A recent Pray Yazoo event set the stage for the community to take a stand against deadly drugs in our community, and now local ministers are ready to take the next step.
Rev. Royce Lott, pastor of Satartia First, is calling for a county-wide town hall meeting that will include school board officials from the city and county, law enforcement and judges from the city and county, are counselors, ministers and more.
The Yazoo Ministerial Association plans to announce a date for the meeting soon.
“If you are one of these leaders mentioned above in this county leadership would you please contact me or Rev. George Woodliff by e-mail and express your willingness to help assemble this county/seat town hall meeting,” Lott said.
Lott has a 25-year history of rescuing and rehabilitating teenagers, and with the Yazoo Ministerial Association hopes to lay out a plan for the entire county which combines city, county, church, and educational leaders, as well as interested business owners.
“If you commit to attend, plan two hours for this meeting,” Lott said. “There is important information which will be shared - and lots of it!”
Lott says he plans to use his experience, with God’s guidance, to help Yazoo County tackle this problem that has taken the lives of three young adults in our community.
" I am only one cog in the proverbial wheel, and I know we will need to custom tailor some things to fit Yazoo County, but with a ten-year proven background working with courts, community leaders, churches, and educational leaders in George, Greene, and Jackson counties, before coming to Satartia First, I can tell you that a coalition can be formed that will at least impact the youth culture of this county,” Lott said. “When we combine educational tools which are already in place, support those with community leaders, and implement retention and rehabilitative programs which are nationally renowned (used across the nation with over two million students, to date), we can lay out a plan, link arms, and walk together in the months to come, and by the beginning of the 2017/2018 school year, every arm of leadership in this county will be working off the old proverbial 'same sheet of music', and a lot fewer kids will fall through the cracks. Maybe we'll call it reclaim young Yazoo.”
