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13A RELIGION / The Charlotte Post Thursday, May 29,1997 CHURCH NEWS News of note •Hampton University will host it 83rd Minister’s Conference, June 2-6. This year’s theme will be “The Future of the Black Church: Where Are We Going and How Do We Get There?” Invited speakers and panelists include, Bishop John Hurst Adams, Bishop Cecil Bishop, Bishop Nathaniel Linsey and Dr. Henry Lyons. For more ■ yiformation, call (757)727-5255. ■•^'♦Abyssinian Ministries and H.O. (^ham Metropolitan Presbyterian Church will provide Back Yard Story Hours for inner city youth this summer. N^ghborhoods are invited to host story hours June 16-Aug. 1 in homes, day camps and churches. IVaining sessions will be held at H. O. Graham, 2926 Old Steele Creek Hoad, Saturday at 1 p.m. and •June 16-20 at 7 p.m. For more information, call 567-2249 or 375- 2116. Thursday • Zion Renaissance Expo contin ues through Saturday at the Adam’s Mark Hotel, 555 South McDowell St. The expo will focus on health and wellness issues for African Americans. For more infor mation, call 333-3779. •The Primitive Baptist Church’s North CarolinaA^irginia State Youth Crusade continues through Saturday. The guest evangelist is Elder Jeffrey T. Rainey, pastor of Christian Union Primitive Baptist Church, Mobile Ala. Local services will be held at 7:30 p.m. at Holly Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Highway 29, Concord and Saturday at 6 p.m. at Nazareth Primitive Baptist Church, 2230 Bancroft St. Friday •Little Rock AME Zion 401 N. McDowell St. “Legacies of Courage,” May 30- 31 at 6:30 p.m. Play focuses on the lives and achievements of African American women. Written and directed by Cheryl “Sparkle” Mosley. For more ticket informa tion, call 334-3782. Saturday •New Shiloh Baptist 2600 Elmin St. Funday begins at 7 a.m. Events include a yard sale, fish fry and cake walk. Sunday •Greater Mount Sinai Baptist 1243 West Blvd. The church will celebrate its 64th anniversary at 11 a.m. The guest evangelist will be the Rev. Stanley Hall of New Salem Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala. • Good News Missionary Baptist 4409D N. Tryon St. Women’s Day will be observed Sunday. At 11 a.m. the Rev. Amanda Gray of Temple Chapel Baptist Church will deliver the message. At 4 p.m., the Rev. Mary Kendall of Cedar Grove AME Zion Church will speak. •Pleasant Hill Baptist 517 Baldwin Ave. The church will celebrate its 127th anniversary Sunday at 4 p.m. The guest speaker will be the Rev. Larry Hill of Matthews- Murkland Presb3fterian Church. •Agape Covenant Temple will host the Rev. John Thompson and the New Cornerstone Ministries of Jesus Christ of Concord Sunday at 6:30 at the Quality Inn-Crown Point. For more information, call 845-1477. Upcoming events •Friendship Missionary Baptist 3301 Beatties Ford Road Art Expo, June 7 at 10 a.m. Sponsored by the Marriage Enrichment Group. •First Mayfield Memorial Baptist 901 Oaklawn Ave. Choir concert, June 8 at 4 p.m. S.C. native vows to return to roots GALILEE BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. F.A. Griffin, PASTOR 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 Continued from 12A across America, under which local property taxes provide most school money. Because that raises the most money in affluent areas, he says, it assures that the haves will keep on having while have- nots will suffer, maybe even turn to crime. , “Some will go to Yale and the others will go to jail,” he declares. Jackson urges a higher income tax coupled with a dramatic increase in state aid - guarantee ing more for schools in the inner city and dirt-poor rural areas. Far from making him a radical, that merely puts him on the same side as Democratic leaders and even Republican Gov. Jim Edgar. But suburban Republicans whose home folks would foot the bill look on in stony silence as Jackson preaches his gospel. Haves and have-nots is a favorite topic these days. “Americans are comfortable talking about black and^white,” Jackson says. “We’re not as com fortable talking about haves and have nots.” For all the demonstrations and boycotts, Jackson’s stock-in-trade has always been the ability to thunder like an Old 'Ifestament prophet. And there has been no erosion of that. Jackson watchers say such questions don’t even enter his mind. They say he’s far too fully steeped in the traditions of the civil rights movement: Power always just out of reach, improvi sation a necessity, working inside the system or out - but usually out. If one battle is lost, another is always waiting to be fought, says University of Maryland political scientist Ronald Walters, a long time Jackson friend, and some how the means will be found to fight it. “For Jesse Jackson,” says Walters, “the battle is always just over the next lull.” SIMPSON-GILLESPIE UNITED ME'THODIST CHURCH Dr. Carl Arrington, Senior Pastor Sunday School - 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship - 11:00 a.m. Bible Study, Wednesdays - 7:00 p.m. 3545 Beatties Ford Rd. • (704) 399-2717 Flag flap part of changing South Continued from 12A ‘You’re debating it,” Cans said. “Thirty years ago that wouldn’t have happened.” Others, however, aren’t as hopeful. Dwight Drake, a Columbia lawyer and Democratic activist, sees little positive benefit from the spot