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The reality of the resurrection
It was an unusual abundant kind of
love that would cause Jesus Christ
to leave the splendor of Heaven and
come to Earth to pay our debt for
sin. It was also quite amazing that
Jesus Christ, the son of God, would
receive of His own free will, the
horrible torture and death on a
Roman cross. Non of this would
make any sense without the reality
of Christ’s resurrection. Now in
order to understand the impact of
Christ’s resurrection, we must first
understand who Jesus Christ is. The
name Jesus means: “The Lord
Jehovah is salvation” and Christ
means “anointed Messiah.” Jesus
was the pre-existent word. This
means before time was, Christ is!
He was with God when time began.
John 1:1-3 “In the beginning was
the word, and the word was with
God and the word was God. He was
with God in the beginning. Through
Him all things were made; without
him nothing was made that has been
made. In Him was life and theat life
was the life of men.” Jesus is God’s
son with all the divine rights and
attributes of God the Father.
Secondly, Jesus was the Prophetic
Son of God! This means that when
the world was in need of a plan of
salvation, Jesus offered Himself to
pay the high cost of sin for
mankind. God himself spoke
through the Prophets to tell this
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Mayor Ford Gravitt and City Council signing Proclamation with Cumming Civitan members (l-r)
Evie Norton, Ethel Woodall, Janice Sullivan and Diana Buntin.
Civitans celebrate ‘Awareness Month’
The Mayor and City Council have
joined in with the members of the
Cumming Civitan Club to help cele
brate Civitan International Aware
ness Month in April. Mayor Gravitt
signed a proclamation designating
April as Cumming Civitan
Awareness Month to help promote
understanding and appreciation for
all of the community work this club
is involved.
The motto for the Cumming
Civitan Club is “Step Ahead with
Civitan.” One of the ways they are
doing this during the Cumming
Civitan Awareness Month is hosting
two Open House receptions sched
uled for Thursday, April 16. These
receptions are set up for everyone to
come and leam about the club and
their many civic activities. These
receptions will be conducted at two
times that day. The first one will be a
luncheon at the Sawnec Center from
12:15 - 1:30 p.m. with Marty Heller,
Civitan Georgia District North
Foundation treasurer as the featured
guest and speaker.
State Rep. Mike Evans will be the
featured guest and speaker at the sec
ond reception. This reception will be
for “after work” visitors at Decker’s
Restaurant from 5-7 p.m. with
snacks available.
Civitan is a worldwide service
organization open to all men and
women with local clubs participating
in a variety of programs and projects
aimed at meeting the needs of their
particular community.
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world that a Savior was on the way.
Isaiah was the one who forecast
Christ’s coming in Isaiah 9:6 :For
unto us a child is bom ...” and then
in chapter 7, “Therefore the Lord
Himself shall give you a sign;
Behold a virgin shall conceive, and
bear a son and shall call His name
Immanuel, (God with us.)
Thirdly, Jesus was the historical
Son of God. By this, I mean really
came as the Bible predicted. Luke
records this historical fact well in
chapter 2:7 “When the time arrived
for His birth,” the scripture says
“she brought forth her first bom son,
and wrapped him in swaddling
clothes and laid him in a manger,
because there was no room in the
inn.” As a boy, at age 12, Jesus let
Mary and Joseph know what he
“must be about his father’s busi
ness” (Luke 2:49.) And later, Jesus
predicted his own death (Mark 8:31-
32.)
History continues with the grue
some details of how Jesus Christ
who came to love, heal and forgive
was arrested in the Garden of
Gethsemane and then judged by a
high religious court called the
Sanhedrin. With a false guilty ver
dict, Jesus stood before Pontius
Pilate who at the bidding of an
angry crowd, sentenced Jesus to be
beaten and the crucified. Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, willingly
The Cumming Civitan Club meets
twice a month for a luncheon on the
first and third Thursdays at the
Sawnec Center from 12:30 - 1:30
p.m.
There are guest speakers such as
community or business leaders,
politicians, and educators who
address a variety of topics of inter
est.
Civitan’s motto is Builders of
Good Citizenship and was founded
in 1917. Civitan has provided mem
bers opportunities for personal and
professional development while
improving the community through
community service for more than 75
years.
On the international level,
Civitan’s major emphasis is helping
people with mental retardation and
other developmental disabilities
(MR/DD). Civitan funds the Civitan
International Research Center, a
research and treatment facility for
MR/DD located at the University of
Alabama at Birmingham.
