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Bishop V. R. Byrd
Presiding Bishop
16th Episcopal District
Vol. 138, No. 12
Glasnost
Increases
Russian Letter
Response
The Soviet Union’s policy of glas-
nost, or openness, has resulted in a
sharp increase of letters from HCJB’s
Russian-speaking listeners. Russian
Language Service Director Wally
Kulakoff says that before glasnost
came into effect, HCJB was receiving
between 30 and 40 letters a month
from Russian listeners.
“Last September we started seeing a
significant increase in mail from the
Soviet Union,” he explains. “In De-
cember alone we received 178 letters
from the U.S.S-R., and in January 244
letters arrived. This is up from just 20
letters in January 1988.
“Some people say they have written
because of the new government poli-
cies. Others have written before, but
never received a reply. One listener
said he wrote us 80 times, but only
three letters made it through to
HCJB.”
Glasnost has meant an end to
jamming of foreign broadcasts, and
Soviet citizens own an estimated 60
million shortwave sets. The policy of
increased openness has made it easier
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Bishop J. Haskell Mayo
10th Episcopal District
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Prelate Pastor
March 6, 1989
Rev. Kenneth Hill
St. Paul A.M.E. Church
Dr, Hattle Bryant Greene
President, A.M.E, Church
Ministers’ Wives Council
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U.S. Churches Launch Campaign on
South Africa "'From Pentecost to
Soweto
Christian Education Planning Retreat A
Huge Success
Townsell-Wade Vows Exchange in Pine
Bluff, AR
Local Pastor Maintains African Methodist
Tradition
Cycles of the A.M.E. Church Ministry
Expansion of Bus and Campus Ministry
at Greater Bethel, Nashville, Tennessee
Girls Smashing Classroom Barriers
in the Third World
Bishop H. Hartford Brookins is
Honorary Co-Chairperson of
Presidential Inaugural Event
by Vashti M. McKenzie
Washington, DC—Bishop H. Hart-
ford Brookins continues to move for-
ward upon the cutting edge of political
activism and advocacy in the Second
Episcopal District.
Bishop Brookins was the Honorary
Co-Chairperson of the American Bi-
centennial Presidential Inaugural
Afro-American Committee’s Martin
Luther King Jr. Ecumenical Prayer
Breakfast held January 16th at the
Washington Hilton Hotel in the Dis-
trict of Columbia.
A distinguished assemblage of reli-
gious, political, business and commu-
nity leaders from across the country
gathered for this historic occasion in a
spirited program of brotherhood,
prayer and joyous music.
The prayer breakfast served to
commemorate the 200th year of the
peaceful transfer of power and leader-
ship and the inauguration of President
George Bush and Vice President Dan
Quayle. It was also an event to recog-
nize the tremendous contributions
made to the world community by the
life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
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World Church Group Calls for Economic
Pressure Against Apartheid
New York—With repression in South
Africa escalating, the Botha govern-
ment showing no signs of dismantling
apartheid and with even non-violent
opposition to apartheid almost com-
pletely outlawed, the last hope for
peaceful change is strong and sus-
tained economic pressure by the inter-
national community against the South
African regime.
That urgent message was delivered
to heads af state and foreign ministers
of seven cf South Africa’s major
trading partners by an Eminent
Church Persons’ Group, sent by the
Geneva, Switzerland-based world
Council of Churches.
From Jan, 15 to Feb. 4, the group
visited Switzerland, France, Belgium,
the United Kingdom, West Germany,
Japan and (from Jan. 30 - Feb. 4) the
United States to mobilize internation-
al efforts toward the imposition of
comprehensive economic sanctions
against South Africa. The group also
met with United Nations Secretary
General Javier Perez de Cuellar and
with churches and anti-apartheid
groups in each country. Four Cana-
dian church leaders flew to Washing-
ton, DC, for a luncheon meeting with
the group Feb. 2.
It’s our considered view,’’ said the
Rev. Canaan Banana, former Pre-
sident of Zimbabwe who headed the
Eminent Church Persons’ Group,
“that economic assistance of any kind
helps sustain the apartheid system and
contributes to the suffering of the
people there.”’
If the international community acts
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President George Bush addresses distinguished political, business and religious leaders.
Bishop H. Hartford Brookins was the Honorary Co-Chairperson.
Photo by David Valdez—The White House
The ecumenical experience whereby
Jews and Gentiles, Catholic and Pro-
testant, Blacks and Whites stood once
again side by side to sing ‘‘We Shall
Overcome,’’ was the first of four ma-
jor events of the inauguration week-
end designed to emphasize the contri-
butions made by Afro-Americans to
the nation’s progress and well-being.
Bishop Brookins brought greetings
and articulated the occasion for the
early morning crowd. He noted that
we have an opportunity and responsi-
bility to keep the dream of Martin Lu-
ther King Jr. alive for this generation.
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Congressman Flake Delivers Homecoming
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Rev. Floyd H. Flake
Message at Metropolitan A.M.E. Church
Dr. William P. DeVeaux
Washington, DC—The Reverend
Floyd H. Flake, dynamic and progres-
sive pastor of Allen A.M.E. Church,
Jamaica, LI, NY, and Congressman
from the 6th Congressional District of
that city, served as guest preacher at
the Third Annual Homecoming
observance at “the National Church,”
Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, Wash-
ington, DC.
The celebration of “homecoming”
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The AME Christian Recorder
March 6, 1989
The Black Church A Current Ekklesia
It is most exiting to trace the history
of the Black church. In its inception,
it dealt with the harsh realities of the
mundane life, and was never, as some
tend to think, totally other-worldly.
The Black church was a social center
built around the Christian religion.
Black churches were the spiritual
force for Black people and, indeed,
were the focal point of Black life. The
church was the school, political
forum, recreational center, theater
and social welfare center. The Black
church was the leading advocate for
the liberation, empowerment and sur-
vival of the Black community. It was
the oasis of freedom in the midst of a
segregated society. It preached a
salvation that was social, spiritual, psychological and economical. It always
encouraged individual, personal development.
The first Black banks were started and supported through the church. The
first insurance burial societies, credit unions, and many of the Black
businesses, began with church people. The Black church, both visible and in-
visible, was a support system in this segregated system of America. It gave
positive attitudes and a positive self-image to an otherwise abandoned
population in the New World.
The mission and purpose of the Black church was to minister to the
spiritual, intellectual, physical and emotional needs of all people in spreading
Christ’s liberating gospel through word and deed. The American Black has
spread its roots into Africa and other parts of the world, where it has
established schools, medical clinics, churches and other missionary
endeavors.
The authenticity of the Black church and its relevancy for the Black socie-
ty was made so because of the failure of the White church. The true ek-
klesia—Black, White, or other—that becomes the hope of the world is
postured in the theology and philosophy of Jesus’ concept of LOVE. Then,
not only does God join the struggle to defeat the power of Evil, God’s power
prevailing will also validate Evil’s defeat. The Black church, from its incep-
tion, understood and believed that. The Black church, in its existence and
struggle, is not in isolation, with tunnel vision for only Black issues, but,
also, is a participant in the struggle for a transformed social order.
The Black church recognized that God’s liberating activity entails not only
the internal attributes of faith, but manifests itself, also, in the external ex-
istence. To say the least, this independent socio-religious organism knew the
difference between the ‘‘believer’’ and the ‘‘true believer’ in the God that
was no respecter of persons.
I, personally, belong to a Black Methodist denomination that had its in-
ception in Philadelphia, PA, November 4, 1787. Whether one considers it an
accident of history or the fortune of history, slave-born Richard Allen, the
first consecrated Black bishop in America, stands in the annals of history
equal to, if, indeed, he does not exceed, the great Protestant religious giants
in their contributions.
ROBERT H. REID, JR.
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Martin Luther, the father of the Protestant reformation, who was trained
in the best universities of Germany, advocated the theological and
philosophical creed that ‘‘the just shall live by faith.’” John Wesley, the
father of Methodism, who, himself, was an Oxford-trained man, came from
a family of scholars. John Wesley’s heart was ‘‘strangely warmed’’ at
Aldersgate, and he became an advocate of the Holy Ghost, under the banner
of Methodism.
Richard Allen, the founder of African Methodism, was not trained in a
theological seminary, but, being God-directed, enunciated what we feel and
consider to be the heart of Christianity, which is reflected in our motto-
slogan: God Our Father, Christ Our Redeemer and Man Our Brother. This is
not only profound and essential in Christian theology, but necessary in its
practical application for all believers who intend to be God-centered.
The Black church, in general, holds that God has produced a new order of
existence in Jesus Christ; Christians are spiritually freed inwardly from the
bondage of sin and socially liberated outwardly from the ravages of oppres-
sion. This is the ideal, but is not always reflected in this pluralistic society.
Black churches, in addition to all else that they were—and are—certainly
served as ‘MOTIVATION CENTERS.”’
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
Washington, DC 20036
Television Division
thousand.
The Gullah people are being forced
R. H. Reid, Jr.
CHRISTIAN RECORDER
500 8th Avenue, South
Nashville, TN 37203
January 30, 1989
Dear Mr. Reid, Jr.:
As I’m sure you know, February
marks ‘‘Black History Month,’’ With
this in mind, I would like you to con-
sider mentioning ‘‘Where Roots En-
dure’’ in your publication.
‘‘Where Roots Endure’ is a half-
hour documentary premiering in
February on National Geographic’s
EXPLORER series. This film focuses
on the Gullah—men and women who
are the direct descendants of slaves
who have flourished for four hundred
years on a string of islands off South
Carolina. Brought from West Africa
countries Liberia, Guinea, and
Angola (from which the name Gullah
is most likely derived), the Gullah are
the purest form of African culture to
survive in the United States, due to
their isolation from the mainland.
Now developers are fast encroach-
ing in the Sea Islands with what
developers call ‘‘plantations,’’ such as
the popular Hilton Head resort. On
the island of Daufuskie, with a native
population of fifty-nine, construction
will bring nine hundred new homes, as
well as hotels and golf courses, raising
the population almost overnight to ten
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to move off land that they’ve lived on
for centuries because of housing costs
they can ill afford. Communities that
have sprung up around the family
gravesites of their ancestors now re-
quire relatives to be cleared at gate
posts before entering land once con-
sidered their own.
Having been raised in the Gullah
tradition, narrator and writer Ver-
tamae Grosvenor, popular to millions
of listeners as the host of National
Public Radio’s series ‘‘Horizons,”’
offers us a personal look at the Gullah
way of life and the threat of displace-
ment.
The film was produced and directed
by St. Clair Bourne, one of this coun-
try’s foremost documentary filmmak-
ers. For twenty years Bourne has writ-
ten and directed over thirty films deal-
ing with subjects and audiences that
White society tends to ignore. His
work has examined the experiences of
Afro-Americans since 1968, when he
produced PBS’s highly praised series
“Black Journal.’’
“Where Roots Endure”’ is a strong
tribute to Black history.
