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Adams uses music as ‘platfomi’ to reach out
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nationwide to help them find
careers in education.
“I keep asking God for wis
dom and it had grown by
leaps and bounds,” she said.
“I understand my purpose. I
understand what I was put
here for. I take that on every
day of my life.”
Audiences have been vali
dating Yolanda for wdl over a
decade. She was employed as
an elementary school teacher
in Houston when she first
began to gEimer recognition
for her stunning perfor
mances. “I taught second and
third grades,” she said. “I
would go on the road during
the weekends to sing. Pretty
soon the demand started
growing. I realized I might be
able to make it my career.”
The eldest of six siblings,
Adams’ pioneering spirit and
boundless optimism soon
became her ti'ademark. Her
solid church background and
love of all kinds of music,
which she says “was inspired
by family - everything fiom
Stevie Wond^ to Beethoven,”
left her with a respect for tra
ditional musical hues, as well
as a desire for more contem
porary interpretation. “Tbo
many times we’re put in a box
by musical labels,” she says.
Want to go?
What: Yolanda Adams in
Concert with J Moss
When: Jan. 27, at 8 p.m.
Where: University Park
Baptist Church, 6029 Beat-
ties Ford Road
* Cost: $25 and can be pur
chased at the church’s book
store and through Tlcketmas-
ter.
Pastor urging corporate boycott against gay civil rights
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riage rallies in Seattle and
Washington, D.C., was at the
middle of the Microsoft con
troversy last year on the gay
rights issue. He says he pres
sured Microsoft into dropping
its support of the measure
last )^ar by threatening a
boycott.
The company, which took
heat fix)m gay activists across
the country insisted it decid
ed to take a neutral stance to
focus on other issues but later
came out saying it would once
again support the measure in
future years.
Asked about Hutdierson’s
threat Monday, Microsoft
spokesman Lou Gellos said,
“Our position is well known,
as we said in our letter last
week, and we sticjf by it.” He
dedined to comment further.
Boeing spokesman Peter
Conte said the company had
no plans to withdraw its sup
port.
“The position that we have
taken is one that we do feel
stron^y about,” he said. “It is
entirely consistent wilh our
own internal practices and
policies.”
Other companies did not
return phone calls on Mon
day, the Martin Luther King
Jr. holiday
Rep. Ed Murray D-Seattle,
who has sponsored the mea
sure for more than a decade.
February church events
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in Monroe, will host a “Singles Gathering” at 2 p.m.
February 12
All For One Youth Choir will resume practices at 3:30 p.m. at
Western Avenue Baptist Church, 1206 Museum Road,
Statesville. New members will be accepted through Feb. 19.
BIBLE STUDY
1 Timothy
trines that sounded good but
were empty lies.
Paul told Timothy that
being young was not a prob
lem, but he must make sure
he exemplified his teachings
by the way he lived his own
life. By the way he interacted
with others, the way he loved
God’s people, and the way he
kept himself pure by confess
ing and dealing with any sins
he mi^t commit, Timothy
would demonstrate that his
teachings were able to bring
people dosOT to God. In the
seime way, teachers must live
what they teach, even in
today’s Church.
Friendship Baptist Church
^ 221 W. Bradley Ave., Gastonia, NC 28052
704-865-9016 • Fax: 704-865-9057
Website: www.friendshipgastonia.org
- Schedule of Services -
Early Flow Worship 8:00am
Church School 9;30am
Spirit Flows Celebration, 10:45am
Wednesday Bible Studis Seniors..10;00am
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
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL; 704-865-9016
Rev. John A, McCullough, Jr., Senior Pastor
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“Telline and Livine the Good News of.lesus Christ”
■ Ouireai:h & Nunur,; Mini.iric I-qi All As'
Spiril-led Sunday Worship: I lam
Sunday School: 9:30am
Wed. Prayer, Praise & Bible Study: 7pm
Radio Ministry: Sun. 2:45pm. REJOICE 1370 AM
- Rev. Quentin G. Poulson, Pastor -
3001 Beatties Fd. Rd., Charlotte, NC 28216-3731
sjjj Phone: 704-392-6098 • E-mail: POPAX@bcllsouth.net
Website: www.LuiheranOutreach.org/Prince of Peace, him
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 7KX)pm
4th Saturday Youth Group at 2:00pm
Senior Pastor,
Rev. & Mrs.
Samuel Guthrie, Jr.
said he wasn’t concerned that
Hutcherson’s move would
have any impact on the com
panies’ bottom line.
“The American people and
citizens of Washington state
aren’t going to buy into his
line of bigotry,” he said.
Hutcherson said he has the
support of several national
organizations, including the
Family Research Coimcil,
Southern Baptist Convention
and Focus on the Family. Sev
eral of thc«e organizations’
offices could not be reached
after hours Monday
Dr. Joseph Fuiten, a Bothell
pastor who is chairman of
Faith & Freedom Network,
an organization that opposes
the bill, said the boycott is a
signal “'that we’re out here
too.”
Fuiten said that Christian
consumers “don’t like to see
companies use their financial
muscle to promote what we
view as immoral.”
'”Hiese companies should
stick to their business, make
their widgets,” he said. "Why
are they trying to engineer
social policy for America?”
Hutcherson said he’s not
telling con^^anies to change
their own internal policies on
gay rights. He just doesn’t
want them influencing law
makers with their support.
“Don’t step in our world, we
won’t step in yours,” he said.
Supporters of the bill said
that that the groups don’t rep
resent the state’s citizens.
‘It’s sad that on the day we
remember Martin Luther
King Jr, ^at a small minori
ty of people believe it’s OK to
fire someone or deny them
housing simply because
they’re gay" said Fran Dun
away executive director of
Equal Rights Washington, a
group formed to support the
gay dvil ri^ts bill.
The bill has been introduced
— and rejected — annually
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for nearly 30 years in the Leg
islature.
TTie state House last year
passed the bill 61-37, with six
Republicans joining 55
Democrats in favor. But it lost
by one vote in the Senate,
where two Democrats, Jim
Hargrove of Hoquiam and
Tim Sheldon of Potlatch,
joined 23 Republicans in
defeating the bill.
The meeisure is believed to
have a better chance of pas
sage this year because Sen.
Bill Finkbeiner, R-Kirkland,
announced last week that he
would switcli his vote to yes.
The gay dvil rights bill is
House Bill 2661.
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