I Page B8The Chronicle, Thursday, August 9, 1 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. r? _ l_ : ! ? i * * 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 .... ' a1T?II/\i??! >? ill I-?? -? " - , ?uvif?u|/ ativiv.cs will ucglll Bl /.'JU p.111. 31 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 ' wV v 4 ^ 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 ? ? - - w i m VMVH V* W1VI ITlVIIIVllHi rtiTikl :A ' . ' ' ' 8 * ; > / . V.< *+ ' 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 984 Reiii Church Calendar, Focus On Rel 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 W ? ? V W IIMVI JiUIIUIII^ VI 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 ?'~y Jua 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 iiugnwj, ivii. ivianua mi. 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 ee page B10 friends. ' -- -r,--"-- javi^w - *.**?-** gion igion, Church Notes, Ot H IH H^Hr /jt . % I ^ The Rev. Arthur A. Robinson say Parker). 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 4 \ ^ )ituaries '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 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 ??,/ % T ^ v? 4 *V4^ *? v/\/U ) I VT u 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 page B9