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Celebrating 100 years of Pentecost
Continued from page 5B
Those concerns reached a
fever pitch on April 18 —just
five weeks after Seymour’s
arrival— when San Francis
co was rocked by a massive
earthquake. Many saw the
quake as a sign of the apoca
lypse.
The same day as the disas
ter, a major Los Angeles
newspaper published a fixDnt-
page story about Seymour’s
strange prayer meetings —
all-night services so rowdy
that two policemen were
posted full time at the church
to keep order. The story bore
the headline ‘Weird Babel of
Tbngues: New Sect of Fanat
ics is Breaking Loose.”
Soon, all eight major news
papers were covering the
revival, as were religious
newspapers called “holiness
circulars” that were passed
among evangelical churches
nationwide. Word spread
across the nation—and then
the world—about the mas
sive revival under way in Los
Angeles.
One of the revival’s most
notable characteristics,
experts say, was that blacks
and whites worshipped under
the same roof and shared
pastoral duties.
‘At its height, it drew peo
ple fmm all classes, wealthy
and poor, Hispanics, blacks,
Jews— you name it, every
body came,” said Synan.
“Whole churches collapsed
and joined it. There was a
force there, it was almost
supernatural. People said
they could feel it in the air
from about three blocks
away.”
Within eight months, near
ly 20 missionaries from the
revival struck out for Africa,
India and China to start Pen
tecostal churches, said Cecil
M. Robeck Jr., professor of
church history and ecumen-
ics at Fuller Theological Sem
inary in Pasadena.
Revival attendees also
established Pentecostal
churches across the South
and the Midwest, including
the Pentecostal Holiness
Church, the Church of God in
Cleveland, Ibnnessee, and
the Church of God in Christ
in Memphis.
Pentecostalism’s influence
can also be felt in other evan
gelical churches, particularly
in the music and worship
style of megachurches, Synan
said.
“I can go into almost any
Baptist and Methodist
church and feel like I’m in a
Pentecostal church,” he said.
“They sing the same songs,
the same choruses, they lift
their hands.”
'Ibday’s Pentecostals are
less likely to speak in
tongues, however, perhaps in
part because the practice
caused them to be shunned
by some mainline denomina
tions. Experts estimate that
only 40 percent of Pente
costals speak in tongues
today, and even fewer do so
overseas, where the move
ment is growing the fastest,
Robeck said.
“That’s a real pastoral issue
these days,” he said. ‘We still
do argue that every Pente
costal should have that abili
ty but a lot of folk are not fol
lowing through with it.”
Those attending the centen
nial celebration, including a
who’s who of Pentecostal
preachers, hope to address
those concerns and plan their
ministry for the next 100
years.
“Pentecostals are no longer
as much on the wrong side of
the tracks and are again in
the mainstream of evangeli
cal life in America,” Wilson
said. ‘We want to evaluate
what has happened. Have we
gone the right direction with
what God originally did?”
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Elizabeth Ross Dai^an
Retired educator and com
munity activist, Elizabeth
Ross Dalian peacefully trav
eled on to her final resting-
place Sunday, April 3, 2006.
Full of life and energy, Dar-
gan believed that to get out of
bed a t day break, go for a
two-mile or more walk,
attend one to four meetings
several times a week, attend
computer training classes
and share her experiences
with others best described
her involvement in the com-
i u n i t y .
Dargan was a registered
North Carolina cosmetolo
gist, and after practicing for
eight years, she got an opper-
turiity to .attend Fayetteville
State Tfeacher College and
graduated with honors. Tb
advance in the field of educa
tion, she attended graduate
school at New York Universi
ty and the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill
where she earned a masters
degree in elementary educa
tion, counseling and school
administration. After 35
years as a classroom teacher,
guidance counselor and
school administrator for
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
schools, Dargan retired June
30, 1990.
lb nurture her faith, Dar
gan worshipped and wit
nessed at Mount Carmel
Baptist Church, where she
was active as a member oi
the Board of Trustees, and
was church treasurer. Con
cerned for the community,
she was actively involved in
various organizations. She
Dargan
sat on the board of the Char
lotte Mecklenburg Health
Services Foundation, Caroli
na -Medical
Center, Educa
tion Advance
ment Founda
tion, YWCA
Board of Direc
tors, and the
Charlotte
Symphony
Board of Directors Education
Committee. In addition, she
was vice chair of the Nation
al Conference of Community
and Justice, and School
Workers Federal credit
Union, and former board
member United Way of Cen
tral Carolinas.
