Religion
Upcoming
Church Events
Jan. 10
"Jesus Is the Way"
Galilee Missionary Bap
list Church Youth Ministries
will present Saturday Night
Live 2004 "Jesus Is the Way"
on Jan. 10 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Youths and young adults of
all ages are welcome. The
youth speaker will be Minis
ter Brandon Austin. The
revue will feature GMBC
Mimes of Praise. GMBC
Step Team, God's Anointed
Ones, the Youth Choir, and
the Youth & Young Adult
Inspirational Mass Choir.
The church is at 575 Martin
Luther King Jr. Drive. Con
tact the church at 724-3857
for more information.
Saturday Night Live
Galilee Missionary Bap
tist Church will present Sat
urday Night Live on Jan. 10
from 7 to 9 p.m. The youth
speaker will be Minister
Brandon Austin. Scheduled
to perform are the Youth and
Young Adult Inspirational
Mass Choir. GMBC Step
? Team. GMBC Mimes of
Praise and God's Anointed
! Ones. Youths and young
; adults of all ages are wel
come.
Prayer School of the Spirit
'
Woman to Woman Sister
to Sister Prayer Circle Net
work joins in unity with
Prayer Houses Inc. in offer
ing a 13-week Prayer School
of the Spirit, featuring Pas
tor/Teacher Anita Baldwin.
The first session will be Jan.
10 from 10 a.m. until noon at
the Comfort Ihn at 531 Akron
Drive. There will be a $12
donation. For more informa
tion. contact Co-pastor Ear
line White at 725-9646.
' Everyone is invited. Come
; and learn and pray together.
Jan. 11
Forsyth County United
Usher Board '
The Forsyth County Unit
ed Usher Board will meet at
New Light Baptist Church,
1527 E. 15th Street, at 3 p.m.
Jan. 11. For more informa
tion contact Rodney
McCormick at 788- 1 664.
"What Is Evil?"
The Rev. Charles Davis
will speak on "What Is
Evil?" on Jan. 11 at 10:30
a.m. at the Unitarian Univer
salis! Fellowship of Winston
Salem. "By striving to be
nondogmatic, do- we fail to
recognize real evil in the
world?" The church is at
4055 Robinhood Road, 659
0331.
Jan. 11, 18
St. Matthew
Come worship with St.
Matthew Apostolic Temple
Church of Jesus Christ Jan.
1 1 at 4 p.m. for a platform
service sponsored by Mother
Margaret Caurthen Mission
ary Circle. Also on Jan. 18 at
4 p.m. come join us for a
spirit-filled event: Operation
Push "Praying Until Some
thing Happens." The church
is at 3640 New Walkertown
Road, Winston-Salem (tele
phone 724-1780).
Jan. 14-16
Three-night event
New Beginnings Full
Gospel Ministries Inc.. 215
Fourth Street in High Point,
will hold a "three-night
event" Jan. 14-16 at 7:30
with special guest Dr. A.L.
Jinwright of Greater Salem
Church in Charlotte.
Jan. 16
Prayer concert
The women's ministry of
First Waughtown Baptist
Church invites you to attend
a prayer concert Jan( 16 at
7:30 p.m. The church is at
838 Moravia Street.
Jan. 18
Church and pastor's
anniversary .
NewCentury Missionary
Baptist Church, 918 S. Broad
Street, will hold its first
church and pastor's anniver
sary celebration Jan. 18 at 4
p.m. The theme is "Faithful
and Fruitful" (Matthew
25:14-30). The guest speaker
will be Rev. Reuban Gilliam,
pastor. North Winston Mis
sionary Baptist Church. The
public is invited.
"Celebration" service
The officers and mem
bers of First Waughtown
Baptist Church invite you to
their "celebration service
Jan. 18 at 5 p.m. What is the
celebration about? The gift of
salvation and the fellowship
of the saints into the local
church. First Waughtown
Baptist Church will honor
new converts and new mem
bers for the past year in a
dynamic service that will
include preaching, singing,
and a high time of praise and
fellowship. The entire music
ministry of First Waughtown
will render musical selec
tions. the Kingdom Builders
Dance Ministry will perform
dance selections, and Senior
Pastor Dennis W. Bishop will
deliver a message of encour
agement. The church is at
838 Moravia Street. Call
784-7386 for more informa
tion.
Jan. 26
100 Women of Faith
On Jan. 26 at 7 p.m., 100
Women of Faith will meet at
Mount Pleasant Missionary
Baptist Church, 795 Craw
ford Place. This organization
works as a task force for one
year to provide help for poor
and needy individuals in
Winston-Salem and Forsyth
County. The organization
welcomes all women of faith
and women of all nationali
ties to join the group as it
makes donations to
poor/needy individuals;
advocates at local, state and
national levels for needy
individuals: and works to
improve dialogue between
community people.
