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-THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1973
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Words
of
Truth
By Jack Simons
Christianity in action is the
only kind there is. “Faith by
itself, if it has no works, is
dead” (Jas. 2:17).
Christianity has been rightly
called “love in working
clothes.” Christians are
people who have been saved
by God’s undeserved, loving
favor, and they are people
who are “created in Christ
Jesus FOR GOOD WORKS”
Broadcaster
Awards Are
Announced
Saint Marys, Ball Ground
and Helen are the winners in
the 1973 STAY & SEE
GEORGIA Newcomer,
Expert and Professional
Categories. WBHB Radio
Station, Fitzgerald, Richard
Cargile, Operations Manager,
is the winner of the 1973 STAY
& SEE Broadcasters Award.
Special Awards go to WSB
Radio, Atlanta, Richard C.
Payne, Director of Public
Relations and Promotion and
WALB-TV, Albany, Jim
Davis, News Director. WCOH
Radio Station in Newnan,
James 0. Hardin, Owner, is
the recipient of a 1973 STAY &
SEE GEORGIA Citation.
Saint Marys competed with
Valdosta-Lowndes County;
Ball Ground competed with
Donalsonvill e-Seminole
County; and Helen competed
with Cobb County for top
category honors in the 1973
STAY & SEE GEORGIA
Program. All six STAY &
SEE finalists will be honored
and receive Awards at the
Governor’s Conference on
Tourism for their outstanding
programs.
The decisions were made by
a panel of out-of-state Travel
Writers from Better Homes &
Gardens, Ohio Motor Travel,
Florida AAA Motorist, and
Minnesota AAA Motorist
Magazines; The Florida
Times Union Newspaper,
Jacksonville; Wisconsin AAA
Motor News; and Editorial
Enterprises, N.Y. Judges
toured the state and per
sonally reviewed the two
finalist STAY & SEE
Programs in each Category.
Winners were selected on the
basis of which community
had done the most in 1973 to
develop its tourist potential
through the STAY & SEE
GEORGIA Program.
The STAY & SEE SAINT
MARYS Program is spon
sored by the Saint Marys
Chamber of Commerce with
Fred Bruni, American Can
Company, Chairman. STAY &
SEE BALL GROUND is
sponsored by the Ball Ground
Festival Association with
Mrs. Jeffrey T. Grant,
Chairman and STAY & SEE
HELEN is sponsored by the
Helen Chamber of Commerce,
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FORSYTH
COUNTY
CHURCH
NEWS
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(Eph. 2:8-10).
The Christian’s motive is
love. He is characterized by
cheerfulness in helping those
in need. His is not a
begrudging service that seeks
the minimum, but an
abounding service that seeks
the maximum. He has
something he wants to share
because there has been a
Someone who has shared with
him.
It is easy to talk a great
faith, but the world watches
more than it listens. When the
world hears us talk of the joys
in Christ but sees we are
troubled, sour and unhappy, it
has a right to wonder. When
the world hears us talk of the
worth of a soul but then is
never approached about the
salvation of its own soul, its
indifference may be justified.
There is something you can
do to serve in the name of
Christ. You must first decide
to become active, then doors
of opportunity will open for
you. Do you really want to
teach someone about Jesus?
Then pray that you will be
given the opportunity and the
prepared heart. Then be
ready, for it won’t be long.
Also there are those to be fed,
clothed, and cared for (Jas.
1:27).
You cannot hope to go to
heaven after having been
indifferent all your life to
these challenges (Matt.
25:14ff). Do you have faith in
Jesus? Then let your faith
show!
Make
Will
Q. After 15 years as a
widow, I married a wonderful
man who lost his wife and has
no children. We live in his
home, which was built during
his former marriage. My hus
band says he doesn’t need a
will, because if he dies first, I
would get the house. Is he
right?
A. All property owned by ei
ther spouse before marriage
or received by either spouse
after marriage by gift, devise
or descent, is the separate and
sole property of that spouse
(Texas Const., Art. 16, Sec.
15).
When a spouse dies without
a will in Texas, half his sepa
rate real property (the house,
in your case) goes to the sur
viving spouse. The other half
goes to the deceased’s
spouse’s children, surviving
parents, brothers or sisters. If
there are no children, par
ents, brothers or sisters, all
the property goes to the sur
viving spouse (Prob. C. 38).
Clearly, the law says, a will
would help assure that his
property is passed according
to his wishes.
