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Little Miss Lumbee 2011-2012
Calista Nicole Deal

               Greetings and salutations to the most beautiful people I know…the Lumbee people. I am Calista Nicole Deal, and I am so honored to be your Little Miss Lumbee Ambassador for the next year. I am already having so much fun. This is truly a dream come true! I am so thankful to God for his plans for me, for they are plans to prosper and not to harm me, and a plan to give me a hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11).

                I am a 4th grade student at Pembroke Elementary School… Home of the Bees, where our motto is “Bee all you can bee”! I hope to have another successful academic year by making all A’s. I like to sing and dance and I love playing with my baby dolls. I love singing with my brother and sisters; Dylan, Kaitlyn and Keely. We sing at lots of churches, traveling from Florida to New York! I am so thankful for my family, and my parents for all that they do for me. I am a member at New Covenant Family Worship Center and sing in the children’s choir. My family and I participate in one of our many church programs called the “GREAT Outreach” program. We visit several communities in Pembroke and provide hot meals each month. I get to meet a lot of people in our community and it is very humbling to give to others. I know that I will be a busy little girl and I look forward to fulfilling all my duties as an ambassador.

                I want to personally thank the communities of people who have welcomed and embraced me as the new Little Miss Lumbee. There are so many people who have prayed for me, offered monetary support, or gave me an encouraging word while preparing for the pageant, and I would like to say Thank You. To Mrs. Ivette, my dress is awesome! My family and I love you so much. Ms. Natalie Ratchford, my hair and make-up was the bomb! People are still telling me that I looked just like Dorothy! Ms. Rebecca, I hope I made you proud, many thanks to you. To all my sponsors, I pray that God would richly bless your lives and businesses. I am so blessed, and I thank the Lord for the ability and the talent that He has given me and my family. I also want to thank the Lumbee people and LRDA for giving me the chance of a lifetime and I’m indulging in every minute of it! I will be a positive role model for my peers and elders with the insight that God allowed me to be Little Miss Lumbee 2011-2012 for such a time as this!