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The tho for' is;
Some people wIIo lhould be
. . 1M sword o{IM spirit (lie
still ill lHuk 1TlIininr.
Thi eek's eripture i ;
. �liilippiaDs 3:7-14.
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CIa will celebrate their third
Annual Day on SWlday, April 17 .
at the Highland Avenue
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
at 3:00 p.m.
GIea Ie Ca . Guild
president. Lone. Bri e ,
secretary; Jo ep I e et ,
program chairperlOll; d the
Rev. Perry Murray' the or.·
The theme is, ·Saved by
Grace, Created for Work"
(Ephesians 2:8-10).
• H ofSt.Mar
Baptist Church ill be the
Mistreas of Cere .
Invited sue guilds are St.
Mark B . PiJarim Rest Bap-
tist, ProgressiYe Baptist, New
Bethel Baptist, EbeDezer B p­
list, New Jerusalem B� Mt -
ZiOD B . Israelite B .,
ew Paradsie Ba . and Pel-
1OWl5lUD' B
Guest speaker will be the
Rev. Wallie T. BurtoD, pastor of _
AIIIDdaIloll wiIlSJ)OlIllOr
on Satur­
Bap-.
tist Church, located on
Townline Road. IlD1C 7:30 p.m.
ne and topic will
be, Rev. James O. CbiI (All
y Children); Rev. Wan ce
Suder (The Y d the
R ); Rev. J.W. Smith, (As
The oriel TurDs); Rev. C .
J (Days of Our Lfta); Rev.
R. Philli (The Edae ofNi );
Rev. Miltoa cAfee, (One Life
to LM); aad Rev. W.T. BmOG,
(The Guilding . t).
The. �.
will e the aster of
ICere .
Wi
9:2S .
. to-AS
Wed. ... Pn,er SeMce
� YowSpirilul
. (I (H. 12:1-31)
p . B ptist Clurch.
The Inspirational Singers of
The coagreption of
80 .pUlt C rda, 1237
Territorial Road will climax the
20th AIlIliYersary of the found­
� of the church on Sunday,
April17 t 4:00 p.m.
G will be the Ne T a-
ment B ptist Church of South
Haven nd Greater Harve t
Baptist Church, Benton Harbor.
The • Lee Perrywill be the
speaker nd the Rev. • 'D. '"
Il�"'r"".""'· will alternate.
The church was founded in
1968 by • H.C. C rU ,
who also will be celebr ling .
20th Anniversary P or of
the church.
When the church as
fOUDded it first located at
IS01 Ea tland and in 1978
IDOYed to 1378 Territorial R d,
The coaarepti . purchased its
present uilding 1237 Ter­
ritorial Road in 1982.
Rev. Christian natiYe of
At d' agrad
�� .. ua.�d&��.
Little Rock. .
Rev. Christian and . wife
elter A1 res�de in Benton
.
ByC A. ,Sr.
NNPA News Editor
When Pope Jo Paul n ap­
pointed Eugene A. Marino to be
arcbb' op of Atl Ga., the _
first Black ever so honored, the .
move w vie ed with public
aed priv e enthusu' ISID.
The Biloxi, M' .-born (of a
Bia American mother and a
Puerto Rican father), oft
spoken J osephite priest, had
cert . Iy . . d
.. . op for 14 years in
. the Washiagton, D.C. Roman
Catholic archdioCese re
spent a lot of i time in
The G pel Bro
will ponsor the Midwe t
Go pel Expre s on Sunday,
April 24 t the Pleasant Gro
Baptist Church, 710 E. Main
Street at 3:30 p.m. I
Appearing on this Musical
program will be the Gospel King
Brothers, Benton Harb r;
Royal-Aire , Lansing; Gospel'
Tones, To edo, Ohio; Pilgrim
Wonder , Grand R pids; and
oloi , Larry Cramer, Benton
Harbor.
Don ion, $5 adults, and
children, ages 6-12, $1.50.
Th public is invited to attend
coording to Freddie King.
OtIs president of the
Midwest G pel Expr .
r
Blae
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the Rev. N thaniel Gathright .
the h pastor.
, The congregation or Greater
Ebe eser Splrltu I Te pie,
114-118 Lake Street will
celebrate the Rev. Clarissa M.
Blacka.more' 10 years of service
as pastor of the church with a
banquet on Saturday, Apri116 in
the Fellow hip H 11 of the
church. Time 6 p.m.
Tickets are available from
W �, the
chur 925-8198; r 927-1898.
. Special worshi services will
be held April 19- t 7:30 p.m.
nightly with many local ors
as guest speakers.
The celebration will COD­
clude at 3:30 p.m., April 24 en
Metropolitan Spiritual Chur­
ches of Christ will be the .
Rev. Blac amore a, in­
stalled pastor 0 the church in
March 1978.
During her p tor ate, the
congregation purch ed the
former Benton Harbor Masonic
Association' building at 114-
I 118 Lake Street its church
building nd dedicated it in
1984.
. The St
Co C ty 10-
cared at M-I40 nd Bangor
Road in Covert, Michigan Igain
present an Evening in Song
fe turing • "
Cl uell and J
• Time 4:00 pm. on Sunday,
April 17.
Geo a 0 0
president and the
is the p tor:
J
h p?
a telephone interview ith
NNP A declared he' n con­
cerned bou the negatives. -I'm
going there to Stress the ..
I will work to convert the uncom­
mitted. My Jo ephite family
fashioned me into a minister of
Christ and, after t e beautiful
example of St. Joseph, t uiht me
ho to love and erve God'
people 'th great generosity:·
He . d he' 100' forward to
interacting ith the Martin
Luther' Jr. Center for on­
Violent Change and other
�o e .. in the area.
Dr. La e ce N. J dean
of Howard UniYe . s 001
of Divinity, d of the few
observer who Ipq e for tbe
record, told N PA: -He
(Mariao) fine·... .
C t oUe clergy °th co
me to church and God. H . a
calm, ordedy perIOD
aU people weD. rm � be .
pre eat the cbur and t e
(B ) race welt
Dr. J added,·I·
be received very
H • if trie& to too
str ill the areas Of social j •
tice ,be is t ell ba e
proble
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