Sincerely,
Melissa Montefiore
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March 6, 1989
The AME Christian Recorder
The Voice of the Episcopacy
POWER-GRAM
A.M.E. Christian Education
Chairman Attends Presidential
Prayer Breakfast
by Dr. Edgar L. Mack
BISHOP VERNON R. BYRD ACCEPTS
INVITATION TO NATIONAL
PRAYER BREAKFAST
Bishop Vernon R. Byrd took full
advantage of the invitation from the
White House to attend the annual In-
ternational Presidential Prayer Break-
fast.
National leaders from our nation
and from around the world joined in
prayer and fellowship at the Washing-
ton Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC.
Along with the bishop were three
thousand nine hundred and ninety-
nine more persons, representing one
hundred and four nations, including
leaders from all branches of govern-
ment, the Diplomatic Corps, and
other national and international per-
sons of distinction.
President Bush spoke inspiringly of
the road ahead for the people of this
nation. Two Senators spoke on the
need for prayer during these days. The
greatest blessing for Bishop Byrd
came when he noted four thousand
people in prayer at one time. That vast
number crowded into the Washington
Hilton through metal detectors, were
seated by 8:00 a.m., and all was over
by 9:10 a.m.
A related activity of the Prayer
Breakfast was the National Leader-
ship Seminar, which provided an op-
portunity for meeting with people
from many nations who are seeking
ways to be a reconciling influence in
the world. The seminar began on
Wednesday evening, February 1, with
dinner, and continued through Thurs-
day, including luncheon and dinner.
Bishop Byrd demonstrated national
and international leadership by parti-
cipating in this very meaningful event.
The invitation was made possible by
Mr. V. Sangster of ‘‘Young Life’’ of
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Historically, the leadership of our
First Woman Bishop Takes Her Place Among “*Apostles’’
Boston, MA (AP)—The Reverend
Barbara Harris, with the voices of dis-
sident overwhelmed by cheers from
thousands of fellow Episcopalians, be-
came the first woman elevated to
bishop in a 2,000-year succession
dating back to the apostles.
Harris was greeted with a roar of
approval from about 8,000 people
when she walked down the aisle for a
consecration that has drawn world
attention because of her gender, back-
ground and liberal views. She was
faulted by a conservative church mem-
ber who said in a brief speech that her
elevation would be a sacrilege; but
when the chief consecrator, the Most
Reverend Edmond Browning, asked
the congregation if it were their will
that Harris be ordained, they thun-
dered out; “That is our will.”
“] will obey Christ and serve His
name,” Harris said.
“Men and women now stand
together before God, in today’s world,
a world that needs that,” First Bishop
David Johnson of the Boston
Bishop V. R. Byrd, Presiding Bishop
16th Episcopal District and Chairman
Christian Education Department
nation was turned to Almighty God
for strength and guidance. In this
spirit, the United States Senate and the
House of Representatives Breakfast
Groups, which meet to deepen friend-
ships, to pray and counsel together,
inaugurated the National Prayer
Breakfast to specifically seek the
Lord’s guidance and strength, as well
as to re-affirm our faith and to renew
the dedication of our nation and our-
selves to God and His purposes.
This event in the nation’s capital
seeks to encourage men and women
throughout the United States and the
world to recognize their privilege and
responsibilities before God. With the
desire to deepen the spiritual life and
moral fiber of the people through a
leadership led by God, there have
been, in all fifty states, similar break-
fasts inaugurated by governors, may-
ors and other responsible persons.
As a natural outgrowth of such ga-
therings, many people throughout the
world are finding, through the Spirit
of Jesus Christ, a fellowship that is
helping to build true community in the
family of nations.
Episcopal Diocese said before the con-
secration, held in a convention center
to accommodate the crowd.
Beginning with a solemn procession
and culminating in the laying on of
bishops’ hands and the placing of a
pointed bishop’s miter on her head,
Harris assumed the relatively minor
position of suffragan, or assistant,
bishop in the Boston Episcopal
diocese.
Harris, 58, said after her consecra-
tion that it put “a tremendous amount
of responsibility” on her shoulders.
“That responsibility includes
encouraging young people to press on
and overcome barriers and to hang in
there,” Harris said, adding that she
intended to do just that.
After the ceremony, she said she
would try to reach out to her
opponents and others to try to allay
their fears. “We will be in contact. We
will do that to the best of our abilities,”
she said.
“Just say I'm very proud and very
happy. That's all,” said Harris’
Bishop Mayo Sprints Through
The last hurdle of the Texas series
of conferences was held at Wesley
Chapel, Fort Worth. Rev. W. B.
Langham was host pastor, Rev. Jon
DeLeon Walker, host presiding elder,
and the Reverends H. F. Dodson and
F. D. Thomas associate presiding
elders. Dr. Hercules Miles, Jr., Dallas
native and Secretary-Treasurer of the
A.M.E. Church Extension Depart-
ment, St. Louis, spent the entire week
at the conference seat.
Gliding across the North Texas
A.M.E. terrain, Bishop J. Haskell
Mayo ‘‘wrapped it up,’’ took his
laurels and finished his work with as
much confidence as an Olympian who
puts turf under his fleeting feet, cross-
ing the goal post where wreaths of vic-
tory await his gladiator achievements.
For years, the personality of the
North Texas Conference has been
known to Old Texas A.M.E.s as ‘‘the
Little Chicago’? of Texas. Know
much about the personality of the
Chicago Conference? If you do, then
you understand what Texas Public
Opinion means by the clientele of the
Chicago Conference being similar to
the Texas North Texas Conference.
(You must recall that Bishop Mayo
pastored in the Chicago Conference:
Coppin Chapel).
The Annual Sermon was preached
by the Rev. Alphonzo Stephenson,
pastor of Lee Chapel and Treasurer of
the Tenth Episcopal District. A Texas
favorite, in his sermon Rev. Stephen-
son laid the foundation well for his
pulpit delivery.
Rev. Stephenson’s systemic the-
ology was delightful, his hermeneutics
respectable, and his homiletics con-
vincing, from the beginning to his
climax. At several points during his
rendition, one could observe Bishop
Mayo nodding his head with approval.
The Missionary Society Meeting,
supervised by Mrs. Theodora H.
Mayo, had things at fingertips for
their informative sessions. The North
Texas women always perfect at seat-
ing arrangement, which should be
North Texas Like An Olympian
mother, Beatrice Harris.
The publisher of a liberal Episcopal
publication is the first woman conse-
crated a bishop in any of the three
major branches of Christianity—
Roman Catholicism, Eastern
Orthodoxy and Anglicanism, which
includes the Episcopal Church—that
consider bishops successors to Jesus’
apostles. Her selection touched off
months-long debate within the church,
Opponents included traditionalists
who believe that because the apostles
were men, the position of bishop must
be reserved for them. Others objected
to Harris because of her lack of a
college degree and formal seminary
training and because of her relative
inexperience in parish ministerial
work. Still others objected to her
strongly liberal writings on gay rights,
U.S. policy in Central America, and
internal church matters.
Bishop J. Haskell Mayo, Prelate
Tenth Episcopal District
copied by other Missionaries of other
Texas conferences.
The election was held without inci-
dent. Seemingly, the women knew in
advance whom they wanted to ‘‘seat’’
and whom they had ‘‘cahooted’’ to
“‘unseat.’’? Several officers expressed
their desire not to run for re-election,
before the voting began.
The ‘‘Night in White’’ pulled an
overflow crowd. The women had put
together a well-selected performance,
which commanded full praise from
Mrs. Mayo, Episcopal Supervisor.
During the pastoral reporting
period, the report of Rev. Drinkard
Timms, volatile pastor of St. Paul,
Dallas, was singled out and used as a
good specimen for pastoral-member-
ship relations. For a long time, Rev.
Timms stood on the conference floor
and pointed out items which he em-
ploys for bringing in such a fruitful
report.
Here again, as at previous confer-
ences, the Hour of Power consisted of
five young ministers who volunteered
to preach ‘‘five minute’’ sermons dur-
ing this exciting Hour of Power. If the
preacher went over five minutes, he or
she would be rapped down. (No one
exceeded five minutes, however). Rev.
M. S. Hobbs was invited by Bishop
Mayo to preach a guest Hour of
Power sermon to the conference. It
was well received by all in attendance.
Bishop Mayo, a theological dyna-
mo, rang down the North Texas Con-
ference curtain with his ‘*block-bus-
ter’? sermon, which he preached to the
ordainees at the conference. This
fiery, spiritual diadem—‘‘Give God
The Glory’’—was preached in the
conference ordination classes.
Bishop Mayo is a great preacher;
his relentless message virtually moved
the entire audience. In his climax,
seemingly, he reached up and pulled
down the skies from heaven, causing
strong men to fall, become spiritually
asphyxiated, and wallow upon the
floor, demonstrating their spiritual
ecstacy.
The final session was held at Baker
Chapel on Friday night, where ap-
pointments were read, and where the
Rev. B. L. McCormick is pastor. Be-
fore the Appointment Hours, the
General Conference Choir, directed
by Messrs. Carl Henry and James
Bass, rendered the entire General
Conference song repertoire.
Bishop and Mrs. Mayo gave out
honorariums to retired pastors, minis-
ters’ wives, and other arduous work-
ers who had retired from active
church work.
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The AME Christian Recorder
March 6, 1989
U. S. Churches Launch Campaign on South Africa
**From Pentecost to Soweto” __
New York—Persecution of the church
in South Africa and the responsibility
for the U. S, church community to act
against apartheid will be the focus of a
broad-based campaign this spring,
The campaign—titled ‘‘From Pente-
cost to Soweto’’—will take place
from May 14 (Pentecost) to June
16-17 (Soweto Days).
Through worship services, Bible
studies, prayer groups, educational
events and other activities in local
churches and communities nation-
wide, the campaign will seek to build
support for the South African chur-
ches in local religious communities in
the United States, and to increase
awareness about the nature of U. S.
government and business support for
South Africa’s apartheid regime.
“From Pentecost to Soweto’’ also
will include the drafting and signing of
a covenant with the persecuted
churches in South Africa; speaking
tours and itineration of speakers in-
cluding South African church leader
Allan Boesak and Jim Wallis of the
Sojourners community in Washing-
ton, DC, and activities June 16 and 17
in Washington, DC.
The campaign is being coordinated
by a broadly ecumenical group of
representatives of mainline, Roman
Catholic and evangelical church
bodies who have joined forces as the
South Africa Crisis Coordinating
Committee. The work of the commit-
tee is being facilitated by the National
Council of Churches Africa Office
and the World Council of Churches
U.S. Office.
Planners are seeking to design a
campaign ‘‘to bring more people in, to
challenge them both from a faith per-
spective and in relation to issues with
which they deal in their everyday
lives.’ One such issue raised up for
special consideration was the rise of
racially motivated violence in the
United States. These and other U.S./
South Africa links need to be stressed,
the group said.
