Importance of community in upcoming church presentation
Published 4:11 pm Saturday, February 24, 2018
By Lorenzo Salinas
Jacqueline Clavo-Hall has accomplished many things in her life — from earning multiple higher-learning degrees in nursing and health care to teaching on a university level to regularly giving professional presentations.
Her training, education and work have taken her across the country from Hattiesburg, Mississippi to Los Angeles. And through it all, she would be the first to tell someone she did not do it alone. She was only able to accomplish what she had in life due to the people around her and the relationships she forged with them.
Clavo-Hall will be relating that lesson in a public presentation at 10:45 a.m. Sunday at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Port Arthur. It will be covering the theme of “Yes, You Can But Not Alone.”
“Basically I’ll be speaking on how you can make some advances in your professional and spiritual life based on what I’ve achieved and how I’ve done it through community,” Clavo-Hall said.
Her speech will include the ways in which a community — whether that community is friends, family or neighbors — assists one in achieving their life’s goals.
“You never do it on your own,” she said. “You count on the important figures in your family, community and culture. How you build on that determines what you become.”
Clavo-Hall’s faith informed much of her success, acting as an underpinning for what would come later in life.
“My successes are built upon the foundation of my Christian experience from childhood,” Clavo-Hall said. “They’re influenced by my childhood relationships and by my school and education.”
According to her, the people in her life actually allowed her to take advantage of opportunities and to recognize them when they came across.
“They’ve changed my life professionally,” she said.
Clavo-Hall urged everyone to make the kinds of connections that would allow them to become better people — professionally, spiritually and otherwise.
“I would like to say through all of this that no matter where you start, what your station is at the beginning — even through my humble beginnings — never let it determine your final destination in life,” she said.
“Remember your journey is to give just as much as it is to receive.”
St. Paul is located on 821 Freeman Ave. in Port Arthur.
