Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brim
Melody Lynn Taylor
and Joseph Brim wed
I SPECIAL TO THE CHRONIC I I
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Melody Lynn Taylor and
Joseph Brim where married
. June 21 at Corpening Plaza.
, ? Rev. Cedric Crawford and
Rev. Vernon Crump officiated.
The parents of the bride
! are Jacqueline Taylor of Win
; ston-Salem and William Tay
? lor of Columbus. Ohio.
! The bride, a graduate of
| Mt. Tabor High School, is
? enrolled at Ron Parsley's
I Bible College studying evan
gelism and Ohio State Univer
? sity in risk management insur
- ance. She is employed with
Nationwide Insurance Co.
The parents of the groom
are Cheryl James of Winston
Salem and Joseph Brim of
Winston-Salem.
The groom is a graduate of
Ohio State University with a
degree in industrial design. He
is a member of Kappa Alpha
Psi. He is employed with Dis
cover Inc.
The bride's father gave her
in marriage.
Maid of honor was Tiffany
West, friend, of Winston
Salem. Bridesmaids were
Tiffany Spease, friend, of
Winston-Salem; and Christine
Crawford, cousin of groom, of
Winston-Salem.
Groomsmen were Don
nelle Brim, brother, of Win
ston-Salem; Cedric Taylor,
brother of bride, of Columbus,
Ohio; and Dedrick Benton,
fraternity brother, of Winston
Salem.
The couple will take a hon
eymoon trip to Jamaica at a
later date.
The couple will live in
Columbus. Ohio.
The Alpha Course reaches out
to N.C. urban church leaders
Special evangelism
training offered at
upcoming conference
SPII I M I" [Hi CHRONK I I
Area ministers and lay
people are inviting those
involved in urban ministry to
attend an Alpha Course kick
off event, set for July 28 at
noon at First Waughtown Bap
tist Church, 838 Moravia
Street.
The Alpha Course is a pop
ular evangelism tool being
used by more than 6,000
churches of all sizes, denomi
nations and ethnicities across
this nation and the world.
Alpha users attribute the
course's success to the friend
ly, nonthreatening approach it
uses to present the basic
Gospel message to seekers.
Area church leaders will be
introduced to the Alpha
Course and also will learn
details about the upcoming
Alpha conference in Charlotte,
set for October 2003.
"The Good News is true
for all people of all times,"
said Tony Lowery, an ordained
Baptist minister. "The beauty
of the Alpha Course is that it
can be adapted to relate cultur
ally to any particular audience
without compromising the
integrity of the Gospel mes
sage."
Lowery, who is on staff
with Guildfield Baptist
Church in Washington. D.C.,
will be a featured speaker at
the urban kickoff event. He
first-encountered the Alpha
Course in January 2000 when
he attended an Alpha confer
ence. Soon thereafter, he
offered the Alpha Course as
part of an inner-city ministry
in Southeast Washington.
"We saw people allow God
to move in their lives as they
heard the basic Gospel mes
sage and experienced a caring
environment where they could
be real about life's tough ques
tions. In all my years of min
istry I've not seen a more
effective tool for bringing
unbelievers to the table."
That success has been
duplicated locally by the
efforts of Rev. James Lewis,
minister of education at Morn
in g st a r
B a pt i s't
Church
and
director
of Christ
ian edu
cation for
the High
Point
Educa
tional
and Mis
i n n n r v
Baptist Association of 41
churches. "It is a tool that can
enhance discipleship and
evangelism in the local
African-American church,"
Lewis said.
The Alpha Course meets
weekly for 10 weeks, includ
ing a weekend retreat toward
the end of the course where
guests learn about the Holy
Spirit and His role in a Christ
ian's life. The general format
includes dinner on a week
night, followed by a talk about
a basic aspect of the Christian
faith, followed by small group
discussion.
