You enjoy him and do for him because your little boy can't do it for himself. Another subject, the same is being done to African-American males by sisters, dressing boys in men's suits. Remember how as little girls "we" dressed "our" dolls and combed their hair?

A little boy in a man's suit. His behavior is quite inappropriate for his age; his demand is for immediate gratification from those who are unfortunate enough to be in his presence. No one has been assigned to take care of him. A boy is a beggar--"I want my bottle, now!"

A little boy in a man's suit is a boy looking for a mother, someone who will take care of him. He has no intention of growing up. He thinks that a mother's job is to take care of him--"Man, what's for dinner?" He is soley depending on the strength of a woman. It's ok to be a boy, but he is eventually supposed to want to grow up to be a man who can fit the suit he's been trying to wear most of his life.

A little boy in a man's suit. Watch this-- you have a son, a baby boy, he cries when he's hungry. He doesn't care where he is when he acts up (LOL). He will act up at church, in the store, at the family reunion, anywhere. He wants his diaper changed now and will throw fits of anger until it's changed. He really doesn't care who changes it as ong as the end result for him is gratification, no matter what you had to do or go through to get it done. Mission accomplished (LOL) at someone else's expense.

That's OK because he is still a baby. You expect to take care of a baby because he is not yet equipped to do for himself. When you see what looks to be a man, ask yourself if your mind has ever really been prepared to conceive the age or stage he might be bringing you, a little boy in a man's suit.... Probably not, but is this what you have received? Remember now, he's the initiator and you, the female, are the receiver.

Many sisters are losing good men who are great in some areas and have grown up, but have not been nurtured in other areas.

A little boy in a man's suit is driven by his appetite. He will cut up and act up until his appetite is fed or until he gets his way.

The man is an initiator. The woman is the receiver. the reason he's a little boy in a man's suit is because he longs for a man to teach him. He wants to be what he sees. Where are the fathers who have allowed their boys to put on men's suits, knowing that the suit was too big for them at that particular age or stage?

Support Efforts for Haiti

Larry, Steve, George Lathan Productions and Dream World are good organizations to support in this Haitian effort. We'll keep you informed.

Prayer & Support for Haiti

My prayers are with the people of Haiti. Thank God our government moved in fast... Hats off to President Barak Obama. We praise God for change. Yele Haiti is an organization founded by Wyclef Jean. It would be a great organization to help the people of Haiti. He's currently in Haiti. We will keep you informed.

Knowledge

Knowledge of any kind brings about a change in awareness to where it is possible to create new realities. Apply what you know... Apply what you know... Apply what you know. We comprehend meaning from the facts. Apply what you know. More important than finding the teacher, is finding the truth of the teaching.

POWERSHIFT

Change for Change and the Economic Stimulus Conference-- Join and Support

Powershift in cooperation with Change for Change is an organization effort designed to unite and end the "problems" that African-Americans face along with the rest of America. Sounds like a lot! Well the truth is that most people work without thinking about the needs of "other people and their problems!" People who think about the needs of others become "wealthy" by producing and distributing items that are needed by all people. We can become "wealthy" by changing the way we "think." The solutions to all our problems will take us building a business organization designed to distribute and/or produce items of necessity. This will create a minimum of 16,000 jobs across America. We must start today by recruiting people who want to see an "end to financial problems" for "themselves and others." It cannot work any other way. All people who are recruited must help with "recurring and fund-raising." All interested in joining "Pocket Change" need to forward their name, address, phone number and e-mail address and send $5 (pocket change) today. Yes, $5 could prove to be the greatest investment you make!! What do you have to lose? Help someone else by forwarding to as many people as possible. "Pocket Change" will change your destiny..."
Send to:
3207 Washi9ngton Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63103
All Economic Stimulus Membership Cards and information packets will be forwarded to you.

Attention All Blacks in America

Black America will have a trillion dollar economy by 2010. In 2006, blacks in America had a combined purchasing power of more than eight hundred billion dollars per year. Unfortunately, the majority of these dollars are spent on depreciating assets rather than on appreciating assets. This has to change and change now. Blacks and their trillions sets a revolutionary stage that will position the black church to lead the mental change in our community that will usher people of color around the world into the next universe of social prosperity, prosumerism and true success-a trillion dollar universe! This intellectual property challenges leaders in faith and business to create a symbolic, mutually rewarding partnership designed to revitalize our communities,schools, churches and neighborhoods. The next 1 trillion dollars this community generates will be used for local and global change. So come join the social entrepreneurial revolution today. Stay tuned for more information about "Blacks and their Trillions" books and seminars coming to your area soon. For those of you who are interested in attending or receiving more information please leave your name, email address, phone number and we will be happy to assist you. Also you can email me @ bishopmichaelbates@gmail.com.