light. , :‘This isn’t the sort of thing you ,oqn measure or calculate, but it pqn have a lasting negative effect,” he said. “These incidents reflect a lack of tolerance, of accommodation for people who are different - and that’s kind of dangerous,” Drake said. Rep. Fletcher Smith, D- Greenville, places the blame for rising intolerance in the state and nation on former President Ronald Reagan. The Reagan administration, he said, “sent a message to Republicans that it was no longer necessary to have a con sensus on the race issue with blacks and the Democrats, that it was time to turn the clock back.” Smith, a black attorney bom in New York, said he worries that with adults displaying intoler ance, children will emulate them and the future will be a throw back to the racist culture of an earlier time. “We’re going back toward the 1940s,” he said. But Tim Scott, a black Republican who serves on the Charleston County Coundl, said state and national problems have far deeper roots. “We’re experiencing a crisis of morality, a crisis of diversity in that we’ve not figured out how to live together, play together, work together and stiU see ourselves as individuals,” Scott said. Brian Siegel, a Furman University sociologist who has lived in South Carolina since 1981, said intolerance has a long history in America and else where. Siegel said there is no lack of themes to nmture it today, with some embracing a paranoia of conspiracy where some whites and some blacks see government as a deadly enemy. “In good economic times, the frequency (of complaints) should decrease,” he said. “Lots of indi cators suggest we are in good economic times, yet the frequen cy seems to be increasing.” Wnow A M 1 0 3 0 P.O. Box 23509 Charlotte, NC 28227 704-332-8764 Bus. Line 704-882-9669 Studio Line 704-882-1330 Fax Interracial Interdenominational Christian Programming for The Carolinas "New Birth Ministries" Mon. - Fri. 7:30AM -7:45AM Reverend Roderick Pendleton, Sr. Ministers hope to make changes Continued from 12A of business is to learn the “tal ents” of his congregation. “I’m still finding out what talents different members of the congregation have,” Arrington said. “I’m still dis covering what the congrega tions gifts are and developing ipinistries that utilize those skills.” Arrington replaced the Rev. .Walter McKelvey, who was appointed to head Grunmom Seminary, part of the Atlanta University Center last winter. Statesville Avenue Presbyterian Church named the Rev. John Pharr interim pastor earlier this year. Pharr, who returned to Charlotte after retiring as pastor of a Washington, D.C. church in 1994 as served as interim pas tor at two local churches. “It’s about the same as being a full time pastor,” Pharr said. “Only you know your serving time between pastors. You try to keep ministries afloat £md tide the church over until a new minister arrives.” A graduate of Johnson C. Smith University and Union Theological Seminary, the Rock Hill native said he and his wife Rosa always planned to move to Charlotte. Being an interim minister doesn’t bother Pharr. “I never left the ministry,” he said. “I am just at another stage of the ministry. The min istry is a life long calling for me. I’ve just gone from one stage to another.” AME Zion Expo begins By Jeri Young WE CHARLOTTE POST The AME Zion Church’s Brotherhood Pensions and Ministerial Relief department will continue Zion’s Renaissance Expo ‘97 through Saturday. The four-day event, which combines health and wellness with spirituality, features workshops, book signings and ground breaking services for the 86-acre Wellness Center. The center, which opened last year, features three exam areas where visitors can get low-cost health care. Registration for the event is $90. Child care will be provid ed for a nominal fee. Computerization in churches Saturday 9:30 a.m. - 10 a.m. - Update on brotherhood pensions and ministerial relief All events will be held at the Adam’s Mark Hotel, 555 South McDowell St. For registration information, call 372-4100. Luncheon/fashion show 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. - Seminars 7:30 p.m. - Gospel singing Highlights of Renaissance Expo: Thursday Zion’s Friday 9 a.m. - noon - Brotherhood pensions and ministerial relief panel 12:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m. - 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Sessions on tax issues for churches 11:30 a.m. - Groimd break ing service 7:30 p.m. - Seminar; Due a change in printers, the deadline for Church News will change to Monday at noon beginning June 15. A SPECIAL MONTH OF CHURCH DEDICATION SERVICES LOVEWORKS BIBLE CHURCH PRESENTS JUNE 6TH-JUNE 28TH1997 Pastor & Mrs. Michael Jones Pastor NAOMI HOPKINS Refreshing Springs Christian Ministry Salisbury, NC Pastor STEFFON SHARPLESS The Lord’s Church Chapel Hill, NC Rev. GARY CROWL Dean Of Rhema Bible Training Center Broken Arrow, OK LOVEWORKS BIBLE CHURCH IS LOCATED AT 5212 MONROE ROAD ONE BLOCK NORTH OF SHARON AMITY RD. (704)568-8185 Dr. J.C. HASH St. Peter’s World Outreach Center Winston-Salem, NC SATURDAY JUNE 28TH YOUTH EXPLOSION ‘97 The Power Pact Reunion Concert Featuring Schenck & S4J ALL SERVICES WILL BEGIN AT 7:30 P.M. CHILDREN’S CHURCH SERVICES WILL BE PROVIDED “COME AND SEE WHAT LOVE IS DOING’
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