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Expanding today’s faith and vision
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ly l.CMX) new members annu
ally under Alexander’s 15
years as pastor. The church
has already outgrown its
2,500-person sanctuary on
Beatties Ford Road less than
five years after it opened.
Park Place will have
529,000 square feet, includ
ing 100,000-square-foot Lib
erty Hall, which will serve as
the main worship center. The
entire Beatties Ford Road
campus includes 83,000
square feet of space. The new
worship center will allow
University Park Baptist to
consolidate services and con
serve church resources.
UPBC will also be able to
expand its Christian educa
tion programs, leadership
development, economic devel
opment initiatives, and con
ference, meeting and banquet
facilities.
“We feel this is a win-win
situation for our members as
well as the community,”
Alexandei' said. “Bringing
oiu* main campus to this cen
tral location will provide a sig
nificant economic boost to this
area of our dty.”
University Park has more
than 80 specialized min
istries. Park Place will serve
as a hub for the Global Mis
sions ministry, which is active
in Kenya, South Afiica and
Brazil. Educational services
include a School of Ministry
that will focus on the develop
ment of cleigy and lay minis-
tei’s as well as a specialized
multimedia library
UPBC has signed a pur
chase agreement for the Mer
chandise Mart, with plans to
close on the property within
90 days. The church will
spend nearly two yeai*s
upfitting the center, with
plans to relocate in 2008.
The main campus will
remain on Beatties Ford
Road until then. Park South,
the church’s south Charlotte
campus, will be maintained
as a regional campus.
UPBC will give woi*ship-
pere a first look inside the
future worship center on Dec.
31 at Watch Ni^t services.
Wal-Mart critics make shopping a religious question: WWJS?
Continued from page 8B
against Wal-Mart. The TV ad
starts with a picture of a
Bible-like tome and an off
screen narrator who says,
“Our faith teaches us T)o
unto others as you would
have them do unto you.’
“'If these are our values,
then ask yourself should peo
ple of faith shop at Wal-Mart
this holiday season?”
Wal-Mart Chief Executive
Lee Scott responded within
hours with his own letter lay
ing out what he called Wal-
Mart’s positive contribu
tions—saving working fami
lies money, providing jobs
and supporting charities.
“For that reason, we will
not be deterred fix)m our mis-
sion, despite misleading
statements fix>m paid critics
whose motives are less than
pure,” Scott wrote.
“Wal-Mart will continue to
do those things that we
believe are right for our cus
tomers, associates and com
munities; helping people put
food on the table and clothes
on their backs; providing good
benefits, providing career
opportunity, and being a good
citizen in the towns we
serve,” Scott added.
The letter jfrom clergy mem
bers urged Wal-Mart to
change its business practices.
“Jesus would not embrace
Wal-Mart’s values of greed
and profits at any cost, partic-
Two books make ideal Christmas gifts
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shoppers seeking ideal
Christmas gifts for religiously
“fa-la-la-la-la” about two
beautiful seasonal books and
one oddly intriguing item:
• “Incarnation” (Fortress
Press, $15) by Oxford Univer
sity theologian Alister
McGrath interprets the
meaning of Christ’s birth.
McGrath has important
things to say ^d does so
without fancy theological ver
biage, favoring prose that’s as
clear and crisp as a Deconber
evening.
• “Johann Sebastian Bach;
His Life in Pictures and Docu
ments” (Fortress Press, $25)
by G^man bic^apher Hans
Conrad Fischer is a lavishly
illustrated, readable account
of the life of history’s greatest
Christian composer — and
arguably its greatest compos
er, p«iod
“Everything You Always
Wanted to Know About God
(But Were Afi-aid Tb Ask)”
(WaterBrook Press, $14.99
paperback) is something else.
Eric Metaxas, a New York
City writer of humor, chil
dren’s books and media
scripts, zips through the
issues in a quirky question-
and-answer romp.
The two offerings from
Fortress, a Lutheran publish
er, fulfill both the heart and
mind. One adds delights for
the eye (color reproductions of
seven paintings dliuninate
McGrath’s points), while the
other adds delicts for the ear
(Fischer’s biography comes
with a CD providing 17 exam
ples of Bach’s music).
