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It's 6:30 a.m. on a weekday. Most
of the people In ShaUotte are beginntng
their daily routine of preparing
for school or work, listening to their
alarms sound, or still sleeping.
But in a snail room in the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
on River Road and Mintz Street, a
visitor would find a handful of teenagers
kneeling in prayer, then stretrhino
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their seats.
They students are participants in
"seminary, a worldwide program offered
by the Mormon Church."
Unlike many religious seminary
students who go to institutes of
higher learning to prepare to be
church ministers, these students will
not be ministers in the traditional
sense because there are no paid
ministers in the Mormon Church.
These local teens meet every morning
before school to study. Every
Mormon youth is encouraged to attend,
according to church spokesman
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Preachers rarely like to admit
what they know in their gut.
Most Christians would rather avoid
facing this painful sociological fact of
our times. Even in the Bible Belt, it's
truth is becoming increasingly evident.
To what am I referring?
It's a painful fact of our times: We
no longer live in a church culture. By
church culture. I mean a society
where a majority of the people participate
and are influenced by the life
of the church.
tn his new book, "Twelve Keys To
An Effective Church," Ken Callahan
observes that today SO percent of
America's population is unchurched.
This means we can no longer assume
that most people share the values of
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Often within the church, leaders
look back to the '50s as the "good old
days" when church attendance peaked,
when the formation of new congregations
was a top priority and
when people lived by the values and
ethics of the church and synagogue.
Callahan says that those days are
gone.
Instead, today all churches must
view themselves as on the mission
field. Our society and culture no
longer seeks or even expects the
church to guide and influence policy.
I Denominational loyalty is passe.
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the church can no longer assume that
if it only has a good program, people
will come flocking to its doors.
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Those that do find the effort worthwhile.
"I go because I know that it is the
right thing to do," said Cindy Skipper,
a freshman at West Brunswick
High School. "It has helped my
testimony of the Church to grow."
The course follows a four-year cycle
naraUeUne the four years the
teens spend in regular high school.
Each year various books important
to the faith are studied.
One year it is the "Book of Mormon,
Another Testament of Jesus
Christ," followed in succeeding years
by the "History of the Old Testament,"
a study of the "New Testa
ment" and a year of studying the
history of the Church. The cycle is
then repeated.
Once the class is assembled, a
teacher is needed who is wiiiing to
face a room of sleepy-eyed teenagers
every day before work. Such people
are rare, and to even the most saintly
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CSP4,
Rather, for many people today who
are unchurched, their first contact
comes through visitation or some expression
of outreach in the community?not
at Sunday worship or
church school.
Church members need to understand
the difference all this makes in
its ministry if today's church is to be
able to help people with their hurts
and hopes. In other words, what
worked in a church culture will not
necessarily transfer to a world where
the church needs to function like a
missionary.
How can our church today learn to
serve the unchurched? What can we
learn from the mission field about
serving people of different values
and orientations? How can the
church continually rethink its
assumptions about ministry to a mission
field culture? These questions
must be addressed.
My friend Paul Lowder rightly
observes that "if the church does not
iearn to serve people on the mission
field instead of in a church culture,
the church will fail in its mission."
I believe the church can learn.
(Dr. Stan Smith is the minister of
Camp United Methodist Church in
Shallotte.)
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of Mormons it is not easy.
"My biggest challenge is showing
the kids how the events of the Old
Testament relate to their lives," said
Virginia Gore, the seminnrv tparhpr
in Shallotte. "I have to show them
that the people in the Scriptures faced
problems and overcame them.
"They have to realize that even
though they were born in the latter
days, the trials and challenges faced
by earlier people are similar to the
ones they face today."
Last month a seminary bowl was
held in Wilmington. This was a twopart
competition between all
seminaries in the same area or
"stake" of the church. The first part
was a Scripture chase over the 40
passages of focus for the year as
chosen by leaders of the Church in
Salt Lake City, Utah. The second was
a bowl competition consisting of
questions covered in class and in personal
reading.
