Raleigh
North Gideon Newsletter
April 2003
"For
whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
(Romans 10:13)
Meet
Your 2003-2004 Camp Officers!
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| Russ Davis shares a light moment with Malcolm Hawkins (l) and Lee Warner (r). |
Our annual camp elections were held at the April 15 camp
meeting. They were conducted by Russ Davis, Vice-President of the Raleigh West
Camp. Both chaplains were absent but had already agreed to serve. Please pray
for God’s guidance as your 2003-2004 officers seek to carry out The Gideons’
objective: to win others for the Lord Jesus Christ.
Pray that God will fill all the
appointed positions. Two of our appointed officers have served three years or
more: John Kay, 4 years as Scripture chairman; and Tom Wallace as Prison
Chairman. The terms of all officers elected or appointed should be limited to
three successive terms.
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| Meet our four Auxiliary officers (From left: Dot Rawley, Chaplain; Emily Dillard, Secretary/Treasurer; Jeannette Daniels, President; Nancy Davenport, Vice-President). | All five Gideon officers were reelected. (From left: Garland Tucker, Chaplain; Malcolm Hawkins, Vice-President; Lee Warner, President; Pat Simpson, Secretary; Richard Justice, Treasurer) |
Meet Jonathan Koch
Meet our newest member, Jonathan Koch, who became a
Gideon on March 6, 2003. Jonathan and his wife, Courtney, have lived in Apex
for about the last five years. He is from Marshall, Michigan and she is from
Grand Rapids. Jonathan is vice-president of Inveresk Research, a clinical
research company located on Lake Crabtree in Cary. Courtney is a graduate
student at NC State, studying counseling and special education. She’ll get her
Masters degree in about two weeks.
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Lee Warner, left, gets ready to pin Gideon emblem on new member Jonathan Koch. |
They are members of North Raleigh Chapel, where Jonathan helps out with
the youth group. He recently traveled to Belize as part of a nine-day mission
trip with other men of his church. They helped local church members renovate
part of their rundown chapel. He says that the work they did was “certainly
rewarding and a blessing.”
Gideon and fellow church member Jim Doherty got him interested in
joining the Gideons. Jonathan talked and prayed with Jim a number of times
about the Gideons and, he says, “It seemed like a wonderful ministry and a
wonderful opportunity.” He doesn’t know yet where the Lord will use him in this
ministry but he feels “quite comfortable” with campus ministry (outreach,
Scripture distribution, etc.). “It wasn’t so long ago that I was in college and
certainly I wasn’t saved then. It would have been such a blessing to have God’s
word at the time.” Welcome to the Gideons Jonathan!
Camp
Meeting May 20:
State Convention Returns
Our next
camp dinner meeting is scheduled for 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at Embassy
Suites (across from Crabtree Valley Mall), 4700 Creedmoor Road. Don't miss
this time of food, fellowship, and inspiration. Both the program and the
Auxiliary Special Feature will focus on returns from the State Convention.
Note: We try to be
good stewards of our resources, therefore if you have confirmed and can not
attend we ask that you cover the cost of your meal ($16 per person) with camp
treasurer Richard Justice (570-0145).
State Convention Starts May 1st—
Register Before you go!
It’s too late to get the guaranteed hotel rate, but not too
late to register BEFORE you go to the 56th Annual Gideon
State Convention. Even if you are going just for one day, it is very
important to PLEASE REGISTER AHEAD OF TIME! This ensures that your name tag and
welcome packet will be ready for you when you arrive. It also helps the
Convention Committee plan for the right number of luncheon and banquet meals.
And you won’t have to stand in line with unregistered last-minute arrivals! This
year’s convention will be held May 1-4 at the Adams Mark Hotel in Winston-Salem, N.C. The theme is “Walk
Worthy,” (Ephesians 4:2). State elections will be on Saturday, May 3,
and the Pastors Banquet will be held on Friday night, May 2. New Gideons
are especially welcome! Look for a registration form in your March Tar
Heel Gideon or contact Ron Hayes at 336-922-2503 (e-mail: rhayes@balinet.com).
While you’re at it, look in the
April Gideon magazine for a registration form for the 104th
Gideons International Convention. This year, you can also register online.
Just go to www.Gideons.org and logon.
