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GABBING
ABOUT TOWN
BY ANNIE H. THORPE
TELEPHONE- 832-3029
THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEEDS
A little more kindness and a little
less greed.
A little more giving and a little less
need.
A little more smiles and a little less
frowns.
A little less kicking when a man is
down.
A little more “We” and a little less
“I.”
A little more laughs than a little
less cry.
A little more flowers in the pathway
of life.
And fewer in graves at the end of
life. r
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Birthday greetings are extended to
Ms. Mary Winston of South Person
Street who will be celebrating a birth
day on Jan. 5. May God ever bless
and keep you in His care. Please have
a happy birthday.
Happy birthday to_Ms. Teresa
M. TCearhey of 306 Plaza Drive, who
will also be celebrating a birthay on
Jan. 6. May this one be as happy as
the first ones. Please have a happy
birthday.
THE HAYWOODS HAVE DONE IT
AGAIN
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Haywood,
Jr. of 1806 Charles St. entertained
members of the family and friends at
dinner on Christmas night at 6 p.m,.
It was a gala affair and it seems that
the adults enjoyed the toys as well as
the children.
Those on hand to enjoy this occa
sion were Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Haywood, III, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Haywood, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Jones
and of course the grandchildren,
Master Carlton Haywood and Joyce
Chycole Haywood. The food consisted
of turnip greens, string beans, green
butter beans, potato salad, grated
potato pudding, tossed salad, pickles,
ham, both fried and baked chicken,
soda and cake, both pineapple and
chocolate, as well as German
chocolate.
NOTE:
As the New Year approaches,
remember to write or to call. We’ll be
listening. Happy New Year to all of
you and a prosperous New Year.
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BRO. JAMES THOMAS •
GOSPEL
WORLD
The Capitol City Five will sing Sun
day at 7 p.m. at Mt. Olive Holiness
Church. Rev. Celia Hayes Thompson
is pastor, with the New Horizon
Singers.
The Oppers, a Southern Gospel
music family quartet, will appear in
concert Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Plea
sant Grove Baptist Church on Hwy. 56
E out of Creedmoor
Rev. A.E. Matthews, Jr. of Garner
will render service Sunday at 11 a.m.
at St. Amanda Baptist Church.
Pastor Talley and the United
Gospel Singers will render service
Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Gethsemane
True-Vine Church on Howard
Thomas’ Joy Night service.
The Cleveland Community Chorus
will sponsor an old Christmas
musical program Saturday at 6 p.m.
at Sanders Grove Church.
Sunday School will be held at 10
a.m. followed by Pastoral Day Sun
day at 11 a.m. at Mt. Olive Holiness
Church. Pastor Celia Hayes Thomp
son will be the speaker.
Elder Smith of Cathedral of Love
will render service Friday at 8 p.m.
at Faith Healing Center. Bishop Ed
ward Wilkerson will be the speaker
Sunday at 11:30 a.m. at the same
location, with the BLW Ensemble.
Bro. Ed Hall and the Evening Five
will be presented in concert Sunday
at 7:30 p.m. at Holy Temple Church in
Carthage.
John Scott and the Gospelettes will
celebrate their second singing an
niversary Sunday at 5 p.m. at the
YWCA on Hargett Street, with Tony
McKnight, the Spiritualaires of
Raleigh, Elvin and the Carolina
Wonders and others.
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Funeral services fear the late Alvis
B. Ray, 75, a retired RCA Victor
Corp. employee, of 6909 Park Place,
Raleigh, were held Saturday, Dec. 29,
1990 at First Cosmopolitan Baptist
Church, Dr. W.B. Lewis officiated.
Burial followed in the New Pro
vidence Cemetery in Fuquay-Varina.
Surviving are wife, Adee Ray;
sons, Ernest Ray, Alvin Ray and
Thomas Ray; daughter, Joyce Ray;
sisters, Ruth Hester, Elizabeth
Kersey, Virginia Thomas; brother,
Arthur Ray; 14 grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Haywood
Funeral Home.
