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JANUARY 15,1998 AUGUSTA FOCUS
Annual M.L. King Jr. celebration to be held at Paine
AUGUSTA
Each year Augusta State Uni
versity, The Medical College of
Georgia, and Paine College com
bine their efforts to celebrate the
life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The colleges alternate venues for
the event each year. This year
Paine College will host and serve
as the site for the annual celebra
tionscheduled for January 16, 1998
at 11 am.
The theme for the event this
year is “A Dream Remembered:
The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.” The program site will be
the Gilbert-Lambuth Memoria’
Chapel. Reverend Otis Moss 111
will be the keynote speaker.
Reverend Otis Moss 111 is the
pastor of Tabernacle Baptist
Church. He received his Bachelor
Atlanta minister, businessman to speak
at Historic Springfield Baptist Church
AUGUSTA
Existing for 210 years takes alot
of perseverance among family and
friends.
Historic Springfield Baptist
Church, at 210 years strong, will
celebrate Family and Friends Day
on Sunday, January 25, 1998, at
11:16 a.m. The Rev. Melzie L.
Robinson of Atlanta, Georgia, will
bring the message. The morning
service will include acknowledg
ment of family and friends who
California Supreme Court hears Scout discrimination case
LOS ANGELES
(AP) Allowing gays and atheists
into the Boy Scouts would be like
asking the NAACP to provide ser
vices for the Ku Klux Klan, alawyer
for the Boy Scouts argued in two
discrimination lawsuits against the
group.
Scout lawyer George Davidson
claimed the group was merely up
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Rev. Alex R. King
1630 Fifteenth St. Augusta, Ga. 30901
(70€) 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
Day Care Center:
6:45 a.m. - 5:30 p.m
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of Arts degree in Religion and Phi
losophy from Morehouse College.
have supported Springfield and will
support the church as it moves
toward celebrating the expected
openingof Springfield Village Park
by 1999. The park is being spear
headed by the Springfield Village
Park Foundation, but it will cel
ebrate the church’s rich history.
Morehouse College in Atlanta be
gan in the church.
The Rev. Robinson, a native of
Columbia, S.C., founded Covenant
holding its belief in conservative
sexual morality and duty to God
when it expelled a man because he
is gay and twin boys because they
do not believe in God.
During arguments before the
California Supreme Court on Mon
day, he held up a Boy Scout book
before the seven justices, saying:
“There’s God on the front cover,
3pirit
Hewas oneof the top 15 graduates
in his 100-member class at Yale
University School of Divinity. His
educational training also includes
doctoral studies at the University
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Before taking the pastorate at T
ernacle, Reverend Moss was an
assistant pastor and youth minis
terat New Hope Baptist Church in
Denver, Colorado. He has had
numz: articles publhtll::d and
presented papers around the coun
try. Reverend Moss is a dedicated
minister committed to youth de
velopment and community trans
formation.
Dr. Shirley Lewis of Paine Col
lege, Dr. Francis Tedesco of Medi
cal College of Georgia and Dr, Wil
liam Bloodworth of Augusta State
University will be active partici
People Ministry, which conducts
revivalsand workshops on various
Christian topics. He is a minister
in Soul Winners Community OQut
reach ministry and a member of
World Changers Christian Church
in Atlanta; the pastor is noted TV
evangelist Creflo Dollar.
He also is chief executive officer
of Nova Business Consulting
Group in Atlanta.
The Family and Friends fellow
there’s God on the back cover.”
Attorneys for the twin boys and
the man sought to portray the Boy
Scouts as a business rather than a
private club.
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Liberties Union attorney, said Boy
Scoutssell . liestl j
its trading posts, engages in public
relations, pay a full-time staff and
We are reaching out.
Come and worship with us.
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Antioch Missionary
Baptist Church
1454 Florence St. (706) 724-2809
Rev. Kenneth B. Martin, pastor
Sunday School—9:3o a.m.
Sunday Worship—ll:oo a.m.
Wednesday Worship—l2:oo noon
Wednesday Praise and Bible Study—7:oo p.m.
ts in the program. Music will
g:nprovidod by The Paine College
Concert Choir and The Augusta
State University Choir. The com
umnin:)’ry is cordially invited ::g
strongly encouraged toattend
event. For more information, con
tact Paine College Office of Public
Relations at (706) 821-8322.
Paine Collegeisachurch-related,
four-year residential, liberal arts
college. Its mission of providing
Mholaomcansf - s 'in :
w environ
ment has not :umww since its
founding in 1882. Paine is sup
ported by The United Methodist
Church, the Christian Methodist
Episcopal Church, and the United
Negro College Fund. Dr. Shirley
A.R. Lewis is president of Paine
College.
ship, which began in 1995, takes
on new meaning as Springfield
Village Park, a replica of the free
black village surrounding the
church in its early beginnings,
takes shape. Pastor E.T. Martin
invites family, friends and future
friends of the church to what is
expected to be a wonderful fellow
ship. For more information, con
tact committee chairwoman Donna
W. Rogers at 737-9490 or Pastor
Martin at 724-1056.
charges fees to its five million mem
bers across the country.
“Those factors point to it not be
ing a private club,” he said.
Ifthe justices buy that argument,
the Boy Scouts would be subject to
nesses from discriminatingbécause
of sexual orientation, religion and
other factors.
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8 Greater Young Zion Baptist Church, 516 Forsythe St. in
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Sermons to be conducted at 7:30 10:46 a.m. Sundays in January
will be: “A Godly Wife,” Jan. 18; and “Christian Parenting,” Jan. 25.
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a Lasting Marriage” will be held Fri. and Sat., Jan. 23-24 at
Macedonia Baptist Church, 702 Johnson St., Waycross, Ga. For
%' registration form and other information, please call (706) 724-
B Secund Providence Baptist Church, 1643 Summerhill Rd.
in North Augusta, will hold Installation Services for new officers on
Sun.,Jan. 18, at 6 p.m. Guest speaker will be Rev. Jasper Loyd. Rev.
Dr. Albert M. James is pastor.
S Broadway Baptist Church, 2323 Barton Chapel Rd., will host
the Stop the Violence “A Call for Drum Majors for Justice” event on
Monday, Jan. 19, at 11 p.m. Keynote speaker will be Rev. Otis Moss
111, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church. For more information, call
826-1961. .
B The Friendly Church of God in Christ will hold its Annual
Missionary Revival Jan. 19-23, beginning 7:30 p.m. nightly. The
speaker for the week will be Elder Nelson Williams of the Williams
Tabernacle Church of God in Christ of Anderson, S.C. Elder Leroy
James is the pastor.
8 Hickman Tabernacle A.M.E. Church, 412 Orange St., will
hold their Annual Calendar Tea on Sun., Jan. 18, at 3 p.m. Refresh
ments will be served.
8 CSRA Interfaith Alliance, along with Augustans Together
and the Unitarian Universalist Church, will be holding a panel
forum on Jan. 23. Congressman Norwood will be present to answer
questions and discuss religious and community issues coming before
Congress. The event will be held at the Unitarian Universalist
Church on Walton Way Ext. at 7:30 p.m. For more info, call 721-
2828.
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1434 POPLAR STREET
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 30901
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