This year’s convention will be held July 22-27 at the Sheraton Hotel in Birmingham,
Alabama. Take your family. Take your grandchildren. And it’s a shorter drive
than last year’s convention in Louisville, Kentucky!
“Countdown
100” Faith Fund Offering
Your February and March Tar Heel Gideons contained a
blue “Countdown 100” envelope. Had you deposited $1.30 per day in the envelope
beginning January 26, in 100 days you would have enough to purchase 100
Scriptures to place in outreached hands in over 160 countries. Maybe you
haven’t started yet but time is running out! The convention starts in two weeks
(May 1). Please give or send your Faith Fund Please Countdown 100 now
to Camp President Lee Warner (846-7726) before he leaves for the convention. If
you’ve lost the envelope, don’t worry—he has more!
God’s
Answer to Prayer at WakeMed
Dot Rawley reports that the Lord
recently answered prayer by allowing Gideon Bibles and Auxiliary Medical
Testaments into WakeMed hospital, after a break of several years. Our camp
assisted Raleigh East camp in this effort. It turns out that Beth Black, who is
the wife of Bob Black (a member of our camp), is a volunteer chaplain at
WakeMed. Dot says, “About a year ago that we contacted Beth about
getting Bibles into their ‘heart inn’ for families—28 rooms where families can
stay overnight close to their loved ones who are patients. Recovering heart
patients can also use it as sort of a halfway house before they return home.”
After many
months of prayer about this, Beth found herself in a meeting one day attended
by all the “right people.” At the Lord’s urging, she asked them for permission
to place Bibles in the nightstand drawers of these rooms. They said, “Yes! We
want them!” Auxiliary President Nadine Kay then asked Dot if Beth would also
make Medical New Testaments available to everyone in the entire hospital work
force who wanted them. Beth wholeheartedly agreed and so, on February 24, 2003,
Scripture Chairman John Kay delivered 28 full-size blue hotel Bibles and 100
Medical Testaments to Dot’s home. Then Dot’s husband Frank delivered them to
Beth’s home.
This was a joint effort by both camps but from now on Shirley Evans, Raleigh East Auxiliary President, will be Beth Black’s contact. Dot says, “To God alone be all the glory! Praise the Lord for answering prayers!”
Visit to Raleigh City Police Cadets Planned
As most of you know (or should know), Charlie Rabb and much
prayer have been instrumental in getting us permission to place Service
Testaments with NC State Highway Patrol graduating cadets and, as reported in
last month’s newsletter, with Wake County Sheriff deputy cadets. And now
Charlie reports that we may soon visit the Raleigh City Police cadets. Charlie
says, “This means we will cover all three law enforcement agencies in our camp
territory—a ‘trifecta,’ if you will!”
Charlie got everybody he knows to
pray for the city cadets, including the entire leadership of his BSF (Bible
Study Fellowsip) class. Eventually he was able to contact Raleigh Police Chief
Jane Perlov to see if things could be worked out. “I promised we would give the
cadets Service Testaments exactly the same way we give them to the other
cadets,” said Charlie. “We ask them if they want a Bible. If they do, we give
them one. If they don’t, we move on. No preaching. No reading Scripture. No
praying. We just give them a Bible.”
Chief Perlov seemed very agreeable
to this. She said she would contact the head of the cadet school and get back
to Charlie soon. At this date plans are underway for a time and date to make
this distribution. Please pray for the success of this undertaking.
Pastors
Appreciation Banquet:
Monday,
March 17
This year’s superb Pastors Appreciation Banquet was held on
Monday evening, March 17, at the North Raleigh Hilton. Our speaker was Kyle
Compton, former Gideon State President of Virginia. The testimony speaker was
Mike “Tank” Kersey, a former biker from Archdale, North Carolina.who was
featured in the Aug/Sept 2002 issue of The
Gideon (p. 32). Some of you may remember his testimony from the Louisville
Convention last summer.
Special music was provided by
Jeremy Funk (singer) and Kenyon Clark (piano), a duet from Forest Hills Baptist
Church. Jeremy is an R&D Chemist for The Dow Chemical Company. Kenyon was
part of the original Kingsboys quartet, which criss-crossed the country for ten
years (1982-1992) in a Silver Eagle bus singing to thousands of Gospel music
lovers.
