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Focus On Religion
Minister brin;
By AUDREY L. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Unless you were old enough to know just what
civil rights meant during the '60s, then it's possible
the Rev. Arthur A. Robinson's name doesn't ring a
bell. ,
Robinson. 56T is known widely in theremi
arena For his crusading and organizing in AfTansas,
Mississippi and in his home state of Louisiana. He
says he has all intentions of bringing the same kind
of intensity the turbulent '60s held to Saints Home
United Methodist Church on Thurmond Street, only
this time the fervor will be on a spiritual level.
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ivumnson was appointed in June. Me replaced the
retiring Rev. James T. Jones, after he
simultaneously pastored for four years at Scotts
Chapel United Methodist Church in Statesville and
Philadelphia United Methodist Church in StonyPoint.
Maintaining a similar schedule here, Robinson
has also taken on the pastorship at Saint James
United Methodist Church in Rural Hall.
"I'm an evangelistic minister," Robinson says.
"I believe profoundly in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
"I don't believe in a dead church," he says. "1
believe in a live-wire church."
io prove mmsen a man 01 nis word, Kobinson,
who was once an AME Zion Church presiding elder
and founder and pastor of a Baptist church, has
revived a tradition long-since gone inthe United
Methodist Church. He says members of Saints
Home are eagerly taking advantage of the weekly
prayer services now being held at the church. Much
of his activism began in the AME Zion and Baptist
CHURCH
CALENDA
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10
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Prayer Fellowship at 2201 N.E. 23rd St. The Rev
son, Charlie Clemons and the Rev. Joseph Parks
vice. Evangelist LtHie Butler, Lewis Hunter and i
will lead the 7:30 p.m. service on Saturday, Aug.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 11
Nr. ;.y;
- Elder Reginald Elderidge will be the guest speak
Reach Out For Jesus Christ Crusade at the corner
14th streets at 6 p.m.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 12
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The New Hope AME Zion Church will cele
homecoming and revival services through Aug. 17
7000 Shallowford Road in Lewisville. The speakei
service will be the Rev. Paul Thombs. The 3 p.rr
the Rev. Jnme* Frenrti nf r.nl ar Mamnrial MC
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The Goler Metropolitan Young Adult Choir >
celebration at the church at Fourth Street and Dur
p.m. D'Arcy Weathers will be the guest mistress
The Rev. Anna Carter Lester will lead the 11 t
vice at the City of God Prayer Fellowship at 2201
The Rev. Larry Cutler, Larry Butler and Annie W
7:30 p.m. service.
MONDAY, AUGUST 14
: ??The Winston-Salem day chapter of the >
with fellowship beginning at 9 a.m. Marilyn Lu
Salem will speak on the "Healing of Our Emotic
Inner Healing."
The Chronicle welcomes church calendar notices
should be concise and typed or neatly printed. Th
dude the day, time, place and sponsors of the eve
to call for additional information. Announceme
dressed to the Winston-Salem Chronicle Church
Box 3154, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. The
? nouncements is Mondays at 5:30.
Sims marks 19th year
Two services will be held Satur- anniversary o
day, Aug. 11 and Sunday, Aug 12 held at St.
in celebration of Eddie (Sonny) Church at 2:1
Sims Jr.'s 19th anniversary as Sims, a nati
pianist for the Hallelujah Gospel S.C., has serv<
Singers, the St. Stephen Baptist financial sec
Church Spiritual Choir and the booking agen
S.L. Hodges Inspirational Choir the Hallelujah
of New Hope Missionary Baptist 19 years. He h
Church. St. Stephen C
Saturday's celebration will be and the New E
held at New Hope Missionary and a half yea
Baptist Church at the corner of Others sche
Cleveland Avenue N.E. and 18th the celebratio
Street at 7 p.m. On Sunday, the Please s
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gs spiritual fervor
churches, both denominations known for openly
organizing protests and marches against racism during
the '60s.
The son of a politically active Methodist minister
and a white mother, Robinson was born in
Napoleanville, La., and was raised in the culturally
and racially mixed city of New Orleans. At age 13,
-rwHsia he
and his family faced daily, Robinson tried to join
the Navy but was tyrned down. Two years later,
however, he was admitted.
"1 wanted a trade," Robinson says. "I wanted to
prepare myself. I just had a mind of my own and I
wanted to go out and help America, but I soon
'7 don 7 believe in a dead church. I believe
in a live-wire church.
- The Rev. Arthur A. Robinson
realized a black man was a black man wherever he
went."
The racism Robinson says he faced in the Navy
and while growing up, especially after having watched
his father slip out church backdoors because
of his mother, sparked his interest in civil rights.
And when Robinson was 32, he kept a vow he had
made to himself and returned to the Nai/v sc an of.
ficer.
the Navy," he says. "You fought side by side with
the whites, but later on you had to sling hash for
them."
