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CHURCH
CALENDAR
Joy Explosion
in R edale
From A t the 8th - 10th,
Rosedale Park Baptist Orurch will
mld i annual "Joy Explosion"
Conemporary Gospel am Jazz
O>oo:rt. This yeats them: �
"Thm1cing, Sharing am Reaching
Out in Song."
This annual event is an out
reach the community and City
of Detroit Cbme join us on the
lawn, Bring your family, frie
blankets and chairs.
- ugust 8th at 6�m at
Rosedal Park Baptist Cllurch, lo
cated at 14161 Vaughan St, (one
block west of Evergreen and 2
blocks north of Schoolcraft)
featuring outstanding gospel per
formers and combined com
munity cboir, with representation
from several area churclrs.
RELIGION
I
ARGARET ANSFIELD
For more tban22 years, Twinkie
Cl r -Terrell delighted go pel
udiences one of four i te
who e gift in ong Ignited the
pel music industry. She w , by
11 ccoun the force behind th
uccess of the Clark Sisters. Well
now, she's true out on her own. •
Only this time, he' got much
bigger goal. Say Twinkie,"I
would hope that a revival would
take place whereby gospel music
could reach the WOrld, and help
bring an revival in the nation and
around the world, and it can be done
musically."
And Twinkie Clark hopes to
playa lead role. It's been over two
years ince Clar left the Clark
Sisters to go it 010, causing quite a
stir in the gospel community, along
with que tions as to her future in
go pel.
F ct . couple of on the
album, ere tun e'd written
bac in 1976, but instinctively, he
ays she held them .
"I felt they weren't ready for it."
As to whether or not h mi es
performing with her si ters, she
say, "I know that it i the will of
God for me to do what riD doing
even though people may not
unders tand.
AndI have no regrets because
my lsters and I till love each
other. And as a result of this whole
transition, there' a bonding that'
coming together that wa not
there."
"Some have been overwbebIUng
d m till don'l UDders d."
For Twinkie, it more ner
offollowin God' ill. "God d
ord ined the hole thing
altogether.
It is in' ill ometim for
to com way and till owselv to
hat . trying to y. This'
something Ii e a personal
ezperience that I' eh d ithGod."
... In the meantime, the Clar S' ters
have been igned to Bebe Winans
production company. An album,
which ill be produced by Bebe
Winans, i now in the works.
Aw rd-winning producer
Michael Powell wUl reportedly
work with them on ome of the cuts.
Briefly: Margaret Bell i
taking bre from the go pel
touring circuit to enjoy her baby
girl, Taylor Renee who was born on
ter Sunday, and i the first child
for he and h bam, Keith Byars.
Also on hold is the long-awaited
project he was all t to do with her
i terse
That' put on hold until big
sister, Vane a Bell-Armstrong
This w s . cripture:
''May the God who
gives endurance and
encouragement, give
you a spirit of unity
among yourselves as
you follo,v Christ
Jesus, so that with one
heart and mouth you
may glorify the God
andFather ofour Lord
Jesus Christ, "
-Ranans 15:5.
City tudie
pa ton complaint
By RON SEIGEL
Correspondent
THE :MINISTER asked the cfty
attorney why the city had been
mGIILAND -In a request unable to produce title to the land.
to the Highland Park City Council, Reverend Sheard and Wanda
Reverend J. Drew Sheard said his Bosdic, who supported his position
church bought eight lots from the accused the city of delaying, but
city ' for $14,000, only to find that the Councilwoman Christine Franklin
city did not own most of the lots. emphasized it was necessary to be
He requested that the city pay him sure of the facts, before spending
the 14,000 'd promised not $14,000.
... to r otl1ef' . t i. __ .. , , ... .,. _9>{ ci� embeI\ .
u 0 "�8fM4W, �� "qildiDg. . �t J [JhC e!� had �e a �1�
an edifice in Highland Park to do the and sOfd the lapd" wltllout Jroldlng
work for the 'Lord " he said. "These title to it, they would be willing to
, . .
hopes were soon extinguished, give him the money back.
however, when the lending
institution halted the loan process
dqe to the city of Highland Park's
inability, to produce title to this
property to Greater Emanuel and
subsequently to them." '
Ci ty .Attorney Eric Daniel
requested time to see if the city had
indeed made a mistake or if it owned
the property .
AT AME MEET -Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton I. welcomed by (I to r) BI.hop F.C. J m , Bishop Philip
R. Cou ins, BI hop Henry Allen Belin, and Bishop H.H. Brookins to the African Methodist Eplacopal
(AME) General Conference in Orlando, Florida. ·1 w nt us to be tlrst In lobe, In education, and health
care, I" opportunity for ali,· said Clinton. ·We are for you,· Bishop Brookins said to Gov. Clinton.
·Thirteen million pre lding bi hops in the US, thr and half million member�, Ight thousand pastors.
We are for you.· Bishops Berlin, Brookins, Cousin ,and James are AME Church Episcopal District
Leaders for the 12th, 2nd, 11th, and 7th Dlstrleta, respectlvely • .(Photo by Tony PItts)
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, GoSpel HOUrs .