Moderator Cliff Merrill
kicked off our slate of speakers by introducing us to Kathy Gross,
Secretary-Treasurer of the Raleigh East Camp. Kathy gave us an up-to-date
report on what God has been doing through the Auxiliary. She reminded us of the
purpose of the Auxiliary—to assist the Gideons in accomplishing their single
objective: “To win others for the Lord Jesus Christ.” She reminded us of the
three functions of the Auxiliary: prayer, witnessing and service.
Testimony speaker Mike “Tank”
Kersey bought his first motorcycle at the age of 16 and began a life of
liquor, drugs, and crime. He married his wife, Pat, when they were both
17 years old. They had two children over the next 6 years and tried to straighten
out their lives, but things kept getting worse and worse. While Pat stayed home
to raise the children, Tank spent years traveling all over the USA lying,
cheating and stealing. He had pockets full of money, but no peace in his soul.
Then one night in a Missouri motel
room he held a pistol in his hand and contemplated killing a man over a deal
that had gone bad. As he sat on the bed and pondered what to do, he thought
about how his life was falling apart because of drugs. It made sense to him
that he should just take his own life instead.
“But my eyes were drawn to a
Gideon Bible on the bedside table,” he said. “I picked it up and started
reading about a man named Jesus. It wasn’t long before I got down on my knees,
crying, and asked the Lord to save me. And He did save me and He forgave me of
all my sins!”
Soon, Pat also gave her heart to the Lord. They began a
ministry in a local church and Tank even became a choir director. But one day,
he felt the Lord was calling him to go back to the bikers, this time as an
evangelist. He started a ministry called “His Laboring Few: Biker Ministry of
Jesus Christ.” Tank says, “Now I serve God through a ministry to bikers, and
have seen much fruit in this often-ignored mission field. I thank God for that
Bible in that motel room. It was there when I needed it most.” You can see his
“revival tent” at biker meets (such as Myrtle Beach) where free food and the
Word of God is given out.
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| Kyle Compton at the podium. | Kathy Gross gives Auxiliary report. |
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Wake
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Main speaker Brother Compton
has been a Gideon for 40 years and is past Gideon State President of Virginia.
He has also served on two EAPs (Extension Action Programs) to Africa and Spain.
He has held various positions on the Virginia State Cabinet and is currently
serving as camp Membership Program Assistant. A retired Division Manager with
Robertshaw Controls Company in Independence, Virginia, brother Compton and wife
Hazel make their home in Galax, Virginia. They have four children, all grown
with families.
Brother Compton told the story of
a Buddhist trainee who was sick and went to a cabin to die. A neighboring
13-year-old girl cared for him and brought a little Gideon Bible with her every
day. She would say, “Sir, you need to read this Bible!” After several days he
relented and let her begin to read it aloud. But she learned that he was dying
of TB and said, “Sir, you don’t have time to read all of this,” and went
straight to the book of Matthew where she read to him about the birth of Jesus.
He converted from Buddha and lived in Christ!
Brother Compton asked the ushers
to take up the Faith fund offering. Our Faith Fund Focus country was Malawi.
Camp Treasurer Richard Justice later reported that $5,930.61 was given, which
far exceeded our goal of $5,000! A total of 103 meals were paid for, 41 of
which were for Gideons and Auxiliary members.
Jail Ministry:
Like Father, Like Son
John Gaydos and Steve Wilson had a wonderful experience during their visit to the Wake County Jail on Sunday night, March 23. John says they had to spend an extra hour on their floor because the Holy Spirit was moving so mightily amongst the men. They witnessed six men come to the Lord and they believe that most of them were truly sincere because they were crying and rejoicing. Praise the Lord for a wonderful night. So many men came forward that they ran out of most materials. And they had some great prayer time and discussions with the men.
John reports this sad but touching episode: One of the men said his son was also in jail in the other section. He asked John and Steve to go over there and call out his son's name and pray for him! Think of it—father and son in the same jail at the same time! He said his son would not respond or come forward to the Gideons unless we called out his name. So we went over to the son’s section and called out his name and indeed he did come forward. He left his card game and was willing to accept prayer and seemed to be somewhat touched by the request of his father. But afterwards he returned to his card game and did not participate in the discussion and prayer with the other men.
