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RELIGION / The Charlotte Post
Thursday, May 1,1997
CHURCH NEWS
News of note
• Hampton University will
host its 83rd Minister’s
Conference, June 2-6. This
year’s theme will be “The
Future of the Black Church:
Where Are We Going and. How
Do We Get There?” Invited
speakers and panelists
include, Bishop John Hurst
Adams, Bishop Cecil Bishop,
Bishop Nathaniel Linsey and
Dr. Henry Lyons. For more
information, call (757)727-
5255.
School, 525 East C Street,
Kannapolis. Concert features
The Brothers of Faith, The
Gospel Expressions, The
Carson Family, the
Wondering Souls, and the
Laboraires of Charlotte.
Admission is free. Sponsored
by the Mason and Eastern
Stars of District 3.
vices will be held at 2:30 p.m.
and feature the Rev. Charlene
Hendricks-Stewart, pastor of
Solid Rock Missionary Baptist
Church.
•Northeast Seventh Day
Adventist
827 Tom Hunter Road
Clothing giveaway 3-5 p.m.
•’Trinity Park Baptist
9115 'Trinity Road
The church will celebrate its
24th anniversary at 3 p.m.
The speaker will ,be the Rev.
C.N. Gray, pastor of Chapel
Hill Baptist Church,
Huntersville.
• Second Calvary Baptist
114 Nelson Ave.
Conclusion of Sewing Seeds,
Harvest Reaping fund raiser
will be held at 3:30 p.m. The
speaker will be the Rev. Osbey
Roddey of Langrum Branch
Baptist Church of York, S.C.
A reception will be held after
ward, and the Historical
Archive Room will be opened.
In Memory of
WALTER B. TAYLOR SR
(January 9,1914 - April 28, 1995)
In loving memory of our husband, father,
grandfather, and great-grandfather who de
parted this life 2 years ago today (April 28,
1997). Forever we will love you, and forever
you are in our .broken hearts. We miss you,
and we know you'are;our Guardian Angel, and
looking over all of us. your loving wife Ada
and children Hazeline, Adell, and Walter
•Evangelistic Temple
Outreach Ministries worships
each Sunday at the Masters
Inn, 2701 Independence Blvd.
Sunday School begins at 10
a.m.. Morning worship 11 a.m.
and evening worship at 4 p.m.
iFor more information, call
lEvangelist Evetta Lyons, 372-
:6354.
Muhammad Mosque
3300 Tuckaseegee Road
Minister Abdul Bey
Muhammad, author of
“Louisiana Lynching: A
Modern Day Legacy of an X-
Slave,” will speak at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $7.
Friday
•Stage production of “Two
■Thieves and a Savior,” 7 p.m.
lat the King’s Arena at
'Heritage Village, 9700 Regent
iParkway, Fort Mill, S.C. Show
J features a holy march, read-
'ing of the Bible and concert.
•For more information, call
1(803) 802-2300.
•Pastors and Spouses
Gathering and Continental
Breakfast, at 9:30 a.m. Hilton
Executive Park, 5624
Westpark Drive. Worship ser
vice and discussion of prob
lems in the ministry. For
information, call (719) 548-
5807.
•New St. John Baptist
2000 St. John’s Church
Road
Women’s Day will be
observed Sunday. The 8 a.m.
speaker will be the Rev. Annie
Mae Massey of St. James
Holiness Church. The 11 a.m.
speaker will be the Rev. Daisy
Grandberry of Macedonia
Baptist Church, Mount Holly.
Special services will be held at
3 p.m. The speaker will be the
Rev. Virginia Mcllwain of
Flintridge Baptist Church,
Lancaster, S.C.
•New Shiloh Baptist
2600 Elmin St.
Youth Spring Revival will
begin at 7 p.m. with the Rev.
Ervin Milsaps, pastor of
Greater Fellowship Baptist
Church. Services continue
through Friday at 7:30 p.m.
The speaker will be the Rev.
, Anthony Jinwright, pastor of
Salem Missionary Baptist
Church.
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GALILEE BAPTIST
CHURCH
Rev. F.A. Griffin, PASTOR
Sunday School 9:45a.m.
/
Sunday Worship 11:00a.m.
Sunday School Study - Wed. 7pm
Prayer Service - 8pm
2933 Shady Lane • Charlotte, NC 28208
333-0810
Sunday
\ Saturday
; •Calvary Christian
; 3001 Kilboume Dr.
‘ Spring Fling ‘97 7 a.m.-5
■ p.m. Program features rides,
i games, prizes, moonwalk,
Jbook fair and food. Proceeds
’benefit the Early Learner
j Child Development Center.
• Greater Hopewell AME
Zion Church
11333 Beatties Ford Road
Huntersville
The church will host its
annual 12 Tribes program at 6
p.m.
•Rocky Ridge Missionary
Baptist
3901 Heathcliff Road
Concord
The church will celebrate the
anniversary of the Rev. E.R.
Kirkpatrick at 2:30 p.m. The
speaker will be the Rev. J.N.
Coble, pastor of Mount Moriah
Missionary Baptist Church in
Wadesboro. Dinner will be
served at 1:30 p.m.
