On Being Senior Citizens

Open-minded people don't mind working for our rights and working for what needs to be done.
Seniors will not be forgotten- we are still active!
No one is turned down.
We don't mind asking questions about what we don't understand.
We enjoy the company at our meetings and helping each other.
Fellowship is important and keeps us young and open-minded.
We honor and celebrate "unrecognized heroes."
Let seniors keep going while we still can!

On Political Action

Voter registration and education is important to us; many of us were not allowed to vote and we are now fulfilling our duty to vote.
We are becoming more politically alert and are responsible for getting an African-American into the State Congress.
We believe in democracy within OMS, especially freedom of speech.

On Religion

We are defined as "left"- revolutionaries- but we are still Christians.
We are of different denominations but still consider and treat one another as sisters and brothers and get along fine. We have overcome the barriers of the differences in our religions and religious practices.
We have the understanding that the church is not only for saving souls, but for saving communities.
We love the Lord and show it by loving our fellow man.

On Music

We are looking into organizing a Senior Citizen Choir.
We can take an out-of-tune piano and make it walk!

On the Environment

We are a low-income community but this does not stop us from caring about the environment.
People work all their lives and then can't enjoy it when they're older.
We're fighting the hogs and other unsafe environmental hazards!
God created three important things: oxygen, man and water. Where there is no water, there is no life.