Most of the men there will do anything they can to heal a broken relationship with their wife, their kids, their family, etc. They always ask us to pray for their court dates or to be released, but the most common thing is to pray for relationships with their wives and children. We tell them the first thing they need to do is restore their relationship with the Lord.
Gideons and Auxiliary that night gave out 145 PWTs, 34 Spanish New Testaments and 37 Auxiliary PWTs. Visiting the main jail were: Charlie & Karen Rabb, Cliff & Liz Merrill, Bill Flythe, Steve Blackmon, Bill Hudson, John Massey, John Gaydos, and Steve Wilson. Richard Justice and Tom Wallace visited the Hammond Road Annex, where they led 11 more people to the Lord. Tom says, “That’s the most we’ve had at Hammond Road in many months.”
P.S. Our prison ministry has become even more important with the absence of Bettye Poole, who was jail chaplain for several years. She was let go in February 28 due to budget cuts. Sadly, there is no longer a chaplain position in the Wake County Jail system.
Butner Prison Ministry
Our Gideon-led Bible study continues to meet Friday nights
from 6:30—8:30. If you want to be part of this ministry, call Prison Chairman
Tom Wallace at 782-0903. Tom reports that on Friday night, April 18, Tom and
John Dillard plan to show “The True Easter Story,” a 45-minute video filmed in
the Holy Land and presented by historian and evangelist Ray Vanderlaan. Tom
also plans to bring a dogwood blossom and explain the story of the dogwood
(“the Easter tree”) as it relates to Christ.
There will be a Volunteer
Recognition Dinner at the Federal Correction Training Center to honor all
prison volunteers, including every security-qualified volunteer from our camp,
along with a spouse or a guest. It will be held from 6:00—8:00 p.m. on Tuesday,
April 29. Among the activities planned that night will be food, fellowship,
music and a Volunteer-of-the-Year award.
Repair Work
Found while surfing the
Internet:
It's a startling statistic: One out of every 32 adults in America last
year was either behind bars, or on probation, or on parole. That amounts to 6.6
million people—up 150,000 or 2.3 percent from the year before. Average annual
growth in that category between 1995 and 2001 was 3.6 percent.
…Not a single person talked about the righteous
living that keeps people out of jail in the first place. No one talked about
the fact that Gideon Bibles are permissible in prisons, but not in schools.
Nobody mentioned what might happen if in those Bibles, folks started reading
seriously lines that promised: “Blessed is the man who walks not in the
counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat
of scoffers.”
Sadly, vast segments of American society are devoted these days to repair work. It seems a lot less popular to apply yourself to building things right in the first place.
(found at http://www.worldmag.com/world/world_ad.asp?which=BelzAd)
Scripture Placements
Charlotte Blitzed!
Ray and Linda Cooksey were part of
the recent 4-day Charlotte Scripture Blitz, which took place March 23-26. Ray
says many hotels were covered as well as the Central Piedmont Community
College, where 3,500 Scriptures were placed and more than nine salvations took
place. Over 27,000 Scriptures were distributed in the 4-day blitz.
Camouflaged Testaments
Praised by National Guard
The March issue of the Tarheel Guardsman contains an
article titled “Gideons Donate Bibles to National Guard Soldiers and Airmen.”
In it, Capt. Robert Carver, NCNG PAO, praises Scripture Chairman John Kay’s
donation on January 17 of hundreds of camouflaged Gideon New Testaments from
our camp to the men and women of the North Carolina National Guard. (See the
February camp newsletter.) The National Guard has provided Bibles to the troops
since The Gideon organization began supplying them in 1941. There is also a
photo of Maj. Gen. William E. Ingram, Jr. looking on as his wife, Lil,
inscribes one of the donated Bibles. (Thanks to Gary Pendleton
for passing this on to John Kay.)
The April Gideon Information
Bulletin reports that through February, more than 631,000 Service
Testaments have been shipped this fiscal year. Pray for the men and women of
our armed forces in these difficult times.
About Military Scriptures
The following note was sent
to NC Gideon State President Mike Steiner from William R. Walters, Human Resources Manager at
Gideons International Headquarters.
It was in response to many
questions about Military Scriptures for our service folks.
