Original Cast Of 'The Awakening' To Join Project Awakening Stop The Violence Walk in Chicago

Darlyn Turner and Dr. Clifford E. Turner

Chicago - When Dr. Clifford E. Turner, founder of Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church and World Outreach Ministries, presented the "The Awakening" in 1990, his vision  galvanized not only the local Chicago community, but also eventually an estimated 100 million viewers around the world. The show, a production from his Holywood Studios, followed the perils of a young, south side Chicago inner city teenager, Marquita Perry, and her struggles with premarital sex, drugs, peer pressure, and gang violence. "The Awakening" started as a two-part skit for television and evolved into a seven season, 150 episodic Emmy Award winning series, becoming the longest running Christian mini-series ever produced. An inner-city minister, Turner's goal for "The Awakening" was to capture the attention of youth and to speak to them about the high costs of low living, and specifically the perils of living in a culture of violence.

That goal is still a mission almost 25 years later as the original cast of "The Awakening" returns and joins Dr. Clifford E. Turner and Holywood Studios to facilitate the Project Awakening Stop The Violence Walk on Saturday, August 30, 2014. The walk will take place starting at 6200 S. Lake Shore Drive on Chicago's south side at 7:30 a.m. and is a determined show of strength toward empowering the local community against the continuing onslaught of violence.   Turner and his team hope to propel worldwide attention, support and prayer while creating teamwork between the family, churches and the police to work together for peace.

The Project Awakening campaign is Dr. Turner's latest broad based concept to facilitate change. Sponsors and participants can support the Stop The Violence Walk via a variety of initiatives. In addition to personally joining the walk, residents and non-residents alike can participate with prayer, donations and also by purchasing the original "The Awakening" series, available for online viewing at http://www.awakening.com/.  

All proceeds will help to support selected organizations in their fight against violence along with assisting Project Awakening's own endeavors, including the expansion of The Awakening Life Lessons curriculum targeted for use in schools nationwide.  Some of the Project Awakening partners include The NFL Alumni Chicago Chapter ( http://www.nflalumnichicago.org), Billionaire Minds (www.billionaireminds.org) and Love in Action (www.4loveinaction.org).

As Dr. Turner expresses, "I realized when I started Holywood Studios in 1985 that the vision I received from God would impact lives for years to come. 'The Awakening' series has been a most powerful transformative tool. To have the cast come back almost 25 years later to continue with the work we started is an amazing testimony. Our communities are under siege right now with nonsensical violence escalating daily. This campaign effort is more than a fundraiser, it is a time for the entire community to join together in a day of camaraderie, inspiration and above all, hope."

The original cast from "The Awakening"

Chief Apostle Dr. Clifford E. Turner is a powerfully progressive and trend-setting leader whose bold and convicting messages of salvation, healing, deliverance, and restoration have torn down the barriers of religion while building up the lives of the people in this nation and countries across the world for over 35 years. Apostle Turner founded Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church and World Outreach Ministries on March 14, 1982, in Chicago, Illinois; the church started with two members, with Dr. Turner as Pastor. Through the leading of the Holy Spirit, Apostle Turner became the trailblazer of an apostolic movement that the City of Chicago had not seen before. By 1985, Liberty Temple had become one of the fastest growing ministries of its time, outgrowing three locations in three years. His Holywood Studios serve as an extension of his ministry, reaching the masses through film production.

The Project Awakening Stop The Violence Walk is the second venture sponsored by HolyWood Studios and Project Awakening. A successful walk was staged in Zion, IL late last July.

To join the walk, become a sponsor, or to support the event with a purchase of the original series, now available for online viewing, go to http://walk.awakening.com/ for additional details.  Join Project Awakening on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/projectawakeningcampaign?ref=hl .