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-THE PEMBROKE JOURNAL, Thursday, February 13, 1969
EDITORS NOTE—The story and pictures are of a former Pembroke boy, Wendell Dubois, a son of the late Hazel
Dubois and Mrs. Hazel Dubois of Pembroke. We have known this young man for many years. This was con
tained in an 8 page Church Bulletin, and was given to us by Hon. E. B. (Billy) Miles. We are indeed glad tc
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Little Switzerland’s Barber-Preacher
by Leroy Mulvey
WHETHER IT'S TRIMMING HAIR in his mobile bar
bershop, joining a farmer to do some "haying," or
driving a tractor-trailer piled high with lumber over ■o—■
steep Virginia hills, country preacher Wendell K. yv
Dußois will try anything once—especially if it affords \
him an opportunity to witness for Jesus Christ. ' “TB t
"Some people think the minister should camp on M
each doorstep in a white shirt and not do anything," .A
Dußois says in a slow drawl. "But I enjoy being a
inan and doing a man’s work. In
winning people, you first get them in
terested in you, and then you get
them interested in the Lord."
Perhaps one of the best illustra
tions of the Dußois witnessing phi
losophy occurred recently when a
neighbor was searching in vain for
someone to help clean his turkey
houses.
“I’ll help,” volunteered the country
preacher. “1 don’t mind getting dirty
hands. I just can’t stand a dirty
heart!”
For the past three years, Dußois
has brought vitality into three small
chapels three miles apart in a triangle
around Mustoe, Va.-a village deep
in the heart of "Little Switzerland,"
so-named for its steep mountains
and rough winters. Dußois employs
his skills—especially his barbering
skills in his mobile barbershop—to
gain the confidence of the mountain
folk and then witness to them about
Christ.
“I built the mobile barbershop be
cause it was too much trouble to
have barber chairs in all the commu
nities,” the 31-year-old pastor says
with a smile.
Dußois, who has been cutting hair
since he was 15, fashioned a 6' x 10'
gas-heated shop on wheels. From
Wednesday through Friday, he pulls
the shop into surrounding communi
ties to trim hair and talk about Jesus.
“A minister just can’t hang out a
sign which reads, ‘Counseling from
8 to 10 a.m..’” he says. “People won’t
come. But they must come to me for
a haircut. And I have met only a few
who won’t tell their barber all about
their lives!”
Recently a teen-ager came in for
a clipping. Dußois had previously
heard rumors that this boy was liv
ing an immoral life. Dußois casually
said, “I understand there’s been some
talk about you going around!”
The young man soon spilled out a
detailed account of his illicit affairs.
Dußois, seeing that the young man
knew he was going the wrong way,
pointed him to The Way.
“That young man was born again
right in my barber’s chair,” he says.
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A CERAMICS DEMONSTRATION will be among the arts and
crafts displayed at the Gardens Art Festival Six to be held
February 16-22 at Callaway Gardens. Jerry Homing of the
University of Georgia demonstrated his talents at last year's
show. (PRN)
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Doe raising is another Dußois endeavor
to help support his family and give him
additional contacts with the people of
his area
’ And now he s really living a new
life.”
Between haircuts, Dußois pre
pares his sermons. “Sermons are
made for the people,” he observes.
"And yofl can’t preach to the people
unless you’ve been living with them.
Dußois has been virtually “living
with” his congregations since he
arrived in “Little Switzerland” with
his wife, Janet, and their two
small daughters in November 1965.
Shortly after their arrival, he found
that many of the people had lost re
spect for preachers and the churches.
This challenged him to gain their
confidence by “living with them.”"
Reared on a farm near Pembroke,
Ga., “about five miles from civiliza
tion and communication,” Dußois
knew what would reach farmers’
hearts.- Each time he got a whiff of
freshly mowed hay, he’d grab his
coveralls and hustle across the fields
to lend a hand. He refused money for
his work, thereby leaving farmers
with the feeling that they owed him
something. Soon many began bring
ing their families to church to show
their gratitude. The three congrega
tions swelled.
On Mondays and Tuesdays, Du-
Bois drives a tractor-trailer.
“The owner of a local sawmill
Art Festival Set Feb. 16
At Callaway Gardens
PINE MOUNTAIN, Ga.
(PRN) — Painters, sculptors
and craftsmen will bring
together their talent in
February as the Gardens Art
Festival Six, one of the most
respected art shows in the
Southeast, gets underway at
Callaway Gardens. Sponsoring
the event are the
Chattahoochee Valley Art
Association, LaGrange College
and the Gardens.
Sunday, February 16,
marks the beginning of a week
filled with exhibits, lectures
and demonstrations conducted
by nationally known artists.
Works will be submitted
February 12 forjudging by Carl
Holty, German painter and
biographer. Those selected will
be displayed in the ballroom
of the Holiday Inn of
Callaway Gardens, and from
didn’t go to church. I made up my
mind I was going to win him,” Du-
Bois explains.
One sunny afternoon the lumber
dealer spotted Dußois helping a
farmer make hay. He offered Dußois
a trucking job. The 5' 8", 165-pound
Ipreacher had never driven a big
Itruck before, but said, “I’ll give it a
'try.”
He must have made some showing
I because three weeks later his new
.employer’s daughter was in the con
[gregation. The following week the
I man’s wife was also present. “Now
‘he sits out front waiting for them.
I He’ll be inside soon,” Dußois says
| confidently.
