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Shallotte Man
Practices What
He Preaches
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SHAULOTTE RESIDENT Noel Hathaway talks about
his efforts to spread the gospel by visiting jail inmates
and teaching Sunday School to people who can’t get oat
to go to church.
BY ETTA SMITH
Noel Hathaway has a reputation cf practicing what
he preaches.
Tlie Shallotte resident has touched hundreds of lives
by visiting inmates in jail, elderly residents of nursing
homes and by being a foster parent to over 700 children.
The mes.sage he preaches is to “love thy neighbor.”
“It’s one of the most important of the 10 command
ments that God gave to Moses,” said Hathaway. “The
disciples didn’t wait for Sunday to go around preaching
God’s salvation, and to visit the sick or the sinful. And I
believe that there’s no certain day or time that we are
supposed to do those things—We are supposed to do them
daily.”
The 80-year-old man and his wife, Eunice, have had
over 700 foster children live in their home during the past
30 years. He said they had a special love for each child,
and have kept in contact with many of them.
He also visits the Brunswick County Jail every other
Saturday night, where he talks to the inmates about God.
He teaches the children’s church sessions at the
Church of God on N.C. 179, where he is a member and
serves on the pastor’s council and the finance committee.
Another of his regular routines is to visit the
Brunswick Village Residential Care Center and teach
Sunday school to those who can’t get out and attend ser
vices at a church.
Hathaway said that doing these things isn't
something for which he’s looking to be rewarded. “The
only reward I can hope for is the salvation of someone’s
soul,” he said.
“Salvation is a continious cycle,” he continued. ”lt's
not something that can be left in one place, it has to con
tinue daily. The church is like a filling station, it’s there
for a place to gain the inspiration—inspiration to go out
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But his efforts at helping spread the gospel to many
people are rewarding, he said, because of the good feel
ing he gets thinking he may have helped someone.
One of the persons whose life he feels he may have
touclied was a three-year-old fc»ter son who once lived
with him.
“He came to our house dressed in a Roy Rogers
suit,” said Hathaway. "He was so fascinated with being
Roy Rogers that he wouldn’t hardly let us take that suit
off of him when we put him to bed at night.”
Then one Sunday Hathaway said he took the boy to
church. When they came home that afternoon the aspir
ing Roy Rogers decided he wanted to be a preacher.
"He took off his hat and threw it down and said,
‘Mama Hathaway (to Eunice) I’m not Roy Rogers
anymore. I want to be a preacher.’ ”
Hathaway said that after that day the little boy would
pull up a chair and pretend it was a pulpit. He would ask
questions consianUy conceming the Bible.
The boy told Hathaway and his wife that he was
"preachin’ about that Jesus the preacher talked about.”
“I’d love to know what happened to tltat little boy,”
said Hathaway. “After we had him about six months so
meone adopted him and his uFOuier.”
“I know without a doubt that the boy had a special
talent given to him by God,” he added.
Hathaway said he believes that children are so im
pressionable that it’s important to teach them about God
wMle they are still young. “They are also so honest, they
can often be teachers to adults,” he said.
He said that it was as a child that he was taught about
God. A teacher, who also taught him in Sunday school,
was like a spiritual counselor to him as a child.
“I was 13 years old when I found the L.ord,” said
Hathaway, "And I’ve been a believer ever since.”
And he has practiced his belief by telling others about
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