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AFRICAN METHODIST
MT. ZION
A.M.E. CHURCH
1320 Twiggs Street
Rev. G.W. Washington Jr., Pastor
Rev. R.L. Postell, Presiding Elder
Church Phone 722-8586
Home Phone 798-8578
SUNDAY
9:45 a.m. Sunday School
’0:45 a.m. Prayer Service
1:00 a.m. Worship Service
here are no dress restrictions in
his church.
APOSTOLIC
THE CHURCH OF THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST
145 Watkins Street
Augusta, Georgia 30901
Phone 724-3468
H.B. Bishop S. McDowell Shelton
Apostle & General Overseer
Ijat the church with a Bible
tandard. This is that, Jesus Christ
ame and established at Jerusalem
learly two-thousand years ago.
SUNDAY
11:00 A.M. Morning Worship
12:00 Noon Worldwide Broadcast
(The voice of H.B. Bishop Shelton
through closed circuit network)
TUESDAY
7:30 P. M. Evening W orship
THURSDAY
7:30 P.M. Evening Worship
BROADCAST
WTHB Radio
Sunday 9:00 -10:00 A.M.
Monday - Friday 10:00 - 10:30 A.M.
Acts 2:38, Acts 2:4, Acts 19:5,
John 3:5, Eph. 4:5
ALL NATIONS ARE WELCOME
BAPTIST
ANTIOCH
BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. R.E. Donaldson, Pastor
Church Phone - 724-2809
SUNDAY
1 :45 a.m. Sunday School
:00 a.m. Morning Worship
':ls p.m. Baptist Training Union
TUESDAY
:30 p.m. Prayer Service
CRAWFORD
BAPTIST CHURCH
955 Florence Street
Rev. Charles Moore Sr., Pastor
SUNDAY
10:00 a.m. Sunday School
Dea. Frank Williams in charge
11:20 a.m. Morning Worship
6:00 p.m. Baptist Training Union
Dea. Allison Jones in charge
MONDAY
7:30 p.m. Club No. 2
WEDNESDAY
4:00 p.m. Senior Mission
6:00 p.m. Officials Board Meeting
THURSDAY
5:00 p.m. Youth Circle
M. Bennifield in charge
7:00 p.m. Senior Choir
GETHSEMANE
BAPTIST CHURCH
“The end of your search
for a friendly church”
1485 Wrightsboro Rd.
Rev. Jacob C. Trowel!, Pastor
Church Phone 722-9051
Pastors Phone 733-566 1
SUNDAY
J:00 Sunday School
Emma Steadman, Supt.
t:lsa.m. Morning Worship
MONDAY
7:00 p.m.Gospel Choir after Ist Sun.
TUESDAY
6:30 p.m. Club 1, after 2nd Sun.
WEDNESDAY
6:00 p.m. Willimg Workers Club,
after 3rd Sun.
7:00 p.m. Mission
7:30 p.m. Board of Trustees
Meeting after Ist Sun.
THURSDAY
5:00 p.m. Inspirational Choir
(before 2nd & 4th Sun.)
SATURDAY
1:00 a.m. Usher & Usherette
Meeting 3rd Saturday
2:00 p.m. Youth Club
Dea. Paul Burton, Dir.
(Bring Your Bible)
GOOD SHEPHERD
BAPTIST CHURCH
1505 Sunset Avenue
Rev. Essie M. Mclntyre, Pastor
Rev. L.T. Coley, Asst. Pastor
Dea. Anderson Frazier, Hon. Supt.
SUNDAY
9:45 a.m. Sunday School
Dea. Amos Richardson, Supt.
i 1:00 a.m. Morning Worship
5:00 p.m. Baptist Training Union
Rev. Bessie M. Small, Pres.
6:00 p.m. Evening Worship
dethine Hollins
Minister of Music
Day Care Center Monday through
Friday.
2? Schneider s Jflusic Center
Augusta s Favorite Music Center
Now is the time to layway for Christmas
. 310 - 312 - Bth Street
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GREATER MT. CANAAN
BAPTIST CHURCH
2573 Wheeler Road
Rev. Nathaniel Irvin, Pastor
Church Phone - 738-4930
Pastor’s Phone - 279-4128
Chairman of Deacon Board
Deacon John Dacus
Church Clerk
Mrs. Eleanor Carr
SUNDAY
9:45 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Morning Worship
MONDAY
6:00 p.m. Prayer Service
WEDNESDAY
7:00 p.m. Prayer Service
SATURDAY
12:00 a.m. N. Irvin Bible Circle
2:00 p.m. Bible Circle
HARMONY
BAPTIST CHURCH
930 Hopkins Street
Rev. Floyd Heard, Minister
SUNDAY
10:30 a.m. Sunday School
John H. Timmlan, Supt.
