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The ve Our City li-
tion ill pon or Town
Meeting--"People Enpo er­
ment Throu h- eighborhood
Action." It i being held
Saturday, June 1:7, 1992 at 2
p.m. at The Jo eph W Iter
Williams Community Cen r,
8431 Ro Parks Blvd. in
Detroit
For more inforam­
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Lawrence Edw rd t 582-
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Complied by
Nathaniel Lewl • Jr.
Rev. Lowery
retires with
me age for USA
A1lANTA.(AP) - The Rev.
Joseph Lowery, one of the founding
riinisters of the civil rights move-
• nt, retired from the pulpit Sunday,
J 14 with an angry ennon at­
t$uting the country's social woe to
<l9vemment indifference.
�. "It is not our economy we need
tD be worried about," said Mr.
Lowery, who at 70 years old bas
ched the mandatory retirement
a e for United Methodist ministers.
':!IMt's imperiled today in America
. bersoul.
...
·We can deal with the economy.
we lose out souls, what, then, is
re for us" There is no anctuary
ft the oul from the sorrow of the
.. lety in which we live."
... About 1,500 people packed Cas­
cade United Methodist Church,
• here Mr. Lowery had been pastor
tor six years.
..
"You would send women
children - families in homemade
boats - to certain death on the
shores of Haiti. And you talk about
family values," said Mr. Lowery,
who waved his arms and spat out .
words rapid-fire.
After t� service, several in the
congregation wept.
'You have graduated from Cas­
cade, but your ministry to the world
is just beginning," Marilyn Ar­
rington, a parishioner, told Mr.
Lowery.
IWfl}: Over 700 attendee re
expected to be on hand Daryl Coley
ill be . vocal technique at the ann
" to the le r BCC lc Wo bop, afftliated with
Black church
leaders gather,
look for way to
,promote
morality
A1l.ANTA (AP) -Black church
leaders meeting in Atlanta this week
are looking for way to use religious
literature to promote moral values .
The National Baptist Sunday
Church School and Baptist Training
Union Congress is expected to draw
as many as 30,000 church leaders.
Experts will "teach people how
. : to teach from the literature," said T.
- MR. LOWERY said he would B. Boyd III, president and chief ex­
remain as president of the Southern ecutive officer of the National Bap­
C�stian Leadership conference,. tist Publishing Board.
which he has headed since 1971.·. "We believe that what we will
:Mr. Lowery and the Rev. Martin do here this week will affect the
luther King Jr. were among the min- moral decisions of Black families all
lirs who founded the Leadership across America," Boyd said.
�erence in 1957. "Weare going to be talldng about
- :Mr. Lowery accused the Bush values. We want morality to once
Administration of inattention to again be the guiding principle in the
dOmestic concerns, citing its failure homes of Black people all over this .
� encourage industry to create jobs country." '
America, rather than overseas, and He said problems such crime,
, reluctance to extend jobless drug abuse, violence and the lack of
fits. initiative are a result of an erosion of
e then moved to Vice President basic Christian principles.
Dan Quayles's touting of "family Through Sunda� School, chur­
values" and said, "If you're con- ches can help to build up those prin-
cerned about the family, Mr. Quayle, ciples, he said. ,
why don't you extend the unemploy- "The problems are universal, but
ment benefits so children can eat?" the olutions are not necessarily
universal," he said. "Each locale is
different. We leave the specific·
strategies to individual churches."
Some workshop at the Congress
are intended to help Christian
educators figure out their own
strategic.
Marcell Kellar, author of" Build­
ing a Strong Sunday School," said
churches should plan Sunday School
classes and activities to ddress the
needs of their communities.
Athletic programs or recreational
activities can be used to draw
children to church, he saId.
REV. JOSEPH LOWERY
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Gospel Hours
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Everv Sunday Morning
Rev. Wilmore Allen
Rev. A.J. Rogers
Joe Ella Ukety
cathertne Robinson
CIorta Parker
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