Help is the key word if you’re going to talk about the life of community advocate Verna Booker Thomas-Melton.
The veteran community advocate and champion of the downtrodden presented an event last month whose history she envisions will keep on giving to future generations through a lasting documentary she’s determined to complete.
“The documentary is coming from my book, My Power in Three, that I know was sent to me by God,” Thomas-Melton declares. “I have lived 50 years beyond what doctors said I would. I have to tell my story.”
Her story seems never ending. The 10th Annual Living Legends Brunch, sponsored by her nonprofit Verna’s H.E.L.P. Foundation that Thomas-Melton founded 21 years ago, is only one aspect of her multi-level saga of service. The H.E.L.P. acronym means Helping Everyone Live Positive…