•Steele Creek AME Zion
Church
1500 Shopton Road
The Deaconess Board will
celebrate its anniversary at 3
p.m. The speaker will be the
Rev. Ronald Stinson, pastor of
Vestibule AME Zion Church
in Kings Mountain.
SIMPSON-GILLESPIE
UNITED METOODIST CHURCH
Dr, Carl Arrington, Senior Pastor
Monday
Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.
Sunday Worship - 11:00 a.m.
Bible Study, Wednesdays - 7K)0 p.m.
3545 Beatties Ford Rd. • (704) 399-2717
Dr. Carl
Arrington
■ •Big Gospel Explosion,7
(p.m. Kannapolis Middle
•Bethany Missionary
Baptist
4700 Willard St.
Women’s Day will be
obse^ed Sunday. The speaker
for the 11 a.m. service will be
Erma Kirkpatrick of Antioch
Baptist Church. Special ser-
•Youth for Christ Music
Workshop, featuring the Rev.
John P. Kee through May 3.
Youth age 6-16 are invited to
attend. The workshop will be
held at Garr Memorial
Church, 7700 Wallace Road.
For more information, call
556-1853.
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Greater Mt. Moriah
Primitive Baptist Church
Thomas W. Samuels, PASTOR
Church School - 9:45AM
Morning Worship - 11:00AM
Evening Services - 6:00PM
747 West Trade Street
376-8806
"We are laborers together
with God." ‘
[Bishop can not support abortion
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WILMINGTON, Del. - The
retiring bishop of Delaware’s
Episcopal Church says he no
longer can support abortion
rights because abortion is
often used as a means of birth
control.
“I am troubled by a society
which will not be responsible
for its sexuality. Increasingly,
we are using abortion as a
means of birth control. That is
intolerable,” Bishop Cabell
Tennis told delegates gath
ered Saturday for the 212th
Convention of the Episcopal
Diocese of Delaware. .
Tennis, a lawyer by training,
wrote an historic opinion last
May for a church court saying
the Episcopal Church has no
doctrine forbidding ordination
of sexually active homosexu
als.
The ruling threatens to fur
ther divide the church which
has seen its ranks drop
sharply over the last three
decades.
The ruling followed a case in
which a retired bishop was
charged by the church with
heresy for ordaining a deacon
he knew was engaged in a
homosexual relationship. The
ruling averted the first heresy
trial of an Episcopal bishop
since the 1920s.
Tennis, 64, who has openly
supported abortion rights in
the past, said his new position
is a reasonable response to
nearly two decades of spiritual
reflection on the subject.
“We are asserting so-called
rights to deny life to the ulti
mately vulnerable,” Tennis
said. “I can no longer stand
apart from the unborn and the
unwanted. Something about
the connection between abor
tion and rights of the unborn
did not fit me.”
Statistics show nearly half of
abortions are performed on
married women who do not
want children, he said.
Tennis, however, said he
still felt there are “situations
in which abortion is the lesser
of two evils, certainly in the
case of rape or when the life of
the mother is threatened.”
Tennis also urged the church
to speak out against capital
punishment and Suggested
multiple divorces and mar
riages among heterosexuals is
more damaging to families
han homosexual relation
ships.
“It is time to face the truth
hat serial polygamy, mostly
by husbands who wish to
replace their wives, is at the
root of the collapse of family
values,” Tennis said.
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[Denial hurts AIDS efforts
■ Continued from 13A
women.
AIDS is the No. 1 killer of
African Americans age 25-44.
Going to the faith community
is logical, Curry says.
“The faith community teaches
morality and abstinence,” Curry
sa3rs. “It would help if they also
had information on prevention
methods handy as well.
Churches should have info on
what AIDS is and what AIDS
isn’t.”
Tara Foster, a minority health
educator for the MetroHna AIDS
Project, says the church is the
perfect launching pad for AIDS
infoiroatioh.
“The church for the African
American community is a place
we feel is ours,” Foster says.
“The church is a place were we
feel we can get information. On
Sunday mornings and
Wednesday nights, people know
they can get a message.”
Foster says that in the begin
ning chinches were hesitant to
get involved, but now she sees
them asking more questions.
“It has been a slow process,”
she says. “But now we’re seeing
more openness about delivering
info about AIDS and HIV.
Ministers are beginning to see
that they have members who
are affected or infected by the
disease.”
The N.C. African American
Faith Initiative will present
Clergy and Ministers HTV and
AIDS Prevention Education
Training Conference Tuesday
from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Walls
Memorial AME Zion Church,
2722 Bancroft St. The confer
ence is free and lunch will be
provided to participants. To
reserve a space, call 393-2005.
;Police brutality topic
[at Charlotte mosque
'Continued from 13A
j. Muhammad will be in
( Charlotte Saturday at 7 p.m. at
.Muhammad Mosque, 3300
[Tuckaseegee Road. Tickets are
;$7.
f Muhammad says he has a
.;i)owerftil message for Charlotte
(that will probably include a call
[for a citizens review board.
[Many Charlotteans are also
(calling for a review board in the
wake of the shooting deaths of
three unarmed African
Americans over the last three
years.
“I’m in favor of a citizens
review board that is not inter
ested in covering anything up,”
Muhammad said. “Or not inter
ested in lies. I’m interested in
solutions. Not just for Charlotte,
but throughout the country.”
For more information, call
377-6937.
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