South African Churches Active
in Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Long active in the struggle against
apartheid, South African churches’
work and protest intensified in Febru-
ary 1988 after the South African gov-
ernment banned operations of seven-
teen people’s organizations. Pressure
against churches also has intensified
during recent months.
Among events that have come to
symbolize the increased persecution
of the churches in South Africa were
the August 31 bombing of Khotso
House, the Johannesburg headquar-
ters of the South African Council of
Churches (SACC) and of several other
church and civic organizations, and
the October 12 arson fire which gutted
two floors at the Pretoria offices of
the Southern African Catholic Bis-
hops’ Conference.
South African Christians who op-
pose apartheid fear that the South Af-
rican government will soon begin to
attack their top church leaders, an
SACC official told the South Africa
Crisis Coordinating Committee at its
organizing meeting in New York Octo-
ber 25.
“This is a dangerous point,” said
Dr. Jean-Francois Bill, the SACC’s
general administrative secretary. He
detailed the South African govern-
ment’s steadily escalating campaign to
discredit, disable and destroy churches
and church leaders, emphasizing,
“They're not only attacking build-
ings.’*
As the overarching theme for U.S,
church efforts against apartheid,
“*Stand for Truth: Free South Africa’’
echoes and affirms the ‘Standing for
the Truth Campaign’’ recently taken
up by the South African Council of
Churches, said Willis Logan, NCC
African Office director, It further
“reflects the U.S. churches’ long-
term commitment to sustain this ef-
fort until South Africa is free,’’ he
said.
Spiritual Dimensions of Struggle
Against Apartheid Are
Highlighted
At the South Africa Crisis Coordi-
nating Committee’s second meeting
Dec. 19, Jim Wallis of the Sojourners
community in Washington, DC, noted
that the crisis facing the church in
South Africa presents a moment of
conversion for the churches in the
United States.
Those present agreed that the chal-
lenge to American Christians is a pro-
foundly spiritual one. Christians are
called on to provide physical support
of their struggling brothers and sisters
in South Africa, but more, as
Dumisani Kumalo of the Africa Fund
noted, to identify with the South Afri-
can’s realization that ‘‘to choose
Christ (in the South African context)
is to choose death for the sake of jus-
tice against evil.’’
The gathering prayed together that
American Christians will reflect deep-
ly on this commitment and prove
themselves equal to the call to action
it principalities’? here in the United
States.
Campaign to coordinate, Not
Duplicate, Existing Work on
South Africa
Representatives of the South Af-
rican Crisis Coordinating Committee
emphasized that their efforts are not
intended in any way to duplicate ex-
isting work being done, either locally
or by national church bodies, on
South Africa issues. Rather, they will
seek to affirm this on-going work
wholeheartedly and to provide a the-
matic umbrella within which church
institutions and others can unite if
they so choose.
Along these same lines, the group
agreed that any joint campaign which
they decide to adopt would by necessi-
ty rely primarily on existing institu-
tions, programs and educational re-
sources.
Bishop Edmond Browning of the
Episcopal Church has agreed to chair
the committee.
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The AME Christian Recorder
Christian Education Planning
Retreat A Huge Success
Bishop Vernon R. Byrd, Chairman
Christian Education Commission
Nashville, TN—The PRESENTERS
were fresh, imaginative and creative,
namely: Dr. Renita J. Weems, Van-
derbilt Divinity School, Nashville,
TN; Dr. Kenneth L. Hill, Wayne
State University, Detroit, MI; Rev.
Verley Sangster, National Urban
Young Life Denver, CO; Rev. James
Wade, Wayman A.M.E. Church, Ra-
cine, WI, Mr Clifford E. Simmons,
National Boy Scouts of America, Ir-
ving, TX; and Mrs. Gwendolyn Nor-
man, Veterans Administration Hospi-
tal, Ft. Thomas, KY.
SOARING ON THE WINGS OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT TO HIGHER
HEIGHTS . . . The sermons were de-
livered with power and the divine unc-
tion of the Holy Spirit! Rev. Dr.
Renita J. Weems, an ordained elder in
the A.M.E. Church, Nashville, TN,
was the noonday Inspirational Hour
speaker. Also, she is author of Just A
Sister Away. Rev. J. Langston Boyd,
pastor, Shorter A.M.E. Church, Den-
ver, CO, delivered the opening sermon
at Bethel A.M.E. Church, Nashville,
TN. His subject was ‘‘In The Fire, Yet
Saved!’’ based on the text Isaiah
33:5-6, 14-15, and 22. The General Of-
ficers of the A.M.E. Church partici-
pated in this service of worship.
Dr. Cyrus S. Keller, Sr. Editor
Religious Literature
On YOUTH FOR CHRIST NIGHT
the Rev. Allen W. Parrott, pastor,
Williams Chapel A.M.E. Church,
Orangeburg, SC, spoke on the subject
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy!’’ He chal-
lenged youth to positive Christian liv-
ing and witness.
The Rev. Samuel Green, pastor, St.
Mark A.M.E. Church, Orlando, FL,
closed the innovative and forward-
looking, visionary Christian Educa-
tion Planning Retreat with a powerful
Time really passes fast.
and soul-stirring sermon entitled
‘“‘When God Is Trying To Tell You
Something.’’ His text was Numbers
2:28.
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Bishop C. E. Thomas
Host Bishop
Mr. Floyd Alexander, Jr., President
Richard Allen Youth Council
Dr. Edgar L. Mack
Executive Secretary
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION DEPT.
Dr. Rosa Baxter
HERE’S TO YOU! Dr. and Mrs.
Edgar L. Mack, Executive Secretary
of the Department of Christian
Education, A.M.E. Church, were ‘‘at
home’”’ to the conferees and partici-
pants who attended the retreat for a
Kwanzaa Feast. This cultural heritage
event was one of the many highlights
of the retreat. Dr. Rosa McCloud Bax-
ter and her whole family, Rev. Wilbur
Lowe and all of the Lowe family, were
present to enjoy the occasion.
“Purpose Is
What Gives Life
A Meaning’’
FOUNDING MEMBER OF NAACP,
H. CLAUDE HUDSON, 102, DIES
Los Angeles, CA—H. Claude
Hudson, 102, one of the founders of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, died
recently
Mr. Hudson was a charter member
of the Niagara Movement in Niagara
Falls, NY, the forerunner of the
NAACP. While a student at Howard
University in Washington, DC, in
1905, he met Blacks and Whites who
were trying to improve conditions for
Black people.
The students met off campus occa-
sionally, and once tried to meet in
Niagara Falls Hotel. They were denied
a meeting place. They journeyed to the
Canadian side of Niagara Falls and
began calling themselves the Niagara
Movement
Born in rural Louisiana, Mr
Hudson returned to the state after
graduation from Howard University
to practice denistry, He was the pres-
ident of the NAACP in Shreveport.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1923,
where he later served as branch pres-
ident of the NAACP for many years,
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Vernon Sewell Ensemble Anniversary
The ‘‘Vernon Sewell Ensemble’
celebrated their Anniversary on Sun-
day, June 17, 1988, at St. James
A.M.E. Church, 617 Greene Street in
Havre De Grace, MD, at 4 p.m.
Rev. Robert M. Pritchett, former
pastor of St. James presided. The St.
James Men’s Chorus was guest of the
Continued from page 1
Glasnost Increases Russian
Letter Response
to (send) Bibles into the Soviet Union.
Donn Ziebell, executive vice presi-
dent of Slavic Gospel Association,
said in a recent visit to HCJB that his
mission sent 250,000 Bibles and
Christian literature into the country
via cargo planes late last year. “Our
contacts show that the Bibles are
reaching their destinations—often to
pastors (who) don’t have a Bible.”
However, Ziebell is concerned that
glasnost may soon end. “Christians
within the. Soviet Union think this
openness will only last two to three
years, and various secular sources in
the U.S. report the same thing.”
Even if the policy is discontinued,
the Bibles will remain, and Christian
shortwave broadcasts will continue to
fill the air. “There is an Iron Curtain,
but there is no iron roof, and short-
wave radio will always make it
through,” Ziebell maintains.
Kulakoff adds that shortwave
gospel broadcasts are vital to growth
of the Christian Church in the
U.S.S.R. “There are an estimated
39,700 ‘radio churches’ scattered
across the Soviet Union. These are
churches where people gather in
homes to fellowship and listen to
Christian broadcasts—the radio is
their preacher!”
Ironically, it was the Russians them-
selves who helped pioneer radio tech-
nology on May 7, 1895—a date which
is still celebrated as “Radio Day” in
Soviet Union.
HCJB World Radio is an evangeli-
cal, interdenominational organiza-
tion involved primarily in broadcast-
ing. From its international shortwave
transmitting site near Quito, HCJB is
Heralding Christ Jesus’ Blessings
worldwide in fourteen major lan-
guages. The mission also operates two
hospitals in Educador and helps serve
the rural areas through community
development ministries, including
mobile medical clinics. HCJB is also
becoming increasingly involved in
television program production.
Another growing ministry centers on
training Ecuadorians for leadership
positions in medicine, music, radio
and TV broadcasting and evangelism.
HCJB World Radio now has offices in
23 countries.
Vernon Sewell Ensemble. The Open-
ing Hymn was ‘‘What a Fellowship.”’
Brother Bruce Barrett took us to the
throne of grace, and Brother Alexan-
der Francis read Psalm 125.
The men’s choir sang as their se-
lections, ‘‘Praise Him;’’ ‘‘May The
Work I’ve Done Speak For Me;’’
“Any Way You Bless Me Lord;’’ and
“Y’m Yours Lord.’’
The Vernon Sewell Ensemble came
back with ‘‘Hallelujah, Salvation,
Glory, Honor and Power’’ and ‘‘God
Will Make a Way For You,”’ ‘‘Ride
On King Jesus;’’ and ‘‘Jesus Will
Work It Out.
The invitational hymn was ‘‘God
Cares.’’ The service was spiritually
fulfilling.
Sister Geraldine Cox, Church Reporter
Rey. Reginald Boston, Pastor
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Townsell- Wade vows s Exchange i in Pine Bluff. AR
Stephanie Diamon Townsell and
the Reverend Cornelius David Wade
were married at Sandusky, OH, with
the Reverend Earl Hudson, pastor of
Portes Memorial C.M.E. Church
officiating. The bride is a native of
Aliquippa, PA, and the groom is a
native of Pine Bluff, AR.
Parents of the bride are Mr. and
Mrs. Robert (Gladys) Townsell, Sr.,
Aliquippa, PA. Grandparents of the
bride are Mrs. Marie Fisher, Aliquip-
pa, and Mr. Samuel! Hunter.
Parents of the groom are the Rev-
erend Samuel Wade, Lincoln, NE, and
Mrs. Freddie Mae Sims, Pine Bluff,
AR. Grandparents are Mrs. Leola
Sheperd and Mrs. Octavia Morrison
(Wade), Pine Bluff, AR.
