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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, February 25,1982
Reaching Out In Faith To Adult Learners
BY THEA JARVIS
At the tender age of six,
Sister Jose Hobday had a
backyard run-in with one
of her brothers.
The respected authority
and lecturer on prayer,
who grew up in the
southwestern United
States and traces part of
her ancestry to native
American Indian stock,
was approached by her
mother, who asked what
the problem was.
“Leave me alone,” was
the answer from the
miserable child.
With a mother’s insight,
the woman knew her
daughter was feeling
isolated and unloved and,
like most of us, couldn’t
admit to her own
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loneliness. She went out to
the yard and expressed her
love to the crying child.
“I want to tell you a
story and I want you to
remember it always,” she
began. “Close your eyes
and hug yourself - rock
back and forth. As you
rock, imagine yourself on
the breast of Jesus. He
loves you. He always loves
you.”
“If you’re ever alone,”
her mother continued,
“and have no one to hug
you, remember that He’s
always there.”
This story, related by
Jane Wolford Hughes at
the “Adults Growing in
Faith Workshop” held
February 12-13 at the
Presidential Hotel,
expressed the heart of
adult catechesis - reaching
out to the adult learner in
a spirit of healing and
hospitality and letting him
know he is loved and cared
for.
The workshop, which
drew 152 leaders in adult
catechesis from 61
parishes throughout the
archdiocese, was a
concerted effort at
developing skills among
those responsible for
ministry to adult Catholics
on the parish level.
“Faith development in
the adult is the core of
catechesis, the center of
catechetical experience,”
said Father Jim Kelly,
Director of the Office of
Religious Education who,
with adult education
consultant Sister Lorraine
Masucci, organized the
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Father Kelly noted the
Church’s heightened
emphasis on the adult’s
ongoing faith develop
ment. Heretofore, much
attention was devoted to
the teaching and
formation of children. The
perception now is that all
catechetical formation -
from childhood to teenage
years and up - must be
moving towards that
fullest of faith
experiences, the adult
response.
“The shift of focus to
adults is what we have to
catch up on,” Father Kelly
observed.
“Catching up” and
developing new methods
for reaching adult learners
was precisely what the
workshop was all about.
Jane Wolford Hughes,
Director of the Institute
for Continuing Education
in the Archdiocese of
Detroit, and Neil Parent,
representative for adult
education at the United
States Catholic
Conference, together took
workshop participants
through a skills-building
process that was creative
and practical.
Among their
observations were:
* The design and
approach of adult
education should be based
on the fact that adults are
self-directed. Good adult
education should allow
adult learners to
participate through an
expression of their own
experience.
* Adult education
should be selective,
specifically directed to the
life-tasks adults must deal
with on a day-to-day basis.
Courses that are too
general in scope will
probably appeal to few.
* Adult catechesis is
most effective in an
innovative parish that is
open, flexible,
communicating and
people-centered.
* The climate of adult
catechesis should include
an emphasis on learning,
not teaching, and an
encouragement and
affirmation of those new
to adult education
programs.
* The “lecture” format
is not generally useful in
adult education. The
concept of a facilitator
leading and/or directing a
group is more conducive
to learning.
The “Adults Growing in
Faith Workshop” included
the announcement and
distribution of the
Arch diocesan Guidelines
for Adult Catechesis and a
special program for the
formation of leadership in
adult education, part of
the “Growing in Christ
Jesus” program. Both have
been developed by and are
available through the
Arch diocesan Office of
Religious Education.
Topping off the work of
the weekend was an
afternoon liturgy and
festive “Feast of the
BY THEA JARVIS
Hattie Mae Williams,
whose friendship with
Evelyn Echols goes back
to their days in
temporary housing on
Linden Avenue, lives in
the Wheat Street
Apartments near the
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Memorial with her son,
daughter and grandson.
She works nights at
the Newton Tobacco
Company off Piedmont
Road in northeast
Atlanta, a considerable
distance from her intoWn
home.
Hattie moved to
Atlanta from
Montgomery, Alabama
and settled in a boarding
house In the Bedford-
Pine community when
she first arrived in the
city.
But it was a time of
growth and progress in
Atlanta. The facelifting
of the city had begun
and Hattie Williams was
smack in the middle.
‘‘The housing
authority bought the
house and I moved to
another one,” she said.
Trouble was, the housing
people wanted that one,
too, and on the third
go-round Hattie Williams
found herself in a
temporary trailer home
on Linden Avenue that
had been supplied by the
city.
The move to Wheat,
Street followed. “They
gave me money for
relocation,” she said,
judging she has been at
the Wheat Street
apartments for upwards
of five years.
Once again, however,
Hattie Williams is finding
herself in the wrong
. place at the wrong time.
The Wheat Street
apartments consist of
three units, all of which
were built and sponsored
by the Wheat Street
Baptist Church with a
Federal Housing
Authority loan. Because
of continuing physical
problems with the
second and third units,
and because a
rehabilitation loan was
not procured, the
mortage was foreclosed
and as of late last year,
Wheat Street II and III
are now in the hands Of
the Department of
Housing and Urban
Development.
The government-own
ed units continue to look
like forlorn stepsisters in
the shadow of their
Cinderella neighbor,
Wheat Street 1. And
Hattie Williams’
three-bedroom
apartment is in that
section of Wheat Street
ripe for repair.
“They haven’t told us
whether we’re going to
stay or have to move,”
said Hattie. “They’ve put
in windowpanes and
cleaned up the grounds,”
but have done no major
remodeling of the
premises.
Meanwhile, Hattie
Williams and her Wheat
Street neig h bors
“continue to pay rent,”
she explained, living in a
limbo of uncertainty and
possible change.
