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Rev. Lindsey Napier ; pastor of Warner Robins Christian Methodist Episcopal Church ,
was f/7e speaker for Monday's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration. He asked
the question “what is you name, what is your purpose for being?”
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Nicholas St ikes and Merrisa Merrel from Macon County sang, “There is Hope.” Stikes is
an eight-grader at Macon County Middle School and Merrel is a ninth-grader at Macon
County High School.
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Minister Wilbert Johnson took those gathered Monday back to old times with a hymn
to open celebration.
DAY
From page lA
sermon based on Luke 8:26-
39, where Jesus expelled
demons from a man. “He
asked the man what is your
name. The demons answered
we are legion,” Napier said.
His message was on the
importance of a name. “Our
name defines us. We have a
chosen name - Christians.
“Our name may have been
all kinds of things,” he said,
HICKS
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we’ve been hurt, we con
tinue to long for meaning
ful relationships that will
transcend all the others and
bring us joy.
The reason Hollywood - in
spite of its own oft-reported
surrender to the libertine
lifestyle - annually makes
dozens of romance mov
ies portraying a desperate
search for one’s soul mate is
because it’s what we All long
for, at least at some level.
The reason fragmented
and dysfunctional families
create so much emotional,
social and psychological
harm is because our deepest
needs are relational. Broken
relationships with loved ones
hurt us deeply, and can dam
age our ability, or at least
willingness, to become vul
nerable in any relationship.
The reason why solitary
confinement is an effective
and seemingly harsh form of
every thing except child of
God, “but our name is child
of God.”
He noted before the name
of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., “we could not sit at the
lunch counter, we could not
vote, we had to give up a
seat on the bus, a child was
spit on for going to school.”
The SCLC also recognized
its leaders and asked for
membership and participa
tion “to help us devise pro
grams and meet the issues of
this community,” said local
punishment is because isola
tion and alienation starves
our souls of the nutrition
they crave - meaningful
relationship.
You get the point.
The other idea I want to
leave Gen Y (and you) with
is this: pursuing happiness
through wealth and fame
may not be as rewarding
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chairman Winston Lawson.
Granville said the SCLC
is about making leaders and
encouraged the young peo
ple to look to these leaders
for guidance.
Houston SCLC President
Rev. Kenneth Hubbard said
some of the group does
include helping people with
the board of education,
investigation of claims of
discrimination in the work
place and arbitration and
well as economic develop
ment training.
as you think. You may end
up getting everything you
thought you wanted. But
unless we cultivate relation
ships in our lives - with
friends, our spouse, children
and other family members
- our lives will be cold and
barren. No matter how big
the house, how fancy the car,
or recognizable the face.
LOCAL
RIDERS
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CMA members are accoun
tants, lawyers, mechanics,
you name it. They pray for
each other and the pray for
others.
They basic purpose of a
CMA Chapter, according to
their mission statement,
is to support the National
CMA effort of sharing and
showing the love of Jesus
Christ to motorcyclists, and
supporting the overall min
istry of CMA. In this, there
is a three-fold purpose:
“Provide and encourage
members to be active in tes
timony and Christian wit
nessing to all motorcyclists,
provide a Christian fellow
ship ride group and provide
an evangelistic association
for motorcycling.”
Members also go on mis
sion trips and work with
circuit churches. One trip
attended by Schmidt includ
ed taking three motorcycles
to the Belize mountain area.
The motorcycles, she said,
will assist three priests in
getting to each of their eight
churches.
“Instead of once a month,”
she said, “they will be able
to meet with the congrega
tions three or more times a
month.”
Trek to Florida
Daytona Bike Week Riders in February will find an aid station near Unadilla when
the nearly half million make their trek to Florida for the NASCAR race.
Son Riders will be providing a coffee stop at rest area 14 in Dooly County. This is
more than a coffee stop. Son Riders will pull into the rest stop on Friday evening and
set up not only tents but generators. Need directions, trouble with mechanicals or
even referrals, the Son Riders will be there to assist. *
Judy deFore of the Son Riders, newly elected secretary treasure of the Georgia CMA
added, “We have some fellows who have tools and skills to assist in some mechanical
troubles. If you need directions we can help there. We carry a letter, to give us permis
sion by the Georgia DOT. It won’t be just a hang out.”
BURGLARY
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Waugh, 26, faces four
counts of burglary, six
counts of theft by receiv
ing stolen property, three
counts of financial trans
action card fraud, three
counts of possession of a
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Another member of the
local chapter, Allen Wilson,
does lots of work with the
Bill Glass Prison Ministry.
To that end, he and several
members take the Harleys
and other motorcycles
inside prisons to witness to
inmates. Wilson related it
being an emotional time for
the many. The chapter, he
said, will be participating
in the ministry program in
Milledgeville in the future.
Ken Colson of Warner
Robins said he felt this way
about the CMA: "The Lord
is in the middle and the
bike is the tool to get peo
ple’s attention - so we can
share Jesus Christ.
“The closeness, fellow
ship, they help the members
by supporting each other. It
is tough to give testimony
in the world today. We are
the boosters for needy orga
nizations trying to help the
many out there.”
“(A) 1998 Harley 883
Sportster was the first bike
the Lord inspired me to
buy,” he added. “I am an
accountant. I was 43 years
old and had never done any
thing like that. I had no
idea how to ride it either.”
That being the case, he
described his first experi
ence as follows: “Edith
Pierce road motorcycles
firearm/knife during the
commission of a crime,
three counts of possession
of a firearm/knife by a con
victed felon and one count
of violation of the Georgia
Controlled Substance Act,
schedule I-11. Schedule I-II
includes methamphetamine
and cocaine.
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and I played the banjo.
Edith Pierce tried to help
me learn to ride. We went
out to a field. Even Myrtice
Shephard was there to
help.
“The first time I really
got it going, the bike took
off and I fell and thought
I had broken my shoulder.
We all decided that the best
way to learn was with a
Honda Rebel. “It did the
trick and I have been riding
ever since.”
He has also since moved
up to a 2006 Dyna Low
Rider 1450 cc and he’s been
active in raising money for
missions, even recording
two CDs. His mother, Ann
Lavender, is also active at
85 and plays. Together, he
said, their CD has raised
more than $5,000.
“I even made it to the
Sturgis ride to hand out
water,” he added. “It was
my first long-distance ride.
Whenever we stopped peo
ple would look funny and
ask me if I really was rid
ing that big bike.” The
CMA is not a replacement
for church, members would
say, but it does supports
the efforts of plenty of local
churches. They just deliver
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