Mrs. Annette Hubbard, Rochester,
PA, sister of the bride, was the bride's
honor attendant. The Reverend
Taylor T. Thompson, Jr., Pittsburgh,
PA, was the best man. Nephew of the
bride, Terry Hubbard, Jr., was ring
bearer, and a niece, Tiffany Marie
Hubbard, was the flower girl. Both are
from Rochester, PA. Mr. Christopher
Townsell gave the bride in marriage.
Following the marriage at the
parsonage, the reception was held at
the St. Stephen A.M.E. Church,
Sandusky. Colors for the festive occa-
sion included egg shell white, rose and
peacock blue. The bride wore a tradi-
tional white gown with fitted bodice,
flared skirt and train. A cut rose
pattern was embroidered throughout
the taffeta gown, accentuated with
seed and teardrop pearls at the collar,
bustline and cuffs. The headdress,
reminiscent of the Orient, encircled the
bride’s head with ropes of pearls, a
cluster of teardrop pearls falling gently
at the middle of the bride’s forehead.
She also wore teardrop earrings and
carried a bouquet of peacock blue silk
roses, rose-colored posies and baby’s
q
NEW PASTOR AND HIS BRIDE—Stephanie Diamon Townsell and Rev. Cornelius
David Wade were united in marriage by Rev. Earl Hudson, pastor of Porters Memorial
C.M.E. Church. The couple was married in the parsonage and had their reception in St.
Stephen A.M.E. Church, Sandusky, OH, where the groom was appointed to pastor in
June 1988.
breath.
The groom wore a white double-
breasted suit accentuated by a pea-
cock blue bow tie and peacock blue
cummerbund.
Out-of-town guests included Mrs.
Gladys Townsell, Mrs. Marie Fisher
(grandmother of the bride), Ms. Gertis
Hunter (aunt of the bride), Mrs. Helen
Belle Gist and Mr. Christopher Town-
sell, all of Aliquippa, PA; Mr. and
Mrs. Terry (Annette) Hubbard, Sr.,
and their children, Tiffany and Terry,
Jr., and Ms. Louise Farmer, all of
Rochester, PA; Reverend Taylor T.
Thompson, Jr., and Ms. Ruth Dalton,
Pittsburgh, PA; Mrs. Laverne
Townsell Smith (aunt of the bride),
Salt Lake City, UT; and Mrs. Freddie
Mae Sims, Pine Bluff, AR.
The exchanging of wedding vows
and the reception were photographed
by Mr. Eric Kaiser, photographer for
the Sandusky Register.
The couple and their son, James
Christopher, will make their home in
Sandusky, OH.
Mrs. Iris Phillips, Church Clerk
A.M.E. Clergyman Earns Doctor of
Philosophy Degree
Rey. Kenneth Hill, Ph.D.
Port Huron, MI—Recently, the de-
gree of Doctor of Philosophy in Po-
litical Science was conferred upon
Rev. Kenneth Hill by the University of
Michigan in a stirring ceremony held
at Ebenezer A.M.E. Church in
Detroit, MI.
Rev. Hill, the newly-appointed pas-
tor of St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Port
Huron, attributes his educational,
ministerial and professional accom-
plishments to his early recognition and
acceptance of God as the head of his
life. Growing up in Detroit during the
sixties, as a member of a closely-knit,
religiously-oriented family, it was not
an unexpected outcome that he experi-
enced a call to the ministry.
While a student at Wayne State Uni-
versity, a professor encouraged him to
apply to Harvard Divinity School,
and, while at Harvard, Rev. Hill found
his theological horizons being broad-
ened. He says of those years, “My
heart was warmed. I experienced a
conversion similar to John Wesley’s.”
He found himself drawn to the
Methodists, and he joined the
Ebenezer A.M.E. Church in Detroit.
Still feeling a yearning for higher
learning, he returned home to pursue
a Ph.D. in political science at the Uni-
versity of Michigan. While at
Ebenezer, Detroit, he was groomed by
Rev. Robert Thomas, Jr., who would
become the 107th Bishop of the
A.M.E. Church.
During this time, Rev. Hill was also
appointed to develop a joint Master of
Divinity Program between the.
Ecumenical Theological Center and
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Sem-
inary. God continued to enrich his life
when, at the 1988 Michigan Annual
Conference, he was appointed the
pastor of St. Paul A.M.E. Church,
Port Huron, MI.
Immediately setting church goals of
economic self-reliance, church
growth, and spiritual revival, Rev. Hill
began an inspirational music ministry,
home prayer-Bible study group, a
stewardship emphasis, which has
resulted in the church being able to
meet its church and conference
obligations on its own for the first time
in recent years.
When asked about the key to this
success in such a short time, Rev. Hill
responded, “The congregation was
challenged to step out on faith and
open their hearts and homes to Jesus
and others.” The results of these
efforts have enhanced spiritual
growth. Thus, the church has become
known as “God’s Miracle on 25th
Street.”
Whatever the future holds, he
realizes that he could not have come
this far without the blessings of God.
To God be the glory!
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Who
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A.M.E. Youth
Serves as U. S.
Senate Page
Havre de Grace, MD
Johnson,
Miss Roberta
daughter of Robert and
Maggie Johnson, and a member of St
James A.M.E. Church, is privileged to
serve as a page in the United States
Senate in Washington, DC,
Miss Johnson is a 1987 graduate of
the Aberdeen High School and studied
for one year at Harford Community
College. Last summer she had the
opportunity to work for NBC at the
Republican National Convention in
New Orleans, LA, as a runner. She was
recommended for the position in the
Senate by Miss Wendy Ford, a mem-
ber of the NBC team and, also, a
member of St, James.
Roberta is very active in her church
and Sunday Schooi. No doubt, when
her stint with the Senate is over, she
will return to complete her education
at Harford Community College.
Surely, this will be an experience she
will have to tell both her children and
grandchildren in years ahead.
Sister Geraldine W. Cox, Reporter
Rev. Dr. Reginald Boston, Pastor
“Never let yesterday
use up too much
of today”’
Birmingham
Ministers’ Wives
Council Holds
Election
Dr. Hattie Bryant Greene
Birmingham, AL—The African Meth-
odist Episcopal Church Ministers’
Wives Council of the Greater Metro-
politan Area held their Biennial Elec-
tion in January and the following offi-
cers were installed, along with those of
the A.M.E. Minister’s Alliance, re-
cently, at the Payne Chapel A.M.E.
Church, where the Reverend Albert
Hych is pastor.
Dr. Hattie Bryant Greene (Mrs. E.
P.), president; Mrs. Brenda Humley
(R. J.), vice president; Mrs. Palmer
Reed (A. D.), recording secretary;
Mrs. Adrian Johnson (R. A.), assist-
ing recording secretary; Mrs. Gertrude
Glover (F. M.), financial secretary;
Mrs. Irma Croswell (M.), correspond-
ing secretary; Mrs. Floy Hawkins
(M.), treasurer; Mrs. Ida Tyree
Hyche (Albert), business manager;
Mrs. Nettie Bonner (J. C.), parlia-
mentarian; Mrs. Thelma Miller (W.
J.), chaplain; and Mrs. Clara E.
O’Neal (H. M.), reporter.
Mrs. Lou Esther Ard, a member of
Allen Temple A.M.E. Church, was a
charming hostess to the Council, the
hospitality being at its height.
Mrs. Frank Madison Reid, Jr., and
Mrs. C. E. Thomas are members-at-
large of the Council, which meets each
fourth Wednesday of the month.
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World Church Group calls for Economic Pressure Against Aparthed
decisively now, it can bring South Af-
rica to the negotiating table, the group
asserted, emphasizing that the
ultimate goal is establishment of a
free and democratic South Africa, but
it said that if the world continues to
drag its feet, a bloodbath appears in-
evitable.
“*So long as the South African gov-
ernment feels that it is strong, it will
not entertain any possibility of mean-
ingful change,’’ President Banana
said.
“It’s evil, it’s immoral’’ that the
world looks away as Black South Af-
ricans are brutalized day after day,
said the Rev. Frank Chikane, General
Secretary of the South African Coun-
cil of Churches, who participated in
the group as a special resource person.
“‘We are agonizing as churches that
unless we go to the streets and get kill-
ed in big numbers, the world is going
to continue to ignore us.’”
Meeting Held With U.S.
Secretary of State
In Washington, DC, the group met
with House and Senate leaders and—
for forty-five minutes—with U.S.
Secretary of State James A. Baker III.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of Cape
Town, South Africa, holder of the
1984 Nobel Peace Prize, joined the
group for its appointment with Baker,
as did the Rev. Arie R. Brouwer, Gen-
eral Secretary of the National Council
of Churches, which hosted the Emi-
nent Church Persons’ Group in the
United States.
The group reported that it found
Baker ‘‘in a reflective mood’’ as the
Bush Administration formulates its
South Africa Policy. Although Baker
in his confirmation hearings had ex-
pressed opposition to sanctions, he did
not dismiss the group’s positions but
in fact ‘‘actually sometimes inter-
rupted because he was interested in
specific points,’’ Tutu commented.
Tutu said that in addition to advo-
cating comprehensive sanctions, the
delegation stressed various specific
economic initiatives that the U.S. gov-
ernment might take, including pres-
suring U.S. banks not to reschedule
South Africa’s debt when it comes due
next year. The process of renegotia-
tion will begin this April.
“More than anything else was the
call of the delegation that the United
States ought to take a moral leader-
ship in what is a moral issue facing the
world,’’ Tutu said.
Government leaders told the Emi-
nent Church Persons’ Group that they
abhor apartheid, agree that the system
cannot be reformed but rather must
be abolished, and recognized that ac-
tion is needed—but that they look to
the United States to lead. (Sir Geof-
frey Howe told the group in London
that he looks to a process of gradual
change in South Africa that could ex-
tend over three or four decades.)
Elaine Hesse Greif of New Zea-
land, General Secretary of the World
YWCA, based in Geneva, Switzer-
land, said the Eminent Church Per-
sons’ group further challenged govern-
ments on the issue of sanctions bust-
ing and pressed for monitoring of
compliance. ‘‘We sensed worldwide
that governments feel they have to
take some accountability for their
businesses,’’ she said, reporting that
Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Ger-
many said there was ‘‘no way Ger-
many would continue to allow sanc-
tions busting.”’
Increasing Repression in South
Africa is Described
Increasingly stringent restriction
and censorship of media coverge in
South Africa has taken the repression
out of the public eye.
“If you don't see pictures of us dy-
ing you think we’re not dying,’
Chikane commented, Even so, he add-
ed, ‘‘it’s the immortal nature of the
system people should be acting on
without seeing pictures.”’
Much international news coverage
has focused in recent months on the
‘*handshakes’’ as South Africa agreed
to pull its troops out of Angola and to
grant independence to Namibia, but
as South Africa, Cuba and Angola
worked out the details of their accord,
the brutalization of Black South Afri-
cans actually increased, Chikane said.
