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RELIGION/The Charlotte Post
Thursday, December 4, 1997
Church News
Friday
• Little Rock AME Zion
401 N. McDoweU
’ Christmas Bazaar through
Sunday. Items include wreaths,
centerpieces and floral arrange
ments. Hours Friday 6-9 p.m.,
Saturday 2-6 p.m. Sunday after
morning services. For more infor
mation, call 334-3782.
Saturday
•The Ministry of Reconcili
ation will celebrate its anniver
sary at 6:30 p.m. Featured guests
include Evangelist Tina Patrice
Johnson and Expression of Praise
II. Services continue Sunday at 4
p.m. with Bishop A. Foxworth of
New Life Pentecostal Church, of
Rains, S.C. Both services will be
held at First Mayfield Baptist
Church, 901 Oaklawn Ave.
•Oakgrove Missionary
Baptist
200 Alexander Ave.
Harrisburg
Saturday Night Alive, 7 p.m.
Presentation of “When Angels
Watch” featuring the Young Adult
Missionary Group. The Garinger
High School Gospel Choir will
perform as well.
Sunday
•New St. John Baptist
2000 St. John Church Road
Worship services will be held at
8 a.m. and 11 a.m. The Voices of
Hope, the church’s youth choir
will be in concert at 6 p.m.
•Community Outreach
Christian Ministries
1222 Oaklawn Ave.
The congregation will dedicate
its new sanctuary Sunday at 5
p.m. The guest speaker wfll be the
Rev. David Chadwick of Forest
Hill Presbyterian Church.
Seasonal services
Dec. 7
•Johnson C. Smith
University Choir will hold its
annual Christmas Vesper service
at 5:30 p.m. at Jane M. Smith
Memorial Church. Featured per
formers include John Apple of the
American Guild of Organists and
Karen Hite Jacob. Free.
•“Walk Through Bethlehem”
at Matthews United Methodist
Church, 801 S. Trade St.,
Matthews, wfll open at 4 p.m. The
interactive program features a
recreation of the sights and
soimds of Bethlehem at the time
of Christ’s birth. Features 300 cos
tumed performers and nativity
animals.
Dec. 11
The Charlotte Christian
Women’s Club I will present
“Memories of Christmas
Luncheon,” featuring The Market
Place at Mint Hill at the Rain
Country Club. Vocalist Lyim Pope
will perform. The event begins at
11 a.m. Cost $10.50
Dec. 14
Northside Baptist Church, I-
85 and Sugar Creek Road, will
present “1997 Spirit of
Christmas” at 10 a.m. and 6:30
p.m. The cast of more than 200
win recreate the birth of Christ.
Free. For more information, call
596-4856.
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should be printed or typed and
include phone numbers and
appropriate addresses.
Look for the ‘98 issue of the Black
Guide at a location near you.
ATTEND
CHURCH
THIS
SUNDAY
Greater Mt. Moriah
Primitive Baptist Church
Thomas W. Samuels, PASTOR
Church School - 9:45AM
Morning Worship - 11:00AM
Evening Services - 6:00PM
747 West Trade Street
376-8S06
"We are laborers together
with God."
The Prophet’s Column
’This is a paid advertisement by J.M. Little
THE PROPHETS
COLUMN INC.
9626 FELDBANK DRIVE
CHARLOTTE, NC, 28216-
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER
1997
PARTH
It matters not what church
you are a member of, if you
have never been awakened to
your LOST condition you are
not saved and you are on the
road to hell. You could go to hell
right now! Your being a mem
ber of the Methodist church, or
Baptist church, or any church
is no sign you are saved. No!
Your being religious is no sign
you are saved. Some of you reli
gious leaders are going on
teaching, preaching, witness
ing, and doing great missionary
work, but you must give up all
your teaching, preaching, and
religious duties before you can
be saved. You must give up
yoiu- church before you can be
saved. You have to be bom
again (John 3), and made a
new creation in Christ Jesus
my Lord. Have you been bom
again? Have you been made a
new creation in Christ Jesus?
You say you have, but Christ is
not the center of your testimo
ny. You don't talk about what
He means to your heart, you
are talking about church activ
ities. You don't talk about the
SACRIFICE. You have never
told others about what Christ
means to your heart. No, you
have not. But you say you are
saved. Your heart is deceived!
Foryoutogooninyourpresent
condition means that one day
you will lift up your eyes in
Hell. Oh, may my heavenly
Father have mercy on you and
awaken you to the fact you are
a LOST SINNER. My friend,
you would give ten thousand
worlds just to be awakened to
your lost condition. That's
right, oh, if you only knew my
Lord. My sinner friend, pray for
the discovery of your soul. If
you knew what you were pray
ing for, you wouldn't pray for it.
But you must discover the lost
and ruined condition of your
poor soul here or there, and it
would be far better for you to
discover your lost condition
here than in eternity There is
hope for you now, but if you go
out into eternity without
Christ, there is no hope for you.
