itTHE CAROLINIANI
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Lutheran Church
Ohm $80,000
To Hugo Raliaf
APPLETON/Wls.—Cash contribu
tions and fundraising efforts by Aid
Association for Lutherans, an Ap
pleton, Wls.-based fraternal benefit
society with 46,000 members in the
Carolines, contributed 180,000 to help
victims of Hurricane Hugo In the Col
umbia, S.C. and Charlotte, N.C.
arees.
AAL sent 630,000 to the Albert
Godown Agency of AAL In Columbia,
and $30,000 to the Ralph Cox Agency
of AAL In Charlotte. The money Is be
ing used by local AAL volunteer
groups, called branches, to purchase
and distribute food, ice, blankets and
’ -needed items, and to assist with
general cleanup.
AAL sent a representative to die
hurricane-stricken area to help coor
dinate Its mllef efforts.
In addition, branches may have us
ed their own funds to sponsor fun
draising and relief projects.
Employees at AAL’s home office in
Wisconsin also contributed $436 to
help those affected, by Hurricane
Hugo. The money was raised through
the sale of refreshments at a “One
Sky, One World” Utefly at the home
office on Oct. 8. The Utefly, a local
event which was part of an interna
tional effort to promote world peace,
jwafr sponsored by the AAL Involve
ment Corps Team; The ICT provides
AAL employees with opportunities to
volunteer for service and fundraising
Money raised through AAL’s
“Helping Hands: Caring Acts
Through Fundraising or Service”
. program also were transferred from
local AAL volunteer groups called
branches outside of the stricken area
to those in the affected region. Some '
’ of these,funds, for example, were us
ed to purchase truckloads of dry ice
for more than 70 families in Summer
ville, S.C.
; Experience gained by AAL
members and employees in assisting
Hurricane Hugo victims is being put
into practice to help victims of the
earthquake in the San Francisco Bay
area.
AAL representatives are working
with local disaster control agencies
to assess damage the nnods of
victims. An AAL representative from
the home office is now in the earth
quake area to organise firsthand the
assistance efforts, and-information
will be relayed to AAL’s home office.
Church Escapes
Powerful Quahs
During Masting
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BY SHIRLEY D. SLASH
NNPA Newi Service
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-“We were
just finishing our closing prayer when
it happened. The building began to
■way from one side to the other, then
it shook violently, causing people to
lose their balance, falling all over
each other. Tables toppled and ob
jects flew everywhere. It was
unbelievable,” said Rev. Dr.
Ephraim Williams, who was atten
ding the 49th annual session of the
California Baptist Convention at the
AMFAC Hotel, in Burlingame, when
a powerful earthquake struck nor
thern California on Oct. 17.
i be tremor hit shortly alter 5 p.m.,
as a group exited the Ministers Divi
sion meeting, which had just conclud
ed. Dr. Williams, CBC’s president at
large, was thrown to the floor and
struck against a table from the im*:
pact of someone falling on him.
i Despite a neck injury and the
threat of the building collapsing, be
joined <me of the rescue teams quick
ly formed. They evacuated a group of
churchwomen meeting in another
non. “We were concerned about
their safety. It was all we could do to
get those people out of there,” said
Dr. Williams, pastor of St Paul Bap
tist Church In Sacramento.
Tbs 660 cohventioners and other
hotel occupants ware evacuated, and
none of the church group was serious
ly injured, Dr. Williams said.
Approximately 1,600 to 6,000 people
ware reportedly at the aSHroom
hotel, attending several events, when
die quake struck. Officials said 686
suffered injuries at the AMFAC,
which was shut down after it incurred
major structural damage. Quests
were bused to area hotels, where they
remained overnight.
Rev. Bobby Newman, president of
the California State Baptist Conven
tion. is credited for the skillful man
im
BUly Graham Tours Rsliaf Sites
To Pray With Victims Of Disaster
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.
Evangelist Billy Graham, at the re
queat of the Salvation Army, toured
relief eitee throughout the San Fran
cisco Bay area for the past several
days in locations most heavily
damaged by the northern California
earthquake to pray with victims of
the disaster and encourage
rescuers who have been working
around the clock.
Graham had cone to California to;
address a Salvation Army banquet to
raise mooey for the homeless and to
receive a star on the famous
Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of
Mann’s Orinoco Theater. The Salva
tion Army invited him to Join them in
the <u—areas.
Graham said. “The damaged
buildings you could see on television,
but television can’t show the damag
ed hearts and lives very well.
Hopefully, 1 can encourage them to
trust in God.”
Despite a torrential downpour
which hampered relief efforts,
Graham visited Salvation Army
Emergency Service Operations in
San Francisco, Oakland, Watsonville
food and clothing distribution centers
and a tent city.
Everywhere be went, people asked'
the evangelist to pray with them, in
cluding victims standing in line in
need of food and shelter, families liv
ing in tents, rescuers, city officials
and volunteers. He was also able to
have a prayer with a group of police
and state troopers.
“I feel like I have prayed my way
through this area,” Graham said. He
encouraged everyone not to give up
on God because He loves them and
would see them through.
“I don’t Brink we can say this earth
quake was sent by God," Graham
laid. “We have to keep in mind that
He is a God of love, mercy and grace.
But He can use what happened in the
earthquake to bring people donor to
Him and closer to each other.”