Increasingly, children are the target of
the South African regime’s violence,
he said.
Chikane described how parents
must leave their children in the Black
townships to go to work in the cities.
While they are gone, the army comes
in to brutalize the children. When the
parents come back home and don’t
find their children, they ‘‘go looking
for them in the hospitals, in the police
stations, in the morgues. Sometimes
they don’t find their children at all.
“For these parents, going to work
loses its meaning,’’ he said.
In 1988, thirty-four non-violent
anti-apartheid organizations were
banned and some fifty-five anti-apart-
heid leaders were restricted to what
amounts to house arrest. In addition,
an anti-apartheid conference—whose
purpose was to bring people together
to explore non-violent options for
ending apartheid—was banned.
More and more people are being de-
tained as others are released—and as
they are released they get restricted,
the group reported. People are held in
detention often two or three years
without being brought to court.
“‘The message that came through to
the churches is that the regime is not
prepared to allow any non-violent
change,’’ Chikane said. That has cre-
ated a serious crisis for the South
African Churches, who no longer
debate whether they should act against
apartheid, but how.
“We would like to avoid a blood-
bath,”’ he said. ‘‘The only way to do it
is to end apartheid, to go to the nego-
tiating table.”’
A turning point in the churches’
participation in the struggle against
apartheid came last year after the
South African government, on Febru-
ary 24, acted to effectively ban seven-
teen leading anti-apartheid organiza-
tions and to restrict the country’s
largest labor federation from political
activity.
Carrying a petition demanding the
restoration of the right of peaceful
protest, twenty-five church leaders
along with five hundred clergy and lai-
ty marched to the South African Par-
liament in Cape Town. Marchers—
including Chikane, Tutu and the Rev.
Allan Boesak—were met with water
cannons and arrests.
The South African Council of
Churches, which includes mainline
Protestant churches as members and
the Roman Catholic Church as an
observer member and full participant,
has launched a ‘‘Standing for the
Truth’? campaign against apartheid
and has decided to ignore the State of
Emergency regulations (refusing, for
example, to submit its publications
for government approval).
“For us, obedience to God super-
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Bishop H. H. Brookins ls Honorary Co-Chairperson of Presidential Inaugural Event
“He was a man who sought to
make a difference on the issues of
justice and race in this nation,’’ he
said, ‘‘We must reflect upon his con-
tribution and legacy and protest in the
midst of the Black church experi-
ence,”’
The dream, noted Bishop Brookins,
for which King lived and died is far
from being a reality. He issued a chal-
lenge to move beyond the sins of the
past and carry forward the dream.
President George Bush, just five
days before he took the oath of office,
addressed the diverse gathering.
‘Bigotry to the disadvantage must
not find a safe place on our shores,
homes and neighborhoods,’’ said Pre-
sident Bush. ‘‘What becomes of the
dream is up to us. We must not fail
him, the nation or ourselves. This is
our mission together,"’
The A.M.E, delegation at the affair
included General Officer, Dr. Joseph
McKinney, District Lay President,
Dr. Paulette Coleman, Presiding El-
ders, the Reverends Walter Hilde-
brand, and Edward C. Wilson as well
as the Reverends William DeVeaux,
Goodwin Douglass, Frank M. Reid,
Howard Camper, William Porter,
James Robinson, Willie K. Woods,
Leon G. Lipscombe, Edgar James, J.
R. Williams, Grainger Browning,
Henry White, and Carroll R, Cham-
bliss, Mary E. Frizzell, and Annette
C. Jones.
Among the exceptional musical ta-
lent on the morning program was Bon-
nie Burnett singing the Lord’s Prayer.
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Congressman Flake Delivers Homecoming Message at Metropolitan A.M.E.
began at Metropolitan three years ago
when the congregation returned to
“the Cathedral of African
Methodism” after being forced from it
during Advent in 1985 because of
damage inflicted by builders next
door. On that occasion, and again in
1988, the mood was defiant as the
congregation pressed its suit against
the American Chemical Society.
With Flake as guest preacher,
Metropolitan celebrated victory in this
legal battle, according to the pastor,
the Reverend William P. DeVeaux,
who said, “We have reaffirmed our
determination to worship and work in
downtown Washington—in the sight
of the White House and of the Houses
of Congress.”
The Reverend Floyd H. Flake is
representative of a new breed among
clergymen, who combine memorable
preaching with effective social action,
community leadership, and economic
development. In the 12 years since he
has been pastor of Allen A.M.E.
Church, Jamaica, LI, NY, for exam-
ple, his congregation has grown from
1,400 to over 5,000 active members;
and under his leadership, Allen is
engaged in programs of social and eco-
nomic improvement ranging from care
for the aged and the counseling of
teenagers to property ownership, reha-
bilitation, and management.
Already one of the most recognized
leaders in New York City, according to
the New York Times, Flake was
elected to Congress in 1986, becoming
the first full-term Black to represent
New York’s 6th Congressional
District.
Under Rev. Flake’s dynamic and
progressive leadership, Allen A.M.E.
Church has not only experienced
internal revitalization, but also has
seen its influence spread throughout
the community. An $11 millon senior
citizens complex has been completed
under Flake’s ministry. The Allen
Housing Corporation has purchased
and rehabilitated 10 stores and has
won grants to rehabilitate 50 homes.
Flake is sponsor and past chairman of
the Board of Allen Federal Credit
Union, which services the church,
affiliate operations, and the commu-
nity.
He founded and built the $3.8
million Allen Christian School and
Multi-Purpose Center which has an
enrollment of 480 students from pre-K
through 8th grade. The Allen Home
Care agency services 380 elderly,
handicapped, and sick individuals;
and Rev. Flake himself sponsors and
manages the South Jamaica Multi-
Service Center which provides medical
services, teen pregnancy counseling,
postnatal care, and other services.
A graduate of Wilberforce Univer-
sity and of the Payne Theological
Seminary, Rev. Flake has held various
positions in both education and the
corporate world, having been on the
staffs of Boston University, Lincoln
University (PA), the Xerox
Corporation, and the Reynolds
Tobacco Company.
He was born in Los Angeles, CA,
and received his early education in the
public schools of Houston, TX.
Rev. Flake received Ebony
Magazine's Black American Achieve-
ment Award in Religion (1986); won
the Alfred Sloan Fellowship for
Studies in Business Administration at
Northwestern University and the Dan-
forth Fellowship for Liberal Arts
Studies at Colorado College. His is
listed in Who’s Who Among Blacks.
In Congress, Rep. Flake serves on
three committees: Banking, Finance,
and Urban Affairs; Small Business;
and the Select Committee on Hunger;
and on various sub-committees.
He and his wife, Elaine, have two
sons and two daughters.
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Youngs Chapel A. M. E., Louisville, Kentucky
Mortgage Burning
Pastor James C. Arnell, Rev. W. T. Owens, Robert Metcalf and Alfred Davis share in
mortgage burning ceremony conducted by Bishop C. E. Thomas, Presiding Bishop of the
Thirteenth Episcopal District.
Youngs Chapel Church, pastored by
the dynamic, young ‘“‘Giant’’, The Rev-
~ erend James E. Arnell, has just cause
for rejoicing on Sunday, December 4,
1988. This day was the occasion of the
second mortgage burning in less than
four years under Pastor Arnell’s lead-
ership.
A great sense of excitement per-
meated the air as worshipers filed into
the sanctuary for the long anticipated
morning service, which was presided
over by the Reverend E. S. Martin, re-
cently appointed Presiding Elder of
the Louisville-Paducah District.
Bishop. Cornelius E. Thomas, Pre-
late of the Thirteenth Episcopal
District, delivered a memorable mes-
sage to a record number of worship-
ers. Music was furnished by the mass
choir,
Following the ‘‘Invitation to Chris-
tian Discipleship,’ the ‘Mortgage
Burning Ceremony’’ took place, with
Bishop Thomas, Presiding Elder Mar-
tin, Pastor Arnell, the lending institu-
tion representative, officer and
congregation participating. The Holy
Communion followed.
Among visitors were Reverend W.
F, Owens of the A.M.E, Zion Church,
Mrs. Susie Jamar Thomas, wife of
Bishop Thomas and Thirteenth Epis-
copal District. Supervisor—W.M.S.,
Mrs. Linda Martin, wife of Presiding
Elder Martin, and West Kentucky
Conference Branch President —
W.M.S., Mr. and Mrs, William Ber-
nard and Stanley, Pastor Arnell’s
family, other relatives, and the
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
Youngs Chapel is proud and thank-
ful for its accomplishments over such
a short time span, Within five and one
half months after Pastor Arnell’s ar-
rival, a $35,000 mortgage was liqui-
dated. Additional improvements the
first two years included: new carpet
throughout the sanctuary, restoration
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of stained glass windows, plexiglass
installed on exterior windows, and
completion of payments on the church
van,
During the second two years, the
Sunday School purchased a computer
system, a Xerox machine was pur-
chased, exterior areas were painted,
the kitchen, under the auspices of the
W.M.S. and Economic Development
Club, received a ‘‘new look,’’ and
Butler Hall (lower level) was com-
pletely transformed, including carpet,
at a total cost of $35,800. During the
last four years, more than $100,000
was paid on mortgages and other im-
provements.
Realizing it must be a visible and
participating entity in Church and
Community develop.nent, Youngs
Chapel ministers to the sick and shut-
ins, the needy, and tne bereaved. It
sponsors a Vacation Bible School,
with an attendance of over three hun-
dred, lock-ins, recreational activities,
and bus ministry. The guiding forces
behind these activities are: Sunday
School, Mr. B. G. Ransaw, Superin-
tendent, Christian Education Depart-
ment—Mrs. Anna S. Reed, Director,
Women’s Missionary Society—Mrs.
Arnetta Arnell, President and Y.P.D.
—Miss Kimberly Bailey, President.
We have been blessed by the visits
of seven Bishops, a General Officer,
and two outstanding Missionaries.
As we look toward the future, we
are concentrating on numerical and
physical expansion, and a major
thrust in “Brotherly Love’’ through-
out the Church Family and Commu-
nity,
Under Pastor and Mrs. Arnell’s
leadership, and God’s guidance,
Youngs Chapel will continue to move
forward,
“To God Be the Glory!”’
Written by: Ruth Greene
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Local Pastor Maintains African Methodist
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The late Bishop Henry McNeal
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Chaplain William Holt Liptrot, Jr.
(Cpt.) USA
In the US Army, soldiers live a life
that is out of syne with the civilian
population. The Cottonbaler Unit
Ministry Team is no exception. Upon
my promotion to captain, a lieutenant
colonel confronted me and said that
he was willing to bet I had experienced
more ministry during my six months
on active duty than I would have ex-
perienced in six years in the parish. He
was correct, for even beyond the swift
pace of ministry, the intensity of
events is shocking. This article is
designed to give you a brief look into
my world. I hope that you use it to
realize the gifts that any good chaplain
or, in most cases, AME minister can
offer to you and your families, and to
glimpse the work environment of an
AME chaplain in an infantry bat-
talion.