An Orphanage Below a Volcano
By REV. W.
LEE TRUMAN
Copley News Service
The most perfect definition
of a vacation that I can think
of, is to do something which
you really want to do. As a
pastor, my church gives me
one month during the sum
mer. With our month’s vaca
tion, my Ruth and I took a
group of high school age youth
to work in an orphanage in
Naples, Italy.
The orphanage lies beneath
Mount Vesuvius on the shores
of the Mediterranean Sea. It is
on seven acres of land on the
Bay of Naples in one of the
poorer suburbs called Portici.
The main large building is
Birthdays Noted at Pleasant View
Sunday School attendance
88. Birthdays celebrated in
the last two weeks were
Brenda Seitz, Joan Glover, Jo
Ann McWhorter, Neal
McWhorter, and Gina
Bagwell.
Those taking part in the
third Sunday night singing
were Forsyth County Quartet,
Bud Sutton Family, Pleasant
View Choir, Martha Grimes
and Norma Caldwell. There
will be no singing here on the
third Sunday night in
December. Monthly Singings
will resume in January.
The Pleasant View Choir
will be guest singers at Cross
Baptists Approve New
$5.5 Million Center
Georgia Baptists have
given enthusiastic approval to
erection of a major new
Baptist Administration
Center on the Northeastern
edge of Atlanta.
The $5.5 - million head
quarters building for the
Georgia Baptist Convention
was approved with only one
dissenting vote at the 152nd
annual session of the Georgia
Baptist Convention this week
at Wieuca Road Baptist
Church in Atlanta.
Dr. Searcy S. Garrison,
executive secretary-secre
tary-treasurer of the con
vention, said ground will
probably be broken when the
Georgia Baptist Convention
Executive Committee meets
Dec. 11, “and it should take
about 18 months to build the
new center.”
The Georgia Convention
has occupied its present
headquarters in the heart of
downtown Atlanta since 1943.
The block-long tract where
that building sits will be
leased on a long term basis to
help amortize costs for the
proposed new Baptist
Administrative Center.
Georgia Baptists will be
asked to raise sl-million
during their state missions
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lit. I II IVY. 19 (.iimmiiif’, (,<i.
older than any of the missions
in California and once be
longed to the Prince of
Monaco.
In, through, and around the
six buildings of this Italian or
phanage are children who
have never known what it
means to have a home. The
story goes back to June, 1905,
and a boy 5 years old, Angelo,
and his sister, Rosetta, be
cause they were the first chil
dren of Casa Materna, as this
home for orphaned, aban
doned, and unwanted children
is called.
These two children had lost
their father, and their mother
was dying on the streets of
Naples. They were begging
for food, and a Methodist pas-
There is also several
Roads Baptist Church on the
first Sunday night in
December.
Rev. Bud Sutton was guest
speaker at Concord Baptist,
for their youth day services
the fourth Sunday.
Wiley Mangum remains a
patient in the Intensive Care
Section of Crawford Long
Hospital.
Miss Carole Stewart is a
patient in Forsyth County
Hospital at this time.
Aunt Lizzie Green is a
patient in the Forsyth
County Hospital.
offering next September, with
all over $250,000 to go toward
the new center.
The new Georgia Baptist
Center will be located on a 25-
acre tract adjacent to Mercer
University in Atlanta. It was
bought by the convention
when owned by Atlanta
Baptist College, which is now
Mercer University in Atlanta.
In other major actions, the
Georgia Baptist Convention
approved a record 1974
Cooperative Program budget
of $7,036,000 an increase of 3.5
per cent over 1973.
After deduction of $691,000
in shared promotion and
administrative costs, receipts
will be divided equally
between Georgia and
Southern Baptist Convention
causes.
The Georgia Convention
adopted resolutions urging
respect for the sanctity of the
Lord’s Day and calling on
Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter
to retract recent statements
he had made favoring state
wide legal liquor sales.
Upon authorization of the
Convention, President John
T. Tippett Jr., sent the
following message to
President Richard M. Nixon.
“The Georgia Baptist
tor, Riccardo Santi, saw them
as they were trying to sell two
matches. He took them home
that night to care for them.
The idea was not to start a
home for the homeless, but
Pastor Santi’s family contin
ued to grow with orphans
from the stfeets of Naples.
The Methodist Church made
possible the purchase of the
villa, garden, and tools for
training and education, and
the care for 400 boys and girls.
