April 8, 2010

Ms.Cheryl Scales
President, Magnificent Women Organization
4060 Peachtree Rd
Atlanta, GA 30319

Congratulations on your 5th anniversary as a small business innovator! This is an impressive milestone but not a surprising one. You have a presence when you enter a room that commands you are destined for greatness and yet your spirit is surrounded with humility. It is clear you are a competitor who is willing to be in the ring when it counts. This combination is admirable in one who has lived so fully and yet gives so much.

You strike a chord of the legacy we sacrificed for in the civil rights journey–the dignity of purpose, passion, and possibility. You are living the promissory note of the next generation who is willing to turn and teach, to lift and share, and to never stop trying to make things better. It is clear to me that you are willing to work tirelessly until your commitments are met, and your goals include a greater sense of community.

Your new Magnificent Women Organization project, the Mentor Remix program, is a new gift to those we need to be the givers. We must not forget they need fuel too. As their awareness rises and they are renewed, so it is they can be the bridges to the youngest of those in our midst. Today’s challengese do not compare to the physical and legal obstacles of my times. Your program must help to lift and bolster these young people so they mentor in a way that helps the future generations believe again that there is no obstruction–man-made or situation induced–that God cannot help you overcome. And God never says show up to the game unprepared. He says show up with your A-game, as you say, and He will show out.

So, continue young lady with your vision for what is possible in the best of us. I am proud to be an inaugural Founder’s Leadership Circle supporter so the pipeline you are creating is a vessel of immediate impact.

Again, congratulations and continued success in the magnificent journey that is your milestone and your destiny!

Regards,

Rev. Dr.Benjamin Hooks