0500 The alarm clock goes off, and we
thank God for another day
0610 Physical Training, HHC. Push-
ups, sit-ups, and a 3-mile run
0715 Jordan Gym, shower and
prepare for the day
0750 Breakfast at Winn Army Com-
munity Hospital
0815 Hit the wards
_ Ward 4F Winn Hospital, Janice
Holt, wife of PVT Sam Holt, D Co.
delivered a baby boy, good condition.
Congratulated family. They can ex-
pect a baby letter from LTC Linke.
Room 410, PVT Jerry Croft and
Angela Croft forced to make a deci-
sion concerning premature baby. Life
supports are the only thing keeping the
baby alive. The doctor wants to pull
the plug. Chaplain is asked for recom-
mendation. I counsel.
Ward 3B/C, SFC Juan Gallegos
recovering well from appendix rup-
ture.
Stable/ fair.
SP4 Tom Williams recovering well
after auto accident/DUI. Leg should
be out of cast next month, Sewing his
tongue back in his mouth today.
Ward 3A, Psyche Ward, ILT John
Cook, HHC, improving from nervous
breakdown. Parents will fly in tomor-
row. Reservations have been made at
Post Guest Housing,
1000 Area visitation $3, S1, hospital
report to LTC Carl BE. Linke, Update
on Battalion Prayer Breakfast.
1030 Visit Motor Pool
1100 Check in at office
1130 Contact S3, Transportation to
field
1145 Off to Red Clud Alpha
1230 Field Service:
Call to Worship
Invocation
Song
Scripture
Sermon
Hymn
Benediction
1300 Counsel troop in field on mar-
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CHAPLAIN “OUT OF SYNC”’
riage problem. His wife is seeing
another man. He thinks it’s revenge
because he saw another woman three
years ago. Via the fact that they both
desire to save their marriage through
counseling, I establish an initial ap-
pointment for counseling for the week
following.
1345 Return to Garrison
1400 PVT Point waiting for me in the
office concerning compassionate
discharge from the Army. His mother
is ill and he is the only person that is
able to take care of her. I explain to
PVT Point that whether it is a com-
passionate reassignment or a compas-
sionate discharge, it is only good for
twelve months before he would have
to return to Ft. Stewart and assume
his duties. He understood the army
Regulations, yet still wanted to pursue
the process. We contacted SI and
began the packet and I promised him a
letter supporting his packet by COB
the next day.
1500 Received a call from Division
Chaplains Office on duty roster to
perform funeral for Retired CSM at
the National Cemetery, Beaufort, SC,
the day after tomorrow.
1505 While still talking with Division
Chaplains Office, PFC Box and his
fiance enter office for their fourth and
last counseling session under the
Prepare and Enrich program. They
will be married two weeks from this
Saturday.
1513 While still counseling Box and
fiance, Company Commander calls.
Soldier needs $200 to stay out of jail
due to bad checks. He wants to avoid
passing the hat throughout the com-
pany. Is there an agency that can help?
I inform the Commander, ‘‘No, there
is not for the purpose of staying out of
jail or bail,’’ and resume counseling
Box and fiance.
1705 Box and fiance leave. Chaplain
Assistant and I review the day’s ac-
tivities and I relieve him for the day.
1730 Swing by Batallion, and check
with LTC Linke, CSM Robles, and
MAJ Moore for anything hot.
1800 Arrive home; message on
answering machine, spouse in distress,
contemplating suicide. Leaves her
phone number. Immediately, I con-
tact the spouse. She was just informed
that her mother has died, and she
doesn’t feel that life is worth living
without her. Her husband is in the
field and her children are misbehav-
ing. She wants to end it all, I counsel
and take actions.
2020 Meditation, dinner, and a good
comedy
2200 Read
2230 Lights out
0500 The alarm clock goes off and we
thank God for another day
This is a literal account of my daily
ministry, give or take an incident. It’s
a world full of extremes; joy and
sadness, pain and pleasure, life and
death. You grow to love it or hate it
I’ve grown to love it, | am strengthen
ed by God, a Battalion Commander
who cares, the best Chaplain Assistant
in the US Army, and the fact that
‘Everyone who is called by my name,
whom I have created for my glory, |
have formed him, yes, | have made
him.’* Isaiah 43:7)
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When we feel we have nothing left to
give. When days seem over and the
shadows fall and the darkness of night
has descended but the road goes on its
smoother, and he tells us its a bend in
the road.
Reverend Cleveland Dixon was
born the twenty-fourth day of June,
eighteen ninety-five in Linder,
Alabama.
He was the only child of Nicy and
York Dixon. He attended Linder
Academy in Alabama, Campbell Col-
Continued from page 7
World Church Group calls
for Economic Pressure
Against Apartheid
cedes Obedience to human beings,’’
Chikane said.
World Church Action Needed
‘“‘Churches in countries that
strengthen apartheid have a responsi-
bility to let that truth be known in
those countries, and to help pressure
their governments to change their
South Africa policy. This has to be
brought to the mind of every congre-
gation and church member,’’ Chikane
said.
The group said it was not a ‘‘change
of heart’’ on South Africa’s part but
economic pressures—including the in-
creasing cost in terms of money and
human lives in the war in Angola-
—pushed South Africa to the
negotiating table and to reach an
agreement on independence for Nami-
bia.
**We have called for sanctions as
South Africans because we believe
they do work,’’ Chikane said. “‘If
they didn’t, it wouldn’t be illegal to
campaign for them.
“Sanctions applied so far have been
analyzed,’’ he continued. Results have
included a measurable ‘‘flight of
capital from South Africa. We believe
that if extra efforts, especially finan-
cial, are applied, it will weaken the
country so it won’t be able to main-
tain the terrorism against the people.”’
‘*For us there is no time to wait for
decades,’’ Chikane said. ‘*The racists
are not going to change their minds.
Our people, the young people, say that
if it doesn’t change now they are going
to fight the system. We as churches
won't be able to stop that.’’
The Eminent Church Persons’
Group urged countries to act unila-
terally to try to end apartheid and at
the same time work for multilateral
economic pressure against the apart-
heid regime.
Besides Banana, Tutu, Chikane and
Greif, Eminent Church Persons’
Group members included Lysaneas
Maciel, a lawyer and member of the
National Constitutent Assembly of
Brazil; Metropolitan Dr, Paulos Mar
Gregorios, Metropolitan of Delhi and
the North for the Orthodox Church of
the East; Dr, Lucille Mair, Jamaica,
former undersecretary general of the
United Nations now Women and De-
velopment Studies Regional Coordi-
nator, University of the West Indies;
the Rev, Dr, Carl Mau, U.S.A., for
mer General Secretary of the Lu
theran World Federation, and the
Rev. Beyers Naude, former General
Secretary of the South African Coun-
ell of Churches, (Not all members
made the entire trip)
Serving as special resource persons
to the group were Dr, James Mutam-
birwa of Zimbabwe and the Rev, Bob
Seott of New Zealand, both executive
secretaries of the Programme to Com
bat Racism, World Council of
Churches.
OBITUARY
lege in Mississippi, and graduated
from the United Theological Seminary
in Monroe, Louisiana in 1954. kev.
Cleveland Dixon confessed to Christ
at an early age in Alabama and
became an A.M.E. minister and
pastored churches in Lake Providence
and Monroe Districts.
Later he moved to Oak Grove,
Louisiana. In 1954, he married
Florence G. Dixon and no children
were born.
He won many souls to Christ and
helped build up the rural churches. He
was loved by many and will be deeply
missed by many who knew him per-
sonally.
He leaves to cherish his memory,
his wife, Florence G. Dixon,
Houston, Texas; a daughter, Vara
Willis, three grandsons, Derrick, Roy,
and Reginald all of Kansas City, Mis-
souri; stepson, Abraham L. Gar-
rell of Houston, Texas; son-in-law,
Levell Willis; daughter-in-law, Gladis
Price, Houston, Texas; three grand-
daughters, Mashall Nicol, and
Charke; a favorite cousin-in-law,
Warden, Louisiana; and a cousin,
Hattie B. Spencer.
Brother Abraham L. Garrett
reported for the Monroe-Lake Pro-
vidence District North Louisiana An-
nual Conference.
I have finished my work; I am going
home to take my rest. If anybody asks,
tell them I am at home—don’t cry, dry
the tears.
Cycles of the
A.M.E. Church
Ministry
by Rev. G. C. Boroum
Evansville, IN
I THE CALL
(a) Regeneration
(b) Decision
(c) Dedication
Il THE PREPARATION
(a) Study
(b) Selection of Source Materials
(c) Proper Theological Instruc-
tion
(d) Adaptability to Cope
Ill PRACTICABILITY
(a) Belief in One’s Self
(b) The Use of One’s Own
MIND
IV MATURITY
(a) Growth in Prayer
(b) Belief in One’s Own
Preaching
(c) Visitation-Concern For
Others
Vv SAGACITY
(a) Observe One’s Peers
(b) Making Godly Decisions
VI WISDOM
(a) Absolute Unselfishness
(b) Absolution To God
(c) Readiness To Live for God
and H:; Church
Vatican Denounces
Apartheid As ‘Sin’
The Vatican condemned all forms
of racism yesterday in a major docu-
ment touching on apartheid, anti-
Semitism, tribal conflicts, the rights
of aboriginal peoples and the diserimi-
nation encountered by migrants, The
cight-thousand-word document,
drawn up at the request of Pope John
Paul Il by the Pontifical Commission
for Peace and Justice, declared,
**Harboring racist thoughts and enter-
taining racist attitudes is a sin.”
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March 6, 1989
Black History Celebration Offers the
Challenge of the Future
Family Day Observance Held at
Metropolitan A.M.E. Church __
by Horace G. Dawson, Jr.
Washington, DC—Metropolitan
A.M.E. Church, located in the
nation’s capital, consistently engages
in a variety of activities. Although
Metropolitan has borne the title “Na-
tional Cathedral of African Method-
ism,” it has never lost the family tra-
dition that has also been its hallmark.
FAMILY DAY SCENE: Historic Metropolitan A.M.E. Church of Washington, DC,
observed Family Day recently and the pastor, Dr. William P. DeVeaux (left) sought to greet
each family personally. He is shown above with Senior Steward Mrs. Lillie M. Ferguson
and her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers L. Ferguson, Jr., and grandchil-
dren Rogers, III, and Christina. The Reverend Everett P. Williams of Tucson, AZ, was Fa-
mily Day preacher.
