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By ROBBIE CRUMP McCOY
Sp!c'" to the Mlch'p.n Citizen
DETROIT- There once was a
community building on Joseph
Campau and Arndt, named the
Gleiss Memorial BUilding. It
served as a community Center
and meeting place for various
groups. ,
For' many years the Baptist
Minis or Detroit
and Viciru . ys
meetings t is
now more than 80 years old and
still going strong.
Under the leadership of the
late Rev. Charles H. Williams, the
Conference purchased a building
at Livernois and Glendale, which
is now paid for and serves as the
weekly meetingp1ace for the Con­
ference.
, It has always been a conserva-
tive, low key group, but in recent
years has branched out and has a
school, the New Era.
The Rev. J. J. Peny, ayounger,
aggressive minister' president,
and his advisors and upport.ers
are among the most noted Bible
scholars around including the
Rev. J. E. M , Rev. W. H. May­
field, Rev. C.D. Cobbin and Rev.
J. B. Barlow.
Co Te lit!J.7
ago under til I rship of the
late Rev. Charles H. Williams,
and formed what is now the
Council of Baptist Pastors.
VICE PRESIDENTS OF the
Conference are Rev. Jake Gaines
and Rev. Aaron Blackman, Rev.
Clifford Parker is president of the
Bible College.
Rev. M , a 37 -year member
of the Conference recalled the
days when both the Council of
Baptist Pastors and the Confer­
ence were together and working
for the bettennent 0 the eommu­
nity.
In spite of the exceptional theo­
logical ranks of some of the pas­
tors Ii e the late Revs. E. ,C.
Copeland, T. S. Boone, A L. Mer­
ritt and Charles R Ni Sr., the
Q)Jdn�'noe plit il' acti of
litical I ers, hat the Rev.
illiams, t n p ident, would
not permit them to go into.
As it is with the Council now,
the members of the Conference
are affiliated with four differen
national Conventions, but on th
local scene the work 88 a uni
each one. Rev. Roy A Allen Sr.
was the first president of the
Council.
African Arne · can
Pe tecostals are fastest growing
By ROBBIE CRUMP McCOY
Sp!C,.' to the Mlchlg.n Citizen
According to the National
Council of the Churches of Christ
in the USA, the African American
Pentecostals have built the fast­
est growing church in the United
States.
Thay have formed denomina­
tions totaling, more than 6.3 mil­
lion members .including the
Church of God in Christ (CooIC),
which is the fastest growing ma­
jorl denomination in the United
States, and the fUth largest de­
nomination overall.
The yearbook produced by the
Largest
Baptist
congrega tion
chooses pastor
� DALLAS- Rev. O. S.
Hawkins, pastor of First
Baptist Church, Fort lau­
derdale, FL, has been sa.
lected ,to pastor the
2S,OOO-member First Bap­
tist Church of Dallas, ac­
cording to the Baptist Press
of Nashville.
Rev. Hawkins preached
to the Dallas congregation
on Aug. 29, and a committee
for the Dallas church was to
make the announcement af­
ter the morning MOO.
The Dallas church, the
largest Baptist congregation
in America is 125 years old.
Rev. Hawkins grew up in
Texas, a native of Fort
Worth, led a membership of
10,000 in Ft. Lauderdale.
.. ,
NCC is published and distributed United Presbyterian and the
by Adingdon P�, Nashville, Episcopal Churches.
and is on the shelf throughout
Canada.
The Church of God in Christ
has averaged gaining 'nearly
200,000 members and 600 con­
gregations a year since 1982.
Some authors have pointed out
that the seven major Black de­
nominations have suffered the
kind of severe decline in member-
hip experienced by some main­
stream white denominations like
the Disciples of Christ, the
Nevertheless, the African
American church moos some for­
midable challenges including the
pl'OO:!J8S of secularization in Black
communities. How Black
churches and their leadership
grapple with this challenge will
determine whether they will be
faced with the same problems of
attrition and decline now affect­
ing some white mainstream de­
nominations, the authors
contend,
Bethel East hono
M . Loui eCo
Mrs. Louise Cox Hughes is in
her new home now in Los Ange­
les. The widow of the late Rev.
Carl D. Hughes, longtime pastor
of Bethel Baptist Church East,
Mrs.Hughes moved to Los Ange­
les to live with her daughter
Karen and family.
A celebration was held at the
Bethel East Church Wednesday
in honor of Mrs. Hugh many
years of rvice, and as a public
educator. She taught hool after
employment for manY years by
the Federal Government.
