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V^HIST. & TRAVEL i ^v DEC | %r« be^D jj5J?S> ^ ^LuccrIBKARY °F S0UTH BEND 122 WEST WAYNE STREET SOUTH BEND, IND. 46601 NATIONAL BLACK CHURCHMEN it THE REFORMER Vol. 2, No. 37 Your Community-Conscience Newspaper 15? December 7,1969 Oldest South Bend Black Christian Community Has New Home South Bend's oldest Black Christian community will of- ficially move into a new church building on Sunday, December 7th. The Olivet African Methodist Episcopal Church formerly located at 310 West Monroe Street has purchased the former Lowell Heights Methodist church building and parsonage at 719 and 724 North Notre Dame Avenue, respectively. The first worship service in the new building of the Olivet Christian community will be at 11:00 A.M. on the same day. A Dedication Service open to the public will be at 4:00 P.M. Bish- op Howard T. Primm of the Fourth Episcopal Dis- trict of the A.M.E. Church will speak at both meetings. Refreshments will be served following the afternoon event. As many notices as possible have been mailed to area religious leaders inviting them to attend. In- vitations have also been ex- tended to A.M.E. Ministers from throughout the State of Indiana. The Olivet A.M.E. Church was organized in the Mon- roe Street neighborhood in 1870 and chartered in 1871. Its first minister was J. Bundy and its first members were Mrs. and Mrs. Farrow PoweU, Mr. and Mrs. James Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Bridgeman, James Hurst, John B. Lott, and John Powell. The Olivet Church The Rev. Roderick S. Johnson is pictured in front of the new home of the Ol- ivet A.M.E. Church at 719 North Notre Dame Ave. building just vacated was built on the Monroe Street site in 1917. The present Minister of the church is the Reverend Roderick S. Johnson who was appointed the Pastor of Oli- vet on October 1, 1967 by the then Bishop of the Fourth Episcopal District, the Re- verend Jospeh Gomaz, at the Illinois Annual Conference of the A.M.E. Church. Before coming to South Bend, Rev. Johnson was As- sistant Pastor of the First A.M.E. Church in Gary, In- diana. Rev. Johnson, a native of Syracuse, N.Y., is a grad- uate of Judson College in Elgin, 111. and has a B.D. degree from Northern Theological Seminary, Oak Brook, 111. He and his wife, Barbara, have three chil- Ul Oil, The Rev. Mr. Johnson has served pastorates in Elgin, 111. and Gary, Ind. He has served on the faculty of a Bible Institute in Chicago, 111. and, while serving as assistant pastor at First AME in Gary, directed the Head Start Program for eighty pre-school children at the Baber Youth Center. Between October 1968 and 1969 Rev. Johnson served as Associate Director of Social Services of South Bend's ACTION, Inc., the local anti- poverty program. The Lowell Heights Meth- odist congregation left the building when they merged (Photo by Milton Herring) Qje Evangelical United Nicky Cruz Here This Weekend By Mary Lou Giloth Nicky Cruz, who will be in town this weekend at Cal- vary Temple and at Notre Dame's Stepan Center, led a life which was full of vio- lence and gang warfare until he experienced a total con- version to Jesus Christ. Some will recognize Nicky's name from thebest- seUing book THE CROSS AND THE SWITCH BLADE. There now is a book in paper- back which tells the entire story of Cruz's life up to his conversion as well as after it. The name of this book is RUN BABY RUN. Fascinating and at first depressing, Nicky's story begins with his life as a child in Puerto Rico. Feel- ing unloved and rejected by his parents, Nicky became vicious and unmanageable. At the age of 15, he was put on a plane for New York. His mother and father, realizing they could not handle him, sent him to his brother, Frank. However, Nicky refused his brother's help and after being expelled from school, turned to the street. He be- came the president of the Mau Mau gang. This part of the story is full of gang warfare, drugs and degen- eracy. It takes David Wilker- son, a Pentecostal Street Preacher, to bring Nicky the good news that someone DOES love him HIS name is Jesus. The story of Nicky's conversion is a beautiful one. At first,Nicky runs from the Lord but when he finaUy accepts Him, like St. Paul, he turns his life to Christ with the same ded- ication that he formerly had given to the devil. Nicky, and his wife Gloria, are now working for the Lord in the outreach for youth program which they founded in Fresno, Cali- fornia. Cruz will be at Calvary Temple , 3717 S. Michigan Street on Friday at 