Other
Church anniversary
Tabernacle of Faith
Church. 1410 Altucks Street,
will celebrate its 21st
anniversary each Sunday
during January. All morning
services will begin at 11.
facilitated by Brenda J.
McCloud, senior pastor, and
Phillip G. McCloud Sr..
assistant pastor, youth pastor
and elder.
Guest ministers for the
remaining 4 p.m. celebra
tions are: Jan. 11 - Overseer
Eugene Kirby and Bethlehem
Holiness Church: Jan. 18 -
Pastor Linda Beat and New
Liberty Baptist Ministries;
and Jan. 25 - Pastor Dennis
W Bishop and First
Waughtown Baptist Church.
The public is invited to cele
brate with us as we continue
to build upon the legacy as
established by our founder
the late Bishop A.W.
McCloud Sr. For more infor
mation, contact the church at
777-1 1 13 or 725-2517.
Grandparents Bible study
Beginning Jan 8. United
Progressive Baptist Church
will have grandparents Bible
study at 7 p.m. each Thurs
day. The church is at. 1122
See Calendar on B7
Youth With A Purpose opens doors
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Youth With A Purpose
Ministries, u nonprofit organi
zation, opened its doors Jan. I
with a Family Fun Day. The
grand opening offered food,
fun. prizes and entertainment
for all ages.
The dance troupe from
Galilee Missionary Baptist
Church performed in front of
an audience of 35 children.
their parents and other mem
bers of the Winston-Salem
community. Parents got the
opportunity to ask questions
and were informed of the var
ious programs and seminars
that will be occurring in the
upcoming months. The com
munity got its first look at a
center where youths can come
learn, play and socialize while
maximizing their God-given
potential.
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The center is on the corner
of Brownsboro Road and
North Cherry Street (4198 N.
Cherry Street). The center
consists of a game/recre
ation/activity room, a multi
purpose room, office spaces,
classrooms and a sanctuary.
Hours of operation are Mon
day through Friday. 1 1 a.m. to
7 p.m.
The center offers Sunday
worship services, before/after
school care, tutorials and sum
mer enrichment programs. For
more information, contact
Mark Barnes, pastor, at (336)
896-0409; or Lindy Harris,
program/activity director,
(336) 896-0502.
Youth With A Purpose
Ministries would like to give
special recognition to those
individuals and organizations
that made the grand opening a
success.
Foreign priests filling U.S. vacancies
BY STEVEN G. VEGH
l lll \ IRGINIAN I'll oi
NORFOLK, Va. - When
Salvador Anonuevo became a
Catholic priest in 1986. he never
thought about serving anywhere
outside his native Philippines.
After all, for much of its his
tory, his Southeast Asian home
land depended on foreign mis
sionary priests to serve the
largely Catholic populace.
"There was a time when
there were more European
priests than Filipino," he said.
Yet, for the past three years
Anonuevo unexpectedly found
himself serving as a foreign mis
. sion priest in South Hampton
Roads. Gripped by a persistent
Shortage of homegrown clergy,
it is the Catholic Church in the
United States, including the
Diocese of Richmond, that now
relies heavily on foreign-based
priests to serve domestic parish
ioners and lead worship servic
es.
"The United States has
become a mission territory."
said the Rev. Thomas J. Car
oluzza. who oversees Catholic
churches in eastern Virginia on
behalf of the Richmond diocese.
This month, five priests,
from Poland. Kenya and the
Philippines will arrive in the
diocese, joining more than two
dozen clergy from South Korea.
Vietnam and other countries
here on long-term assignments.
Several Hampton Roads parish
es have international priests,
including St. Luke Catholic
Church in Virginia Beach,
where Anonuevo is assigned.
Maintaining a minimum
number of priests is crucial for
every Catholic diocese because
only ordained priests can |ier
form certain sacraments, such as
communion, that are essential to
parishioners. Priests belonging
to dioceses overseas have
become the single largest source
of new clergy for the Richmond
diocese, Carolu/za said.
Nationally, foreign based
priests represent about 16 per
cent of the 27. (KM' priests active
in parish and diocesan ministry,
according to Georgetown Uni
versity';; Center for Applied
Research in the Apostolate.
which studies the Catholic
Church.
There were 994 diocesan
priests ordained in the United
States m 1965. but just 427 in
29QQ. The most recent statistics
suggest the slump has flattened
and even reversed slightly in
some areas, according to the
U.S. Conference of Cathnlic
Bishops.
In the Richmond diocese,
there were no ordinations in
2002. and only one priest was
ordained in 2003. One ordina
tion is expected in 2004 and four
more in 2(X)5, said the Rev.
Michael Renninger. who over
sees priest vocations for the dio
cese. There were 3 1 internation
al priests on loan to the diocese
as of late 2002. compared with
21. in 1998. Edwards said, citing
the most recent statistics avafl
able.