It is our happy privilege to share
with the connectional church, through
the columns of the A.M.E. Christian
Recorder, some of the recent activity
The Reverend Dr. William P
DeVeaux, Metropolitan’s pastor, con-
tinues to carry high the banner of our
historic National Cathedral,
we
Principals in the Family Day Sunday observance at Metropolitan A.M.E. Church,
Washington, DC, recently included the Reverend Everett P. Williams, Sr., pastor of Prince
Chapel A.M.E. Church, Tucson, AZ (second from left), who was main speaker; his son,
Everett, Jr., left, guest organist; Ms. Lois Brent, member of the Board of Trustees; and
Metropolitan’s pastor, the Reverend Dr. William P. DeVeaux.
SOUTH CAROLINA HERITAGE. Carolinians help to carry on the tradition of excellence
in music at historic Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, Washington, DC, “the Cathedral of
African Methodism,” where organist Terry Friday (left) was recently named Minister of
Music. Danny Hodge (right) is director of the Metroaires, gospel choir. Both Friday, who
directs the Cathedral Choir, and Hodge are natives of South Carolina.
Memphis, TN—Black History Month
observance at LeMoyne Owens
College was putin motion with a Black
History Chapel Service in cooperation
with the Black Brotherhood of
Memphis
The Reverend Carl C. Liggin,
Director of Memphis Dismas House
and pastor of Clayborn Ball Temple
A.M.E, Church, was introduced as
speaker for the occasion by the Rey-
erend R. Meade Walker, chairman of
the Black Brotherhood. “The
Challenge of the Future” was the
subject for Rev. Liggin’s discourse.
The scriptural theme and text for the
message was Hebrews 11:40: “God
having provided some better thing for
us, that they without us should not be
made perfect.”
Brother Christian Lamar, a
LeMoyne Owens student, responded
to the message, saying, “Three things
leaped out at me as Rev. Liggin was
speaking: the first thing was that we
should not return to servitude volun-
tarily; second, we must act instead of
reacting, and that leads me to the third
thing—we must have a plan. So I
would like to charge my fellow
students to rededicate ourselves. In the
academic arena, we must become
beacons of light for our people to
guide on and Co imitate, In the spirit-
ual arena, We must strive to be at peace
with God and with ourselves, Then we
must mold all three into one, and let
ourselves be consumed by our
purpose, And that purpose is the
spiritual, political, economic and cul-
tural liberation of the African Amer-
ican community.
“So we have a call to action for all of
us. There is a role for all of us to play.
Considering the perils that we face,
this is a time to dedicate or rededicate
ourselves to the task of liberating our-
selves. We must not wait for someone
else to save us, We must save our-
selves or we will perish.”
Other ministers of the community
participating in the chapel worship
service were Dr. Reuben H. Green,
Rev. T. O’Neal, Bishop R. L. Fidle,
and Rev. Elester Wilkerson, who
recited “I Have a Dream,” by the late
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The
LeMoyne Owens Choir sang an
arrangement, “J Have a Dream for My
People,” with the words from Dr.
King’s speech.
COCR
3000 PEOPLE GATHER AT CLAYBORN
BALL TEMPLE A.M.E. CHURCH ——__
Memphis, TN—Clayborn Ball
Temple A.M.E. Church was the
setting of the fourth annual birthday
observance of the late Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Three thousand
citizens crowded into the sacred halls
to see and be seen.
Many thankful persons came to
express their thanks for the birth, the
life and the works of a great American,
as was articulated in the prayer by the
pastor, Rev. Carl C. Liggin, and in the
occasion by Dr. Edward Reed,
Chairman of the Shelby County
Health Care Corp., and in the message
by State Rep. Lois DeBerry of the
Tennessee House of Representatives,
and in the remarks of Mr. Gary Shorb,
president of the MED. The Reverend
Ralph White and his choir from the
Bloomfield Baptist Church of
Memphis rendered the music for the
historic occasion.
Representatives of the media were
on hand for press conferences. Con-
gressman Harold Ford, along with
many distinguished legislators, elected
officials, A.M.E. ministers and lay-
men were present as a support to the
host pastor, congregation and
Memphis citizens. The event was
jointly sponsored by the MED and the
AFSCME local.
Historic Clayborn-Ball Temple
A.M.E. Church houses the Jackson-
Starks Cultural Center and the Bishop
C. E. Thomas Museum.
CORORCOZCOOEOR OZ OROZOREOA EA
Ministerial Alliance Engaged in Outreach
Missions During This Conference Year _____
Pittsburgh, PA—The Greater Pitts-
burgh A.M.E. Ministerial Alliance,
under the dynamic, dedicated leader-
ship of the Reverend Taylor Tyrone
Thompson, pastor of St. Paul A.M.E.
Church, Pittsburgh (Beltzhoover
area), has been actively engaged in the
field of outreach missions during this
conference year.
During their annual worship service
held at Park Place A.M.E. Church,
Homestead, where the Reverend Dr.
Moses Wright, Jr., is pastor, the Rev-
erend Fred Wright delivered a moving
message which challenged each wor-
shiper to “take courage and move for-
ward for Christ.” Monies were
received for the victims in Jamaica and
the Food Voucher Assistance
Program. Choirs from St. Mark
A.M.E. Church, Wilkinsburg, and
Park Place rendered musical selec-
tions.
The Alliance invited the Reverend
Frank Madison Reid, III, of Balti-
more, MD, to be guest minister for
The 1989 officers of the Greater
Pittsburgh A.M.E. Ministerial Alli-
ance are Taylor T. Thompson, presi-
dent; William Estes, vice president;
Donald Owens, Sr., recording secre-
tary; Estil Bryant, assistant secretary;
David U. Brown, treasurer; Marion
Young, Parliamentarian; James Hux,
III, chaplain; Moses Wright, Jr., at-
large borad member; Robert Taylor,
at-large board member, and Charles
W. Buckner, at-large board member.
Ms. Ruth G. Dalton
Director, Public Relations
St. Paul A.M.E. Church
“Do Unto Others
As
You Would Have
Them
Do Unto You”
their Annual Founder’s Day worship
service, held at St. James A.M.E.
Church (East Liberty area), recently.
Rev. Fred Wright was the host pastor.
N: History is always near at hand at Metropolitan A.M.E. Church of
Lira DC, Sure ionetere membership is prized. Mrs. LaVerne Goldman, who was
infant-baptized at Metropolitan, is flanked by Mrs. Bertha Salley, a member for 49 years
and one of the church’s first deaconesses; and Mrs. Estelle Clarke, Mrs. Goldman’s mother,
who has been a member for 53 years. The father, Mr. Walker A. Clark, also joined in 1932.
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FIRST EPISCOPAL DISTRICT
AME CHURCH
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
BISHOP FRANK C, CUMMINGS
BERMUDA
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
March 9-12, 1989
WMS Annual Day
March 8, 1989
Heard Chapel A.M.E. Church
Glebe Road
Pembroke East, Bermuda
Church Telephone (809) 292-3949
Pastor’s Telephone (809) 292-3949
The Rey. Reginald McRae, Host Pastor
The Rey. Conway Simmons, Host P.E.
NEW JERSEY
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
April 5-9, 1989
WMS Annual Day
April 4, 1989
Bethel A.M.E. Church
512 N. Church Street
Moorestown, NJ 08057
Church Telephone: (609) 235-3152
Pastor’s Telephone: (609) 234-7624
The Rev. Vernal Simms, Host Pastor
he Rev. John H. Johnson Jr., Host P.E.
DELAWARE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
April 13-16, 1989
WMS Annual Day
April 12, 1989
Dickerson Chapel A.M.E. Church
South Dupont Highway
Millsboro, DE 19966
Church Telephone: (302) 934-6360
Pastor’s Telephone: (302) 398-4437
The Rev. Joseph Brame, Host Pastor
The Rey. Joseph D. Tull, Host P.E.
NEW YORK
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
April 26-30, 1989
WMS Annual Day
April 25, 1989
Emmanuel A.M.E. Church
37-41 West 119th Street
New York City, NY 10026
Church Phone: (212) 722-3969
Pastor’s Phone: (914) 636-6334
The Rev. Millard D. Birt, Host Pastor
The Rey. W. Lee Freeman, Host P.E.
NEW ENGLAND
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
May 18-21, 1989
WMS Annual Day
May 17, 1989
Bethel A.M.E. Church
110 Grove Street
Bridgeport, CT 06606
Church Telephone: (203) 384-9200
Pastor’s Telephone: (203) 371-0214
The Rev. Ellis B. Louden, Host Pastor
The Rev. Herbert L. Eddy, Host P.E.
PHILADELPHIA
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
May 24-28, 1989
WMS Annual Day
May 23, 1989
Trinity A.M.E. Church
27th and Cumberland Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19132
Church Telephone: (215) 229-1652
Pastor’s Telephone: (215) 276-1360
The Rev. E. W. Saunders, Host Pastor
The Rey. Harry J. White, Host P.E.
THE FIRST DISTRICT
PLANNING MEETING
June 8-9, 1989
Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church
Corner of New and Neilson Streets
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Church Phone: (201) 749-8476
Pastor’s Telephone: (201) 545-3638
The Rev. H. A. Hildebrand, Host Pastor
The Rev. C. E. Martin, Host P.E.
Attend Your
Annual Conference
ANNUAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
SIXTH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT
AME CHURCH
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
BISHOP JOHN HURST ADAMS
SOUTH GEORGIA
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
March 27-31, 1989
Grant Chapel A.M.E, Church
316 West Central Avenue
Moultrie, Georgia 31768
Church Telephone: (912) 985-2553
Pastor’s Telephone: (912) 985-2553
The Rev. J. A. Alexander, Host Pastor
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
April 3-7, 1989
St. Paul A.M.E. Church
308 Rowe Street
Dublin, GA 31021
Pastor’s Telephone: (912) 745-9125
The Rey. J. E. Curry, Pastor
GEORGIA
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
April 17-21, 1989
St. Paul A.M.E. Church
1526 Wolf Street
Brunswick, Georgia 31520
Church Telephone: (912) 264-2734
Pastor’s Telephone: (912) 264-0897
The Rev. Richard Q. Ward, Pastor
AUGUSTA GEORGIA
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
May 1-5, 1989
St. Paul A.M.E. Church
306 Third Avenue
Vidalia, GA 30474
Church Telephone: (912) 537-4872
Pastor’s Telephone: (912) 537-0782
The Rey. C. O. Adams, Jr., Pastor
MACON GEORGIA
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
May 15-19, 1989
Steward Chapel A.M.E. Church
887 Forsyth Street
Macon, GA 31208
Church Telephone: (912) 742-4922
Pastor’s Telephone: (912) 745-2351
The Rev. David H. Jackson, Pastor
ATLANTA-NORTH GEORGIA
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
May 29 - June 2, 1989
St. Phillips A.M.E. Church
242 Candler Road
Atlanta, GA 30317
Church Telephone: (404) 371-0749
Pastor’s Telephone: (404) 349-5081
The Rev. George Moore, Sr., Pastor
POST CONFERENCE
PLANNING MEETING
June 15 - 17, 1989
Sixth Episcopal District
African Methodist Episcopal Church
FOURTEENTH DISTRICT
AME CHURCH
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
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BISHOP JOHN R. BRYANT
LIBERIA
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AND W.M.S. CONVENTION
February 5-12,1989
Eliza Turner A.M.E. Church
Camp Johnson Road
Monrovia, Liberia
The Rev. J. E. January, Host Pastor
The Rev. Thomas Z. Clark, Host P.E.