While visiting the Cypress Over
pass of the Nimitx Freeway (I-MO),
Graham donated $100,000 to the
Salvation Army, which totally
depletes his organisation’s emergen
cy relief fend. The felly Graham
Evangelistic Association channeled
similar assistance for disasters in
Dther parts of the world earlier this
rear—moot recently for the victims
jf Hurricane Hugo.
“I know it’s adrap in the bucket,”
Graham said. “But you need a lot of
Graham said he is a grant admirer
)f the work of the Salvation Army
because William Booth, their
toimdir, was an evangelist who com
bined soul salvation with relief ef
forts. He praised them for the work
hey are doing in the Bay area to
meet both the physical needs of earth
quake victims as well as the spiritual,
in providing critically needed
think important are not so important
after all.
He noted that disasters like this can
bring people closer to God and
strengthen their faith—many who
were not going to church started go
ing again over last weekend. Graham
said that there have also been many
wonderful testimonies of people who
hqve been brought together in a spirit
of unity and have turned to God in
prayer.
The evangelist surveyed the
damage in the San Francisco Marina
area with one of the city supervisors.
However, much of his visit focused on
smaller towns in the South Bay which
were hardest hit During his 40-year
ministry, Graham has held seven
crysqdee in the Bay area and nearby
Fresno and Sacramento. Additional
ly, years ago he preached at a church
in Watsonville, a farming community
near the earthquake’s epicenter,
which he visited.
The mayor of Santa Crip escorted
him through the downtown area
which was cqmoletely closed pending
demolition and reconstruction. The
police chief of Watsonville told
Graham that the earthquake had
brought out the best in people, and
that they have had only four arrests
during the past week—far less than
normal.
“Why this earthquake took place, I
can’t explain,” Graham told
reporters. “I can only explain God
gives grace, and strength to those
who trust in Him.”
SaUor Plead* Guilty
In Black Church Arson
EDWARDSVILLE, 111. (AP)
ProMcuton uy they will seek the
maximum sentence (or a white man
convicted of sotting fire to an all
black church founded more than uo
yean ago by slaves who escaped to
freedom in the North.
Jamee Russell Calvin, >0, of Alton,
who was away without leave from the
U.8. Navy last October whan the God
frey Church was burned, pleaded
guilty to arson last Thursday.
Madison County sheriff’s in
vestigators said Calvin admitted set
ting fire last October to the New
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal
' Church, which was founded 1M years
ago by escaped slaves. It was the se
cond arson in a year at the church,
which is also known as Rocky Pork
Church. Calvin is not a suspect in the
first arson, investigators said.
Navy officials later advised
Madison County authorities that
Calvin was suspected of writing
racial slurs in a barracks room that
was discovered vandalized the day
Calvin is believed to have gone AWOL
from s»n Diefio.
Assistant State’s Attorney Randy
Massey said prosecutors plan to ask
for a maximum sentence of seven
years at a sentencing hearing that
will be set after the county probation
department submits its report mi
Calvin.
Calvin’s attorney, however, said he
pleaded guilty in Madison County Cir
cuit Court instead of going to trial
because defense evidence of Calvin’s
“special circumstances” is more
likely to receive consideration from a
sentencing judge than a jury.
“We think the evidence will be
taken up more appropriately in a
sentencing hearing,” said attorney
Jim Wallis of Granite City, who is
representing Calvin as a public
defender.
Wallis Mid alcohol abuM will ha
part of tha cae (or a lighter senence or
probation, although ha dscMnsd to
My whatbar or not Calvin is an
alcoholic. He said otbar avidanca will
Involve a physical Injury and tha
praMUNO on Calvin from hie military
service Just before tha arson.
Calvin last year denied knowing
that tha Godfrey church had a black
congregation whan ha sat die fire,
sheriff’s Investigators said. He told
investigators ha broke into the church
out of curiosity because be had heard
rumors It was tha site of devil wor
ship. He said he set the Are after he
discovered a can of gasoline Inside
the church.
At the time Calvin set fire to the
church, it had Just been rebuilt after
an arson fire in April. The structure
has since been rebuilt again. No ar
rests have been made in the first fire.
Annual Craft
Show Helps Third
World Countries
Mara your calendar for the annual
Hands Around the World Craft Show
being held again this year at Pullen
Memorial Baptist Church at U01
Hillsborough St. in Raleigh on Satur
day, Nov. 11.
On sale will be weavings,
brasswork, pottery, carvings,
Jewelry, baskets and toys made by
craftsmen and women in Third World
countries.
Also being sold that day will be
UNICEF cards, Quest tor Peace
shirts and a display of the Interna
tional Heifer Project.
Come to the Hands Around the
World Craft Show from 9 a.m. to 2
p.m. Saturday. Nov. 11.
IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE
IN MIRACLES, READ THIS TRUE STORY
A woman, shopping on her lunch hour, noticed
that she was running late. At the supermarket,
her last stop, she put the groceries in her
car, left the shopping cart in the parking lot
and drove back to the office. Then she realized
that her purse was missing. She ran out to the
car. No purse. She raced back to the market,
saying every prayer she had ever learned. There
were vehicles parked all around where she had
left the cart a half hour before. Not only was
the cart still there, her purse was still in it;
on the top shelf, visible to the world. Nothing,
i including money, checkbook, insurance card,
etc., had been touched. At her House of
Worship, she thanked the Lord for forgiving her
carelessness and surrounding her property
with the most honest (or unobservant) people
He could find.
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