Mike passed it on to us for
our information:
Dear Mike:
Your email about Bibles/New Testaments has come to
me as I am in charge of Scriptures for the military all over the world. I'm
happy to advise that The Gideons International has provided over 650,000 copies
of God's Word to our military since June 1 [2002]. I have personally been
involved in having New Testaments shipped to most military bases in the USA as
well as many countries around the world. These orders range from 100 to 10,000
copies. Just two weeks ago we shipped an order of 5,000 to Turkey.
The Gideons International has been providing God's
Word to the military chaplains since 1941 free of charge. The first 50,000
Testaments had been completely distributed to servicemen by April, 1941, some
eight months before the bombing at Pearl Harbor.
All a military chaplain has to do to get free
Bibles/New Testaments from The Gideons International is to contact us. We
praise God that since June 1, we have not had to deny a single order for
Scriptures for the military because of a lack of funds. This is because of the
faithful financial support of churches and individual Christians like you. The
Testament we give to the military costs $1.30 each. God is providing His Word
to our troops!
The following is our "form dear chaplain"
letter giving the guidelines:
Dear Chaplain, Assistant Chaplain or Military Personnel:
We acknowledge with thanks receipt of your request for
Scriptures to be distributed to U.S. military personnel.
It is our policy that Scripture requests must be received
from the military chaplain. The following guidelines should answer any
questions that you may have concerning the approved use of Gideon Scriptures
provided to military chaplains.
The Gideons are glad to supply, free of charge, a vest
pocket size New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs (Green Camouflage or Desert
Camouflage for US Army and Marine Corps Personnel; Dark Blue for Navy, Air
Force Coast Guard and MEPS), to every member of the U.S.A. Armed Forces and to
patients at U.S. Veterans Administration hospitals. The Testaments are to
be presented by Gideons or by the Military Chaplain assigned to such units.
Chaplains may order these Testaments either through the local Gideons or the
Nashville Gideon Headquarters Office. No provision is made for presenting
Testaments to families or dependents of service personnel or to Nationals in
other countries.
Complete Bibles are available to Chaplains for placement in
day rooms, libraries, and guardhouses on military bases and military chapels.
The Gideons do not have a program to supply Bibles for quarters, barracks,
Bachelor Officer's quarters (BOQ's) or military guesthouses, either permanent
or temporary. The complete Bible is not given to individual servicemen or
their dependents.
Hospital Testaments with Psalms (or complete Bibles when
specifically requested) are available at the bedside in base hospitals or
in U.S. Veterans Administration hospitals. Nurse Testaments may also be
provided for presentation to the nurses working at such hospitals. Whenever
possible these Nurse Testaments should be presented to the nurses by members of
the Auxiliary (wives) of The Gideons International, although the presentation
may be made by the Chaplain in charge, if necessary.
We enjoy a very fine relationship with Military Chaplains
throughout the world. If you need Scriptures to be used in accordance
with these guidelines, please contact us and tell us how they are to be used
and how many of each kind you need (Green Camo, Desert Camo, and /or Dark Blue.
We have the King James or New King James Versions.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
William R. Walters, Human Resources Manager
Tuesday, April 01, 2003
Church
Speaking Opportunities
Church Assignment Co-Chairmen Cliff Merrill and Larry
Davenport continue to make contacts and arrange services. Keep praying for
their success!
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Mar 16 |
North Raleigh
Church of the Nazarene |
Kyle Compton |
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Mar 16 |
Six Forks
Baptist |
Richard
Justice |
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Mar 23 |
Creedmoor
Road Baptist (25-min.) |
Charlie Rabb |
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Apr 9 |
North Ridge Bible Chapel |
Ray Cooksey |
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Apr 27 |
Emmanuel Baptist Church |
Cliff Merrill |
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May 18 |
St. Mark's United Methodist Church |
TBA |
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May 18 |
Ridgecrest Baptist |
TBA |
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Jul 27 |
Westminster Presbyterian |
TBA |
A Wonderful
way to Say “I Love You”
With
Living Memorial Bibles
Memorial Bible Plan Chairman Doug Schmidt (782-5311) says,
“We thank God for encouraging so many people to use the plan but we are still
about $3,000 short of our goal of $27,600 for the fiscal year (ends May 31).
Please use the Memorial Bible Plan, exchange outdated church racks for ones
with current prices, and show the video.
