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RELIGION / The Charlotte Post
December 5,1996
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CHURCH NEWS
•New Shiloh Baptist
2600 Ehnin St.
The church will host its annu
al Jacob Ladder Program at 7
p.m. Friday. The guest speaker
win be the Rev. Walter Gwin of
New Pleasant Valley Baptist
Church.
Sunday
Satxirday
•Faith Memorial Baptist
6840 Wilson Grove Road
The church will host a dedica
tion service Sunday at 4 p.m.
The Rev. George Weaver, pastor
emeritus of New Mount Olive
Baptist Church, will be the
guest speaker.
will be “Don’t Forget to Call
Home.” The 11 a.m. message is
“Hold on, Joy is Coming.”
Prayer meeting and Bible study
will be held Wednesday 7 p.m.
•Berean Seventh Day
Adventist
1801 Double Oaks Road
The speaker for 11 a.m.
Sabbath service will be
Evangelist Michael C. Martin.
Martin has sponsored crusades
in the U.S., Africa and the
Caribbean.
•Chappell Memorial
Baptist
110 Bradford Dr.
The church will celebrate its
25th anniversary Sunday at 3
p.m. The guest speaker will be
the Rev. Herbert Shackleford of
Mount Olive Presbyterian
Chiuch.
•Shepherd’s Fold AME
Zion
428 West BlvdL
The church will celebrate its
anniversary Sunday at 3 p.m.
The evangehst wUl be the Rev.
L.D. Parker of St. Luke Baptist
Church.
•Reeder Memorial Baptist
3725 Beatties Ford Road
The Mighty Voices of Reeder
will be concert Svmday at 3 p.m.
Special guests include the
Transfiguration Gospel Singers.
•Pleasant Hill Baptist
Chiuxh
517 Baldwin Ave.
The Adult Choir will be ih con
cert at 4 p.m.
•St. Luke Baptist Church
1600 Norris Ave.
The L.D. Parker Mass Choir
will be concert Svmday at 6:30
p.m.
•Logan Chapel CME
9505 Parkton Road
The Brothers of Faith will host
a fish fry and gospel concert
Saturday at 6 p.m.
•Clement Memorial AME
Zion
2207 Newland Road
The Lay Coimdl wiU sponsor a
fish/chicken dinner Saturday at
10 a.m. Dinners are $6.
•Weeping Willow AME
Zion
2220 Milton Road
The church will observe
Miracle Sunday 96, Sunday.
Services begin at 7:30 a.m. vmd
conclude with a choir concert at
5 p.m. featuring the Weeping
Willow Mass Choir.
•First Mount Calvary
Baptist
208 W. 28th St.
The Angels of Calvary, Youth
Choir and Men’s Choir will be in
concert Sunday at 4 p.m.
•All Saints Episcopal
Church
6600 'The Plaza
'The Ministry of Reconciliation
will host a healing and dehver-
ance service Sunday at 6 p.m.
Keynote speakers include
Evangelist Tina Patrice
Johnson, Bishop A. Foxworth,
the Rev. Marilyn M. Campbell
and Evangehst A Triplett. For
more information, call 335-1535.
•New St. John Baptist
2000 Si. John’s Church
Road
The 8 a.m. message Sunday
•New Shiloh Baptist
Church
2600 Ehnin St.
The church will present “I
Don’t Have Heaven in My
View,” a gospel play, Sunday at
7 p.m. For more information,
call 398-0184.
Upcoming events
•Weeping Willow AME
Zion
2220 Milton Road
'The Voices of Praise wiU spon
sor a Hobday Open House Show
on Dec. 14 at 9 a.m.
OBITUARY Clegg angers some in Nation
Post loses
one of
its best
Continued from 13A
By Jeri Young
THE CHARLOTTE POST
You could set your watch by
Lee Best.
Every Thursday for the past
12 years, he could be found at
preacher's son in rural
Georgia to his death in 1975.
Clegg, a Salisbury native,
first learned about
Muhammad while reading
“The Autobiography of
Malcolm X.” Then an under
graduate at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Clegg decided to delve deeper
into black history. He discard
ed his plan to become a lawyer
and enrolled in a doctoral pro
gram at the University of
Michigan to pursue
Muhammad’s story.
“I became interested in, real
ly: What was it about Elijah
Muhammad that could cap
ture the imagination of
Malcolm X and thousands of
others for most of their lives?”
said Clegg, 28.
He pored over thousands of
FBI documents and traveled
to New York, Georgia,
Chicago, Washington and
Detroit in search of answers.
Clegg’s book is peppered
with the contradictions of
Muhammad’s personality. He
was a poor speaker, yet
enthralled audiences with his
messages. He was an unas
suming man but held enor
mous power over far more
dynamic figures.