7:30 pm and on Sunday night at 7:00 pm. There will be a mass rally at Notre Dame's Stepan Center on Saturday, December 6 at 7:30 pm. The public is invited to hear Nicky tell his own story. Soul Food To Be Served At Hansel This Saturday The Friendly Frater- nlzers Homemakers Club wUl serve "Soul Food Din- ners" on Saturday, Decem- ber 6 from 12:00 to 4:30 pm. Individual servings will be $1.25 - family style, four people or more, will be $1.00 per seving. The dinner will be held at the Hansel Center, 1045 W. Washington Street and Rev. Roderick S. Johnson Brethren Church on N. Iron- wood Street to form the Evangel Heights United Methodist Church. Local Council of Churches Task Force to Study Black Manifesto A local Council of Chur- ches Task Force, under the chairmanship of the Rever- end James O. Banks, pas- tor of Sunnyside Presbyter- ian Church, South Bend, will meet at that church on Tues- day, December 9 at 7:21 pm. The purpose of the Task Force is to consider the broad implications of the Manifesto concerning the unity of the church, to eval- uate the needs expressed or implied by the Manifes- to; and to explore the im- plications for the religious community of St. Joseph County. Other members of the Task Force include: Rev- erend Benjamin Berry, Dr. Eugene Balsley, Mr. Lu- ther Dixon, Reverend James Miller, Reverend Roderick Johnson, Mrs. Phyllis Law- rence, Mrs. Annabelle TOGETHER" Other Stories Pages 5 and 7 Editorial on Page 4 (Editor's note: What follows is the official statement of the National Committee of Black Churchmen following its national meeting at Oakland, California on November 14, 1969.) WE came to Oakland as an act of faith. We came seeking a deeper experience of the mission of God in the contem- porary world than has ever been pro- vided by the denominations and lo- cal congregations to which some of us belong, from which some of us have fled in profound disillusion- ment, qnd which some of us have observed, but only with doubt and distrust. In a time of increasing institutionalization and bureaucratization of the Church, we do not come to create a new institutional form of the Church. We are not here to invent a new denomination. Our primary and overreaching concern is to seek, through our com- mon experience and consciousness of being black and powerless in a part of the world dominated by white racism and white power, a new religio-cultural, politi- cal and economic vocation, which can relate to our own deep alienation from a religious, cultural, politi- cal and economic system. This system is not compat- ible with our own instincts and sensibilities but has been commended to us and imposed upon us by white, bourgeois, European and American religious, political and economic institutions interlocking and conspiring with one another to whitenize and subordinate black people. This new vocation to which we are called is politi- cal in the sense that it seeks radically to change, by whatever means are necessary, the racist structures which dominate our lives; cultural in the sense that it seeks to identify, recreate, unify and authenticate whatever traditions, values and styles of life are in- digenous or distinctive to the black community; and theological in the sense that we believe that it is God —iiowcve* He ciiuoaes to reveal HiiliHu luuaj to op- pressed peoples in America and in the Third World— who has chosen black humanity as a vanguard to resist the demonic powers of racism, capitalism and impe- rialism, and to so reform the structures of this world that they will more perfectly minister to the peace and power of all people as children of One God and brothers of one another. WE black people are a religious people. From earliest recorded time we have acknowledged a ! Supreme Being. With the fullness of our physi- cal bodies and emotions we have unabashedly wor- shipped Him with shouts of joy and in tears of pain and anguish. We neither believe that God is dead, white, nor captive to some highly rationalistic and dogmatic formulations of the Christian faith which relate Him exclusively to the canons of the Old and New Testaments and accommodate Him to the reign- ing spirits of a socio-technical age. Rather, we affirm that God is Liberator in the man Jesus Christ, that His message is Freedom, and that today He calls all men to be what they are in themselves, and among their own people, in the con- text of a pluralistic world-society of dignity and self- determination for all. We believe that, in a special way, "God's favor rests today upon the poor and