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African-American leaders converge on
Augusta for Georgia Leadership Summit II
s ATLANTA
State Senator Charles Walker
of Augusta and Representative
Calvin Smyre of Columbus are
organizing what is being viewed
asoneofthe most significant Afri
can-American empowering orga
nizations and events in 1996. The
legislators are co-chairmen of the
Georgia Leadership Forum (GLF),
which is an African-American,
non-partisan foundation, think
tank and political action commit
tee designed to strengthen and
assist African Americans in bet
ter understanding the nature of
local, state and national political
and economic systems, as well as
the process involved in the devel
opment of public policy.
Rep. Smyre said, “The Forum’s
missionis to provide a network for
African Americans to discuss and
develop policies and directly in
fluence the political process.”
Sen. Walker said, “We envision
the GLF as being a vehicle used to
pave the way for a positive and
Summer reading program at all libraries
All branches of the East Cen
tral Georgia Regional Library
(ECGRL) System will participate
in the Summer Reading Club,
for children up to 18 years old.
Reading folders will be available
beginning May 31 at all ECGRL
libraries, including the Bookmo
bile.
Preschoolers and children en
tering kindergarten, first grade
or second grade will count the
numberofbookstheyread. Those
who have not yet entered first
grade receive credit for listening
and/or reading on their own.
Bethel African Methodist
Episcopal Church
623 Crawford Avenue
Augusta, Georgia 30904
Rev. Larry W. Hudson, Sr. Pastor
Office: (706) 736-4060
Sunday Wednesday
9:30 Sunday School 7:00 Bible Study
11:00 Worship Service
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- C.M.E. Church
Rev. Alex R. King
1630 Fifteenth St. Augusta, GA 30901
(706) 733-9430
Sunday: Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Worship Service 11:00 a.m.
Ist Sunday Evening 6:30 p.m. :
Wed: Praise Bible Study 7:00 p.m.
Thurs: Senior Services 10:00 a.m.
Day Care
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Sunday Services at 7:45 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 7:30 p.m.
Baptist Training Union (8.T.U.) at 6:00 p.m. Sunday
Sunday School at 9:30 Sunday morning
Bible Study 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, and 9:30 a.m. Saturday
Prayer Service at 11:00 Saturday morning
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exciting future for African Amer
icans who are well informed, po
liticallyinvolved and well-connect
ed in a community that values its
African-American history, its fam
ilies, neighborhoods and histori
cal institutions. We can build on
the strengths of our black culture,
family values and the extended
community.”
GLF organizers, including Sen.
Walker and Rep. Smyre, will hold
their second Georgia Leadership
Summit, entitled “Galvanizing
Our Strength,” Saturday, June 8,
beginning at 8 a.m., at Paine Col
lege in Augusta, Ga. Some of the
confirmed participants are Eldrin
Bell, former police chief of Atlan
ta; Dr. Johnny Hatney, pastor of
Good Hope Baptist Church in Au
gusta, Ga. and a member of Prom
ise Keepers; Senator Diana
Harvey-Johnson, chair of the
Georgia Legislative Black Cau
cus; Dr. Shirley R. Lewis, presi
dent of Paine College; Michael
Thurmond, director of the Depart
Special children and adults who
are not reading or who read be
low a first-grade level receive
credit for the time they listen to
someone read to them. When
participants havelistened to and/
or read 30 books, they receive a
reading club certificate, a stick
er, a doorknob hanger, plus cou
pons for ice cream and baseball
tickets.
Participantsin third grade and
up count the amount of time spent
reading. When 25 hours of read
ing havebeen completed, the stu
dent receives a reading club cer
ment of Family and Children Ser
vices; and Rep. E.C. Tillman of
Brunswick. Sen. Charles Walker,
chairman of the Georgia State
Senate Health and Human Ser
vices Committee, will give the vi
sion of the GLF. In addition, the
candidates from the U.S. Senate,
U.S. House of Representatives,
Sixth Judicial Court and other
state and local candidates have
been invited to participate in a
political forum.
The previous Georgia Leader
ship Summit, held at Morehouse
School of Medicine in Atlanta,
drewnearly 250 elected, business,
church and community leaders
and activists. Some of the partici
pants were Atlanta Mayor Bill
Campbell, Rep. Georganna
Sinkfield of Atlanta, Congressman
John Lewis, Congressman
Sanford Bishop, Sen. Connie
Stokes of Dekalb County, Dr.