MS. MARTHA THOMAS
Funeral services for the late Ms.
Martha Yates Thomas, of 411 Loope
Road, Garner, were held Friday at 2
p.m. at Good Samaritan Baptist
Church. Burial followed in the church
cemetery.
Surviving are daughters, Flossie
Marshall and Annie Williams, both of
Raleigh ; Gladys Bumpers of Garner ;
Shirley Kaye of Cary; sons, Arthur,
Jr., Charlie W., Robert E. and Gar
field Thomas, all of Raleigh, Troy R.
and William, both of Garner, Leon R.
Thomas of Newport News, Va.;
brother, Elmo Yates of Garner; 30
grandchildren and 12 great
grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Lea
Funeral Home.
MS. NELLIE P. EDWARDS
Funeral services for the late Ms.
Nellie P. Edwards, of 201 Purvis St.,
Garner, were held Wednesday, Dec.
26, 1990, at the Wake Baptist Grove
Church. Burial followed in the
Raleigh National Cemetery.
Surviving are sisters, Rosa B.
Phillips, Mary E. Phillips and Bertha
P. Whitaker, all of Garner; nieces
and nephews.
Arrangements were by Haywood
Funeral Home.
JOHN T. MORGAN
Funeral services for the late John
T. Morgan, of 420 Colleton Road, were
held Thursday, Dec. 27, 1990, at the
Lea Funeral Home Chapel. Burial
Gardens.
Surviving are wife, Geraldine
Morgan of Raleigh; daughter, Eveck
Morgan of Atlanta, Ga.; sons, Robert
Carpenter and Christopher Morgan,
both of Raleigh; mother, Maddie
Morgan of Raleigh; sisters, Mary
Morgan and Alma Moore, both of
Raleigh; brothers, Rev. George
Morgan of Greensboro, Rev. Marvin
Morgan and Sylvester Morgan, both
of Atlanta, Ga., Rev. Donald Morgan,
William Morgan and Ernest Morgan,
all of Raleigh; and five grand
children.
Arrangements were by Lea
Funeral Home.
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DIVINE HOLY CHURCH OF
GOD, INC.
Sunday School for the combined
union began Dec. 30, 1990 at 10 a.m.
with Superintendent Olive Turner in
charge. Classes assembled after
devotion. The title of the lesson was
“Servants in God’s Vineyard,” Mat
thew 20:1-16.
A delegate from each church open
ed devotion in unison for the 11 a.m.
service. Pastor Mamie Harrison
presided over the service. Music was
rendered by the VLP Mass Choir. In
vocation was given ny pastor
Frances Wilson. Scripture was read
by Eldress Rhoda Dublin from
Psalms 37:1-10. The congregation
was led by Pastor Mamie Harrison in
the Affirmation of Faith.
Visitors were welcomed by Renee
Wiggins, then announcements were
given. Prayer for the sick and shut-in
was given by Pastor Frances Wilson
of Durham. Tithes and offerings were
lifted by the delegates. Evangelist
Mary Alston of Whitaker introduced
the morning speaker, Bishop Mary S.
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Bright Hope Divine Holy Church of
God, Inc., Raleigh.
The message was delivered from
Matthew 18:1-6. The speaker stated
that we must be born again. We must
be as little children, loving and hum
ble. Others should be able to see a dif
ferent parson after we accept Chrsit.
When we’re born again, we’re saying
goodbye to the world. This means we
no longer do those things that we lov
ed so much. We must be converted,
sanctified, and filled with God’s
PRESENTING PLAQUE—T!* Reverend David L. Morrison,
Dr., pastor of Emanuol African Motfiodtet Episcopal Church,
presents a plaque to Mrs. SMrioy James-Sheares of
Clayton for her distlnquislMd services to church and
cvnumiimy. rrs. onvini n piiiiiiif ms pnsioeni 01 in
Western North Carodni Women’s Missionary Society,
which roaches from AshavMo, N.C. to Laurinburg.
Sheares Honored For Outstanding
Role Modeling For Young Women
Emanuel Atrican Methodist
Episcopal Church, Durham, recently
held its Women’s Day celebration.