I Another man With whom Dußois
I had gone hunting, and whom Du-
I Bois had won to Christ while hunt
| ing, suggested that Dußois could
J supplement his $44-a-week church
salary by raising hunting dogs. Du
» Bois took him up on the idea and
now owns and operates the Coon
shines Treeing Walker Kennel.
"I’ve met many people through my
dogs that I’d never have met other
wise,” Dußois says. And when I
take young people out hunting, we
■ talk more about the Bible while sit
• ting on a stump than we have time
to in a Sunday Schoo! class.”
. This go-go country preacher de
| veloped his varied interests during
1 high school days by taking any kind
J of job to earn money. He also worked
I his way through Berkshire Christian
I College in Lenox, Mass., by barber-
I ing and driving heavy construction
I equipment. After graduating with a
I B. A. degree in theology in 1959, he
I held pastorates in CJifton Forge, Va.,
| and Dover, Fla., before coming to
Mustoe.
He seeks to bring about a "big
change”—as he calls it- in the lives
of others because a “big change
took place in his life when he was
16. He had attended church since he
was too young to remember, but it
wasn’t until one Wednesday night
while his father was preparing to
attend a prayer meeting and he was
dressing for a double date to the
movies that the “big change took
place.
His father told him, “Son, I’d hate
for the Lord to come tonight and
find you in the movies, wouldn’t
you?”
“Aw, Dad, He won’t come tonight,
Wendell replied and then rushed out
of the house and roared down the
road to his buddy’s house.
His buddy wasn’t ready for
their double date, so while Wendell
waited, he began to think, “What if
the Lord does come tonight?”
When his friend showed up, Wen
dell said, “I’m not going to the movies
tonight; I’m going to prayer meet
ing!”
"What’s got into you?” his buddy
asked.
Without answering, Wendell left
and drove back to the small church,
walked down the aisle, and sat be
side his father.
Dußois sets that night in 1953 as
the real date of his conversion. And
having the assurance of a personal
encounter with Jesus Christ has been
one of the driving forces in his life
to win others to the Saviour. Coupled
with this assurance is his seemingly
natural interest in people.
“I find that you eventually win
people to Christ once you’ve won
them to yourself,” he says.
And to win them to himself, coun
try preacher Wendell Kirby Dußois
finds no challenge too great or no
task too rough or menial if through
the process of doing it he can wit
ness for the Lord and win a soul into
the Kingdom of Christ.
M ith the Apostle Paul, he can
humbly say, “I am made all things to
all men, that I might by all means
save some” (I Cor. 9:22). >1
these will be chosen the
recipients of four $250 merit
awards and the grand SI,OOO
purchase prize given by West
Point Pepperell.
Holty, a native of Freiburg,
Germany, has studied at
Marquette University, the
National Academy of Design
and both the Royal Academy
and the Hofmann School in
Munich. Residing in New York
now, he is a member of the
American Abstract Artists and
the Abstraction Creation in
Paris.
Among the places where his
works have been exhibited are
the Carnegie Institute, the Los
Angeles Museum and the
Duveen-Graham Gallery. His
paintings are now being shown
in the City Art Museum of St.-
Louis, Georgia Museum of Art
in Athens and the Michener
Collection, Allentwon, Pa. In
addition to being the juror at
the Gardens Festival, Holty
will speak on “Painting in
America Today” at the
banquet on the 16th which
officially opens the week’s
activities.
Monday’s schedule will
consist of a program presented
by the Georgia Commission on
the Arts with George Beattie
as director.
Charles and Rubynelle
Counts of Trenton, Ga., will
put their hands to work on
Tuesday with a demonstration
of pottery and crafts, followed
by Gerry Bosch conducting a
workshop on painting.
Drawing will be featured later
in the day by Howard Thomas
of Ohio, a former instructor of
art at the Unversity of
Georgia.
A watercolor
demonstration by artist
Arthur Stewart will also be
included in the Festival, along
with a sculpture workshop
presented by Don Hatfield of
Auburn University.
Ralph Ricketts of Atlanta
will deliver a program on oil
paintings, and Hugh Williams
of Auburn University will
conduct a workshop on
watercolor painting. A
printing demonstration will be
held by Maltby Sykes, also of
Auburn, and Jim McLean of
Atlanta will lead a workshop
on coulage printing.
Rounding out the week’s
activities will be the featured
mo v i es, “Beckett” and
“Umbrellas of Cherbourg,”
which will alternate showings
on nights throughout the
week.
The show was conceived by
a hand full of local citizens
from West Point and
LaGrange, Ga., six years ago.
When approached by the art
enthusiasts, Callaway Gardens
readily agreed to co-sponsor
the Festival because of the
educational and cultural
promotion.
Jane Lyon of Savannah
received the SI,OOO purchase
prize at the 1968 exhibition
for her painting “Interstice,”
while merit awards went to
Darrell Koons of Greenville,
S.C., Ike Hay of Athens, Ga.,
Lamar Baker of Waverly Hall
and Carolyn Page.
The Gardens Arts Festival
Six is definitely the place to
be February 16-22 for a
sampling of the finest of talent
in every area of art!
Maddox Depicts
Washington, D.C.
As 'Sin Center'
ATLANTA, (GPS)—The na
tion’s capital long has been a
favorite target of Gov. Lester
G. Maddox. And the other day,
in a speech to the Macon Bar
Association, the governor came
up with a new description of
Washington. He called it a “sin
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We could have skipped this.
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But we're as anxious as you
center.”
Discussing the rising crime
rate in America where he said
“crimes of violence are com
monplace” in virtually e v e » y
major city,” Maddox declared:
“Even our nation’s capital
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that it is not safe for the Pres
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