11:15 a.m. Morning Worship
Ist & 3rd Sunday after service -
Mission meeting.
2nd & 4th Sunday after service -
Youth meeting
6:00 p.m. Baptist Training Union
MONDAY
7:00 p.m. Trustee Meeting
WEDNESDAY
7:00 p.m. Helen Hill Ch. rehearsal
THURSDAY
7:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting
FRIDAY
6:30 p.m.C.W. Johnson Ch. rehearsal
SATURDAY
1:30 p.m.HarmonettesCh. rehearsal
MT. CALVARY
BAPTIST CHURCH
1252 Wrightsboro Road
Church Phone 722-0925
Pastor 722-8242
Rev. Clyde Hill Sr., Pastor
SUNDAY
9:45 a.m. Sunday School
11:00a.m. Worship Service
1:30 p.m. Senior Mission
Every Ist & 3rd Sunday
6:00 p.m. Baptist Training Union
New Member Orientation
7:00 p.m. Evening Worship
MONDAY
5:00 p.m. E. Golden Chorus
WEDNESDAY
5:30 p.m. Junior Chorus
7:00 p.m. Senior Choir
7:00 p.m. E.A. Moss Choir
THURSDAY
4:30 p.m. Royal Ambassadors
7:00 p m. Prayer Meeting
FRIDAY
4:30 p.m. Red Circle
7:30 p.m. Sunday School Officers
and Teachers Meeting
SATURDAY
4:00 p.m. F.H. Hart Male Chorus
SPRINGFIELD
BAPTIST CHURCH
112- 12th Street
Rev. E.T. Martin, Pastor
Church Phone 724-1056
SUNDAY
10:15 a.m. Sunday School
Bruce Mack, Supt.
11:30 a.m. Morning Worship
Message by the pastor
6:00 p.m. Laymen’s League
Roosevelt Johnson, president
TUESDAY
800 p.m. Prayer Service
THANKFUL
BAPTIST CHURCH
304 Walker Street
Rev. N.T. Young, Pastor
Church Phone - 724-2187
Pastor - 722-8955
SUNDAY
9:30 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Sunday Worship
TUESDAY
7:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting
THURSDAY
7:30 p.m. Senior Choir
SATURDAY
6:00 p.m. Gospel Choir rehearsal
Day Care Center - Monday through
Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
MT. OLIVE
BAPTIST CHURCH
1036 Daniel Street
Rev. Michael L. McCoy, Pastor
Office Phone 722-2720
Pastor’s Residence 722-3141
SUNDAY
10:00 a.m. Sunday School
11:15 a.m. Morning Worship
5:00 p.m. Baptist Training Union
THURSDAY
7:00 p.m. Prayer Service
SATURDAY
4:00 p.m. Royal Ambassadors
and Boy Scouts
Visitors are always welcome
Church Clerk Mrs. Jessie Freeman
Chrm. of Deacon Bd. David Walker
Chrm. Trustee Bd. John Swint
Let's Walk The
Boulevard
Together. Safil
I »AVIS< INS
The Black Spirituals
Joy In Struggle
We noted previously that the
Black spirituals were marked
by a spirit of hope. Yet the
hope was not so much the
“hope of the future” as it was
a sense of “joyousness in the
midst of the present struggle.”
The spirituals were rooted or
grounded in hard, bitter and
inescapable realities of Black
American enslavement. Hence
the notion of a “pie in the sky
by-and-by” orientation of the
Black spirituals is largely a
fiction based upon a false
comprehension of the outlook
Singin’ wid a sword in ma han’, Lord
Singin’ wid a sword in ma han ;
Singin’ wid a sword in ma han’, Lord
Singin’ wid a sword in ma han’.
Purtiest singin’ ever I heard
’Way ovah on de hill
De angels sing an’ I sing too,
Singin’ wid a sword in ma han’. Lord,
Singin’ wid a sword in ma han’, Lord,
Singin’ wid a sword in ma han’.