The speaker for this occasion was Ms.
Shirley Jones-Sheares of Clayton.
During the worship hour, tfc.
pastor, Rev. David L. Morrison, Sr.,
made a surprise presentation to Ms.
Sheares. He presented her with a pla
que and stated, “Ms. Sheares is a role
model for any young woman and I am
proud to say that she has been a guest
speaker at every church that I have
pastored, except one. This honor is
being given to Ms. Sheares for years
of dedicated service as a missionary,
minister’s wife, and a devoted
mother.”
Ms. Sheares is currently president
of the Western North Carolina
Women’s Missionary Society, which
reaches from Asheville to Laurin
burg. She is also the director of
Raleigh’s first and only day shelter
for the homeless.
Ms. Shea res is the widow of Dr.
James N. Shea res and she is the
mother of two sons and two
daughters, Dr. Beverly J. Sheares, a
pediatrician at Harlem Hospital,
N.Y.; Ms. Valerie Sheares, a
graduate student in chemistry at
UNC-Chapel Hill; James N. Sheares,
II, a lab technician, Cutter
Laboratories; and Bryan Scott, a 10th
grader at Cardinal Gibbons in
Raleigh.
Rediscovering The Black And
African Identity Of Nations
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are some black people mentioned in
the Bible?” a typical audience will
name probably not more than fife to
10 persons, several of whom will be
identified as “slaves.” This would not
be the response having read two new
books by Rev. Walter Arthur McCray
who takes exception to what he calls a
persistent and pervasive belief that
there were few, if any, blacks in the
Bible.
“What people should be asking,” he
says, “is where are the whites in the
Bible?”
Published by Black Light
Fellowship (Chicago, 111.), the books
are titled “The Black Presence in the
Bible: Discovering the Black and
African Identity of Biblical Persons
and Nations” (teacher’s guide) and
its companion volume “The Black
Presence in the Bible and the Table of
LOOK AND LIVE!
REV. HEMBY
BY J.A. HEMBY
THIS IS THE YEAR
This year of 1991 is credited to us by God. This 365 days is divided into
hours, minutes, and seconds. Each of those days and each of those moments
come to us from God. This day in which we are living and this year are
created by God.
Psalms 118:24 tells us, “This is the day the Lord . _ . .
has made! Let us rejoice and be glad in it!” This day
and this year is a gift to us from God, and therefore,
time is under His control.
As we anticipate the gifts of this New Year, we
can feel confidence that God will guide us to seek
creative solutions to the challenges and problems we
are facing.
This is the year to seek and know God personally
and when we seek and know God personally,
something happens, the burden of sin and guilt is
lifted and removed.
This is the year to start out fresh. Don’t carry the hate, resentment,
hostility, hurts, worry of the past into 1991. Get rid of the junk! Don’t go into
this New Year burdened with old, negative emotions.
This is the year to be sober-minded. If your life is one with painful
episodes of drug abuse, dope fiend, burdened down and ca’t turn around, God
can lift that addiction, that frustration of the past year and start the New
Year afresh.
This is the year to stop complaining about “another day, another dollar."
This is the year to stop “living for the weekend.” Psalms 118:24 says,
“This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Be glad
spiritually. Rejoice and be glad, use each day to its fullest. Use each day for
God’s good and make it count for your life and eternity.
This is the year for victory. A year for another opportunity to live life to'
the fullest. A year of being successful, for enthusiasm, for excellence, for
ideas and dreams to come alive, knowing that God’s possibilities are bigger
than we can ever imagine. Be alert to the ideas and dreams that God is going
to give you this new year. Count your blessings and stop counting other folks’b
blessings. Commit your way to the Lord this New Year and it will be to you a
very successful year.
phasis on the Hamitic Genealogical
Line from a Black Perspective.”
The aim of these enlightening and
provocative books is to guide the
reader into discovering, understan
ding and learning to teach the per
vasive presence of black peoples
throughout the Bible and its world.