op- pressed peoples of the world and that He calls them to' be the ministering angels of His judgment and grace as His Kingdom of Freedom and Peace breaks in from the future upon a world shackled to ancient sins and virtues and upon the present inequalities, imperialistic wars, and ambitions of privileged na- tions, classes and power groups. (Continued on Page 7) Thomas, Reverend Fred Fiedler, Mr. Carl Ellison and Mr. Odell Newburn. AU persons interested in this issue are invited to attend. Model Neighborhood Issues Mid-Planning Report The South Bend Model Neighborhood Program re- cently announced the com- pletion of it's Mid-planning Statement for the program's planning year which began March 15, 1969 and extends to March 1970. The Mid-Planning State- ment, submit approximate- ly mid-way through the plan- ning year, contains a des- cription of how the Pro- gram's First Year Action Plan is being formulated, a summary of neighborhood the proceeds will go to char- ity. problems and their causes, and a listing of first year objectives and the strategy to be used in achieving them. The strategy for the South Bend Program emphasizes a high degree of citizen in- volvement of the private seo- tor of the community, an in- crease in the level of city services and expenditures in the neighborhood, and educa- tion of the total community about conditions within the neighborhood, and the devel- opment of a fully co-ordin- ated planning process. The 65 page working docu- ment is presently being dis- tributed to the appropriate Federal, State, and Local governmental agencies, members of the Model Neighborhood Planning A- gency, Technical Advisory Committee members, Inter- University Committee mem- bers,and other interested in- dividuals for their review and comments. Following the review period, final approval and formal submission of the revised document will occur in early 1970 as the first part to the program's First Year Action Plan.
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Title | The Reformer, December 07, 1969 |
Volume, Issue Number | Vol. 2, No. 37 |
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South Bend (Ind.)--Newspapers African Americans--Indiana--South Bend |
Original Date | 1969-12-07 |
Time Period | 1960s (1960-1969) |
Digital Date | 2015-03-26 |
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Genre | Newspapers |
Language | en |
Identifier | NEWS-REF-19691207 |
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Physical Repository | St. Joseph County Public Library |
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Transcription | V^HIST. & TRAVEL i ^v DEC | %r« be^D jj5J?S> ^ ^LuccrIBKARY °F S0UTH BEND 122 WEST WAYNE STREET SOUTH BEND, IND. 46601 NATIONAL BLACK CHURCHMEN it THE REFORMER Vol. 2, No. 37 Your Community-Conscience Newspaper 15? December 7,1969 Oldest South Bend Black Christian Community Has New Home South Bend's oldest Black Christian community will of- ficially move into a new church building on Sunday, December 7th. The Olivet African Methodist Episcopal Church formerly located at 310 West Monroe Street has purchased the former Lowell Heights Methodist church building and parsonage at 719 and 724 North Notre Dame Avenue, respectively. The first worship service in the new building of the Olivet Christian community will be at 11:00 A.M. on the same day. A Dedication Service open to the public will be at 4:00 P.M. Bish- op Howard T. Primm of the Fourth Episcopal Dis- trict of the A.M.E. Church will speak at both meetings. Refreshments will be served following the afternoon event. As many notices as possible have been mailed to area religious leaders inviting them to attend. In- vitations have also been ex- tended to A.M.E. Ministers from throughout the State of Indiana. The Olivet A.M.E. Church was organized in the Mon- roe Street neighborhood in 1870 and chartered in 1871. Its first minister was J. Bundy and its first members were Mrs. and Mrs. Farrow PoweU, Mr. and Mrs. James Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Bridgeman, James Hurst, John B. Lott, and John Powell. The Olivet Church The Rev. Roderick S. Johnson is pictured in front of the new home of the Ol- ivet A.M.E. Church at 719 North Notre Dame Ave. building just vacated was built on the Monroe Street site in 1917. The present Minister of the church is the Reverend Roderick S. Johnson who was appointed the Pastor of Oli- vet on October 1, 1967 by the then Bishop of the Fourth Episcopal District, the Re- verend Jospeh Gomaz, at the Illinois Annual Conference of the