The extra verses of this
spiritual contain the key lines:
Purtiest preachin’ ever I heard
Way ovah on de hill,
De angels preach an’ I preach'd too,
Preachin’ wid a sword in ma han’. Lord, etc...
Then, “Purtiest prayin ever
I heard” and “Purtiest
mournin’ ever I heard"
comprise the theme lines of the
concluding verses.
Here we see, first a constant
joy which precedes,
accompanies and gives a
peculiarly insightful meaning
to the early struggle or warfare
in which a sword is always
needed but where “we are
compassed about” with all the
cosmic forces or hosts of
heaven.
Translated into modern
philosophical and scientific
terms, the enslaved Black
community sensed that the
cosmic order was and forever is
on the side of those who
Oh, I’m a gwinter sing, gwinter sing,
Gwinter sing all along de way,
Oh, I’m a gwinter sing, gwinter sing,
Gwinter sing all along de way ...
We’ll shout o’er all our sorrows,
An’ sing forever more.
With Christ an’ all his army.
On dat celestial shore.
Life is seen here to have
movement. But the movement
is toward a goal which is not
future but rather IS eternal.
Eternity, by definition, is not
future but that which
perpetually or forever IS. Thus
the hope-filled journey
portrayed in the Black
spirituals is not future-bound
but is rather Eternal
Reality-bound. What is eternal
may be experienced even now.
Therein lies the saving
difference between the realistic
and vibrant sense of the
ever-present as opposed to a
starry-eyed and often elusive
futuristic hope.
Philosophically, the
CATHOLIC
CHURCH OF THE
MOST HOLY TRINITY
720 Telfair Street
Rev. Wm. F. Simmons, Pastor
SATURDAY
5:15-6:15 p.m. Confessions
6:30 p.m. Vigil Mass
SUNDAY
8:00 a.m. Mass
9:15 - 9:45 a.m. Confessions
11:00 a.m. Mass
12:30 p.m. Mass
12:15 p.m. - Monday through
Friday - Mass
CHRISTIAN METHODIST
ESPICOPAL
WILLIAMS MEMORIAL
CHRISTIAN METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
1630 15th Street
Augusta. Georgia
Rev. Gene R. Dean, Pastor
Church Phone 733-9430
Residence Phone 724-3682
SUNDAY
9:30 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Morning Worship
6:30 p.m. Evening Worship
MONDAY through FRIDAY
6:45 a.m, - 5:30 p.m. Day Care
Center Service for children ages 1-5.
WEDNESDAY
6:30 p.m. Mid-week Worship
7:30 p m. Gospel Choir Rehearsal
THURSDAY
7:30 p.m. Senior Choir Rehearsal
SATURDAY
2:00 p.m. Children Ch. Rehearsal
3:00 p.m. Youth Choir Rehearsal
4:00 p.m. J unior Choir Rehearsal
OTHER ACTIVITIES
3:00 p.m. first and third Saturdays
- Morning Glories hour for children
- pre-school to 12.
3:00 pm. - Second Saturday -
Christian Youth Fellowship Hour
of the enslaved community. Its
hope or confidence came from
a looking through and beyond
what was immediately seen but
not “after the immediate”, as
on a time scale.
Joy and conflict were
intertwined. Conflict marked a
journey in which the company
of the angelic or heavenly hosts
were sot so much ultimate but
immediate help mates and
companions. The Black
spiritual, “Singin’ Wid a Sword
In Ma Han’ ", illustrates this
mixture or consonance of joy
and conflict.
struggle for right, indeed, tile
cosmic order is right itself.
In this sense, the enslaved
Black community in America
preceeded by a century and
more the current philosophical
and scientific recognition that
the Natural Order, which is
God's Reality, is the only
substantive fact with which
human life can other than
chimerical ly (or as
make-believe) deal.
The imagenry of life as a
confident journey, the end of
which is the fulfillment of all
that is right, good and true, is
revealed in the spiritual,
“Gwinter Sing All Along De
Way.”
spirituals from the period of
Black enslavement are
consonant (or agree with) the
best in current intellectual
thought and doubtless have an
even greater depth. They
represent a proud heritage
which we should ever seek to
probe and understand.
Red Cross
Schedules
CPR Courses
Four c ourses in
cardio-pulmonary
resuscitation, better known as
CPR, will be offered by the
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?n recognition of the true meaning
of this greatest holiday, let us all
journey in spirit to Bethlehem.