This pervasive biblical black
presence is explicit, implicit, and at
times even presumed. It includes
numerous strong and notable men
and women such as Nimrod, Hagar,
Moses, and the Queen of Sheba. Not to
be neglected are many great and
mighty nations including the
Hamites, Cushites, Sumerian
“Blackheads”, the ancient Egyp
tians, Putites, Canaanites, Phoeni
cians, and the Hittites. A special sec
tion highlights the blackness of the
biblical Hebrew-Israelite-Judahite
Jewish community and culminates
by establishing the black identity of
the Messiah Himself—Jesus
Christ—a blackness which was
“ethnological, ancestral... and pro
bably very dark and colorful!”
McCray approaches the Bible as an
accurate and reliable historical,
ethnological and geographical record
of black peoples in the ancient world.
In the Teacher’s Guide he prepares
the foundation by showing how to use
biblical and extra-biblical sources for
information about the Bible world; by
highlighting “black” as a term of an
cient ethnological self-identification;
and by providing a threefold defini
tion of "blackness’’ which includes
actual skin color, "Negroid”
characteristics, and so-called “Mack
blood." He then shows the reader how
to identify black people through both
their names and ancestors, and pro
ceeds to identify these persons and
nations topically and chronologically
throughout both the Old and New
Testaments.
Well worth readin is McCray’s ex
tended geographical treatment on the
presence of ancient Cushite blacks in
Asia and Africa—all over the biblical
world. It effectively shatters the
presumption and erroneous image of
a majority white world in which
biblical personalities lived and mov
ed, and through whom the Bible
came. The presence of black peoples
in the world of the Bible was per
vasive, and their experience (far
more than the experience of any
other people) contextualised and nur
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God in biblical times, especially in
the Old Testament.
In his second book McCray ex
plores in depth Genesis chapter 10,
verses 1-32, the Bible’s unique
historiographic literary document
called the “Table of Nations.” The
Table of Nations deals with the iden
tification, identity, and inter
relationships of the Cushites, Egyp
tians, Putites, and Canaanites—great
black persons and nations of antiqui
ty, geographically spanning from
soth within Africa to north into
southwest Asia and the eastern
Mediterranean. The author gives a
penetrating analysis of the table’s
background, its form and structure
as an ancient genealogy, and its ap
plication to the biblical descendants
of Ham. The value of this special
passage of Scripture is made evident
by the fact that it has no parallel
among ancient literature either in
side or outside the Bible. It is no
wonder that for hundreds of years it
was chiefly the names in this one Bi
ble passage which scholars studied to
learn ancient history.
Legion Post
Celebrates
Christmas
On Sunday, Dec. 23, 1990, some
members of the Charles T. Norwood
Post of the American Legion
assembled and worshipped at the
Union Baptist Church in North
Raleigh in which its assistant
chaplain, Rev. Leonard Williams, is
the pastor. They listened to one hour
of Christmas pageantry and music by
the young people of the church.
The mistress of ceremonies was
Ms. Michelle Jones, who directed all
the activities of the cast in portraying
the birth of the Messiah. The par
ticipants were Cassandra Brewer,
Russ Cannon, Gerald Jones, Jr.,
Pierre Williams. Tiffany Alford, Der
rick Partridge, Dannell Tiffany,
Tamesha Jones, Tony Brewer, Ikeya
Latoya and Vivion.
This religious service ended with
congratulatory remarks in behalf of
the past by Commander Julius R.
Haywood in which he presented
several large bags of food and other
items to some of the neighborhood
residents.
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makes us do right when we want to do
wrong.
The service was blessed during
altar call.
Benediction ended the service.
Reporter is Rebecca LaSane.
OAK CITY BAPTIST
Sunday School was opened at 9:45
a.m. by Superintendent James
McFadden. Classes devoted time to
the discussion of the lesson, “Is God
Fair?” taken from Matthew
19:27-20:16. A verse to remember was
Matthew 20:16.