Locally, the Cumming Civitan
Club works with adults and children
with MR/DD. Some of the projects
include hosting social gatherings
such as Halloween, Christmas, and
Valentine parties. But, Civitan helps
in other community areas of need
such as making donations to Head
Start, Hands Across Forsyth, The
Place and hosting the first annual
Easter Egg Hunt for the Cumming
Housing Authority. The Cumming
Civitan Club also participated in
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gave his life for you and me. We
know from his history that Jesus
was a man of his word. And just
like he predicted his own death,
Jesus also predicted his own resur
rection (John 8:31.) On the first day
of the week (Easter Sunday), Mary
Magdalene and Mary the mother of
James were told at the empty tomb,
“He is not here, He is risen. Now go
and tell his disciples. There you will
see him, just as he told you.” Acts
1:3 continued “After his suffering he
showed himself to these men and
gave many convincing proofs that
he was alive. He appeared to them
over a period of forty days and
spoke about the Kingdom of God.”
Yes! The resurrection of Jesus
Christ is a reality, but one more
promise is yet to take place: Jesus is
coming back again (Acts 1:11).
John said it so well (3:16), “For God
so loved the world that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever
believes in him shall not perish but
have everlasting life.” Today, let the
Christ of the resurrection also
become your Savior!
helping organize and participate in
the first annual Community
Christmas Dinner this past year and
looks forward to helping again.
Other community involvement for
the month of April includes donating
their time to help with the Safety
Town Registration on Wednesday,
April 15 and the Area Special
Olympics at Gainesville College on
Saturday, April 25.
Through Civitan, club members
discover the best in themselves and
in others. Civitan gives its members
opportunities to develop new friend
ships and business acquaintances
and gain valuable leadership skills.
Most importantly, people find in the
organization, an opportunity to give
their time to make their communities
better places to live and work.
Civitans truly are building a better
world.
The Cumming Civitan Club sends
out a special invitation to you to
become a member of this growing
civic organization that works as a
team to help this community in
many ways. For further information
on the Open House receptions or the
Cumming Civitan Club, please call
Janice Sullivan at (770) 8870540 or
Diana Buntin at (770) 889-9704.
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Give Herschel the ball
The scene: A track meet at a
school in Wrightsville, Georgia,
about 100 miles south of Athens,
and sixty miles east of Macon.
The scorching Georgia sun
blazed the field; runners were
poised for the one mile race. The
gun was fired, and they were on
their way. One of the them was a
black boy, a sixth-grader, who
dreamed of being an athlete
perhaps a basketball player, or a
track star, like his two older
brothers. But a bashful timidity
kept him from making the first
step. Now, at last, he had his
chance.
For weeks he and his brother
had practiced running; they had
built a make-believe track on a
dirt field near their house.
Problem was, the track was not a
mile long; practices were cut
short. Deficiency did its damage.
Herschel walker just couldn’t
make it.
Visualize this: He’s super
charged with energy; this is his
first race ever. “Faster, faster,
faster,” he whispers, as one run
ner after another whizzes by on
that long weary track —a track
which seemed longer and longer
with each struggling step. With
perspiration dripping from his
face, legs getting weaker, heart
pounding, and almost out of
breath, he slowed to a murdering
walk; then, with a gasp, he
stopped and quit the races
Herschel was bitter; he’d never
had to quit anything. Now, grim
ly dejected, he would start a pat
tern of quitting; a kind of “give
up-itis,” which often comes from
temporary defeat.
Temporary? Yes. This was the
word to use for young Herschel
Through this painful experience,
he was able to see himself as he
really was for the first time in his
life. He faced the reality that he
had not been prepared for track,
and there was no one to blame
but himself. He wanted to do bet
ter, and when that desire became
strong enough, he made up his
mind to pay the price. Never
again would he allow himself to
quit.
This was the turning-point in
his life. Adversity causes some
to break, and others to break
records. Herschel Walker took
the positive side. It led him to
win the Heisman Trophy, to be
chosen All American, to win 11
of 13 records at the University of
Georgia, to lead his team to its
first national championship, and
more.
Herschel erased the names of
Charlie Trippi and Frank
Sinkwich from Georgia’s foot
ball record book, and left college
to accept the richest contract in
professional football history.
But to return to Wrightsville.
After his initial failure, Herschel
made up his mind about one
thing: That while he wasn’t good
at anything yet, he was going to
get prepared.
So he went to Tom Jordan,
Coach at Johnson High School,
and told him he wanted to get
bigger and stronger and faster so
he could be better in sports.
What could he do? Jordan said it
was simple, but it would not be a
Sunday School picnic. He’d have
to work hard.
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“Start doing push-ups, sit-ups,
and sprints; push-ups, sit-ups,
and sprints,” he said.
“Is that all?” asked Herschel.