A father of ten children, Robinson has lived in so
j Church Notes
n The Rev.,
The Rev. Suzan D. Johnson,
senior minister of Mariners'
Temple Baptist Church in New
York City, will become the first
the City of God woman ever to conduct the an.
Ashley Thomp- nual Christian education seminar
will lead the ser- at First Baptist Church on
Eamestine Miller Highland Avenue, beginning
,11. Sunday, Aug. 12 through Tuesday,
Aug. 14.
To get the seminar underway,
Johnson will preach the Sunday
er at the outdoor morning sermon. Small and large
lot of Derry and workshop sessions, which are
geared toward church officers,
leaders and members, will be held
from 6-8 p.m., with emphasis on
"THp Rihliral I InHprctanHino nf
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brate its annual the Nature and Purpose of the
at the church on Church."
for the morning In October 1983, when Rev.
i. speaker will be Johnson was elected pastor of
Zion Church.
tfill have its first Funerals
ileith Avenue at 4
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urn. worship serN.E.
23rd Street. Mrs. Juanita Elizabeth (Tootsie) /
rince will lead the Mrs. Juanita Elizabeth (Tootsi
pomatox Dr., passed on N
Carolina Baptist Hospital. Her rer
Brown & Sons Funeral Home. She
and attended the local public schoc
Women's Aglow Apostolic Church of Christ when
dolf of Winston- Workers Auxiliary and she was e
5ns ? The Joy of Chronicle Newspaper. Her surv
Alphonso V. Hines of the home, t>
and Miss Juanita Hines both of th
. Announcements W. Hines of the city, seven sisters
ey should also in- Rosetta H. Farris, Mrs. Melinda 1
nt, plus a number Mrs. Mary Ella H. McLaurin,
nts should be ad- Magdalene Hughes all of the c
t Calender* P. O. Hughes, Mr. Marshall Hughes, ^
deadline for an- Hughes, Mr. Samuel Hughes, Mi
UnnUar LYuaUAC \A w
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Hughes all of the city. Her Granc
the city. Six brothers-in-law, fiv
Several aunts, uncles, cousins oth<
Clark S. Brown Sons Funeral
bservance will be Mrs. Virginia Mae Lomax
Stephen Baptist Mrs. Virginia Mae Lomax of
5 p.m. Place Apt. 301-B passed on 1
ve of Spartanburg, Hospital. Her remains were remo
id as recording and Funeral Home. She was a native oi
:retary, assistant local public schools. She was a m<
t and manager of She was a member and Vice-Pn
Choir for the past Flower Club. Her survivors are
as worked with the Lomax, Jr. and Robert Lee Loma:
"hoir for 15 years in-law, Mrs. Lucille Lomax of
lope Choir for four mother-in-law, Mrs. LeAnna Lot
irs. aunts, Mrs. Ida Williams of the cil
duled to appear at Maratha Smith both of South Hill
n wil]_ b? singers brothers-in-law, one niece, one nep
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The Rev. Arthur A. Robinson say
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many Southern towns and cities sir
Orleans that he often wanders b
haphazardly remembering racial ir
was involved in or marches he led <
co-worker and friend to the late ,
brother of the late Rev. Dr. Martin
In Pine Bluff, Ark., while he was
black United Methodist Church th<
church was fire-bombed by the
because he allowed teachers and 0
organizers to meet at the church.
After graduating from Dillard Ur
Orleans, Robinson became activ
politically in the marches for freedo
Johnson head;
Mariners' Temple, she became
the first black woman ever in a
Baptist church in New York state
and the nation to hold a senior .
pastorate position. She had served
six months prior to her election
as interim pastor.
Rev. Johnson also holds
another first by being the first
woman to be both licensed and
ordained in the Christian
ministry as minister of youth at
Union Bethel Baptist Church in
New York.
Active in community affairs.
she has served as regional
chairperson for Convocation '78
and "Behold the Woman," both
international Christian
ministries. In addition, the Rev.
Johnson served as media coordinator
in 1978 for her brother,
nita Elizabeth
fughes Hines
e) Hughes Hines of 3734 Aplonday
evening in North
nains were removed to Clark S.
was a native of Winston-Salem
ils and was a member of St. Paul
e she served on the Missionary
hwM'n" Cwi nnnii'^hiiTry^ri iiWIitiM"1
mployed at the Winston-Salem
ivors are her Husband, Mr.
vo daughters, Miss Alisha Hines
le home, her father, Mr. Milton
, Mrs. Melvenia H. Baity, Mrs.
J. Gentry, Mrs. Alice H. Little,
Mrs. Martha H. Sims, Miss
ity. Ten brothers, Mr. Willie
At. Amos Hughes, Mr. Melvin
r. Mylon Hughes, Mr. Maurice
Wilbert Hughes and Mr. Miles
lmother, Mrs. Martha Miller of
e sisters-in-law all of the city,
r relatives and many friends.