And let me say in closing this
letter, if you go through this life
and fail to come to know Christ,
it can be said of you as it was
said of Judas: “It had been bet
ter for that man that he had
never been bom” Will that be
said of you? May you turn to
the Lord before He comes. As
the world turns and grows
more and more wicked and vio
lent we know the coming of our
Lord is very near. And the
Middle East pot is boiling again
as we come down to the end of
another 2,000 years. Every
2,000 years an event takes
place that changes the course
of man's history WORLD
WIDE. We are very near the
end of another 2,000 years and
look for the coming of my Lord
any moment. Are you looking
for Him to come? His Coming is
my only Hope as I sit here
before this typewriter. And I
ask the Lord for wisdom and
grace to WRI'TE 'THE TRUTH,
warning men and women of
their coming destmction if they
don't repent and turn to Christ.
I know we are living in the
CLOSING DAYS, or better yet,
MOMENTS just before our
Lord comes. I may be talking to
someone about the COMING of
the Lord when he comes, and
you'll be rebelling against it,
and in the "twinkling of an eye"
you'll take your eye off me and
then look back but I won't be
there. My Lord came for me
when you took your eye off me.
My friend, turn to Christ.
Your Gospel Editor and
Teacher,
JJVI. Little
TRUE HOLINESS CO.G.LC.
‘"WE PREACH NOT OUR SELF, BUT CHRIST’
JESUS THE LORD. 2 Corinthians 4:5
Sunday School - 9:30am
Altar Prayer & Worship Service - 11:00am
Y.P.W.W. - Sun. 6:30pm
Bible Study - Tue. 7:30pm
Evangelistic Service - Sun 8:00pm • Fri. 7:30pm
4334 Wilkinson Blvd. • (704)393-7957
SIMPSON-GILLESPIE
UNITED METHODIST 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 Fc 1 Rd. - (704)399-2717
Dr. Carl
Arrington
LOVEWORKS
BIBLE CHURCH
SUNDAY SCHOOL - 10:00AM
FAMILY WORSHIP - 11:00AM
BIBLE STUDY - Wed. 7:30PM
INTERCESSORY PRAYER - Fri. 7:30PM
“Come and See What Cove Is Doing^
5212 Monroe Rd. • (704)568-8185
Obituary
Glen Thomas McLinnahan
died Dec. 1 at North East Cabarrus
Hospital in Concord. Funeral ser
vices will be held today at 2 p.m. at
Simpson-Gillespie United
Methodist Church, 3545 Beatties
Ford Road. The body will lie in
state an hour before the funeral.
Mr. McLinnahan was the son of
Herman Strickland and Ola
Ellison. At an early age, Mr.
McLinnahan joined St. James
AME Zion Church in Red Springs,
N.C.
He received his early education
in the public schools of Red
Springs. Mr. McLinnahan received
his bachelor’s degree from NC A&T
State University in Greensboro
and continued his education at
UNC Charlotte. He began his pro
fessional career in Adamsville, S.C.
as a coach and social studies
teacher. He also taught in
Charlotte at J.H. Gunn
Elementary School and spent 22
years at Northwest Cabarrus High
School in Concord.
He was recognized in 1996 and
1997 for his outstanding service to
Junior Achievement of Cabarrus
County.
During his long career, Mr.
McLinnahan also served as a coun
selor at the McCain Training
School for Boys in McCain and was
the first director of the Gaston
Boys’ Club in Gastonia. He was a
longtime member of Simpson-
Gillespie United Methodist Church
were he served as chair of the
Board of Trustees and was a mem
ber of the Nomination and
Personnel Committee, the LOCK-
BERT Committee and the United
Methodist Men.
Mr. McLinnahan was also a
member of the National Education
Association, NC Teachers Assoc
iation and Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity.
Mr. McLinnahan is survived by
his wife of 38 years Maxine; two
sons, William (Velveta) and Glenn
II (Nolly); one brother David
Ellison (Barbara) of Laurinburg,
N.C.; one sister Marta Ellison
Mason (Edward) of Anchorage
Alaska; three grandchildren,
William and Ebony of Red Springs
and Nicole Martina of Charlotte; a of relatives and friends. In lieu of
loving mother-in-law, “Big flowers, the family asks that
Momma”; two nephews and a host memorial be made to Simpson-
Gillespie United Methodist
Church, 3545 Beatties Ford Road,
Charlotte, N.C. 28216.
GALILEE BAPTIST
CHURCH
Rev. F.A. Griffin, PASTOR
Rev. F.A. Griffin
Sunday School 9:45a.m.
Sunday Worship ll;00a.m.
Sunday School Study - Wed. 7pm
Prayer Service - 8pm
2933 Shady Lane • Charlotte, NC 28208
333-0810
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RO. 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
■'■'Mayfield Memorial
Baptist Church"
Sunday Morning
7:30 -8:30AM
Rev. Diggs
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^ Church
Anniversary
Celebration!
Putor C. David Stackhouse
r Shepherd’s J^old
Xion Church
428 West Boulevard • Charlotte, NC 28203 • 525-0460
DECEMBER 1997
Th der
J Christmas Pro^am
(featuring The
Inspiration Dance
Ensemble of
V* Macedonia Baptist
Church)
Choir In Concert
Come Sxpecting^j/Iu
Outpouring of
^Blessings”
BIG LEAGUE SPORTS ARE HERE
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