The coach was silent. Herschel
got the message, and got busy.
From that day on, he seldom
missed a day doing those exer
cises. The house where he lived
was about five and a half miles
from Wrightsville, a short dis
tance from the highway on a dirt
road. The dirt road had a grade,
and Herschel began running up
the hill, a distance of about 50
yards, and walking back down.
Once, twice, three times, again
and again, as fast as his legs
would take him until he nearly
dropped from exhaustion.
It was hard, but he conquered
the hill. He then moved to an
open field which had just been
plowed adjacent to his house. He
had heard that
Some players in California ran
along the beaches to strengthen
their legs. He thought: “The
fields will be better.” So he hit
the dirt barefooted. Later, at the
suggestion of the coach, he tied a
huge truck tire to a rope and fas
tened it to the rope around his
waist, and ran the dirt fields like
a wild animal.
Well, you’ve got it figured out
by now. Soon, and very soon, the
coach noticed that a once over
weight boy was now ready to run
and play football. So he did, and
the rest is history.'
All those sit-ups, push-ups, and
sprints across the fields and up
the hill, with extra pull-ups on a
homemade chinning bar, had
given him a body as hard as iron
to match his iron-fisted will and
his made-up mind.
He once told a group of admir
ers after a game, “I want to be
the best of which I am capable. I
don’t want to be like someone
else. I want to better. I want them
to say Herschel Walker is the
best.”
His desire became a reality.
Time passed. Herschel became
a genuine football star at Johnson
High. Gary Phillips, an assistant
coach, said Walker did not let
anything overpower him. “He
might be the strongest person
mentally or any I’ve ever been
around.”
He used it well. In his senior
year, he ran for 3,167 yards and
45 touchdowns. Once a team
mate tackled him by the face
mask in practice. “Let’s do that
again,” he shouted. They did, and
Walker ran like a wild bull,
knocked the player who had
grabbed his facemask to the
ground, and leveled several oth
ers who happened to be in his
perilous path. He even hit one
player on the sidelines who was
not even in the game. Herschel
weighed 215 pounds, was 6 feet
2 inches tall, and could run the
100-yard dash in 9.3 seconds. It
is hard to think of anyone with
that size and speed and mental
toughness in one player.
Strange as it seems, it was true.
He could carry the ball, play
after play, week after week, and
never seemed to lose momentum.
He became the number one high
school player to be sought by
American colleges.
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He decided on Georgia. At the
university, he ran his first touch
down for 16 yards against
Tennessee. His freshman rushing
record of 1,616 yards made him
All-American, and the great
Sugar Bowl victory he led for his
team won him the Heisman
Trophy. It was a first in football
history. No freshman had ever
been even a top-ten contender,
There was no football player
like Herschel, as one coach put
it, “He’s from a different planet.”
And the sky was the limit when
it came to being the most sought
after player in college for the
professional football leagues.
Canada was first.
After the Sugar Bowl victory
over Notre Dame, where he
gained a whopping 150 yards
against a team that had never
allowed any running back to gain
as much as 100 in any one game,
he was approached by an agent
of the Canadian Football League.
The offer was $2 million over
three years. This would allow
him to be eligible, along with his
Georgia graduating class, to
accept an offer from an
American team. The leagues had
rules against hiring players
before they finished college.
Herschel turned down the offer,
saying, “It doesn’t make sense
growing up in one country and
playing football in another.”
But the lure of the professionals
continued. The New Jersey
Generals, a newly organized
United States Football League
team, made him an offer.
According to Vince Dooley, in
his book, “Dooley’s Dawgs,”
Herschel was tricked into signing
the contract with the promise that
he could change his mind the
next morning. But the contract
caused him to lose his eligibility
to play at Georgia, and he went
with the Generals.
Dooley said the happiest day in
his life was winning the national
championship with Herschel’s
leadership; then, it was the sad
dest day in Dooley’s career when
Herschel was “declared ineligi
ble” and left Georgia.
There is an old football story
about Lee Roy. In a tough game,
his fans yelled, “Give Lee Roy
the ball.” After about three quar
ters of slaughter on the field, Lee
Roy shouted back, “Lee Roy
don’t want the ball.”
Herschel did. It was his big
desire, a dream fulfilled. He car
ried the ball for the Generals
until 1985, then for Dallas,.
Minnesota, Philadelphia, and'
New England until 1995, and
now the Dallas Cowboys again.
His first contract with Dallas
was $5 million for five years,
making him the highest-paid
Cowboy ever. For Herschel, hap
piness, not money, is his goal. “I
never had any money when I was
growing up. My life revolved
around happiness. It still does.”
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