A.M.E. Church. Before coming to South Bend, Rev. Johnson was As- sistant Pastor of the First A.M.E. Church in Gary, In- diana. Rev. Johnson, a native of Syracuse, N.Y., is a grad- uate of Judson College in Elgin, 111. and has a B.D. degree from Northern Theological Seminary, Oak Brook, 111. He and his wife, Barbara, have three chil- Ul Oil, The Rev. Mr. Johnson has served pastorates in Elgin, 111. and Gary, Ind. He has served on the faculty of a Bible Institute in Chicago, 111. and, while serving as assistant pastor at First AME in Gary, directed the Head Start Program for eighty pre-school children at the Baber Youth Center. Between October 1968 and 1969 Rev. Johnson served as Associate Director of Social Services of South Bend's ACTION, Inc., the local anti- poverty program. The Lowell Heights Meth- odist congregation left the building when they merged (Photo by Milton Herring) Qje Evangelical United Nicky Cruz Here This Weekend By Mary Lou Giloth Nicky Cruz, who will be in town this weekend at Cal- vary Temple and at Notre Dame's Stepan Center, led a life which was full of vio- lence and gang warfare until he experienced a total con- version to Jesus Christ. Some will recognize Nicky's name from thebest- seUing book THE CROSS AND THE SWITCH BLADE. There now is a book in paper- back which tells the entire story of Cruz's life up to his conversion as well as after it. The name of this book is RUN BABY RUN. Fascinating and at first depressing, Nicky's story begins with his life as a child in Puerto Rico. Feel- ing unloved and rejected by his parents, Nicky became vicious and unmanageable. At the age of 15, he was put on a plane for New York. His mother and father, realizing they could not handle him, sent him to his brother, Frank. However, Nicky refused his brother's help and after being expelled from school, turned to the street. He be- came the president of the Mau Mau gang. This part of the story is full of gang warfare, drugs and degen- eracy. It takes David Wilker- son, a Pentecostal Street Preacher, to bring Nicky the good news that someone DOES love him HIS name is Jesus. The story of Nicky's conversion is a beautiful one. At first,Nicky runs from the Lord but when he finaUy accepts Him, like St. Paul, he turns his life to Christ with the same ded- ication that he formerly had given to the devil. Nicky, and his wife Gloria, are now working for the Lord in the outreach for youth program which they founded in Fresno, Cali- fornia. Cruz will be at Calvary Temple , 3717 S. Michigan Street on Friday at 7:30 pm and on Sunday night at 7:00 pm. There will be a mass rally at Notre Dame's Stepan Center on Saturday, December 6 at 7:30 pm. The public is invited to hear Nicky tell his own story. Soul Food To Be Served At Hansel This Saturday The Friendly Frater- nlzers Homemakers Club wUl serve "Soul Food Din- ners" on Saturday, Decem- ber 6 from 12:00 to 4:30 pm. Individual servings will be $1.25 - family style, four people or more, will be $1.00 per seving. The dinner will be held at the Hansel Center, 1045 W. Washington Street and Rev. Roderick S. Johnson Brethren Church on N. Iron- wood Street to form the Evangel Heights United Methodist Church. Local Council of Churches Task Force to Study Black Manifesto A local Council of Chur- ches Task Force, under the chairmanship of the Rever- end James O. Banks, pas- tor of Sunnyside Presbyter- ian Church, South Bend, will meet at that church on Tues- day, December 9 at 7:21 pm. The purpose of the Task Force is to consider the broad implications of the Manifesto concerning the unity of the church, to eval- uate the needs expressed or implied by the Manifes- to; and to explore the im- plications for the religious community of St. Joseph County. Other members of the Task Force include: Rev- erend Benjamin Berry, Dr. Eugene Balsley, Mr. Lu- ther Dixon, Reverend James Miller, Reverend Roderick Johnson, Mrs. Phyllis Law- rence, Mrs. Annabelle TOGETHER" Other Stories Pages 5 and 7 Editorial on Page 4 (Editor's note: What follows is the official statement of the National Committee of Black Churchmen following its national meeting at Oakland, California on November 14, 1969.) WE came to Oakland as an act of faith. We came seeking a deeper experience of the mission of God in the contem- porary world than has ever been pro- vided by the denominations and lo- cal congregations to which some of us belong, from which some of us have fled in profound disillusion- ment, qnd which some of us have observed, but only with doubt and distrust. In a time of