Episode 51 Michael Coleman Hicks - ”Shreveport-Bossier: My City, My Community, My Home”

Michael Coleman Hicks, Youree Drive Middle School student, sits down with Jeffrey Goodman, Director of Marketing and Development for the YMCA of Northwest Louisiana, to answer the following questions:

 

0:38 1. Michael, I grew up with both of your parents Michael and Demessia, and went to school with them at Caddo Middle Magnet and Captain Shreve.

 

In speaking with your mom to prepare for today’s discussion, she told me you already know the answer to the question we all get asked at your age which is “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

 

So tell me, what you do you plan to do when you get older?

 

2:17 2. You are a student at Youree Drive Middle School and greatly involved at school and in the community as a whole. I want to hit some of the high points.

 

You are Co-President of Student Council, a member of Beta Club Honor Choir and the Youree Golf Team. You are also a member of Boy Scouts of America, Troop 5300, where your current rank is Star. Additionally, you are part of the youth service organization, Top Teens of America.

 

Tell me about Top Teens of America. What type of service are you involved in as part of the organization?

 

3:43 3. You are also very involved with the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity youth leadership group, Omega Lamplighters, where you serve as President of the Junior Lamplighters.

 

Tell me about Omega Lamplighters and some of the type of work that you do.

 

5:03 4. You officially preached your first sermon at Mount Canaan Baptist Church on July 31, 2022. Tell me some what of what you spoke to the congregation about.

 

7:05 5. Let’s talk hypothetically for a second. You are in college studying theology and you start up a conversation with a group of students who have never heard of Shreveport-Bossier. They say, “Michael, what’s it like where you live?” What do you tell them?

 

8:16 6. As you look around the Shreveport-Bossier community, what are the things you see that make you proud to be from this community?