Reggie Dabbs, Motivational Speaker, to Appear in Milbank
Reggie Dabbs, Motivational Speaker, to Appear in Milbank
Milbank youth will have the opportunity to hear popular motivational speaker, Reggie Dabbs, on Thursday, April 28, at 7 p.m. in the Milbank High School music room. The free event is sponsored by Calvary Church of Milbank.
Dabbs focuses on current issues that students are experiencing, encouraging them to navigate themselves through the confusion and pressures of today’s world.
Born to an unwed teenager who at one time considered abortion as a viable option for solving her “problem,” Dabbs considers himself fortunate to be alive. With no place to go, the pregnant teenager ended up living in a chicken coop in Louisiana. It was there she remembered a former school teacher, Mrs. Dabbs, who had said to her students, “If you ever need anything, call me,” and gave the students her home phone number. The girl called.
Mrs. Dabbs went to Louisiana, picked up the girl, and took her back to Tennessee where she and her husband, whose six children were adults by this time, took the girl into their home and cared for her until after the baby was born. They continued to care for little Reggie as foster parents until he was in the fourth grade, and then they officially adopted him and gave him the Dabbs name.
As the couple reared Reggie, they instilled in him strong moral values. They also ingrained in him the fact that in every situation he faced, he had a choice. What he did with those choices was entirely up to him.
After graduating from college, Dabbs began his public speaking. When addressing a school assembly, he talks to the kids in a humorous style about choices each of them has when faced with drugs, alcohol, suicide, etc. Dabbs gets in kids faces and tells them that he never smoked a cigarette, never did drugs, never drank alcohol, because he chose not to. He assures them that they can make the same kinds of choices.
Dabbs talks to kids about family and how thankful they should be that they have families. He talks to them about dating relationships and emphasizes that virginity is the most honorable choice. Most of all, Reggie drives home the fact that “You can never change your past, but you can change your future!”
Dabbs makes his home in Ft. Myers, FL, with his wife, Michele, and their son, Dominic.
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