W.e.H.B. 1200 AM - 7:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Everv Sunday 'Morning
- August 9th at 6�m,
same location. Contemporary ,
gospel and j87Z, vocal and in
strumental music.
Featuring "Psalm 150 En
semble" 8l¥1 � "Elrita
Dodds" ar¥;I the "Image From
Glory" bani' . .&..... ... ...... ','.: J
- August 10th at 7illpm,
Monday Night Jam session at
Rosedale Park Baptist Church,
Corre join 15 am bring your in
stnunents so that less experienred
rmsidars can play with mote ex
perienced ones in a relaxed posi
tive atrrosprere.
City wide
tent revival �
"Return your hearts to God"'
is the theme of a city wide tent
revival conducted by Evan
gelist Granetta Neal, Founder
and Pastor of His Place Chris
tian Center, founder of House of
Love (Our House) a-Homeless
Shelter for women and children;
and Detroit's Cass Corridor
street evangelist.
Speakers will be Pastor
· Tony Russel, Covenant of
Peace; and Evangelist Joyce
Smith, and other local anointed
preachers of God.
Locations include Lemay
aI,ld Mack on August 5 to 7, 6
P.M.; 1-94 and Mt Elliot on
August 12 -14, 6·P.M; His
Place Christian Center, 7001
Puritan and Stopel on August 20
- 22, at 6 P.M.; anti Belleville,
in Graham Park, Sumpter and
Wear Rd. on September 5, at 6
PM.
Call for more information
862-0178.
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AMEelect
Delegates to the 44th General
Conference of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church elected four new
bishops on July 14, 1992. The newly
elected leaders will replace bishops
who are retired or deceased.
Fifty four candidates sought elec
tion to the four available seats.
The following individuals were
elected on the third ballot; Zedekiah
L. Grady of Charleston, So.
Carolina; C. Garnett Henning, Sr. of
St. Louis, Missouri; Robert V.
Webster of Jacksonville, Florida;
and McKinley Young of Atlanta,
Qeorgia.
Within the next thirty days, the
new bishops will assume posts in the
international AME organization.
Zedekiah L. Grady will preside over
the Caribbean, South American, and
England; C. Garnett Henning, Sr.
will preside over Monrovia and
Uberia, West Africa; Robert V.
Webster will preside over Zambia,
Central Africa; and McKinley
Young will preside over Capetown
in the Republic of South Africa.
Veteran bishops were assigned or
reassigned to locations within the
United States.
Bisbop Jobn H. Adam will
preside over the Seventh AME Dis
trict which covers South Carolina.
Bishop Vinton R. Anderson was as-
igned to the Fifth District which
covers all states west of the Missis
sippi River.
new bishops
was assigned to the Second District
which covers Virginia, Maryland
and North Carolina. Bishop John R.
Bryant was assigned to the Tenth
District which covers Texas.
. Bisbop Vernon R. Randolph
Byrd was assigned to the Thirteenth
District which covers Kentucky and
Tennessee. Bishop Philip R. Cousin
was assigned to the First District
which covers New York, Pennsyl
vania', ,M.assachusetts, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Maine,
Delaware, New Jersey, Rhode Is
land, Connecticut, and Bermuda.
Bishop Frank C. Cummings was as
signed to the Eleventh District which
covers Florida and the Bahamas.
Bishop Richard A. Olappelle, Sr.
was assigned to the Eighteenth Dis
trict Which covers parts of Africa.
B bop Fredrlck C. Jam was
assigned to administer ecumenical
affairs for the AME Church. Bishop
James H. Mayo was assigned to the
Fourth District which covers Min
nesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, lllinois, In
diana and Michigan.
Bishop Donald G. Min was as-
igned to the Sixth' D' trict which
covers Georgia. Bishop Harold B.
Senatle was asstgned to the
Nineteenth District which covers
parts of Africa. Bishop Frederick H.
Talbot was assigned to the Twelfth
District which covers Oklahoma and
Arkansas.
, Bishop Henry A. Belin, Jr. was
assignedto the Third District which Bishop Cornell E. Thom
covers Ohio, Pennsylvania and West was assigned to the Ninth District
Virginia. Bishop Hamel H. Brookins which covers Alabama. Bishop
Robert Thomas, Jr. was assigned to
the, Eighth District which covers
Louisiana and Mississip,.\)i.
BI hop John H. Adam
delivered the Consecration Service
address. He challenged the new
bishops to fOCU$. on building chur-
, ches rather than being intent on per
sonal gain. He said, "we as bishops
are to embody integrity, vision, char
acter, and courage and resist getting
bogged down in individual pettiness
a.nd resentment of each others skills.
Bisbop Adams stressed that the
AME Church leadership must set the
moral climate in which the church
body funcnons. He admonished the
bishops to be more spiritual and less
political. He said that be recognized
the needs for food, clothing, shelter,
security, education, work, health
care, recreation and a sense of ac
complishment. He concluded, "God
will not deny our need ,for thinp.
There' nothing holy about poverty.
But man does not live by bread
alone. We also need integrity, faith,
dignity, honor, truth, belonging, a
sense of destiny, hone ty, and
friendship. The Church will not be
saved by new laws, new money, new
bishops, new general officers, or
new programs. "What we need i
new power" .
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