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m i i mm "" 6T$CaWiNA TIMES ATV FEBRUARY 17. 1979 -.1. , . 1 : IC ISiSXflB I 1979 Chartor DConvocatioi THE KINGDOM SEEKERS BIBLE CLASS The Kingdom Seekers Bible Class of Mt. Vernon Baptist Church 1007 S. Roxboro Street, Durham, will celebrate itt 40th anniversary Sunday, February 18, 1979 at 6p.m. The speaker, Dr. W. T. Bigelow will be the guest speaker. The music will be rendered by one of his choirs. You are invited to come and help us celebrate this joyous occassion. President, Mrs. Georgia Thompson; Secretary, Mrs. Lyda Vanhood; Teacher, Mrs. E.H. Fogle. KYLES TEMPLE STEWARDESSES BOARD I SPONSORED BABY CONTEST Stewardesses Board One of Kyles Temple A.M.E. Zion Church sponsored their annual Baby Contest on February 1 1 at 3 p.m. First place went to Alfonsa Jarrett, Jr., child of Mrs. Shirley Jarrett; second place, Baby Natasha Garrett, child of Mrs. Loretta Garrett; third place, Baby Aliecha Monroe, child of Mrs. Majorie Monroe; fourth, fifth and sixth, Eaby Frederick Lee McQuaig, child of Mrs. Shelia McQaig; Camiell Breathettes, child of Mrs. Ann Breathjettes; and Latash McDonald, child of Mrs. Brenda McDonald. ' Music was furnished by Mr. Howard Hill and the Pruden children. We closed with a prayer around the alter led by Rev. W.M. Freeman, pastor of the church. REV. HtLLIARD TO SPEAK AT ST. MARK On Sunday, February 11, 1979 the guest speaker for the morning service at St. Mark AME Zion Church will be the Rt. Rev. William Alexander Hilliard. He is the bishop of the Third Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. The Third Episcopal district comprises the Michigan, Ohio, Central North Carolina, Guyana and Virgin Island conferences. You are cordially invited to worship with us. WIDOWS CLUB TO OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY The Widow's Club of the Oak Grove U.A. Free Will Baptist Church, 801 Colfax Street, will celebrate its anni versary Sunday, February 1 8 at 6 p.m. The guest speaker will be the Reverend Thurman Hairs ton, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church. His choirs and con gregation will be in attendance and participating in the observance. Schodulod For March 2nd Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, prominent - minister and educator, will deliver the 1979 Charter Day convoca tion . address at Howard University on March 2 at 11 a.m. in Cramton Audi torium. Charter Day commemorates the official birth of Howard University on March 2, 1867 when the bill enacting the univer sity charter was passed by Congress and signed by President Andrew Johnson. Dr. Proctor has been senior minister of Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York since 1972, succeeding the late U.S. . Rep. Adam i :' Clayton Powell. He is also pro fessor of education s in the Graduate School of Educa- , tion at Rutgers University where he holds the Martin Luther King Memorial During the convocation ceremony, the university will honor the minister-educator by awarding him an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. It will also award an honorary doctor of music degree to Lionel Hampton YOUTH DAY TO BE OBSERVED SUNDAY AT BIBLE WAY APOSTOLIC TEMPLE Youth Day will be observed at Bible Way Apostolic Tem ple on Sunday evening at 7:30. There will be a speaker and music by the Community Gospel Singers, The Russellettes, the Young Adult Choir, the Junior Choir and others. Mrs. Doris Russell, adviser of the Youth Department, invites and encourages the public to attend. SPAULDING TO SPEAK AT MEN'S DAY I State Representative, Kenneth B. Spaulding, will be the Sunday morning guest speaker for Men's Day at the West Durham Baptist Church. . , Representative Spaulding was recently appointed by the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives to represent the State of North Carolina at the National Conference of State Legislatures on the Law and Justice Committee. ; .. .whose contributions in jazz span half a century, and a posthumous honorary doctor of laws degree to Clilan B. Powell,- the physician,' businessman and publisher whose, will could leave as much as $6 million to the university. A second highlight of Charter Day activities will be at dinner on March 1 -at 6:30 pan.' at the Shera- ton-Park Hotel where three Howard ' University alumni will receive awards for dis tinguished post-graduate . achievement. They are: John W. Blassingame, pro fessor of history, at Yale University and editor of the FrederickDouglass papers; Christopher . E.: Edley, executive director of the United Negro College Fund, Inc.; and Toni Morri son, award-winiing author of Song of Solomon, Sula . and The Bluest Eye. Flaxie M. Pinkett, president 6f John R. Pink ett, Inc., the Washington area real estate firm, is the dinner committee chairman for the $100-a-plate fundraising event. The corporate chairman