Social issues debated
Mixed bag keys Methodist convention
INDIANAPOLIS? Iii-house
concern*, international ten
skin and social issues mixed
together here to form the
framework for discussion at
the 1M0 General Conference,
United Methodism's top
legislative body, which met
here April 15-25.
The international character
of the conference began when
Liberian vice president and
United Methodist Bishop
Bennie D. Werner, already in
Indiana, learned of the
overthrow of his government
and the assassination of
Liberian President William
W. Tolbert.
The 1000 delegates left the
lOslay meeting shocked to
Religious events ?
Film set at Berea
The Oscar- winning
documentary "The World
That Perished," will be shown
at the Berea Church of Christ
in New Hope on Sunday, May
11, at 7:30 p.m.
Many people find the ac
count of Noah's ark and the
flood, as recorded in Genesis,
as the Bible's most difficult
story to accept. But the film
purports to portray how this
event did take place through
the use of live-action
illustrations and special ef
fects.
The film is based on the
book, "THE GENESIS
FLOOD," by Drs. Henry
Morris and John Whitcomb.
"It (the film) will
strengthen faith in the
trustworthiness of the Word of
God," said a church
spokesman.
The public is invited to at
tend. No admission will be
charged.
Hertford Meth. sets drug program
On Sunday, May 18, the
Hertford United Methodist
Church U.M.Y.F. will sponsor
a program concerning the use
of drugs and their abuse in our
society today.
The featured speaker for the
evening will be Mr. Virgil
Williams of the State Drug
Division whose program will
include a film and display,
followed by a discussion.
The program will begin at 6
p.m. in the Fellowship Hall
and is open to the public. The
U.M.Y.F. extends an in
vitation to all members of the
community to attend.
Choir at Up River Friends
The Damascus (Ohio)
Friends Youth Choir will
appear in a musical program
Monday, May 12, at 8 p.m., at
Up River Friends Meeting on
Road 1208, twelve miles north
of Hertford.
The twenty-voice choir is led
by Watson Cosand, Youth
Director of Damascus Friends
Church and son of Up River
Friends pastor Rendel and
Mary Cosand.
A graduate of Malone
College in Canton, Ohio,
Cosand supervises a youth
ministry consisting of some
fifty to seventy-five young
people. He also has a junior
high group as a "singles"
ministry.
The Monday night program
will include sacred vocal and
instrumental music,
testimonies, and puppets. An
offering will be received to
help with the choir's travel
expenses.
Prior to the Monday night 8
o'clock concert, members of
the congregation will meet at
6:30 in the Meetinghouse
Fellowship Hall for a carry-in
supper and get-acquainted
time with the Youth Choir.
Hospitality Committee Sandy
Winslow of Hertford and
Cheryl White of Belvidere will
be in charge.
Pastor Cosand and the
people of Up River Friends
Meeting invite the public to
attend these special activities.
discover that while their
delegation was meeting with
President Carter urging
"peace, restraint, and
reconciliation" with regard to
Iran, a military operation to
rescue the hostages was
already in progress.
An eight member delegation
met with Carter to share the
United Methodist concern for
the hostages and to offer
prayers and support
Following news of the
aborted rescue mission, the
delegation called the
president's action, "regret
table," but declined to con
demn him for it and counseled
continued restraint.
As expected, homosexuality
was an emotional issue at the
General Conference.
Delegates reaffirmed an
eight-year-old social prin
ciples statement, "...we do not
condone the practice of
homosexuality and consider
this practice incompatible
with Christian teaching."
At least two of the actions
taken on social issues will
affect North Carolinians.
The General Conference
"encouraged" its national
agencies to meet in states
which have ratified the Equal
Rights Amendment (ERA).
The resolution adopted
said that if groups met in
"unratified states, such as
North Carolina, they shoulod
spend some time during those
meetings working toward the
passage of the ERA.
The delegates supported a
boycott of J.P. Stevens, a
textiles company with plants
in North Carolina which has
been found guilty of unfair
labor practices 15 times.
On meetings in ERA
ratified states, the bishop
labeled the action "...unjust
discrimination in a state
where so many of us have
encouraged the passage of
ERA."
Oak Grove sale
The Oak Grove United
Methodist Women will sponsor
a Rumage and Bake sale this
Saturday, May 10, at the
Winfall Community Building
from 9 to 3.
Proceeds from the sale will
go toward the various projects
the women's group renders
the community.
Women s day slated
A Women's Day Program
will be held at Oak Hill
A.M.E.Z. Church, Sunday,
May 11,1980, at 1:30 p.m.
The public is invited to at
tend.
Pentecostal bake sale
The Women's Auxiliary of
Hunter's Fork Penticostal
Holiness Church is sponsoring
a Bake Sale on the
Perquimans Court House lawn
on Saturday, May 10, begin
ning at 10 a.m.
CARD OF THANKS
We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to
our many friends, neighbors and relatives for the
flowers, cards, gifts, visits, telephone calls, and
most of all your prayers while we were in Albe
marle Hospital and since our return home.
may God richly bless eoch one.