"Food, friendship and fel
lowship is a New Testament
model of church growth and
consistent with values in many
urban churches, which are the
center of our communities,"
said Marion Millner. confer
ence developer for Alpha USA
and a Winston native. "Like
Rev. Lowery, I too ran Alpha
in Washington, and now I'm
running a course in Detroit
with participants from Baptist,
Pentecostal. Methodist and
Episcopal churches. I am com
mitted to more urban churches
recognizing this as a tool for
evangelism in this hour."
Minister Millner. who also
is pursuing a master of theo
logical studies degree at Har
vard Divinity School, will be a
featured speaker at the Alpha
urban kickoff. He has minis
tered in several inner-city
churches and is 'serving this
summer on the staff of New
St. Paul Tabernacle Church of
God in Christ in Detroit. ,
In addition to Lewis, the
urban kickoff is being organ
ized or supported by a variety
of lay people and ministers,
including Minister Corrie
Brown of St. Peter's World
Outreach Center; Art Mollpy
of Union Baptist: Dr. Deborah
Fountain of United Metropoli
tan Baptist; Rev. Dennis Bish
op, host pastor of First
Waughtown Baptist; Rev.
Donald Jenkins, pastor of St.
Paul United Methodist
Church; and Rev. G.L. Brown
of Nuevo Amanecer Baptist.
For more information on
the Alpha Course, contact Car
oline Kinser at 723-6309.
Millner
Music
from page C7
over the names of suspected
music pirates upon subpoena
from any U.S. District Court
clerk's office, without a judge's
signature required.
In some cases, subpoenas
cite as few as five songs as "rep
resentative recordings" of music
files available for downloading
from these users. The trade
group for the largest music
labels, the Washington-based
RIAA, previously indicated its
lawyers would target Internet
users who offer substantial col
lections of MP3 song files but
declined to say how many songs
might qualify for a lawsuit.
Music fans are fighting back
with technology, using new soft
ware designed specifically to
stymie monitoring of their
online activities by the major
record labels.
A new version of "Kazaa
Lite." free software that pro
vides access to the service oper
ated by Sharman Networks Ltd..
can prevent anyone from listing
all music files on an individual's
machine and purports to block
scans from Internet addresses
believed to be associated with
Ihe RIAA.
Many of the subpoenas
reviewed by the AP identified
songs from the same few artists,
including Avril Lavigne. Snoop
Dogg and Michael Jackson, It
was impossible to determine
whether industry lawyers were
searching the Internet specifical
ly for songs by these artists or
whether they were commonly
popular among the roughly 60
million users of file-sharing
services.
The RIAA's subpoenas are
so prolific that the U.S. District
Court in Washington, already
suffering staff shortages, has
been forced to reassign employ
ees from elsewhere in the clerk's
office to help process paper
work. said Angela Caesar-Mob
ley. the clerk's operations man
ager.
The RIAA declined to com
ment on the numbers of subpoe
nas it issued.
A spokeswoman for the
Administrative Office of the
U.S. Courts said the clerk's
office here was "functioning
more like a clearing house, issu
ing subpoenas for all over the
country." Any civil lawsuits
would likely be transferred to a
different jurisdiction, spokes
woman Karen Redmond said.
Verizon, which has fought
the RIA.A over the subpoenas
with continued legal appeals,
said it received at least 150 sub
poenas during the last two
weeks. There were no subpoe
nas on fde sent to AOL Time
Warner Inc.. the nation's largest
Internet provider and parent
company of Warner Music
Group. Earthlink Inc.. another of
the largest Internet providers,
said it has received only three
new subpoenas.
DePaul University in Chica
go was among the few colleges
that received such subpoenas;
the RIAA asked DePaul on July
2 to track down a user known as
"anon39023" who was allegedly
offering at least eight songs. The
recording group sent two sub
poenas to Boston College to
identify "TheLastReal7" and
"Prtythug23."
There was some evidence
the threat of an expensive law
suit was discouraging online
music sharing. Niel?n NetRat
ings. which monitors Internet
usage, earlier this week reported
a decline for traffic on the Kazaa
network of I million users, with
similarly large drops across
other services.
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