Journalists and scholars
have praised “An Original
Man,” but the book seems to
have struck a raw nerve with
in the Nation of Islam. Clegg
notes that he could not get
current Nation of Islam lead
ers, nor those once in
Muhammad's inner circle, to
talk with him for the biogra
phy.
“His appeal was not the
same as Malcolm X, who was
young, charismatic and ener
getic,” Clegg said. “Elijah’s
appeal had to do more with
his patriarchal, or paternal,
air about him. A lot of people
were looking for that.”
Willie Mohammad, minister
of the Nation of Islam mosque
in Greensboro, said he had not
seen the book and could not
comment.
Two years ago, several A&T
students rebuked Clegg after
he gave a presentation on
Muhammad during Black
History Month. They said he
should not treat Muhammad
like an ordinary man.
Old, new gospel clash in churches
By Christopher Barton
ANDERSON HERALD BULLETIN
Bost
The Charlotte Post, picking up
papers for his routes through
out Charlotte.
Mr. Bost died Monday after
a lengthy illness.
Mr. Bost was bom in 1923 in
Cabarrus County to Bob and
Elsie Bost. He attended N.C.
A&T State University in
Greensboro and retired from
Purina Chows in Charlotte.
He then started working at
The Post part time, often
bringing his stepdaughters
Adrian and Taliska to the
paper’s office.
“He loved that job at The
Post,” said his wife, Ella. “It
was just a job he loved. I think
he loved it mainly because it
was a black paper.”
“We’ll miss him,” said
Charlotte Post publisher
Gerald Johnson. “We extend
our sincerest condolences to
the entire Bost family. He was
a valued employee that
always looked out for the best
interests of the paper.”
Mr. Bost leaves to mourn his
wife, Ella; stepdaughters
Adrian and Taliska Bost, all of
Charlotte; brother John
Robert of Charlotte; sisters
Etta Belle Black of Duquense,
Penn., Carol Adele Little and
Letha Brandon of Concord;
sisters-in-law Georgia Bost
and Ruby Bost of Concord;
and a host of nieces, nephew
relatives and friends.
Visitation is Friday from 6-
7:30 p.m. at Alexander
Funeral Home. Mr. Bost will
be funeralized Saturday at 1
p.m. at Second Calvary
Baptist Church. Burial will be
at York Memorial Park.
ANDERSON, Ind. - The
first thing you notice is the
music - drums, an electric
guitar, a bass guitar and syn
thesizer.
It's upbeat. Some people are
clapping their hands.
Surprisingly, all this is going
ship at Southern Baptist
Seminary in Louisville, Ky.
“I suspect that in coming
years it will grow to about 40
percent of all churches that
will offer this kind of option,
but it will likely be mostly in
urban areas,” Mims said.
But Park Place already is
seeing gains from its new pro
gram.
The church has seen more
come easy.
So far, resistance has been
minimal, although most
church administrators know
that any type of major change
to liturgy and tradition can
cause upheaval in some
churches.
However, Ponce said Park
Place has been faced with a
declining membership since
1969.
“That’s one of the wake-up
messages to really justify
what we are doing.”
Ponce, who has served as
minister of music at two
Churches of God in
Springfield and Da3don, Ohio,
said moving to a more contem
porary sound hasn’t been
easy.
“For me, this has been an
odyssey,” said Ponce, a classi
cally trained musician. “There
was a time when I had my
defenses up, but I found this
to be a viable form of wor
ship.”
on in a church. It's not the tra
ditional service at Park Place
Church of God in Anderson,
where an organ and piano
usually dominate the tones
behind a congregation singing
late 20th-century hymns.
This is “New Place at Park
Place,” a newly created service
where churchgoers join in
recently written Christian
choruses. It is geared to
attract a younger generation
of people who have lost inter
est in going to church.
Park Place is the latest of
several area churches to move
to a more contemporary style
of music and worship, while
trying to retain their identity
and tradition.
“This is certainly a growing
trend, but I’m not convinced it
will overtake all of the main
line and evangelical church
es,” said Lloyd Mims, dean of
the school of music and wor-
than 250 people attend its 4-
week-old 9 a.m. service on
Sundays, while keeping its
500 regular attendees at its
traditional 10:30 service.
The Rev. Frank Ponce, a for
mer Anderson University pro
fessor, was hired by Park
Place as a contemporary wor
ship consultant. He has
worked 18 years in music min
istry.
Ponce said Senior Pastor Ed
Nelson and Music Minister
David Coolidge began dis
cussing innovative ways to
increase membership and
attendance about 18 months
The Rev. Leigh Crockett of
Grace Baptist Church in
Anderson, which averages 550
attendance on Sunday morn
ing, said he is still skeptical of
some contemporary sounds.
“We resist the contemporary
music for the most part,” said
Crockett. “Shallow words and
a heavy beat are things we
stay away from.”
ago.
“They began to think, ‘How
can we do this without mar
ginalizing what we are
already doing?’” Ponce said.
“This church has had a long
tradition and change doesn't
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