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Surprising
IJfcJb - Christmas
Terri L. Elam
Twas the night before Giristmas
And all through my home,
Not a person was talking,
No one would roam;
Our Christmas tree was up,
And with the greatest care.
We wanted it to be nice.
When St. Nicholas got there;
The tree was large.
With the fresh smell of pine.
And was decorated with the colors,
Os lemon and lime;
The children were asleep,
And warm in their beds.
With visions of Harley-Davidsons,
Zooming in their heads;
I was in my longjohns,
Ma was in her gown,
We had just come home,
From a night on the town;
Then I heard a noise,
Sort of clitter-clatter,
As I descended downstairs,
To see what was the matter;
When I got down stairs.
What did 1 see,
The first Black Santa Claus in history;
His complexion was dark,
His eyes shined like lights,
But all together he was a sight;
He was a jolly old fellow,
As jolly as the other,
But this time he was a soul brother;
He was very stout,
As stout as could be,
I watched amazed
As he laughed merrily;
And when he laughed.
Bless his soul.
He looked like chocolate pudding,
Shaking in a bowl;
He gave out the presents,
With a flourish of his hands,
Then he hustled back humming.
The tune of "Rubberband Man”;
And laying a hand aside his hip,
Without saying a word or name,
He nodded once, and turned around twice,
And went back as fast as he came.
By Terri L. Elam
Age 12
Grade 7 Terrace Manor Elemtary School
Netami District
Scouters To Meet
Netami District Officers’
Meeting will be conducted at
the Scout Service Center, 1252
Gordon Park Road, on
Tuesday evening, Jan. 11, at 7
p.m. Several important items
Augusta Red Cross during the
month of January. Each course
consists of two evening classes,
each lasting four hours, from
6:30 until 10:30 p.m. The
dates are as follows: January 4
and 6, January 10 and 12,
January 18 and 20, January 24
and 26.
All classes will be held at tire
Red Cross office, 811 Twelfth
St. For more information and
registration, call 722-1821.
of business are to be discussed.
All district officers,
institutional representatives,
and others interested in
scouting and the youth of the
community are invited to
attend. Jim Davis is chairman.
Coalitation
To Meet
The Martin Luther King
Junior Survival Coalition will
meet Tuesday, January 3 at
7:30 p.m. at the SCLC
Headquarters on Mill Street
and Anderson Avenue.
Baxter
Appointed
Civil Service Commissioner
William A. Baxter has been
appointed by Gov. George
Busbee to the State Board of
Registration for Dealers in
Used Motor Vehicles Parts. He
will succeed Aubrey .Melton
effective January 1.
Red Cross To
Offer First Aid
Courses
The Augusta Red Cross will
be offering four Multi Media
First Aid courses during the
month of January. Each course
consists of two evening classes,
held at the chapter office, 811
Twelfth St., from 6:30 until
10:30 p.m. The dates are as
follows: January 3 and 5,
January 11 and 13, January 17
and 19, January 25 and 27.
For further information and
registration. caHPthe Red Cross
at 722-1821.
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The Augusta News-Review - December 30, 1976
Words Os Life
Words of Life: Bible
Inspiration For the Week:
“Behold, I make all things
new.” -- Revelation 21:5
These words speak to the
New Year which makes its
entrance into our lives. They
are words which we may carry
in our minds and reflect upon.
Or, we may wish to ask our
minister to add to then
development for us in a
sermon.
I -- God’s work is creative.
The Bible begins with the
words: “In the beginning, God
created...” Creating, making
new things out of the oid... or
even, as in the beginning, out
of “nothing” (or a void) is
God's perpetual plan, purpose
and activity.
II - Each New Year and
each new day and moment
Prayer Poem: Transformation
Every task performed in life.
When done as though for God,
Is planted on a higher plane
And blooms in holy soil.
The harvest, once just reaping crops,
Is found to be much more.
When grain is raised to spread abroad
From God's unbounded store.
Our homes, the scenes of endless rounds
Os bickering and despair,
Become a place where God Himself
Reveals His tender care.
And so it is that all of life
Grows suddenly divine.
As water at the marriage feast
Became the choicest wine.
-J.B.
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Com mission eh
The significance of the Black potential vote was not
completely lost on some Republican observers, and thereby hangs
a tale of credibility.
