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RELIGION / The Charlotte Post
Thursday, January 16,1997
CHURCH NEWS
•China Grove AME Zion
9401 Old Pineville Road
The Ministers Wives and
Widows Relief Fund wiQ host a
founder’s day observance
Saturday.
•First Mount Calvary
Baptist
209 West 28th St
The church will install officers
Sunday at 3 p.m. The guest
speaker for the event is the Rev.
Sonny B. Turner, pastor of
Clement Memorial AME Zion
Church.
•Shiloh Institutional
Baptist
2400 Greenleaf Ave.
Anniversary services for the
Rev. Clinton Caesar continue
through Sunday. Today at 7
p.m., the Rev. Anthony
Jinwright of Salem Baptist
Church will be the featured
speaker. Saturday an anniver
sary banquet will be held at the
Holiday Inn Woodlawn Road.
Tickets are $25. Services end
Sunday at 11 a.m. The guest
speaker will be the Rev. M.H.
Newton of Jehovah Missionary
Baptist.
• Gethsemane Baptist
2670 Dr. Carver Road
The church will install officers
Svmday at 4 p.m. The Rev. L.D.
Parker of St. Luke Baptist
Church wiU be the guest speak-
• United Missionary
Baptist
3748 Beatties Ford Road
The church will hold “Kinfolks
Day,” Simday at 11 a.m.
•Greater Hopewell AME
Zion
11333 Beatties Ford Road
The Eumual trustee program
will be held Sunday at 3 p.m.
The guest evangelist will be the
Rev. Daniel Joseph of Mt. Zion
Baptist Church,
•Shepherd's Fold AME
Zion
428 West BlvdL
The church will install min
istry leaders on Sunday at 5
p.m. The guest speaker wiU be
the Rev. James Samuel, pastor
of Little Rock AME Zion.
•New SL John Baptist
2000 SL John’s Church Rd.
The Rev. Ronnie Gilliam will
deliver the message at 8 a.m. At
11 a.m., the Rev. Robert Leak
will deliver the message,
“Prescription for a Great
Church: You must have a solid
Foundation.”
•Mayfield Memorial
Baptist
700 Sugar Creek Road
Deacons and deaconess day
will be held Sunday at 3 p.m.
The guest speaker will be the
Rev. Robert Leak, pastor of New
St. John Baptist Church.
Dilworth United Methodist
Church
The church will host a Martin
Luther King observance
Saturday at 10 a.m. The Rev.
Joseph Lowery, president of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, will be the guest
speaker.
Upcoming Elvents
•New SL John Baptist
2000 SL John Chiurch Road
The combined choirs will be in
concert Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. and
Jan 26 at 4 p.m.
•Our Lady of Consolation
2301 Statesville Ave.
Father George Clements,
founder of the Washington D.C.
based One Church-One Addict,
wiU be the keynote speaker for a
two-day revival held by the
Ministry of Recovery and the
Charlotte Mecklenburg Drug
and Alcohol Fighting Back
Project, Jan. 24 and 25 at 7 p.m.
•CJN. Jenkins Memorial
Presbyterian
1421 StatesviUe Ave.
The church presents “God’s
Trombones,” a tribute to James
Weldon Johnson Jan. 31-Feb. 2.
Performances will be held at
7:45 p.m. Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 and
4 p.m. Feb. 2.
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• The Urban League will
present! Winter Gospel
Showcase Feb. 1 at 6 p.m. at
Spirit Square.
Our spirit stands
Interested in rebuilding
burned churches?
Two artists from South
Carolina have produced a limit
ed edition print that wiU benefit
churches damaged by arson and
vandalism.
Artist Lynn Greer, created
“Our Spirit Stands.” Her work
was augmented by pot Glenis
Redmond Sherer of GreenviUe.
A portion of the sale of each
$20 print will go directly to
churches.
The program is sponsored by
Atlantic Healthplans.
To order, please send money
orders to:
Our Spirit Stands
cjoLynn Greer
118 Montclair Ave.
Greenville, SC 29609
SIMPSON - GILLESPIE
UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH
Dr. Walter McKelvey, Pastor
Sunday School 9:30a.m.
Sunday Worship ll:0pa.m.
3545 Beatties Ford Road
Dr. Walter H.
McKelvey
(704)399-2717
GALILEE BAPTIST
CHURCH
Rev. F.A. Griffin, PASTOR
Rev. F.A.'Griffta
Sunday School 9:45a.m.
Sunday Worship 11:00a.m.
Sunday School Study - Wed. 7pm
Prayer Service - 8pm
2933 Shady Lane • Charlotte, NC 28208
333-0810
ROCKWELL
j A.M.E. ZION CHURCH
“Celebrating 128 Years
of Christianity”
William M Iordan III; Pastor
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S301 Rockwell Church Rd. • Chariotte, NG 28269
596-8279
Virginia church destroyed by fire
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SCOTTSVILLE, Va. - An his
toric Baptist church in rural
Buckingham County has
burned to the ground in what
authorities said could have
been arson.
Glenmore Fire Chief Pete
Agee said last Friday he
requested an arson specialist
from the state police to inves
tigate the cause of the blaze
that burned Ridgeway Baptist
Church, which has a predomi
nantly black congregation, in
the rural community of
Centenary.
When firefighters arrived
minutes after the 2:15 a.m.
alarm, the church had already
burned most of the way to the
ground, Agee said.
“How did it burn up that fast
in that short a time period?"
he said. “All the pews were
burnt out and the roof had
already collapsed. It really
doesn’t add up.”
The church, which dates
back to 1867, was recently
vandalized, said church care
taker Russell Woodson. Two
weeks ago, a window was bro
ken in an apparent attempt to
enter the church, he said. A
rock and a few cigarettes were
found just inside the window.
Between 75 and 100 people
attended the church on an
average Sunday.
All that remains of the
church is two cinder block
chimneys and a charred heap
of metal roofing.
“If someone did do this, I
can’t believe how they could
do it,” said church member
Terry Jones, who drove to the
church to look at its remains.
“What’s sad is that it was a
church,a house of God. Now
it’s nothing.”
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Culp’s plays or inappropriate
to fall to your knees after the
curtain c^l emd plead for for
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Culp, 45, is a different kind
of playwright. Her goal isn't
just to entertain, but also to
“save”' souls.
“I hope people will receive
some deliverance,” Ms. Culp
said. “That’s our No. 1 goal.”
The Chester County nurse
has always had a passion for
writing poems and scripts, but
it wasn’t until the death of her
baby daughter. Miracle, that
she began using the stage as a
pulpit.
Miracle, who was stillborn
seven years ago, is the inspi
ration for Culp’s traveling
ensemble known as the
Miracle Drama Ministry.
“It takes awhile to accept
something like this and in the
spiritual realm, the number
seven means complete,” she
said, referring to the anniver
sary of her bab/s death. “It’s
like Miracle’s death is a final
ization in the natural sense,
yet she lives on - through this
ministry.”
Culp, the mother of two.
developed an interest in the
ater as a child. She remem
bers being in several school
plays but never having a
speeiking role.
Gulp ends the performances
by inviting the audience to the
front of the stage for an altar
call.
“We let them know this is
the main purpose,” she said.
“This is the real reason we are
here.”
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