Nathaniel Jackson of the South
ern Education Foundation, Fulton
County Commissioner Michael
tificate, a sticker and doorknob
hanger, and coupons foricecream
and baseball tickets.
The Richmond County branch
es of the ECGRL System will
kick off the Summer Reading
Program beginning June 3.
The Wallace Branch Library
Homework Center, 1237 Laney-
Walker Blvd., will offer a special
kickoff program Monday, June
3, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
The Main Library, 902 Greene
St., will hold kickoff activities on
June 4 at 10:30 a.m. during pre
school storytime, and at 11 a.m.
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Sen. Walker said, “One of the
many goals of the GLF is to be
more effective in informing and
educatinglocal communities about
political and business issues and
to energize the African-American
vote to become a more relevant
force in the political process.” He
continued. “These initiatives are
critical to leading African Ameri
cans into a 21st century marked
by economic independence and
prosperity.”
To register for the upcoming
Georgia Leadership Summit on
Saturday, June 8 — or for more
information about the Georgia
Leadership Forum —writetoP.O.
Box 38247, Atlanta, Ga.,30334; or
telephone (404) 656-0097 or fax
(404) 656-0342.
during storytime for ages sixand
up. The Friedman Branch Li
brary, 1447 Jackson Rd., will also
hold kickoff activities June 4 be
ginning at 10:30 a.m. No
storytimes will be held at the
Friedman Branch that day.
On June 5, the Jeff Maxwell
Branch Library, 1927 Lumpkin
Rd., will hold kickoff activities
beginning at 10:30 a.m., featur
ing stories, poems and puppets.
The Appleby Branch Library,
2260 Walton Way, will also hold
kickoff activities June 5 from
10:30 a.m. to noon.
Preacher
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to know.
“I'm too poor.”
Dr. Baxter asked if he could be
at Stillman Institute in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama by Dec. 1.
“I remember it was December
thefirst,” the Reverend said, “be
causeit wasthe yearthey bombed
Pearl Harbor.” :
He went to see the president of
Stillman, Dr. A.L. Jackson, who
told him how much tuition would
be and asked if he could pay half
of it.
“No sir,” Lacey replied. Dr.
Jackson asked how much he
could pay. “I can’t pay any of it,”
he answered, bringing up the on
campus farm Dr. Baxter had told
him of, where poor students had
been allowed to work off their
tuitions.
But the president hesitated.
He had tried other young men,
hesaid, and they had fallen down
on their responsibilities.
“You haven't tried me,” Lacey
said, and won himself a chance
to pursue his education.
He had to be at work by 4 a.m.
every morning, and be finished
and at the breakfast table by six,
or he wouldn’t get breakfast. He
wore patched-over shoes, worked
inthe winter rain without arain
coat, worked in the mud without
rubber boots, met jeers and
taunts in the cafeteria. Friend
less, he watched from his win
dow the other students congre
gating around campus, wishing
he could fit in.
Sometimes they would ask him
what he thought he was doing
there in his old, dirty clothes. He
played with his rings as he re
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membered. “I have a little goal
in mind,’ I would say. ‘I think I
may not reach mine when you
reach yours, but I'll be there.”
Years later, he ran into some of
those same people. Some had
dropped out of school. Some had
been in jail. But he encouraged
them to try again.
Reverend Cochraneis current
ly pastor of Holsey Memorial and
Saint James CME churches in
Sparta, Ga. Before that, hewas a
ministerofthe AME Zion Church.
He was presiding elder for 10
years, served on the budget com
mittee foreight, wason theboard
of home and foreign missions,
and was elected three times as a
delegate to the General Confer
ence.
His ministry is especially con
cerned with two things: getting
potential drop-outs to stay in
college, and getting kids to stop
having babies.
His “final Earthly goal,” he
said, is authorship. He wants to
publish two books, one entitled
The Second Coming of the Messi
ah, and one entitled My Daily
Gospel Light.
“Itisalsomyintention,” he said,
“to pastor and preach as long as
good health prevails. It is not for
the money, [but] rather for souls
for the kingdom of God.” He said
that, inthe 52 years he hasheena
minister, his salary has neverbeen
above $3,000 a year.
When his time is at hand, he
says, he wants to be able to re
peat the words of the Apostle
Paul, found in 2 Timothy 4:6-7:
“For I am now ready to be of
fered, and the time of my depar
ture is at hand. I have fought a
good fight, I have finished my
course, | have kept the faith.”
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