MIAMI GARDENS – In observance of World AIDS Day, December 1, Holy Family Church, will join in a Candle Light Prayer Vigil for newborns and children who are living with the HIV-AIDS condition in South Florida on Thursday, November 30th at 7pm – 8pm.
Guest speaker, Ana Carter, Director, Comprehensive AIDS Program, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, will speak on the life experiences of our youngest and most vulnerable.
Pastor Horace Ward would like for the community, church family members and friends to do something SIMPLE, BOLD, POWERFUL, “take our youngest and most vulnerable to the Lord in PRAYER”.
STATISTICS:
According to recent report in the Sun-Sentinel:
– Florida ranks only behind New York in pediatric AIDS cases (children 12 and under) with 1,458 children.
– More than half of those children are presumed to be alive today, with the majority between 8 and 14.
– Two-thirds of these children live in South Florida and 90 percent are black or Hispanic.
– Before the mid ’90s, children infected at birth with HIV lived, on average, to 9. Now a few are in their mid-20s.
– Most newborns were infected by their mother. In Florida, 5 percent were infected by medical disorders or complications or by an unnamed cause.
Holy Family Church is located at, 18501 NW 7th Avenue in Miami Gardens. For further information you can call the Church Office at 305-652-6797 or visit them on the web at, www.holy-family-church.org.