Natasha Gore, another freshman
CHURCH /
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Town Creek Baptist Church at Winnabow
will celebrate the centennial
anniversary of the Southern Baptist
Convention's Women's Missionary
Union during its 11 a.m. service on
May IS.
Centennial Chairman Shelby
Eason said those women who have
helped shape the history of Town
Creek Baptist Church will be
recognized.
Invited to attend are all past
members of the WMU organizations,
including Sunbeams, GAs, Mission
Friends, Young Baptist Women and
Baptist Women.
The service will include = brief
memorial to those past members
who are deceased, as well as anticipated
dedication service for a
newborn baby girl?the youngest
member of the WMU's Mission
Friends.
After the service, the church will
hold an old-fashioned chicken bog
dinner for members and guests.
Mrs. Eason asked that former
members of WMU organizations contact
either her, at Route 2, Box 482-A,
Leland, NC 28451 (253-5544) or Jessie
Best, Route 2, Box 490-A, Leland, NC
28451.
Sow and Reap
The WMU atShaliotte First Baptist
Church is challenging church
members and other churches to grow
an extra row of vegetables this summer
and donate the harvest to Home
Missions in Bolivia.
Mrs. Dean Carroll, Mission Action
chairman, said harvested vegetables
could be donated fresh from the
garden or canned or frozen for later
use by the Mission's clientele, the
NCAE Leader T<
Gladys Graves, president of the
45,000-member _
North Carolina
Association of
Educators, will
speak on Sunday,
May 15, at the
first Woman's ^
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Little ^
Macedonia Baptist
Church in
Supply. Grav"
The program will begin at 3:30
p.m., according to Odell Hankins,
president of the Woman's Home and
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at West Brunswick, says she finds the
knowledge she has gained through
seminary study an advantage lor facing
the problems in her life. She calls
seminary an "uplifting and
knowledgable experience."
Matthew Mintz, a sophomore at
West Brunswick, says seminary has
been very helpful to him, particularly
in developing self-discipline. Getting
up at 5:30 a.m. every day is not
easy.
But the students find Scripture to
back their commitment, including
this verse from the Book of Mormon,
"I know that the Lord given no commandment
to the children of men
save He prepare a way that they may
accomplish the thing which he has
commanded them."
These teens are gaining perspective
in facing life's problems through
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county's needy residents.
Revival Begins
Spring revival at Shallotte First
Baptist Church in Shallotte begins
May 22, with a message in song by
The Crossbearers, a trio from Wilmington
that includes two Brunswick
County natives.
nev. uannis i^ancaster, pastor,
said revival will continue Monday
and through the week with Rev.
Steve Pennington, formerly of
Shallotte, as the guest evangelist.
All services are at 7:30 p.m., and
each will feature special music.
The public is invited.
Sets BBQ Dinner
New Britton Baptist Church in Ash
will hold a barbecue dinner on Saturday,
May 21, starting at 11 a.m. and
continuing through the supper hour.
Each plate will include homecooked
pork barbecue, candied yams, coleslaw
and hushpuppies. Cost will be
$3.50 per plate.
Proceeds wil benefit the building
fund, said spokesman Olive King.
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Revival To Begin
Revival at Letties Grove Church
north of Shallotte begins Sunday,
May 15, and continues through Friday,
May 20, with services at 7:30
p.m.
Featured speakers will be Bill
Ellis, Don Sauls and Herbert Carter,
while special music is planed by the
I jetties Grove Adult, Junior and
Children's choirs, Bobby Lewis and
B.L.E.S.S., the St. Andrews Church
Choir and Visions.
Everyone is invited.
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r ureign mission circles, The
speaker's topic will be "Education,
Polities and Our Community."
Mrs. Graves, who holds an
honorary doctorate from her alma
mater, Shaw University, is serving
her second term as president of
NCAE. She makes her home in
Greensboro when not serving NCAE
in Raleigh. She teaches grades four
and five and is a gifted and talented
resource teacher.
The church is located on Little
Macedonia Road, located two miles
off N.C. 211 north of Supply. The
public is invited.
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him who rides upon the clouds!
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