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Groundbreaking held for Battered Women's Shelter
Ground was broken Sunday,
Aug. 29, for the Battered Women’s
Shelter renovation and expansion.
Jack R. Childs, campaign
chairman for the shelter, thanked
the community for its support for
the project.
'.; "So far, we've raised just over
$1.2 million in the first phase of a
$1.75 million campaign," he said.
"We've had gifts from individuals,
corporations, churches and founda
tions. People have responded to the
need to provide a safe haven for
women and their small children."
Major gifts since the cam
paign kickoff in march include
contributions from Sara Lee
Corp., Mary Reynolds Babcock
- Foundation, Wachovia Bank &
Trust Co., Duke Power Co., and
the Z. Smith Reynolds Founda-
. tion.
Other large contributions have
come from Integon Corp., Pied-
; mont Airlines, Piedmont Publish
ing Co., the Shelton Foundation,
Vulcan Materials Co., First Union
NaticMial Bank and NCNB.
At the groundbreaking cere
mony, Larry Ribbs, of Hammill-
Walter Associates, Inc., explained
the plans for the renovation and
addition. When completed, the
renovated shelter will serve 36
residents and will have space for
counseling and other administra
tive services.
Wilson-Covington will be the
contractor for the addition and
renovation which is expected to
be completed by the fall of 1989.
Henry Carter, executive direc-
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Groundbreaking ceremonies were held earlier this week on the site of the soon to be renovated
Battered Womens Shelter.
tor of the Winston-Salem Founda
tion, told the audience of the shel
ter's importance in providing help
to women in the community at a
lime of great need.
Mayor Wayne Corpening
thanked all the contributors and
volunteers for their efforts to
make the shelter a place where
women feel comfortable.
Richard Barr, immediate past
chairman of Family Services Inc.,
which operates the shelter, also
thanked the community and intro
duced Roger Plachy, current chair
man of Family Services, and
Sarah Austin, president.
The Battered Women's Shelter
provides a place for physically
abused women to come 24 hours a
day. It is the largest shelter in the
state.
In 1986, 274 women and 371
children stayed at the facility.
The campaign cabinet respon
sible for raising funds for the ren
ovation and expansion consists of
Childs, Keith L. Aim, James D.
Branch, Martha H. Davis, Aurelia
G. Eller, James A Gray, Eldridge
C. Hanes, John F. McNair III,
Kenneth 0. Raschke, Claudette B.
Weston and John T. Winebrenner.
Big Brothers/Big Sisters elects '88-'89 officers, board members
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of
Forsyth County Inc. elected 1988-
89 officers and new members to
the Board of Directors at the agen
cy's annual board meeting.
gins, second vice president; Gar
rett Williams, treasurer, and Mar
cia Padgett, secretary.
Cannon and Mary Williams.
Smith and JoAnn Thomas.
The new officers are Barbara
Hearn, president; Bill Ogburn,
first vice president; Wayne Scrog-
New members elected to the
Board of Directors are Denise
Scott-Johnson. Jack Barrier, Joan
Healy, Harold Holmes, Karen
Kehler, Jane Porter, Gary Von
Those members continuing on
the board are Rupert Bowen,
George Cleland, Paul Cloud,
Benny Morgan, Toy Beaty, Bar
bara Bennett, Clifton Carmon,
John Hunt, William Pitser, Shirley
Sadler, Tom Schmidt, Howell
Big Brothers/Big Sisters,
which receives support from Unit
ed Way, is a non-profit organiza
tion, that provides services to chil
dren in single-parent homes and
teen-age girls who are mothers or
are pregnant.
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Winston-Salem Rescue Mission
to celebrate 21st anniversary
The Winston-Salem Rescue
Mission will be celebrating 21
years of dedicated service to the
homeless in Winston-Salem on
Sept. 12.
The public is invited to a spe
cial anniversary service, which
will be held at 7:30 at Grace Bap
tist Temple, 3305 Peters Creek
Parkway.
At this service, recognition
will be given to those who have
helped this ministry provide an
open door to serve the homeless
! 24 hours a day for 21 years.
Testimonies will be shared by
those whose lives have been
changed over the years. A report
of the accomplishments of the
Rescue Mission will be given by
the Rev. A. Neal Wilcox, who has
served as executive director of the
ministry since he and his wife,
Barbara, who serves as his secre
tary, came to Winston-Salem at
the request of the newly formed
Board of Directors in June 1967.
There will be special music.
In 21 years the mission has
provided 374,072 nights lodging
to the homeless. The kitchen has
provided 1,097,771 meals to the
hungry.
There have been 9,983 men
housed and 1,191 articles of cloth
ing given. Thousands of items of
furniture have been provided for
the needy in the Mission Outlet
Store, 705 N. Trade St.
More than 17,472 services
have been held, with an attendance
of more than 320,097, and 954
professions of faith and rededica
tions have occurred.
The Rev. A. Neal Wilcox
and the Rev. Marty Friske, who
has a jail ministry under Baptist
Missions to Forgotten Men Inc.,
will perform.
The Rescue Mission opened
its doors on July 22, 1967, to the
homeless, hungry and hurting with
25 beds. It has since expanded and
now cares for up to 85 homeless
people nightly.
The mission director, staff and
board, as well as the thousands of
clients who have received the mis
sion's ministry, express thanks to
the community for its financial
support, donations of usable items,
words of encouragement and
prayers for the past 21 years.
Together, they have made a
great impact on the Piedmont of
North Carolina.
Critic: Christians have a right to boycott 'Temptation'
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -
Protests against "The Last Tempta
tion of Christ" may have backfired,
but Christians still have a right to
speak out against the controversial
motion picture, says a Christian
film critic.
"In the film, Jesus states he's a
sinner, a liar and a hypocrite," said
Theodore Baehr, who reviews films
for "Movieguide," a Christian index
to movies and entertainment.
"That's saying that God is a liar
and a fraud. It’s time that Christians
stand up and speak out against these
lies as the insult they are."
The Martin Scorsese movie, based
on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis,
has drawn much attention for its
portrayal of Jesus Christ as ques
tioning his divinity and dreaming of
marriage and making love to Mary
Magdalene.
But Baehr, during a taping of "The
John Ankerberg Show," a religious
television program produced in
Chattanooga, said Monday that the
film is blasphemous.
"It's slander, it's libel, it's evil, it's
bigotry and it's wrong,” said Baehr.
However, he conceded that criti
cism of the film by members of the
Christian community may actually
have helped the movie, which
grossed $450,000 in eight cities its
first weekend, by making people
curious about it.
"There was error when certain
members of the Christian communi
ty felt the need to go public and
called a press conference to con
demn the movie," said Baehr.
"The initial plan was for Don
Wildmon (head of the conservative
American Family Association of
Tupelo, Miss., which spearheaded
the boycott) to reach his support
base of 2 1/2 million and to reach
our audience through 300-plus
Christian radio stations and 25 mag
azines to speak out against the film.
"When the secular press got wind
of the protest, it hurt," Baehr said.
"In fact, watching the press confer
ence in Los Angeles, I wondered if
those speaking against the film were
working for Universal Pictures
(which distributed the film). It was
the best advertising they could
receive."
In Nashville, country music star
Wynonna Judd was among more
than 800 people who gathered at a
church Monday night to pray for the
country in the wake of the release of
the film.
Miss Judd, the younger member
of the mother-daughter singing duo,
said she believes people should
have freedom of choice but wants to
join other Christians in encouraging
people to look to the Bible to learn
about Jesus.
"A lot of people out there are lis
tening to our music," she said. "I
feel that anything I can do to bring
his name to people will be of some
help."
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