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RELIGION / The Charlotte Post
Thursday, January 23,1997
CHURCH NEWS
Brothers United for
Change continues its third
annual Black Male Conference
through Sunday at Clover
Middle School, 320 Chnton Ave.
Clover, S.C
Friday
Reception 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
at Clover Middle School, featur
ing the Dance Culture
Ensemble of Charlotte. A step
show featuring local high school
and college groups wiU follow.
Saturday
Conference workshops;
Keynote speaker the Rev. Jamal
Bryant. Special performances
by the Catawba Indian Nation
and Save the Seed.
Joy Night 7 p.m.
Sunday
Closing worship service; 10
a.m. message dehvered by the
Rev. Jamal Biyant.
•New St. John Baptist
2000 St. John’s Chiueh
Road
The combined choirs will cele
brate Superweekend Saturday
at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 4 p.m.
•Our Lady of Consolation
Catholic Church
2301 Statesville Ave.
Father George Clements,
founder of the Washington D.C.-
based One Church-One Addict
Program, will keynote a
Charlotte revival, Saturday and
Sunday at 7 p.m. The event,
sponsored by Charlotte
Mecklenburg Drug and Alcohol
Fighting Back Project and the
Ministry of Recovery, wiU focus
on getting local congregations
more active in the war on drugs
and alcohol. For more informa
tion, caU 375-9220.
•Ushers of District HI will
meet Sunday at St. Paul Baptist
Church, 1401 Allen St. at 10
a.m.
•Gethsemane Baptist
2670 Dr. Carver Road
The Brotherhood Department
will host a Men’s Conference
through Sunday.
Friday - Discussion 7 p.m. fol
lowed by bowUng at Freedom
Lanes.
The Prophet’s Column
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NEWSLETTER
JANUARY 1997
Dear Friends,
Another year has come and
gone, and we are one year
nearer home!
I rejoice and praise the Lord
for His salvation. “Salvation is
of the Lord.” (Jonah 2;9). The
more I meditate on the Lord,
and the more He illuminates
my mind and heart. I see
more than ever that salvation
is all of the Lord. I wish that
all could just see this great
truth; salvation is all of the
grace of God. By nature man
is dead in trespasses and sins,
as in Eph. 2:1.
And being dead, there is
absolutely nothing a sinner
can do to make himself alive.
A sinner can make himself
alive, spiritually, as easy as
you can make a new earth and
a new heaven.
Apart from the quickening
power and work of the Holy
Spirit (John 16: 7-11) the sin
ner will remain dead and one
sad day lift up his eyes in hell.
Let’s take a visit out into eter
nity at this time and Usten to
a voice from Hell, from a man
who cared nothing about the
Lord during his earthly hfe.
We find our story in Luke
16, verse 22 and 23; "AND IT
CAME TO PASS, that the
beggar died, and was carried
by the angels into Abraham's
bosom;
THE RICH MAN also died,
and was buried; and IN HELL
he lift up his eyes, being in
torments, and seeth Abraham
afar off, and Lazarus in his
bosom."
When the rich man died and
lived up his eyes in hell, what
did he do? He saw Abraham
afar off and Lazarus in
Saturday - Classes. For more
information, caU 376-4797.
Sunday - Speaker 11 a.m.
• The Urban League will
host 1997 Winter Gospel
Showcase, a celebration of Black
History Month, Feb. 1 at 6 p.m.
at Spirit Square, 345 N. CoUege
St. Tickets are $15 in advance
and $17.50 at the door. For
more information, call 377-4444
extension 5401-5450.
•C.N. Jenkins
Presbyterian
1421 Statesville Ave.
The church wiU present “God’s
Trombones” A tribute to James
Weldon Johnson, Jan. 31 and
Feb. 1 at 7:45 p.m. and Feb. 2 at
4 p.m.
Abraham's bosom, and what
next? “And he cried and said.
Father Abraham, have mercy
on me, and send Lazarus, that
he may dip the tip of his fin
ger in water, and cool my
tongue; FOR I AM TOR
MENTED IN THIS FLAME.”
Yes, we hear a voice from
eternity, from hell, crying for
mercy and for the very saint
he was so hateful to while on
earth in time, to be sent by
Abraham to cool his tongue.
My imsaved friends, you can
deny hell and its torments all
you want to in this life, but I
will tell you on the authority
of God's eternal Word, you
won't deny heU in eternity.
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Creation of federal task force spurred arrests
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - In the
seven months since President
Clinton ordered federal over
sight of investigations into a
rash of church burnings,
authorities have made 104
arrests - eight titties the pre
vious rate, the government
reported Saturday.
The fires “offended every cit
izen who cherishes America's
proud heritage of religious
and ethnic diversity,” Clinton
said in heralding the report
issued by the Treasury and
Justice departments on behalf
of the Nationtd Church Arson
Task Force.
The task force was created
last summer to oversee state
and local authorities prosecut
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with 107 church fires, 48 sus
pects have been convicted. As
of last week, there were 221
pending investigations where
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Before the task force was
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Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.,
dean of the congressional
black caucus, called the
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In his weekly radio address,
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Ten churches were being
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“They have shown us that
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In the wake of the fires that
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churches, the Justice
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connecting the fires.
“To date, the investigations
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motives, from blatant racism
and religious hatred to finan
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or vandalism,” the report said.
There have been more than
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1995. An equal number of
fires have been reported at
white churches in the region,
where white churches out
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