Baptist women meet in Winston
Group leader urges
members to remember
God's principles
BY COURTNEY GAILLARl)
THE CHRONICLE D
Julias McDonald asked the
hundreds of women who con
verged on Winston-Salem last
week for the Woman's Baptist
Home and Foreign Missionary
Convention to lead their fami
lies in constant prayer. McDon
ald, current president of the state
convention, addressed all in
attendance on the importance of
family and prayer at the M.C.
Benton Convention Center on
the morning of July 30.
"As I stand here today I have
no recommendations, but I'd
like to request that we make
prayer a part of our daily lives,
because in times like these, we
must pray daily without ceas
ing," said McDonald, who used
Scripture to speak about the
convention's theme of "Serving
the Present Age: Transforming
the Family Through Christian
Values/Ethics."
The Woman's Baptist Home
and Foreign Missionary Con
vention consists of Baptist
churches throughout North Car
olina that work to organize,
improve and support missionary
circles in conjunction with the
General Baptist State Conven
tion. Last week's meeting was
the 119th session of the conven
tion.
Saving souls and participat
ing in family Bible study, said
McDonald, should become part
of daily family life.
"As missionaries, as pastors,
as evangelists, educators and
parents, our challenge is to pro
tect the innocence and to see
that (children) grow in the life of
Christ." McDonald said.
Families, be they biological
families or church families,
should model their relationships
after the family of Jesus, whose
family she called "the ideal fam
ily."
"How do we sell this mes
sage to the disbelieving world?
We have to show the world that
the church is about family -
God's family....It is up to us to
show that families have a
choice. We can choose a family
life in the spirit of Nazareth,"
McDonald said. "Families
raised according to God's prin
ciples will receive his bless
ings."
Husbands and wives today 1
also could leant a great deal
from the relationship that exist
ed between Joseph and Mary - a
relationship. McDonald said,
that consisted of two people
who were "God-fearing and
morally clean" and spiritually
responsible for their son. If
more husbands and wives,
mothers and fathers conducted
themselves in the likeness of
this couple, then families would
be strengthened and spiritually
sound.
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dreds of
women
from
across the
state
attended
last
week's
conven
t i o n .
They
came in
their tra
McDonald
ditional white dresses and skirts
and were treated to a variety of
seminars, praise services and
social events, A banquet and
activities for young people also
were held.
McDonald, who is from
Monroe, brought up young peo
ple several times during her
remarks. She said prayer can
save them from the many pit
falls in this world.
Traditional values, decency,
honor arid respect must still be
ingrained in child rearing.
McDonald said, or else families
run the risk of young people
falling victim to sex and drugs,
which have become mainstream
practices for them today.
"These are the values that
were handed down to us through
God's word. They are essential
today as they have ever been. If
we do not provide examples,
who will?" McDonald asked.
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prominent venue, says put
ting it away from the Mall's
other museums would harken
back to the "separate but
equal" treatment of blacks
during segregation.
"That would say to
African-American and for
eign visitors that this is a sec
ondary issue and we're put
ting it in a secondary site."
Brownback said. "That would
be enormously insulting to a
number of people and quite
harmful to the efforts to rec
oncile."
Although both sides are
determined, the debate has
remained far less contentious
than the squabble over a
World War II Memorial,
which ended up in court. That
memorial, featuring 56 17
iuoi pil
lars, two
four
story
arches
and a
sunken
plaza
with a
pool, is
being
built on
t h e
green
Lewis
space between the Lincoln
Memorial and Washington
Monument, causing Mall
preservation groups to
cringe.
Robert Wright, chairman
tfcfri^residential commis
sion, says there is no compar
ison between the impact of
the World War II Memorial
site and those being dis
cussed for the black history
museum. A better compari
son, he says, is the National
Museum of the American
Indian, which is opening
alongside the Mall nest year.
But Feldman cautions the
impact of such reasoning on
long-term city planning.
"Where will it end if all of us
look at the Mall and say, 'It's
not me, so I want to add my
memorial or my museum? "
she said. "Too many people
think of the Mall as an empty
space that needs to be filled
up with individual groups'
histories. That's perfectly
understandable, but they do
not understand we are actual
ly diminishing it."
Photo by Courtney Gaillard
Women dressed in traditional white for the convention.
Anthony & his shadow
Photo by Kevin Walker
Chronicle sports editor Anthony Hill stands beside Jer
rec Owens. Last Friday, Hill took part in the Big Broth
ers Big Sisters "Big for a day" program, which pairs
professionals with young people for a day of work
place shadowing.
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