Elizabeth Dargan’s work
did not go imnoticed. In 2004,
the Urban League of Central
Carolinas presented her with
the Legacy Award at their
annual Whitney M. Young,
Jr. dinner. The Legacy
Award recognized lifetime
commitment to equal oppor
tunity and to advancing the
ideals of economic self-suffi
ciency and racial inclusion in
the Charlotte community.
Working until the end, Dar
gan was convening dedicated
ladies volunteering their
time for the annual United
Negro College Fund’s Maya
Angelou Women Who Lead
Luncheon scheduled for
June. This is a task that will
be hard to do without her, but
must be done eloquently
because of her.
Her late husband, Perty J.
Dargan, preceded Elizabeth
in death; she has one daugh
ter and two grandsons.
‘Da Vinci Code’
poster removed
from Rome church
Continued from page 56
The story contends that
Jesus married Mary Mag
dalene and had descen
dants, and that Opus Dei, a
conservative religious orga
nization close to the Vati
can, and the Catholic
Church were at the center
of covering it up.
“It advertises something
that is against Christ and
against the church,” St.
Pantaleo’s rector, the Rev.
Adolfo Garcia Duran, told
The Associated Press.
The Interior Ministry,
which owns the church and
awarded the contract for
the renovation to an exter
nal company, said the
poster would be removed in
the next few days. Officials
confirmed the Rome Vicari
ate had sent a letter
requesting the poster be
taken down.
Plastering posters on
scaffolding is a common
advertising technique in
Rome.
Opus Dei and other
church officials have spo
ken out against the novel,
with an Italian cardinal,
Tarcisio Bertone, calling for
a boycott of the book last
year.
Opus Dei, portrayed as a
murderous, power-hungry
sect in the novel, has
described “The Da Vinci
Code” as a work of fantasy
that offers a deformed
image of the Catholic
Church.
In a recent homily, the
preacher for the papal
household, the Rev.
Raniero Cantalamessa,
denounced theories that
make huge profits in deny
ing Catholic teaching about
Jesus.
Cantalamessa, a Francis
can priest, did not cite “The
Da Vinci Code” by name,
but he obviously appeared
to refer to it and to the
upcoming movie.
“No one succeeds in stop
ping this speculative wave,
that instead will register a
boom with the imminent
release of a certain film,”
the preacher said.
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Graham
Continued from page 86
City.
O’Brien, who first created a
plastic foam form of the figure
and then, applied clay to
model and finish it, has sent a
mold of the statue to a
foundry in Lubbock, Tfexas,
which is in the process of cast
ing it in bronze and assem
bling it.
When finished, the statue of
Graham in a three-piece suit
will be 9 feet, 4 inches tall
while the cross wiU be 17 feet.
At the foot of the cross is a
stone inscribed with John
3:16 and three nails.
The statue’s permanent
home will be outside the
Southern Baptist Conven
tion’s Nashville headquarters
and its publishing house, Life
way Christian Resources
after it’s presented at the
June convention.
Michael Epps Utley, mar
keting coordinator for Life-
Way.com, said Lifeway start
ed a Web site earlier this year
that’s dedicated to celebrating
Graham’s life and ministry.
Charlotte Alumnae Chapter Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.
Presented the qznd Annual Debutante Spring 2006 Cotillion
^^Sbinin5 jewels of Excellence’’’'
Saturday/ April ij/ 2006 at the. Charlotte Convention Center
Several parents were inadvertently omitted, therefore we’d like to highlight them now.
Marquisha Crosby
East Mecklenburg
Parents Mark Crosby &
Tameka Hill-Monroe
Jasmine Davis Courtney Gray Schaccoa Hoover
North Mecklenburg Hopewell High Phillm O. Beiry
Parents, Jimmie & Parents, Paul Davis &. Parents, Henry Alexander
Marla Weatherford Sandra Gray-Davis & Veronica Hoover
Brionna Jackson LaPorsha Lowry
North Mecklenburg North Mecklenburg
Parents.Tony Jackson Parents, Ollie &
my Jackson
e Dmkms
Gloria Lowry
Jasmine Maree
North Mecklenburg
Parent:
Anita Lewis
lebulan Vance
Parents, Moses &
Saundra Nivens
Danielle Phifer
HardingUniversity
Parents, Daryl Searcy
& Valerie Phifer
Kamila Rankin
2^bulan Vance
Parent,
Sharan Rankin
Nicole Smith
Independence High
Parents, Rev. Antonio
& Pamela Smith
Donnarae Wade
East Mecklenburg
Parents. Donald &
Verna Wade
Ciara Wiley
Zebulan Vance
Parents, Joseph Wiley
& Cecelia Clark
Davina Wright
Olympic High
Parents, Robert &
Earline King