DempseyS Rosa White
THANK YOV
To our friends we want to say we appreciate
every act of kindness extended to us and we
desire your prayers as we continue to improve.
A special thanks to the staff of the Albemarle
Hospital for their helpfulness during our hos
pitalization.
Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Jones
CARD OF THANKS
I would like to thank those who re
membered me with flowers, cards, visits,
and phone calls while I was a patient in
the hospital.
Your thoughtfulness will always be
remembered.
Leslie (Rip) Sumner
For Your Information"
Dear friends.
It is important for husbands and
' wives to share information on savings
and checking accounts, life insurance
policies, stock and bold certificates -
all investment matters, pension plans
and death benefits owing. The surviv
ing widow can be in deep financial
trouble unless she knows of all such
assets and benefits she must apply
for.
Respectfully,
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CHRIST'S CHALLENGE
TO THE CHURCHES
While the Apostle John was
in exile on the island of Pat
mos in the Aegean Sea, to
which He had been banished
because of his preaching the
Word of God and the gospel of
Christ, he heard God's voice
directing him to write what he
saw in a vision and to send it to
the seven churches in Asia.
Obedient John penned "The
Revelation of Jesus Christ,"
the last and perhaps the most
neglected and the most
misunderstood book of the
Bible, from which this lesson
is taken.
REVELATION 1:44
In referring to God the Son,
John mentioned the Lord
Jesus as "Him which is, and
which was, and which is to
come," implying that He is
both unchangeable and
eternal. These verses make it
clear that Christ loved us, and
continually loves us: that
Christ loosed us, when He
"washed us from our sins in
his own blood", and that He
lifted us by making us a
kingdom of priests unto God.
RJEVKLATION 3 : 14-22
Christ, Who possesses the
two characteristics of a
perfect wttness, namely, faith
fulness and trustwortiness,
and Who is the finality of
divine authority and eternal
certainty, sent this message to
the church in Laodicea.
Inasmuch as it was a rich and
self-satisfied church, un
conscious of any needs, Christ
did not see anything in it to
commend, but He noticed
various things which merited
rebuke.
The members of that church
were Dot devoid of works, but
they were lacking in vigorous
faith, sacrificial love, and
fervent seal. Their self
satisfied lukewarmness was
exceptionally obnoxious to (
Christ. He complained about
their self-deception and their
ignorance.
The Laodicens tried to make
themselves believe that they
were happy because of their
great possessions, but Christ
told those self-centered, self
sufficient, and self-satisfied
members that they were in a <
pitiable condition
Area obituaries
Piland
RALEIGH ? James Rodney
Piland, of 2406 Stafford
Avenue, Raleigh, died last
Tuesday.
Piland was a retired soils
chemist with North Carolina
State University.
Funeral services were held
Friday at 11 a.m. in the
Brown-Wynne Funeral Home
in Raleigh. Burial followed in
Montlawn Cemetery.
Piland is surived by his
wife, Margaret L. Piland and
two daughters: Mrs. Trent
(Lawrence) Bowen of
Charlottesville, Va., and Mrs.
James (Linda) Close of
Fairfax, Va.; three brothers,
one sister and five grand
children.
The family requests that
memorials be sent in the form
of contribution to the Pullen
Memorial Scholarship Fund,
care of Pullen Memorial
Baptist Church, Hillsboro
Street, Raleigh, N.C.
Smith
EDENTON - Mrs.
Gwendolyn Sutton Smith, 65,
of North Broad Street, died
last Sunday in Chowan
Hospital following an illness of
nine months.
A native of Perquimans
County, she was the daughter
of the late Margie Ward Sutton
and the late Willie Seth Sutton
and was married to the late
Wilburn T. Smith.
Mrs. Smith was a member
of Macedonia Baptist Church,
the Round Table Missionary
Group, the Advance Home
Demonstration Club and was
the president of the Chowan
County Home Demonstration
Clubs.
She is survived by a son,
Carrol Smith of Edenton; two
daughters, Mrs. Betty S.
Bateman of Edenton and Mrs.
Tonie Cox of Elizabeth City;
one brother, Leonard Sutton of
Poquoson, Va.; two sisters,
Mrs. Doris Hughes of Edenton
and Mrs. Mary S. Edgar of
West Monroe, La.; six
grandchildren and one great
grandchild. (
A funeral service was held
last Tuesday at 2 p.m. at
Williford-Barham Funeral
Chapel with Rev. Charles C.
Harris officiating. Burial
followed in Macedonia Baptist
Church Cemetery.
CARD OF THANKS
I would like to thank all of you for showing your
concern for me while I was a patient in Albemarle
and Norfolk General Hospitals with your prayers,
cards, flowers, visits, phone calls and all other
acts of kindness during my operation and since I
returned home. I am grateful to have friends like
you.
May God bless you all.
George W. Baker
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to thank each of vou for your cards,
visits, and especially your prayers while I was a
patient at the Chowan Hospital and during
my convalescence at home.
May God bless each of you.
Floyd Modlin
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