“This is part of a vision God gave me,” the Rev. Mrs. Rosewood says. “I called together a group of ladies in 1975 and started an organization called Parents, School Administration Bureau. We were all welfare mothers, and our children didn't have anything to do during the summer.”

        Her church, a three-story 19th century building surrounded by meat packing houses and other small businesses, houses that legacy now.

        Along with a sanctuary, prayer room, kitchen, dining area and a baptismal room, it houses computers, copiers, printers and cameras with which her grandsons and other youths are learning a valuable trade.

        They publish a community newsletter and a business-card book. Two of the children, Emmanuel Rolley and Lefon Edwards, both 14, are hired through the Citizen Committee on Youth, a city manpower training agency.

        They gather information and ads to support the newsletter.

        “My idea is to help them learn how to present themselves and how to promote an idea,” the Rev. Mrs. Rosewood says.

        “I want them to have self-confidence and believe in themselves and whatever they are doing.”

        The two youths work as reporters, ad salesmen, designers and printers. While the finished product is not exactly professional, it represents their own work.

        They take the finished product back into the communities and distribute it for free.

        Elnathan Rosewood, 16, and John Williams Rosewood III, 11, put together the business-card project. Elnathan puts out a business-card book. He collects the cards and, for a fee, puts them into a newsletter and distributes it.

        “The newsletter gets a lot of business cards that ordinarily might stay stuck in a wallet out into several communities,” he says.

        They are looking for children their own age to join them.

        “We may not all want to do the same thing in life, but we can form the nucleus to be whatever we want to be,” he said.

        They grab knowledge anywhere they can get it, like learning about the printing trade by working with their uncle John Rosewood Jr., a printer.

        They are also learning carpentry by helping their uncle rebuild his house in Fairmount, which was destroyed by fire.

        “Too many of these summer jobs are just picking up paper and cleaning up. Where are the skills that will lead them to a job? I want to teach them some usable skills,” Mr. Rosewood says.

        The Rev. Mrs. Rosewood, 61, smiles.

        “This is really recycling the knowledge we have right here among us. We don't have money, but we can share whatever skills we have among us,” she says.

        Allen Howard's “Some Good News” column runs Sunday-Friday. If you have suggestions about outstanding achievement, or people who are uplifting to the Tristate, let him know at 768-8362, e-mail ahoward@enquirer.com or by fax at 768-8340.

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