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Reggie Smith is an HIV positive motivational speaker and holistic health practitioner. Together with his wife Dionne, he created the national campaign Wellness, Awareness, and Recovery (W.A.R.) to diminish stigma around HIV and increase awareness about the needs of families affected by the virus. Mr. and Mrs. Smith work with many local, national and international organizations to spread the word of hope and prevention, including African American advocacy groups, AIDS service organizations, drug recovery programs, and churches. They are currently featured in a national campaign for Greater Than AIDS, a broad coalition of public and private sector partners united in response to the AIDS crisis in the United States, in particular the severe and disproportionate epidemic among Black Americans and other heavily affected groups.


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Beautiful Gate Outreach Ministry

Bgocslide-pict-2 Bgocslide-pict-1 Bgocmagic Bgocjoyce-and-reneeBeutiflgatelogoSee the full gallery on Posterous Greetings & Salutations! I recently was in preproduction for RISE- the MULTIMEDIA MAGAZINE, when I got a call from one of my new best friends - Renee Beamon, founder of the Beautiful Gate Outreach Ministries in Delaware.  I am so impressed with the way she and her husband Pastor Sylvester Beamon are serving their community through their AME church by addressing the HIV epidemic in a very practical and tangible way.  Not only has Renee passionately created a testing and linkage to care ministry for people who are affected by HIV, their outreach is a model for how the church and the African American community could and should be loving one another into wellness (in the name of Jesus).scriptscriptscript

This interview is rough, and the production quality will be better when I get finished with it, but I wanted to post it now, mainly because I thught that I had not recorded it.  You can see it again here later.

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