Bishop Walter F. Sullivan,
who retired in September as
head of. the Richmond diocese,
said Filipino priests are serving
in Virginia because of a deal he
struck years ago with Bishop
Jesus Y. Varela. who led the
Diocese of" Sosorgon in the
Philippines at that time.
Under the agreement, the
Richmond diocese provides
financial support to needy semi
narians in the Philippines. In
return, it can borrow priests
attached to the Sosorgotf ' dio
cese.
In the 19th and early 20th
centuries. American bishops
often relied on clergy born and
trained overseas to serve the
immigrants pouring into the
United States. Non-native
priests often were assigned to
serve their own ethnic commu
nity wherever it settled.
The foreign-born priests in
the United States today aren't
limited to serving immigrants.
Anonuevo's 350-famiIy congre
gation at St. Luke includes Fil
ipinos. Hispanics and native*
born Americans such as Patty
Trail.
Having a foreign mission
priest assigned to her parish
"never even fazed me." said
Trail, who has attended St. Luke
for 13 years.
She became' Anonuevo's
administrative assistant when he
was assigned to the parish about
a year ago.
"It doesn't take an American
citizen or a diocesan priest to
minister to you." she said. "It
takes someone who has that true
depth of spirituality, that true
relationship with Jesus himself.
I saw that deep spirituality in
Father Salvador."
Kimberly Park Holiness
Church to break ground
SPEC] \l K> nil ( HRONig I
. Where there is no vision, the people
perish (Proverbs 29.18 ).
Elder Robert Edmond Jr.. pastor of
Kimberly Park Holiness Church, intro
duced the God-given vision for a new
sisictuary to the congregation of Kimberly
Park Holiness Church in .1997. This~estab
lished the Building for Kingdom Business
Committee. '
Kimberly Park Church's current sanc
tuary is 85 years old. In the year 1919, a
small group gathered together in a two
story framed building located at Deny and
Glenn Avenue to begin service for God.
Charter members included Elder Frank
Caesar (founding pastor). Elder W.M.
Smith. Solomon M. Caesar. Nellie Caesar.
Willie Caesar. Jim Caesar. Agnes Caesar
and Winnie Gray.
Elder Frank Caesar died in March
1924. Elder Solomon M. Caesar, brother
of the deceased pastor, uqs then called to
the pastorate of Kimberly Park Holiness
Church. A continuous and steady growth
in membership occurred under his leader
ship Several major structural projects
were completed, including the present
education wing. Elder Caesar w as elevated
to bishop during his tenure Bishop Cae
sar's God-given motto was "It's nice to he
nice." which is still heard among. congrc
Pastor Cdmond
gation members today. Bishop Caesar was
pastor for 47 years and left this earthly
dwelling to be with the Lord in 1971.
Other ministers that have served as
pastors have beVn Bishop Theodore Riee
of Mercy Seat Holiness Church. Bishop
Lawrence Tate of New Faith Chapel Holi
ness Church. Elder Hilton Stone of Grace
Assembly and Elder Paul Sherard.
Elder Robert Edmond Jr. has been pas
tor for nine years. Although the church's
physical building Has endured deprecia
tion. the spiritual being of the church lives
See Kimberly on B7
Goler Metropolitan
holds many
Christmas activities
SPKCI At. TO THE CHRONICLE
The Women's Home and Overseas Missionary
Society of Goler Metropolitan AME Zion Church
presented "Love Illumined." The Seven Lights of
Love." Dec. 13 at 3 p.m.
Marie M?tthews is president of WHOMS and
Dorothy McCarthy was the program chairperson.
Oliv ia Morgan played seasonal music, and the group
sang Christmas carols
McCarthy was the Leader of "Love Illumined."
and the following missionaries participated: Narrator
1 - Katie Boulware: Narrator A - Pauline Jackson:
Narrator 2 - Dorothy Wynecoff; Narrator 3 - Jessie
McCullough: Narrator 4 - Georgia Topping: Narrator
5 - Edith Roseboro; Narrator 6 - Marie Bumey: and
Narrator 7 - Olivia Morgan.
Candle Lighter 1 - Hattie Elliott; Candle Lighter
2 Mary Martin: Candle Lighter 3 Nita Matthews:
Candle Lighter 4 - Mary Carter; Candle Lighter 5 -
Luvenia Campbell; Candle Lighter 6 - Rochelle Pin
son; and Candle Lighter 7 - Maijorie Marshall
I'shers Bemell Fulton. Louise Nivens. and Marie
Matthews passed out candles, the lights were
dimmed, and the candles were lit as all participants
sang "Silent Night." Rev. William Conrad gave the
Benediction, and the audience proceeded into the din
ing room for the annual Christmas dinner. Marie
Matthew s was in charge of lighting.
Sci Goler on B6
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