Morning worship began at 11 a.m.
with Cynthia Sanders as the organ
playing the prelude. The Youth Choir
rendered the music with Ms. Gillian
Fieldn at the piano. The call to wor
ship was done by the Rev. Patrice
Fields. The responsive reading, “A
Psalm of Trust,” was led by Conway
Davenport. The Children’s Hour was
tiUed “Talents for Self,” and led by
Ms. Veronica Smith. The an
nouncements and recognition Of
visitors were done by Ms. Cassandra
Cofield. All visitors were recognised.
On the sick list are Ms. Ora String
fellow, Ms. Allie Smalls, Ms. GenoMa
Sherrill, Ms. Lillian Pope, Fred
Cofield, Deacon Charles Tucker and
Wilbert Pope. Remember to pray for
the sick and suffering everywhere.
Church conference will be held Fri
day, Jan. 4, at 7:30 p.m. The installa
tion and fellowship service will be
held Jan. 20 at 3 p.m. Rev. Joseph C.
Lovelace will be the installation
speaker.
The Lord’s tithes and offerings
were received. Offertory prayer was
offered by Trustee Ransom Fort. The
divine reading was taken by Rev.
Fields from John 14:1-11. The morn
ing prayer was offered by Deacon
Clarence Smalls.
Rev. William T. Newkirk took Ms
sermon from John 14:3 on the sub
ject, “The Greatest Thing that Can
Happen to the World.”
The invitation to Christian
discipleship was extended and the
altar call was made.
Church was dismissed by the
pastor.
RUSH METROPOLITAN AME ZION
Church School began at 9:30 a.m.
with the superintendent, Jesse
Degraffenreidt, in charge and con
ducting the devotional period while
all classes were assembled. At the
close of the devotions, the classes
moved to their places for the lesson
study periods. Reassembling in the
sanctuary at 10:15 a.m., they listened
to a general review of the lesson by
the superintendent. Class reports and
the awarding of banners followed.
With the singing of “Blest Be the Tie
That Binds” and the repeating of the
Church School mizpah, this phase of
worship ended.
At 10:55 a.m., the preludes began
with Ms. Ethel Jeffreys on the organ.
The processional began with
members of the Male Chorus singing
“Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart.” As they
paused around the altar, the call to
worship, scripture and song of praise
were given.
The first hymn of preparation was
“My Times Are In Thy Hands.” The
responsive reading followed. The
Gloria Patri was next. Scripture
lesson was then read by Rev. Vann
McClain from John 1. The prayer of
in spiration was offered by Rev. Lee
Wyatt King. The second song of
praise was “A Charge to Keep I
Have.” The members then reaffirm
ed their faith in the Apostles’ Creed.
Announcements were made by Ms.
Gloria Rich burgh and the pastor,
Rev. Charles E. Willie, m.
The ministry of kindness and altar
call followed, as the Male Chorus
sang “He Leadeth Me.” Selection by
the Male Chorus of “Since Jesus
Came Into My Heart” and “Bound for
Higher Ground" set the tone for the
morning service.
The pastor delivered the morning
message, having chosen his discourse
from Isaiah 21:11-12 on the subject,
“Follow the Christ—There is a
Darkness All Around.” Watchmen
tell us of the night. The feeling of His
power makes us know that He is
alwavs standing by.
As the invitation to Christian
discipleship was extended, the Male
Chorus sang “A Charge to Keep I
Have.” The church can truthfully
boast of several accessions each Sun
day, for which they are very happy.
Visitors were welcomed by the
pastor. Benediction was by Rev. Lee
Wyatt King, followed by the reces
sional and adjournment.
At 4 p.m., a special baptismal ser
vice was held with Bishop John H.
Miller, Sr. in charge. There were
three infants who were the grand
children of Rev. and Mrs. F.L. Rush.
At the close of the service, each one
retired to the fellowship hall where
refreshments were served. Soloist for
the occasion was James McCall, who
rendered several selections, in
cluding “How Great Thou Art,” “I
Trust in God,” and “To God Be the
Glory.”
The service was witnessed by
several members and relatives of the
family.
Church reporter is Ms. Annie H.
Thorpe.