A native of West Virginia Mrs.
Hughes graduated from New R0-
chelle High school in New York.
She later graduated from West
Virginia state College and Wayne
State University. She taught
school in Indianapolis and Detroit
was affiliated with Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority and the Ten Penny
Club, Inc. A son Carl Jr. is a law­
yer in Dallas and another daugh­
ter, Beverly lives in Detroit .
ughes
�ongthoeeappewnngonthe
program were Rev. James Step- ,
herson, pastor; Rev. John Peo­
ples, national congress dean Rev.
Joseph Williams; Robbie Crump­
McCoy, retired religion editor;
Jackie Mo - Williams, emcee;
Ora T. Perry sang "Give Her TIu!
Flowers". A social hour closed the
evenings activities.
all evival at
ew Providence .
New Providence Baptist
Church, 19901 Kentucky, Detroit,
will hold a Fall Revival from Sep­
tember 13·17, Monday through
Friday, nightly at 7 p. m..
The church is located on the
corner of Pembroke and Wyo-
ming;
Rev. Lany Howard, the Pastor
of Greater Friendship- Baptist
Church. in Cleveland will be the
evangelist.
aarOless of
Ip her rai
roo e' nd . .. tin ..
tion, Edmund dis ui
If Ed rdo the Gi 010.
: Ted nd T d m h
di very abo t the .
A OT WO LD: With
Ry t h r ide, Vicky told Grant
their marri e w over. Alth ugh
dev ted, Grant vowed to g t her
ck. Paulina met R who led h r
to her mother' grave. I ke tole th
conten of the fety depo it box
from Paulina nd In' room. Later,
he tried to get & to ive him in­
form tion on Mac Cory. Carl tried to
ingratiate himself with R ch I by
tellin her where Paulin wa . Victor
told Loma, a dat with himwould be m
the payoff for era in the vol tile
Loma/Jenna interview tape before
Matt could play it. Hank proposed
and Iri accepted. Wait To e:
Paulina' jungle quest turns
dangerous.
AS THE WO LD TV : After
Cynthi testified, Royce, realizing
he might have a twin brother fter 11,
got on the stand nd a tonished
everyone with his testimony. Caleb
was upset when he learned Julie
rented Neal's apartment. Iva covered
her pain h gave A ron to Hol­
den. J son comforted Iva. Je ica
was concerned when Duncan sud­
denly hung up on his call from istan­
bul. Walt To : Lyla makes a
decision about the tour.
BOLD A D THE BEAUTI­
FUL: Macy's blood tests proved she
was drunk when she crashed her car.
Shaken, she asked Thome to call Al­
coholics Anonymous for h r. Keith
and Macy were overjoyed when
Kevin came out of his coma. Ridge
assured Taylor they would hav a
hild' . unease
'a t her . . Con-
nor as u turned
d his upset
with Sheila for agreeing to help
Brooke throw Stephanie out of her
office, and announced h • d sleep in
the guest room. Later, Sheila and
Connor met at the Bikini and traded
insults while Karen and Sly
Center to Prevent Hand
un Violence
Gun· Violence in the
African American
Community
Homicide is the leading -cause of death for Black males aged 15 to 24,
according to the Centerstor Disease Control. Firearms are involved in
approximately 80% of these hom icides.
One in every 28 Black males born in 1987 are likely to be murdered. For
white m ales the ratio is one in 205. (CDC)
A young Black male is nine times more likely to be murdered than a
young white male, according to the CDC.
The hom icide rate am ong Black m en aged 15 to 24 rose by 66% from
1984 to 1987, according to the CDC. And 95% of this increase was due to
firearms-related murders.
In 1990,93 percent of the Black murder victims were slain by Black
offenders. (FBI, Uniform Crime Report)
Nearly half (48%) of all Black teenage males who died in 1988 were killed
with guns, compared to 18 percent among white teenage males. (National .
Center for Health Statistics)
For Black males aged 15 to 19, firearm homicides have increased 125,
percent since 1984. (FBI, Uniform Crime Reports)
A 1990 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found
that young men in Harlem are less likely to live to age 40 than their '
counterparts in Bangladesh.
According to the National Pediatric Trauma Registry, gunshot wounds
among children in urban areas nearly doubled between 1987 and 1990.
The percentage of violent crimes against Blacks in which the offender
had a gun was nearly twice the percentage of violent crimes in which whites
were the victims in which whites were the victims (11 % versus 20%).
(Bureau of Justice Statistics) ,
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