Today twelve denominations
help support the school’s
needs.
The stories during the tense
years of World War II sound
too fictional to be real. Mus
solini was no friend to Protes
tants and ordered the closing
members of our Sunday
School and Church who are
sick at home with the flu at
this time. Let us remember
all of the sick in our prayers.
Miss Debbie Majors
recently spent a few days in
Mayo Clinic in Rochester*
Minn, for a check-up.
Congratulations to Mr. and
Mrs. Ricky Spinks of Decatur
on the birth of a new
daughter. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Majors.
Mr. and Charles
PhilliDS and children of
Albany, Georgia, visited a
Convention in annual session
prayed for the blessings of
God to abound upon you and
on your behalf asked for the
leadership of His spirit as you
carry the responsibility of the
presidency. You are assured
of the continued prayers of
our convention as you give
leadership to our country.”
A call was also issued for
people to pray earnestly for
the leaders and peoples of
those countries involved in
the Mid-East conflict.
How are you stacked for money . . .
after stacking the gifts?
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of the home. Pastor Santi,
with the help of his lawyer
son, Fabio, dared to appeal to
the civil courts.
The supreme court never
gave a decision on the case al
lowing the work for the chil
dren to go on, but they were
arrested numerous times.
Bombs fell on the grounds,
and destroyed parts of the
buildings, but the buildings
stood.
When the Nazis wanted to
use the villa for a headquar
ters, it was saved because the
officer in charge had attended
Sunday school, knew their
presence meant the destruc
tion of the school, and moved
the staff to other facilities.
few days recently with his
parents Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Phillips and other relatives.
Thanksgiving Day dinner
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Everett
Majors were Mr. and Mrs.
J.L. Norell of Chamblee, Mr.
and Mrs. Everett Majors, Jr.
and children of Norcross, Mr.
and Mrs. Wayne Roebuck and
son, and Gerry Majors.
Mrs. Claude Bradley Sr. of
Copperhill, Tenn. visited a
few days last week with her
son and his family Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Bradley Jr. and
family.
Rev. and Mrs. Bud Sutton
and family were third Sunday
dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Phillips.
Anniversary congratula
tions this week to Mr. and
Mrs. C.J. Seitz who were
celebrating 33 years. Also to
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Stancil.
Miss Gina Bagwell visited
last weekend with Miss Le-
Ann Spruell.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Sexton
and Mrs. Martha Wallis
visited recently with Mrs.
Wallis’ parents Mr. and Mrs.
Herbie Stancil in Alpharetta.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Barnett and son visited last
Sunday aftternoon with Mr.
and Mrs. Weldon Stewart and
Carole.
Mr. and Mrs. Charley
Sheppard of Forest Park, Ga.
visited Sunday afternoon with
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Bradley
Jr. and family.
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STAFFERS. THEY LIKE TO HELP . . . AND
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Pastor Santi’s other son, al
so a minister, says that he
knows it was the prayers of
the children which preserved
Casa Materna. Today these
buildings .have been recon
structed and trades are
taught. The boys learn car
pentry, radio and television
repairs, mechanics, and the
making of cameos. Some girls
take up home economics
while others learn typing,
shorthand, and other skills to
prepare them for the business
world. A few gifted and for
tunate boys and girls go on to
college, some to become
teachers. The Casa’s limited
means provides funds for
their expenses.
Many students use their tal
ents and education to give
part of their lives in the fur
thering of the home’s mission.
Two of the boys of the Casa
who had recently obtained
their M.D. degrees came
back while we were there and
they were intensely proud and
pleased with their achieve
ment, as they should be.
We played with these young
people, painted their rooms,
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fixed their furniture, sang
with them in chapel, swam
with them in the Mediterrane
an, and fell in love with all of
them, but some more than
others.
One little girl, Maria, 9, had
a deformed right hand. I
asked the mother of her fam
ily unit what her story was,
expecting her to say, “Birth
defect.” I was told that the
rats had chewed off her fin
gers when she was a baby.
Some, such as Maria I shall
never forget.
The stories of the tragedy
behind each of these children
is pathetic and sad. Even so,
what would their life be but
for the dream of a pastor who
had compassion on two chil
dren?
Others have followed that
dream, including a group of
high school kids from seven
different religious traditions
who were willing to give their
money and their summer to
lend a helping hand. It often
helps to know and think of
something great that is going
on in this world amidst our
world’s problems.