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Rolanda T. Pyle is a certified Social Worker and is the Director of the New York City Department for the Aging's Grandparent Resource Center where she works with grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. This has become her passion, her ministry and her mission.
Because of her work, she has been featured on various radio and television programs and received many awards.Her numerous awards include the distinguished "2004 Sloan Public Service Award" and "HBO's 2004 Beah Richard's Spirit Award". The New York Daily News named her one of the "100 Women Who Shape Our City" in April 2004.
Rolanda loves to write and has authored articles that appear in books and journals.
Rolanda's freelance work has won poetry and short-story writing awards and has been published in religious and community newspapers.
She loves the Lord and is an active member of Love Fellowship Church in Brooklyn, New York, where she serves in several ministries including working with the seniors in the "Adults-in-Action" ministry and is the head of the Welcome Committee.
In addition to her day job and being an author, Rolanda is a notary public, events coordinator, a parent trainer and a volunteer with the Senior Chat program where she provides companionship through weekly phone conversations to seniors who may be isolated and have no one to talk to.
She is also an advisory board member to Women of Virtue, Honor & Purpose Ministry and to Family Consulting Services. She is also a member of the editorial board for Generations United.
Rolanda loves basketball and other sports and is a New York Liberty, New York Knicks, New York Mets and New York Yankees fan (in that order). Her other hobbies include reading, traveling, museum exhibits, cultural activities and listening to music.
She has 4 nieces and 1 nephew in New York. She is the godmother of 3 grown godsons and recently became the godmother of a lovely new goddaughter.
Her upcoming literary projects include an essay in anthologies entitled "Fathers and Daughters"; "Beautiful Women" and "Gumbo for the Soul".
She is currently working on publishing a children's story book about a grandchild who goes to live her grandmother and is compiling a devotional that focuses on coping with struggles and challenges in life.
Her literary projects logo is rainbow communications because of her love for rainbows which remind her that God keeps his promises, and the motto is "a word fitly spoken" as found in Proverbs 25:11 " A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pitchers of silver." She prays that the words spoken in her books will bring encouragement, inspiration and motivation to the readers.
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