increasing institutionalization and bureaucratization of the Church, we do not come to create a new institutional form of the Church. We are not here to invent a new denomination. Our primary and overreaching concern is to seek, through our com- mon experience and consciousness of being black and powerless in a part of the world dominated by white racism and white power, a new religio-cultural, politi- cal and economic vocation, which can relate to our own deep alienation from a religious, cultural, politi- cal and economic system. This system is not compat- ible with our own instincts and sensibilities but has been commended to us and imposed upon us by white, bourgeois, European and American religious, political and economic institutions interlocking and conspiring with one another to whitenize and subordinate black people. This new vocation to which we are called is politi- cal in the sense that it seeks radically to change, by whatever means are necessary, the racist structures which dominate our lives; cultural in the sense that it seeks to identify, recreate, unify and authenticate whatever traditions, values and styles of life are in- digenous or distinctive to the black community; and theological in the sense that we believe that it is God —iiowcve* He ciiuoaes to reveal HiiliHu luuaj to op- pressed peoples in America and in the Third World— who has chosen black humanity as a vanguard to resist the demonic powers of racism, capitalism and impe- rialism, and to so reform the structures of this world that they will more perfectly minister to the peace and power of all people as children of One God and brothers of one another. WE black people are a religious people. From earliest recorded time we have acknowledged a ! Supreme Being. With the fullness of our physi- cal bodies and emotions we have unabashedly wor- shipped Him with shouts of joy and in tears of pain and anguish. We neither believe that God is dead, white, nor captive to some highly rationalistic and dogmatic formulations of the Christian faith which relate Him exclusively to the canons of the Old and New Testaments and accommodate Him to the reign- ing spirits of a socio-technical age. Rather, we affirm that God is Liberator in the man Jesus Christ, that His message is Freedom, and that today He calls all men to be what they are in themselves, and among their own people, in the con- text of a pluralistic world-society of dignity and self- determination for all. We believe that, in a special way, "God's favor rests today upon the poor and op- pressed peoples of the world and that He calls them to' be the ministering angels of His judgment and grace as His Kingdom of Freedom and Peace breaks in from the future upon a world shackled to ancient sins and virtues and upon the present inequalities, imperialistic wars, and ambitions of privileged na- tions, classes and power groups. (Continued on Page 7) Thomas, Reverend Fred Fiedler, Mr. Carl Ellison and Mr. Odell Newburn. AU persons interested in this issue are invited to attend. Model Neighborhood Issues Mid-Planning Report The South Bend Model Neighborhood Program re- cently announced the com- pletion of it's Mid-planning Statement for the program's planning year which began March 15, 1969 and extends to March 1970. The Mid-Planning State- ment, submit approximate- ly mid-way through the plan- ning year, contains a des- cription of how the Pro- gram's First Year Action Plan is being formulated, a summary of neighborhood the proceeds will go to char- ity. problems and their causes, and a listing of first year objectives and the strategy to be used in achieving them. The strategy for the South Bend Program emphasizes a high degree of citizen in- volvement of the private seo- tor of the community, an in- crease in the level of city services and expenditures in the neighborhood, and educa- tion of the total community about conditions within the neighborhood, and the devel- opment of a fully co-ordin- ated planning process. The 65 page working docu- ment is presently being dis- tributed to the appropriate Federal, State, and Local governmental agencies, members of the Model Neighborhood Planning A- gency, Technical Advisory Committee members, Inter- University Committee mem- bers,and other interested in- dividuals for their review and comments. Following the review period, final approval and formal submission of the revised document will occur in early 1970 as the first part to the program's First Year Action Plan. |
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