for the dinner is R. Robert Linowes, former president of the Metropolitan Wash ington Board of Trade. W ' - 1 '" i PASTOR RECEIVES CITATION - Rev. Donald a Fozard, pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church, receives a plaque from a representative of Troop 149. Looking on is Spencer A. Wynne, sponsor coordinator. Know Your Church By ANDREW WHITE Richard Allen was a man of sublime courage and indestructible and passionate faith. Equipped with these two spiritual weapons he could not be beaten down. When he and others of African descent were denied the freedom to worship God in the St. George's M. E. Church in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1787. he politely walked out into God's great big world and started the movement which blossomed into the African Metho dist Episcopal Church. ' Richard Allen was not mastered by the disappointing and ugly experiences which confronted him: instead he mastered these experiences by taking a, healthy attitude toward life. He refused to adopt a sour-grape philosophy and instead adopted a courageous and positive faith-filled attitude toward the problems which the people of African descent faced. He did not boil up: he did not blow off: he did not fret himself because of the evil doers. He did not feel sorry for himself. He did not be come impatient or irritable. He kept his balance and his self-control. He did not go into a slump. He made up his mind to do something about what had happened to him and his people by going out immediately and starting something new a move ment administered by people of African descent, which movement would recognize "God as our Father. Christ as our Redeemer, and Man as our Brother". Richard Allen felt that he had a special duty to spread the gospel among Africans and people of African descent. These were the people who. because of segregation and discriminaon in church and state, were being dehumanized, ostracized, exploited, robbed, try-passed and otherwise mistreated, They needed to be organized and need ed to have a Christian guiding principle of action. They needed to be encouraged to see that they too were children of God who had rights and responsibilities. With these high goals and noble purposes in mind, he proceeded to take the ugly social situation which made his movement necessary, and. like Joseph of old. use it as a , channel of blessing which stirred up in the Afro-Americans a burning determination to be first class Christians and first class American citizens. The A.M. E. Church has never strayed from the course charted by Richard Allen. The leaders of the church who succeeded him were wedded to the spiritual doctrine of "God Our Father. Christ Our Redeemer, Man Our Brother". Motivated by the far reaching significance of this motto they led our people into fearless battles against the enemies' of human dignity and civil liberties. Every A.M.E. Church became a headquarters for the proclamation and the demonstration of first class Christianity and first class American citizenship. , In an "Address to the People of Colour" Richard Allen pleaded with those still in slavery not to lose hope, but to trust in God and believe that He will make a way for them. He appealed to them not to hate their masters, but to fill their hearts with love for God. This would enable them to have the spiritual foundation for the freedom in which Allen never lost hope. Allen believed that, as far as the coming of freedom was concerned, much de pended on Africans themselves. He advised those who were free not to have ill-will for the treatment they tiad Taeetved as'slavesTmaenerflv and time required for1tt will could be most profitably used in the fight for freedom. In concluding this im mortal address he said. "I entreat you to consider the obligations we lie under to help forward the cause of freedom. We who know how bitter the cup is of which the slave hath to drink, oh, how we ought to feel for those who yet remain in bondage I" mm Bishop HcCall to Load Revival At Diblo Way OUTSTANDING SCOUT LEADER - Larry Ellis, local district Scout professional receives a plaque for outstanding leadership in the area of scouting. Presenting the plaq js Wallace Braswell. Mr. Leora Pippen, Assistant District Commissioner, looks on. I Revival services will be held nightly at 7:30 at Bible Way Apostolic Temple beginning February 26 and continuing through March 2. Bishop U.I. McCall, known throughout the South as the "Shot Gun Preacher" will be the revival preacher. All are invited to participate. Bishop John Russell, Jr., is pastor. URDAtl LEAGUE SUtl. PLANNED the National Reli gious Advisory Council ofT the National Urban League iheld its first formal meeting 'recently at NUL Head Iquarters in New York City to formulae organ izational plans for an Urban League Sunday to be held June 23. The Right Reverend S. Samuel S. Morris, Jr., President