McGrath, a one-time Marx
ist atheist turned orthodox
Christian, is writing a series
of brief books on "the truth
and the Christian imagina
tion.” The first was the award
winning “Creation,” and
“Incarnation” is the second.
Tbpics yet to come: redemp
tion, resurrection, heaven,
God.
For McGrath, the Christ
mas message of God becom
ing man throu^ the humble
Bethlehem birth is a theme
that knits together everything
else that’s important for
Friendship Baptist Church
221 W. Bradley Ave., Gastonia, NC 28052
' 704-865-9016 • F€ix: 704-865-9057
J Website: www.friendshipgastonia.org
- Schedule of Services -
Early Flow Worship 8;00am
Church School 9;30am
Spirit Flows Celebration 10:45ara
Wednesday Bible Studis Seniors..10;00ain
12 Noon and 6:30 pm
Wednesday Intercessory Prayer. 6*6:30 pm
Spirit Flows Radio Broadcast.WGAS & WOGR
1540 AM, - Wednesdays at 9:30am
WLTC & WGOS 1350 AM Saturdays at 9:30 am
Pastor John A. McCullough, Jr.
& Rev. Dekota G. McCullough
FRIENDSHIP CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
“Imparting Christian values into children to enable them to
grow academically and spiritually.”
Accepting children ages: 6 weeks - 3rd Grade
ABeka Curriculum • Spanish & Music Classes
• Computer Learning Center
Rev. Dekota Grier McCullough, Principal
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Rev. John A. McCullough, Jr., Senior Pastor
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'‘Telline and Livine the Good News of Jesus Christ”
■ Oulro.icli & Nurture Ministries For All Ages -
Spirit-led Sunday Worship: Ham
Sunday School: 9:30am
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- Rev. Quentin G. Poulson, Pastor -
3001 Beatties Fd. Rd., Charlotte. NC 28216-3731
Phone: 704-392-6098 • E-mail: POPAX@bellsouth.net ^
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Word Of Faith West
Pastor, Rev. Samuel Guthrie, Jr.
2300 Sanders Ave.
Charlotte, NC • 704-358-1709
A Church that cares
for your soul 2 Chron. 7:14
Adults & Children’s Sunday School: 9:45am
Sunday Services: 11:00am
Wed Bible Study/Prayer 7:00pm
4th Saturday Youth (jroup at 2KX)pm
Senior Pastor,
Rev, & Mrs.
Samuel Guthrie, Jr.
Christianity
He writes: "The nativity, as
seen by the eye of faith, is
about God choosing, out of
love and compeission, to enter
the dark, distant and lonely
place that we call human his
tory Rather than summon us
to meet him in the heavenly
places, God chose to
encounter us where we are,”
The Bach book, a imssue of
the 2000 German edition,
depicts a msin who ever
sou^t to glorify (jrod throu^
his musical art and turned
out some 200 cantatas, 480
keyboard pieces, chamber
works, concertos, passions,
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ularly when children suffer as
a result of those misguided
values,” the letter said.
WakeUpWalMart said it
recruited the clergy membei's,
including Rev. Jesse Jackson,
from a variety of faiths
through its activists, who
asked if tiiey would be intei*-
ested in signing the letter.
The group also plans can
dlelight vigils at selected Wal-
Mart’s in 19 states.
On the Net:
WakeUpWalMart: www.wake-
upwahmrtj'om
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.; wmv.wal-
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including the great Christmas
Oratorio, which premiered in
Leipz^ in 1734. In all, about
500 of his sacred compositions
survive, compared with some
300 secular works.
The bulk alone is astonish
ing; the unfailing superb qual
ity is simply unbelievable.
Bach’s inexplicable genius
aside, Fischer provides a fine
sense of what life was like for
a workmanlike musician in
the employ of monarchs and
then as a hard-pressed church
musician and schoolteacher
in the employ of the Leipzig
city coimcil. (Separation of
church and state was
unknown back then.
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Saturday, December 24, 2005
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Rev. Edward B. Newberry, Pastor
2600 Beatties Ford Road
704-392-4752
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