Thinking of You: Congratulations to Erik and Tiffany Hanvey, parents of a healthy beautiful set of twins, born
on March 14, 2003. Ava
Franklin Anne was born at 9:40 pm and Whitfield Katie May at 9:41 pm. Ava weighed 5 lbs., 7 oz and Whit weighed 4
lbs, 15 oz. The parents got to take them home when they left the hospital. The twins already have a big sister, two
years old. Edd K.
Roberts, also a member of this camp, is Tiffany’s father. He now has two new
granddaughters to spoil! Thinking of You cards may be mailed to: Erik & Tiffany
Hanvey, 8713 Paddlewheel Drive, Raleigh, NC 27615.
Gideon Takes Bite out of Crime
From The News
& Observer, April 14, 2003, written by Ryan Teague Beckwith and Sarah
Avery.
David Martin, 75, Raleigh real estate developer and
longtime member of the Raleigh West camp, tried to take a bite out of crime and
ended up getting bitten. Now it's the treatment he received from Wake County
health officials that has him sore. He was at Big Lots on Western Boulevard Saturday
afternoon when he heard a woman yelling that a man had stolen her purse.
He saw a man running with the
purse and lit out after him. With the help of two other men, Martin subdued the
man in the parking lot. During the scuffle, the man bit Martin on the upper
right arm, drawing blood.
"I mean, he just clamped
down like a bulldog and wouldn't let go," Martin said.
Martin, a middleweight boxing
champion in the Coast Guard in 1946, said he hit the man on the jaw and, with
the help of the other men, got his arm free.
Police arrived and arrested
Horace Lee Jones, 50, of 3037 Woods Place in Raleigh. He was charged with
felony larceny and simple assault. He was being held Sunday night in the Wake
County jail on $6,000 bail.
Paramedics treated Martin's wound
at the site but suggested he try to have Jones tested for hepatitis B, a
disease transmitted by infected blood that causes liver damage.
It was then that Martin said he
got stung by health officials.
Doctors recommend that people
who may have been exposed to hepatitis B get a vaccination and a shot of
chilled hepatitis antibodies within three days while the other person is tested
for the virus.
Martin said he contacted Wake
County health officials, who told him they could not compel Jones to give blood
since the victim of the bite wound was not a police officer or other emergency
worker.
Dr. Peter J. Morris, medical
director of Wake County Human Services, declined to discuss the specifics of
the case "for confidentiality reasons," but he said that the policy
is to encourage voluntary testing first and seek a court order if anyone --
police, paramedic or not -- is at risk.
Martin maintains that is not
what happened.
With the help of his son-in-law,
Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Evenson, Martin said he contacted two county
commissioners and the county health director and got their permission to have
the tests done, but health officials wanted Martin to be tested, too.
"They almost turned the
whole thing on its head," Evenson said. "It was almost as if the
victim of the biting was the one who had to be tested more so than the one who
did the biting."
Martin said the experience left
him with a bad taste in his mouth.
"Any citizen of North
Carolina shouldn't be treated this way," he said. "I was just being
public-spirited. What this is telling people is not to get involved."
Sunday night, officials said
Jones was willing and blood had been drawn.
Join us for Prayer and Breakfast!
We would love to have you join us
on Saturday mornings for Prayer and Breakfast. We meet at the Clarion Hotel
(formerly Fourpoints) across from Crabtree Valley Mall at 7:30 a.m. Breakfast
(optional) is at 8:00 a.m. We typically meet in the executive meeting room on
the 10th floor. Gideons and Auxiliary are always welcome! For more information,
call Lee Warner (846-7726) or Nadine Kay (870-9266).
Camp Calendar
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May 1-4 |
56th State Gideon
Convention—Adams Mark Hotel, Winston-Salem |
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May 20 (6:45pm) |
Camp
Meeting: State Convention Reports |
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Jun 14 |
The Gideons
International Day of Prayer |
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Jul 22-27 |
104th International
Gideon Convention, Birmingham, Alabama |
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Aug 29-Sep 1 |
Bonclarken Zone 10 Annual Labor
Day Retreat; Paige Patterson, main speaker. (Contact
Jon Schweigert at 864-458-7989 or e-mail: jonREschweigert@aol.com) |
Respectfully submitted,
Pat
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Newsletter Editor
(919-877-0434
or e-mail
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