' Home in charge of services.
1629 E. 3rd. Street, University
ruesday in Forsyth Memorial
ved to Clark S. Brown & Sons
f Winsto-Salem and attended the
rmber of Union Baptist Church,
rsident of the University Place
two sons. Mrs. lames Walter
k both of the city, one daughterthe
city, six grandchildren, a
nax of Wadesboro, N.C.,three
ty, Mrs. Leola Massey and Mrs.
, Va., seven sisters-in-law, three
>hew. Several other relatives and
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'S he's ready to put the fire bacl
ice he left New In California, <
ack and forth, worker, Robins<
icidents that he been wrongly ac
or his days as a . ched side by s
A.D. King, the workers, who w<
Luther King Jr. Robinson also I
a minister at the in Pine Bluff, ,
ere, he says the Martin Luther
Ku Klux Klan Calif,
ther civil rights "I really felt i
preached about
diversity in New long enough,"
e vocally and volvement. "It I
m and equality. Pie*
s seminars
former New York Assemblyman
cnaries K. Johnson. In 1979, she
received the Outstanding Young
Woman of America award and
the Against AH Odds award in
1983.
At 19, Rev. Johnson became
the youngest graduate of Emerson
College in Boston, where she
received a degree with honors in
communication and speech. The
next year, she completed her
master's at the Columbia University
Teacher's College and has
completed coursework toward a
doctorate degree in divinity and
communications at Howard
University.
She has also worked as a television
producer, actress and host
on WCBS in New York, WJLA
in Washington, WBZ in Boston
'Tootsie
Clark S. Brown <? Sons Fune
Mr. Ed Gaston Brannon
Mr. Ed Gaston Brannon of
Friday evening in Forsyth Mer
removed to Clark S. Brown & S<
?ef Belmont, N,C^-and ha& lived
member of Friendship Baptist <
Mrs. Kathleen Bennett Brannor
Frances L. Mitchell and Mrs. Ci
four sons, Mr. Eddie D. Brannt
Brannon of Rock Hill, S.C.,
Theron T. Brannon both of tl
daughters-in-law, Mrs. Frieta
Mrs. Lula Mae Brannon of the
Norman Mitchell and Mr. Ra
Several relatives and friends.
Clark S. Brown <? Sons Fune
Mr. P. solomon (Sol) Venable
Mr. P. Solomon (Sol) Venab
Beach, Va. passed on Monday
was a native of Winston-Salem a
and Lincoln University and was
vivors are one sister, Mrs. Hatt
one brother. Mr Onentin W y
sisters-in-law, Mrs. Mariam Ven
brother-in-law, Mr. W. Claybro
and friends. Funeral services w<
Christ Presbysterian Church, \
there.
Hollomon-Brown Funeral H
This is a courtesy of Clark S. L
Mr. Marion L. Rag ins
In loving memory of Mr. V
2812 Teresa Avenue, who passe
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where he once served as a social
)n helped to defend whites who had
cused of criminal charges. He maride
with Mexican-American farm
?re waging a battle for better wages,
ed a successful lunch counter sit-in
Ark., and was the organizer of a
King Memorial March in Indio,
as though men of the churches had
humah relations and race relations
Robinson says, explaining his inhad
all become stagnant. They had
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Or. Suzan D. Johnson
and WPLC in Miami.
An extensive traveler, Rev.
Johnson has made two
pilgrimages to the Holy Land,
where she was baptized in the
Jordan River. She has lived
throughout the world as a
volunteer, student and communications
consultant.
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*ral Home in charge of services.
1444 North Cherry St., passed on
norial Hospital. His remains were
ns Funeral Home. He was a native
in Winston-Salem- for -75 year**- He
"hurch. His survivors are his wife,
i of the home, two daughters, Mrs.
tssandra B. Banner both of the city,
mi Jr. of the city, Mr. Theodore R.
Mr. Alphonso B. Brannon, Mr.
le city, eleven grandchildren, two
Brannon of Rock Hill, S.C., and
city, two sons-in-law, Mr. Clifton
lymond Banner both of the city.
>ral Home in charge of services.
le of 321 Southgate Ave., Virginia
in Portsmouth Navy Hospital. He
nd attended the local public schools
> retired from the Navy. Local surie
B. Penn of 3171 Woodfin Place,
y#?nah1f? of OH 1 l-Javrvi/onH Qt ??,/ %
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able and Mrs. Catherine Berry, one
ok Penn and several other relatives
ere held on Friday at 11:00 a.m. in
Virginia Beach, Va. Interment was
Tome in charge of services.
Irown & Sons Funeral Home.
larion Lawson Ragins, age 57, of
d on Sunday, July 29th at the For*ee
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