In one of the frankest, hardnosed analytical memos to surface
in a long time (in the New York Times), an independent
(nameless) Republican urged the Ford For President Committee
to seriously consider naming a Black Vice Presidential candidate
to maximize his strength in the North and West (the observer
conceded the South to Jimmy Carter) because in so doing he
would defeat Carter by breaking Carter’s “monolithic hold on the
votes for Black Americans”.
The observer noted that in a recent survey Americans by an
overwhelming percentage of 75-25 revealed they would not be
offended by the selection of a Black Vice President in the 1976
Presidential race.
Leaving nothing to chance, the observer then suggested that
Senator Edward Brooke (R. Mass.) would be the ideal man for
spot, declaring that a “Ford-Brooke Ticket” would give the
Republican slate a credibility unmatched since Reconstruction.
“The point,” he said, “should not be lost on Republican
strategist.” It was and we see the results.
Credibility, which the observer believed would be
re-established for the Republicans with the naming of Brooke to
the Presidential ticket is a commodity that is in short supply in
recent years in America in respect to the US posture toward
Africa and the Third World’s peoples.
And largely for the same reason the Republicans lost and
Jimmy Carter won (by garnering more than 92 per cent of 6.6
million Black votes): lack of Black participation in decision
making processes of this country's policies towards Africa and
Third World people.
Certainly, Congressman Andrew Young’s appointment as
Ambassador to the United Nations by Carter will go a long way
toward helping change the alienated attitudes of Africans and
Third World folks. But Young's appointment, alone, will not do
that, as promising as that is.
There must be a commitment on the part of the Carter
administration to institute a fresh, sensible and constructive
change in our Africa and Third World policies. And there is every
evidence to believe there is.
Certainly Young has stated if this is not so then he would not
long be in that job. I was asked in a taped interview on a USIA
television show recently. “Do you expect that Black Americans
are now going to begin taking a more active interest and role in
US Policy in Africa?”
Os course, 1 think so. and said as much. Blacks such as
C ongressmen Young and Charles Diggs and Congresswoman
Yvonne Burke, are in the forefront of this fight.
The Pan-African Union which was started by the late Dr. W.E.
Dubois many years ago sensitized Blacks and others to the fact
there is an Africa more real than that of “Tarzan of the Apes",
“Trader Horn” and other racist conceptulizations of that
cont i nent.
The NAACP for years has been very concerned about our
policy in Africa and drafted a strong resolution approved
unanimously by its Board of Directors in September, condemning
our past African posture and urging a new one. For unless all of
Africa is free, Blacks know that we cannot be completely free
here in America.
A small beneficial result of the horrendous civil rights struggles
of the 1950’5, and 60’s and early 70’s was Secretary Henry 7
Kissinger’s recent peace missions to Southern Africa. Had
America been the blatant r acist country it was at the time of the
US Supreme Court Brown versus the Topeka Board of
Education, who in Africa would have listened to Kissinger?
He would have been drummed out of the country with hoots
of derision: “Go home and straighten out your own racial
affairs.” So Black people and their white allies’ struggles for
equality in this country armed Kissinger with the moral authority
to go to Africa, a moral authority he would otherwise have been
lacking.
As to Andy Young and his future work. Well, I have known
Andy since the early days of the civil rights struggles. He is a man
of sterling character, of high intelligence and a will that has been
forged in the crucible of the searing civil rights struggles in this
country.
But I want to emphasize this, Andrew Young will not be
W.E.B. dealing only with African and Third World problems. He
is a man who is conversant with the problems of Russia, China,
Europe, the Middle East, as well. And he can be expected to deal
in the same highly sensitized way with these as he will with the
yearnings of a Third World (two-thirds of which is non-white)
that wants to be free to order its own life and destiny. Andy’s
appointment will increase our credfcility world-wide. (NNPA)
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hold the opportunity of
renewal and for transformation
into what God designs for us.
Change for the better... for the
best, is God’s plan for us. We
should be open to, and
encouraging of, God’s plan.
11l - Tranformation is life.
We are, as the famous hymn
reminds us, to be “changed
from glory into glory, until in
heaven we take our place.”
*****
The following prayer poem
is based upon the Scripture
reading, St. John 2:1-11. It
may be read first, with
emphasis upon the words, “Fill
the water-ots with water”.
(To Our Readers: You may
wish to cut out this article and
paste it in a scrapbook
containing all the articles
entitled, “Words of Life”.)