SIERRA LEONE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AND W.M.S. CONVENTION
February 20-26, 1989
New Zion A.M.E. Church
Pademba Road
Freetown, Sierra Leone
The Rev. P. V. A. Waterson-Coker, H. P.
The Rev. P. A. King, Host Presiding Elder
The Rey, J. A, Fadehan, H. Pastor & P.E.
ial
NIGERIA
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AND W.M.S. CONVENTION
March 6-12, 1989
Christ A.M.E, Church
Oyo State, Nigeria
GHANA
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AND W.M.S. CONVENTION
March 13-March 19, 1989
Lord Healing A.M.E, Church
Essikado, Sekondi
Ghana
The Rev. Anthony Ainoo, Host Pastor
Rev. Dr. B. M. Forson, Host P.E.
SIXTEENTH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT
AME CHURCH
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
BISHOP V. R. BYRD
JAMAICA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
April 12-16, 1989
Chapel of Christ Redeemer Church
15 Swallowfield Road
Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies
Church Phone: 92-93824
The Rey. S. Lawrence, Host Pastor
The Rey. J. E. Micklejohn, Host P.E.
GUYANA-SURINAME
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
April 20-23, 1989
Bethel A.M.E. Church
Kaiser Straat 140
Paramaribo, Surinam
The Rev. Pearline E. Chaser, Host Pastor
The Rev. Dr. H. E. Hinds, Sr., Host P.E.
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
April 27-30, 1989
Bethel_A.M.E, Church __
12th & Queen Street
U.S. Virgin Islands, St. Croix
Church Phone: 1-809-773-6892
Pastor’s Phone: 1-809-778-9403
The Rev. V. H. A. Gordon, Host Pastor
The Rey. Louis C. Davis, Host P.E.
HAITI ANNUAL CONFERENCE
May 4-7, 1989
A.M.E. Church
Rue de Centre #320
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
The Rev. Saul Louis, Host Pastor
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
May 11-14, 1989
Bethel A.M.E. Church
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
The Rev. J. Green, Host Pastor & P.E.
TRINIDAD—GRENADA—
BARBADOS
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
July 19-24, 1989
Nazareth A.M.E. Church
Sunshine Avenue
San Juan, Trinidad
The Rev. Anderson Burkett, Host Pastor
The Rev. Dr. Fleming Joseph, Host P.E.
LONDON ENGLAND
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
August 17-20, 1989
Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church
Bay 624 Malton Road
North Kensington
London W. 10 6110
The Rev. B. K. Tweed, Host Pastor
*Date and Place to be announced
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There Are Tears
Of The Heart
That Never
Reach The Eye
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The AME Christian Recorder
Girls Smashing Classroom
Barriers in the Third World
. \
ARE
ATER BETHEL
Third World classrooms that were once opened only to boys are shared today by girls, as
well. Officials of CARE say record numbers of girls are receiving formal educations as
governments arm their people with knowledge to help them break out of poverty. These
children in southern Haiti receive preschool instruction in a program sponsored by CARE.
CARE photo by Rudolph von Bernuth
New York, NY—Despite centuries of
tradition and religious practices that
reserved education in the Third World
for boys only, officials report increas-
ing numbers of girls are receiving for-
mal education.
“‘They’re calling it a quiet revolu-
tion,’’ says Dr. Beryl Levinger, De-
puty Executive Director of CARE, the
international relief and development
organization, ‘‘but it’s having a dra-
matic impact on the role education
plays throughout the developing
world.”’
Worsening poverty and a growing
movement to redress social inequities,
according to Levinger, is spurring
Third World governments to encour-
age the mass enrollment of girls.
“Poverty and hunger have reached
crisis proportions throughout Africa,
Asia and Latin America,’’ Levinger
says. Women and children make up
the highest percentage of the develop-
ing world’s poor and are often stuck
at the bottom of the lowest economic
strata.
Since the number of years a woman
attends school has a direct effect on
the number of children she will bear,
and consequently, the health and well-
being of those children, Third World
nations are beginning to solve some of
their own problems by arming the
poor with an education.
Government-sponsored campaigns
recruiting girls into Third World class-
rooms are enhanced by school feeding
programs. Millions of malnourished
children are receiving hot breakfasts
and lunches, often the only nutritious
meal of their day.
“Relief organizations like CARE,”’
says Levinger, ‘‘have a responsibility
to help the recruitment effort by
tailoring their activities to meet the
needs of women and children.’’
In India alone, the Indian Govern-
ment’s Integrated Child Development
Services Program reaches more than
ten million children with meals and
basic information on health and nutri-
tion, CARE provides logistical sup-
port and training to run the enormous
operation.
A free meal in school, which fami-
lies would otherwise have to provide
at home, can also furnish incentive for
parents to allow girls who would
otherwise be at home gathering fire-
wood, grinding grain or taking care of
younger brothers and sisters, to attend
classes.
Says Levinger, ‘‘The impact of the
quiet revolution is just beginning to be
felt by women and children through-
out the developing world. In the fu-
ture, it will affect not just the lucky
few—but everyone.”’
Black Brotherhood; Focuses on
Critical Issue
Memphis, TN—Clayborn Ball
Temple A.M.E. Church hosted the
Black Brotherhood (for the Academic,
Spiritual and Moral Betterment of the
Black Male), an activity in keeping
with the observance of Black History
Month.
A number of local ministers were
participants in the special occasion
event, including the host pastor and
Assistant Chairman, the Reverend
Carl Liggins, who gave the call to
worship. Others serving were the Rev-
erends R. L. Fidler, Bill Adkins, a
local television announcer, and R. M.
Walker, Chairman of the Brother-
hood, who gave a statement of the pur-’
pose and the history of the movement,
which grew out of a men’s session in
the New Philadelphia Baptist Church
of Memphis. The Reverend Elester
Wilkerson, a distinguished dramatist,
recited the address of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., entitled “I’ve Been to
the Mountain Top,” which was
followed by the singing of “We Shall
Overcome” by the congregation.
Highlight of the meeting was the
panel discussion on the topic “What
Can Black Men Do to Better Them-
selves?” Representing the field of
medicine was the Rev. J. Douglas
Simon, Chief of chaplains at the
MED, who gave statistics of Black vic-
tims of violence and the high cost of
serving them. Brother Loyal Feather-
stone, a young businessman, spoke on
the subject of Black business in Mem-
phis. Dr. Reuben H. Green, head of
the Department of Religion and
Philosophy at the LeMoyne Owens
College, delivered the address on the
education of Black males.
The panel discussion was moder-
ated by the Reverend T. O'Neal
Crivens, member of the LeMoyne
Owens faculty.
March 6, 1989
Expansion of Bus and Campus
Ministry at Greater Bethel
Nashville, Tennessee
In picture from left to right: Pastor Wilson, Brother William Howard, Jr., Brother Ernest
Myers, Sister Virginia E. Cooper, Brother Ted Washington, Sister Thalia Wilson, Sister
Sharon Smith, Mrs, Cleverten Wilson, Reverend Marilyn Ramsey and Brother Dave Alex-
ander. Not pictured: Sister Lenaye Garrett, Sister Debra Taylor, Sister Diane Mar-
tin, Brother Frank Owsley, Sr., and Brother Henry A. Belin, III
Since the arrival of Reverend H. L.
Wilson, the appointed and appreciated
pastor of Greater Bethel African
Methodist Episcopal Church, Nash-
ville, Tennessee, the congregation has
witnessed many new and innovative
programs implemented and/or ex-
panded.
Now in place is a total of nine Out-
reach Ministries: Prison, Hospital,
Food & Shelter, Children and Youth
Church, Alcohol & Substance Abuse,
Instructions, In-Service, Senior
Citizens, and the Bus & Campus
Ministry, the latest to be organized.
The recent purchase of a twenty-five-
passenger vehicle adds to the number
of vehicles already in service providing
transportation for college and univer-
sity students bringing them to worship
service, Mid-week Bible Study and
other church-related activities.
The new air conditioned mini-bus
was dedicated at a special service dur-
ing a very special time of the year—a
season of giving as we all know it and
the church caught the spirit to witness
the dedication.
The date was the Sunday before
Christmas which was an exciting day
culminating the anticipation of the ar-
rival of the bus. A Dedicatory Service
was held on Sunday, December 18 fol-
lowing a spiritually filled worship ser-
vice the entire congregation moving to
the outside for the dedication. The
congregation watched with a tremen-
dous amount of pride and gratitude as
the mini-bus was dedicated to our
Outreach Ministries. The members of
the Outreach Ministry Committee will
serve in special capacities planning ser-
vices and programs especially designed
for our Youth. The Children and
Youth Ministry will certainly benefit
from the use of the new vehicle best
enabling them to be transported to
their many activities. Other useful
needs of the vehicle include provision
of transportation for our Senior Citi-
zens and transporting the Homeless
weekly bringing them to our facility
from the downtown Mission and re-
turning them the following morning.
This program is widely supported by
the entire congregation fostering the
idea of our Founding Father, Richard
Allen: sheltering those in need of shel-
ter as well as serving the need of the
hungry and clothing those who are
naked.
Under the dynamic and visionary
leadership of Pastor Wilson, Greater
Bethel is experiencing new spiritual
growth and an awakening among the
membership a stronger desire to serve.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
Mrs. Virginia E. Cooper
Director of Public Relations
Greater Bethel
Reverend Marguerite S. Henderson
Obituary
Rev. Marguerite S. Henderson, age
87, died November 27, 1988, in her
home in Uniontown, PA.
Rev. Henderson was born on
November 10, 1901, in Montezuma,
GA, a daughter of the late Edward and
Annie Kate Sellers.
She was the former pastor of Payne
A.M.E. Church, where she served for
17 years. She also pastored several
other churches in the Fayette County
area. She was a life member of the
Pittsburgh Conference Branch
Women’s Missionary Society, a
member of the Luvada Burd Mission-
ary Society at Payne, the Connells-
ville Ministerial Association, the
United Way, the Chamber of
Commerce and other civic groups. She
also founded the Connellsville Prayer
Band.
Rev. Henderson was predeceased by
her husband, Thomas Henderson; two
brothers, Jesse and J. D. Sellers;
grandchildren Howard and
Marguerite Harris, and her son-in-
law, George L. Washington.
Surviving are one daughter, Kath-
erine V. Washington of Uniontown,
PA; four grandchildren, William
Washington of Los Angeles, CA, Jerry
Washington of Windsor, CT,
Geraldine Washington of New York
City, NY, and Johnetta Washington of
Hartford, CT; three great-grandchil-
dren; one great-great-grandchild and
other relatives.
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