of the Council of Bishops, 11th Episcopal District of the AME Church, announced that this year's abservance of Urban League Sunday will be a pilot project operating in four ieeions: Jacksonville Florida; Philadelphia; Los Angles and Kansas City, Missouri. The purpose of Urban League. Sunday is to S ftllMtfif"'' . BISHOP U. I. McCALL strengthen and expand the cooperative relationship between the church and 1 15 Urban League affiliates that operate in the black community. Also present at the meeting were: Bishop Eugene Brown, presiding Bishop, Eastern Diocese Churches of Christ Holiness, , U.S.A.; The Rev. Edward L Foggs, Associate Execu tive Secretary, Executive Council Church of God; The Rev. Eldridge Gittens, re presenting Bishop Herbert Bell Shaw, African Meth odist Episcopal Zion Church; Herbert A. Executive Director, Office of Black Ministry, Continued On Page 13 DEATHS ANB FUWHAIL SERVICES SLIGH Funeral services for John Sligh of 2908 Sprucewood Drive, who died Tuesday, February 6 at the Veterans Administration Hospital, were held Saturday, Feb ruary .10 at Mount Vernon Baptist Church by JRev. Percy, L High. Burial was in Glennview Memorial Park He worked for American Scarborough & tlaraott Memorial Chapels & Gardens FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS $06 S. Roxboro Street Durham, N. C. Phone 682-1171 MA Dignified Service In a Sympathetic Way" Burial Protector Plan Our Ubeifeed Staff , Ernestine Scarborough Bynum, Licensed Funeral Directress and Embalmer J.jG "Skeepie" Scarborough, Licensed Funeral Director and . Douglu C. Ray, . Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer J, A. Carter Emmett Caldwell licensed Funeral Director Licensed Funeral Director Lloyd fras . Licensed Funeral DlrectpfJ Konaia rt scarDorougn, sr. Licensed Funeral Director Hhjt Sritfe lapfiat FOUNDED 1660 3400 FAYETTEVILLE STREET DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA 27707 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1979 9:30 A.M. 10:50 A.M. Church School Worship . lc YOTIIIIUII Tt. B ... J THE CROSS -FATHER FORGIVE THEM...." The Senior Ushers ushering. The Mixed Choir leading the singing -MiMtValeriKing,Pianistt Tobacco Company. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Evator H. Sligh; one son, LebnardrT. Sligh; two sisters, Mrs. Julia Price of Newberry, S.C. and Mrs. Odessa Lockamy of Capital Heights, Md.; three broth ers, Willie B. Sligh of Smithfleld and Leonard Sligh and Frank Sligh, both of Washington, D.C. Courtesy of Scarborough Hargett Memorial Chapels P "1 jV. A. AJ.ltf b !Fi;.msfnv7Cfi t now !n DicroJ I I and Gardens. PEARSON . Funeral service for Co lumbus "Preacher" Pearson of 1406 Calvin St., who died Thursday, February 8, were held Monday, Feb ruary 12 at Mount Calvary United Church of Christ by Rev. J. C. Cheek. Burial was in Beechwood Ceme tery. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Ruth Rice; a brother, Oscar Pearson. Courtesy of Scarborough & Hargett Memorial Chapels and Gardens. DAVIS Funeral services for Mrs. Virginia J. Davis of 923 East Main Street, who died Tuesday, February 6 at home, were held Monday, February 12 at Scarborough & Hargett Memorial Chapel by Rev. Percy L. High. Burial was in Glennview Memorial Park. Courtesy of Scarborough & Hargett Memorial Chapels and Gardens. SHAW Funeral services for Dock Shaw of 908 Gurley St., who died at home, were held Tuesday, February 13 at White Rock Baptist Church by Rev. Lorenzo A. LYnch. Burial was in Glennview Memorial Park. Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Jennie Shaw; four grandchildren. JOHNSON Funeral services for Der ry Clayton Johnson of 306 Pekoe St., who died Pekoe St., who died Sun day, February 11, were held Thursday, February 15 at Mount Gilead Baptist Church by Dr. A. D. Mose ley. Burial was" in Glenn view Memorial Park, Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Gloria Davis; his father, Mrs. Gloria Davis Cooper; his father, Lee Dell John son; two brothers, Lee Dell Johnson, Jr. and David Johnson; three . sisters, Ms. Veronica Elaine Johnson, Ms. Valeree Johnson and ' Ms.' Cathy Johnson; his. maternal grandmother, Mrs. Louis Davis; his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Annie Riou; his maternal grand father, Robert Davis. AIX' CHURCH RELATED ARTICLES SHOULD, BE IN OUR OFFICE NOT LATER ' THAN. ,5 P.M. TUESDAY OF THE WEEK OF PUBLICATION. I 2919 Fayetteville Stw Durham, N. C. 688-1860 Florist Shop I . COO OQ1A UOO-JJ1U J 3137 Fayetteville St. Durham, NC 27707 (919) 6824276 RESIDENT TRAINEE . Clvda' Mnnu TTT much you lire oniy a cau away- rrorn a service otn sacred trust. Our courteous, efficient and dignified aer-l Vino la flfftnff tn 1 -11 1-" a, 1 ivkuii, tm jviu VUC9 WUU LBU BSICCp. FUNERAL SERVICE LICENSEES Elijah J. FUher, III "Pookey" Christopher T. 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