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November 14, 2002 The Kings Mountain Herald Page 7B foots BIRTHDAY | ABIGAIL WOLFORD / HERALD The new Family Life Center at St. Peter’s Baptist Church in Grover will be the location of the community Thanksgiving dinner on November 28. Debt-free St. Peter Baptist to provide Thanksgiving meal for needy persons Laura Leigh Dawes born October 11 Laura Leigh Dawes was born October 11, 2002 at Mount Carmel Hospital in Columbus, OH. She weighed seven pounds, three ourices and was 19 inches long. Parents are Brian and Jada Williams Dawes of Washington Courthouse, OH. Maternal grandparents are Austin and Donna Williams of Kings Mountain. Paternal grandparents are Robert and Carol Dawes of Ohio. Great-grandparents are Lee and Margaret Payne, and Margaret Williams, all of Kings Mountain. LAURA DAWES = 24 Hour © PRAYER LINE We Care 704-739-3789 BY ABIGAIL WOLFORD strange paid off, he said he should be able to Staff Writer times. spend all of his time concentrating on He said the people and not the financial situa- The members of St. Peter Baptist he tion. The debt of $800,000 was origi- Church in Grover finished paying off would nally supposed to take approximately the debt for their new Family Life like to five years to pay, but Thompson said it Center this November. give was paid off in a few months. Now they want to give back to the them Since the opening of the Family Life community by hosting a Thanksgiving the Center, which has a commercial — 7 ~~ — meal for individuals who may not option kitchen, classrooms, conference rooms, Complete System have it otherwise. The meal will of stop- and a basketball court, in March, the $ include turkey, ham, and all the trim- ping by church has hosted several community only” S99. MB iis Tax mings. the events. The Youth Explosion drew - 52x ch Roms 2sp Ports - 56k Modem << “We're going to have an open kitchen church approximately 600 youth and adults Satan: that will provide for those people who ~~ when- from the surrounding area, said - 15" Monitor - 1 Year Warranty need it,” said Mary Accor, the head of ever Thompson. special occasions iA St. Peter Baptist they get According to Accor, other events - OFFERING FREE : Church. off work REV. THOMPSON have included an “Everybody’s DIAGNOSTICS om “I work in the government,” said instead of Birthday” party, where everyone ? Visa and MasterCard Accepted. | - ge ! ER ANGE Accor, who is a County Commissioner. “There are a lot of struggling people. It will take a lot more agencies than just the Department of Social Services to help them. There's something we can do all the time for somebody.” Accor describes hel pastor, Rev. William Thompson, as a man with a vision for both the church and the community. “Our pastor has a vision that our church will be a church that never sleeps,” said Accor. “I don’t think the church ought to ever be closed,” said Thompson. “It ought to be user friendly to the wor- shipers. When they want to worship, they should be able to do that.” Thompson expressed a special con- cern about those people who work sec- ond or third shift and get off work at going straight home. “I want to be there when people need me,” he said, “Not when I want to be there.” . Thompson, who will turn 57 at the end of the year, said that he has always been a bivocational pastor, spending the last 24 years working for the Freightliner Corporation. Although he said he loves his job at Freightliner, he said it has always been his dream to be a full-time pastor. At the end of the year, Thompson says he will retire from his job Freightliner and finally go into full-time ministry to begin to ful- fill his vision at St. Peter’s. “I've been waiting so long to do this,” he said. “It’s like I've just been called to preach.” Now that the Family Life Center is Preaching Mission at Central United Methodist BY ABIGAIL WOLFORD Staff Writer Central United Methodist Church of Kings Mountain will be hosting its annual fall Preaching Mission November 15-17. This year’s speaker will be the Rev. Dr. Ken Carter of Mount Tabor United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem. “He’s down home. He tells a good story and gives a good message,” said Jim Tate, the chairman of the evangel- ism committee at Central UMC, of Dr. Carter. Dr. Carter has written two books, The Pastor as Steward and The Gifted Pastor, as well as numerous arti- cles, poems and sermons, which have been published in prestigious publica- tions like the Upper Room and The North Carolina Christian Advocate. Dr. Carter will both lead a Bible study on spiritual gifts, from 10 a.m. until noon on Saturday, and preach at the Sunday evening service at Central UMC this weekend. Dr. Carter’s wife is also a United Methodist minister, as well as an interi- or designer and the mother of the cou- ple’s two teenage daughters, Liz and Abby. brought a covered dish and decora- tions for the table of their birthday month, and an open gym for youth and adults who want to play basket- ball on Sunday evenings from 4-6:30. “We consider-everyone- our brothers ‘and sisters,” said Accor. “We want to say that we're here for you and we want to help you. Jesus said, ‘Come just as you are,” and that’s how we accept people, just as they are.” “That's what we've been called to do,” she said. The dinner will take place on Thursday, November 28, at 11:30 a.m. The church vans will be available to transport people to and from the church, if necessary. For more information, contact Rev. William Thompson at 704-734-1122, or call the church at 704-937-9136. slated The Preaching Mission will also include a pipe organ and Celtic harp concert on Friday evening and music by the Rogers Sisters for thirty minutes before the Sunday 10:50 a.m. worship service. According to Tate, last weekend, the Central UMC led an Appalachian Folk Mass, which is a service of prayer and preparation for the preaching mission. For more information on the preach- ing mission, call the church at 704-739- 2471. A schedule of events is available on the church’s website, www.kmcumc.org. Fall “Reaching” Mission 113 S. 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