Tenants’ Association
meetings are held
monthly and have
included representatives
from HUD and the city
who have attempted to
listen to community
response before making a
decision on what to do
with the Wheat Street
albatross.
Bob Becker, who is a
regular at the meetings, is
a loan specialist with
HUD and the president
of the parish council at
Immaculate Heart of
Mary Church in Atlanta.
He sympathizes with the
Wheat Street residents.
“I feel for the tenants.
I wish they had a better
place to stay,” he said,
noting that HUD has
offered to help relocate
those tenants who want
to leave. It would seem
that not many are ready
to risk separation from
familiar territory.
According to Becker,
HUD’s Washington office
has requested a decision
by local HUD officials on
the fate of Wheat Street
II and III. He indicated
Round Table” Saturday
evening. The round table
motif was a theme running
through the entire
workshop and symbolized
the open, friendly sharing
that occurs when people
gather as equals around a
table.
Judging from the
smiling faces and high
spirits of the adult
education leaders who
experienced the weekend,
the Archdiocesan
Religious Education staff
followed one of the
guidelines set forth by
Jane Wolford Hughes in
her talk on the learning
climate: Make people feel,
“You’re special so we
went to a little extra
trouble for you.”
that the local
recommendation would
be to put the Wheat
Street apartments up for
sale, making them
available to private
investors.
“The project should
be on the market in
possibly three or four ■
months, before the end
of our fiscal year,”
Becker stated.
Meanwhile, HUD is in
limbo itself but has
contracted with a local
realty agency to work on
cleaning up the units.
Hattie Mae Williams
and her family hope for
better things, although
their future housing
seems to be out of their
hands and once more left
to the powers that be.
“I’m insecure,
basically at a standpoint
where I don’t know what
will happen,” Hattie said
quietly. She would be
happy, she said, to move
into a new apartment
that was “decent and
sanitary - for once in my
life.”
Progress? —
(Continued from page 1)
Cassie Edwards lives
next door to Mary
Marshall. She has been on
Angier Avenue “for 30 or
35 years,” she estimated.
When Bedford-Pine was
making the gradual change
from a white to a black
community, hers was the
third black family to
locate on the block.
Cassie still takes an
active interest in her
community, although
advancing age and a bad
hip have put a damper on
her mobility.
“She is on the board of
the Butler Street YMCA,”
Evelyn said proudly of her
friend, and on the "board
of the Bedford-Pine
Development Corporat-
ion.
Both women agreed
that one of the greatest
needs in the Bedford-Pine
area at present is an
adequate shopping facility.
Over the years, the
residents’ hopes of a
centrally located,
well-stocked and fairly
priced market have been
repeatedly dashed.
“There’s new housing
on Ralph McGill
Boulevard and Parkway
near Milton Bradley where
the old Catholic Colored
Clinic used to be,” Evelyn
pointed out. “People
expected this to be a
shopping area but were
disappointed.”
The Echols have a car
and Evelyn is able to shop
at the Big Star
supermarket on Ponce de
Leon and Highland, often
taking orders for her
neighbors who can’t get
out on their own. But the
store is a good distance
from the Bedford-Pine
community, and much of
the neighborhood food
shopping is carried on at a
local grocery that enjoys
the distinction of being
one of Bedford-Pine’s sole
commercial survivors.
From the outside,
King’s Food Store doesn’t
remotely resemble a
friendly “mom and pop”
operation. Bedford-Pine
residents who patronize
the store, which shares its
block on Boulevard with
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APARTMENTS, “ripe
an all-too available liquor
establishment, must pay
higher prices on most
items, according to Evelyn
Echols.
For a dollar, the store
will send off customers’
light, gas or telephone bills
- a major convenience for
those who cannot read or
write - and will even cash
a check if the patron buys
a certain percentage of the
check’s amount in the
store.
At one time, Evelyn
claimed, remembering the
planners’ promises,
“shopping was a priority.
But nothing materialized.”
Most longtime residents of
Bedford-Pine have been
awaiting a shopping center
for over 14 years, since the
urban renewal project
began. A sense of empty
promises and broken
dreams still haunts much
of Bedford-Pine, from the
neat brick bungalows on
Angier Avenue where
Evelyn Echols and her
frinds live to the
overgrown lots that stare
blankly at the traffic
passing in front of King’s
Food Store.
For many in
Bedford-Pine, the matter
of permanent housing
remains a question mark.
The uprooting of the past
has clearly taken its toll.
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Although comprehensive
redevelopment plans do
not call for further
changes on Angier Avenue,
there is concern about the
future.
Evelyn wonders if the
Civic Center -- her
disinterested backyard
neighbor -- might
eventually need more
room for parking.
“We never know when
they might have to tear
down. Right now I really
wouldn’t know where we
could go,” she said
hopelessly. “They have
taken over all the
apartments -- They
renovated them the way
they wanted them. There
are no more empty
places.”
The changes that have
touched the lives of
Bedford-Pine residents
over the years - those that
today account for
lingering feelings of fear,
uncertainty and anger -
are still abroad on the
streets of Bedford-Pine.
And while change does
not always mean the
worst, it does not
necessarily mean the best,
either. Happily, the
Bedford-Pine Development
Corporation, a non-profit
community-based
organization, recently
reported that plans for a
neighborhood shopping
center should be finalized
this summer. Construction
could begin shortly
thereafter.
There is also some
indication that current
developers, planners and
city officials are attuned
to past promises made to
the people of Bedford-
Pine.
Moreover, those who
were once the invisible
feathers on the phoenix
that rose from the ashes of
old Atlanta have now
acquired some awareness
that they, too, have a
legitimate place in the plan
of the city
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ultimately determine
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present can adequately
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