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VOLUMN XIV, NO VI C.O.G.I.C. HEADQUARTERS, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE JUNE, 1981 WOMEN'S CONVENTION DRAWS NEARLY 10,000 The. 3.1stsession of^the Annual Women's International Convention of the Church of God in Christ, Inc. challenged its delegation with the striking theme: "Dedicated Women that times like these demand.*' The purpose of the convention was to promote better homes, better communities and a better world. The support of missions was and always has been a chief objective. This year the convention site was the Tarrant County Convention Center located at 1111 Houston Street in Fort Worth, Texas. Approximately 10,000 delegates, both national and international, convened there from May 26-31. They were hosted and welcomed by the Bishop J. Neaul Haynes and Mrs. Emma F. Barron along with other participating jurisdictions. Both men and women are in attendance at this great covention which was pioneered by the late Mother Lizzie Robinson and further organized by the late Dr. Lillian Brooks Coffey. Dr. Mattie McGlothen keeps constantly before the women the memory of these past leaders, including her predecessor, the late Dr. Annie L. Bailey. As the women remember from whence they came, they are motivated to enter into "new dimensions and horizons in the spirit" today. The Convention workshops played a leading role in conveying this year's theme: "Dedicated Women That Times Like These Demand." The workshop committee, chairwoman Dr. St. Carrie Dinwiddie, Dr. Gwendolyn Howard, Mrs. Odessa Newman and Mrs. Geraldine Wright very masterfully prepared outlines for information, instruction and enlightenment. While the convention is focused towards women, they have been successful in attracting men to its sessions. Bishop Neaul Haynes and Elder E. Calloway conducted workshops for the brethren in attendance. Highlights for the convention included the keynote address delivered by Mrs. Freddie J. Bell, State Supervisor of North Carolina 2nd Jurisdiction. Dr. Mattie McGlothen was the principle speaker on Thursday, May 28. The presiding bishop, Bishop J. O. Patterson addressed the convention on Friday, May 29, at the 7:30 p.m. service. The session climaxed on Sunday, May 31, with the closing message delivered by Elder Carlis Moody, President of the Home & Foreign Mission Department. All the delegates were challenged to share in the concern for missions around the world. Those that went expecting returned to their various homes pleased that the Lord had met them in a tremendous way. When the two sisters began searching for each other they found that the orphans home in Louisville had burned and that all records had been destroyed. The adoption records of Mrs. Garrett were sealed, and she had considered hiring a lawyer to try to open them. "I didn't have to pay no lawyer," she said. "God was my lawyer." This was not the only highlight. Continued on page 8 MOTHER mattie McGlothen WOMEN'S CONVENTION UNITES TWO SISTERS AFTER 62 YEARS Two sisters, who last saw each other 62 years ago when one was adopted out of an orphans home, were reunited Friday when they sat down together during a women's international church convention at the Tarrant County Convention. The stranger-than-fiction chance meeting brought together Martha Garett of Kansas City, Mo., and Emma Jones of J^arrell, Pa. The two had been trying to find each other throughout their adult life. "Now when we die, we can die happy," said Mrs. Garrett, 65, psy m , mm <A ? *,X - l-' A ■--/ s The sisters were among about 10,000 attending the Women's International Convention of the Church of God in Christ at the convention center. They believe a miracle caused them to sit together. "I saw this woman down front by herself and I sat down," Mrs. Garrett said. "We started talking and I told her my name was Martha and I mentioned that I was adopted." "When I told her my maiden name was Evans, big tears started rolling down her WOMEN'S CONVENTION UNITES SISTERS AFTER 62 YEARS TWO cheeks," Mrs. Garrett said. Mrs. Garrett said her mother's name was Lela, mentioned other names on her family tree and the dramatic realization simutaneously struck both-they were sisters. Mrs. Jones, 70, told her: "You are my sister I've been looking for all these years." The two were separated in 1919 when Mrs. Garrett, then 3 years old was adopted by a family in Jackson, Tenn. Their mother had died at age 28 and their father was not able to take care of the family of six children. All the family ended up in a Louisville, Ky., orphans home. Four members of the family, including Mrs. Jones, got back together when their father remarried and took them out of the orphans home. Continued on page 6 WOMEN DOING ALTAR WORK AT I. W. C. MOTHER FREDDIE BELL KEYNOTES I.W.C To the Presiding Bishop, members of the General Board, to all Bishops of the church; to our beloved International Supervisor, Mother Mattie McGlothen, her assistant and to my fellow supervisors, Saints, delegates and friends; I stand before you tonight with fear and trembling. There comes a time in life when you face more than just a mere challenge, but you face, as I do tonight, THE challenge of your life. There are great women of the Lord who are far more able to fulfill the momentous task of keynoting this convention. Now, I am supposed to say "Thank You" Mother and members of the committee for making choice of me; but being so awed by the honor, I think I would do best to ask for your prayers and support that the Lord would say something thru me for edifying of the Saints. For a number of years now, the Holy Women of God have been gathering from all over these United States of America. Yes, and here we are again, alive to see each other; and in the words of the hymn writer "all praise and glory to Jesus be for His redeeming grace." It goes without saying we have been able to come this far only by help and grace of God. Of all of the years that we have been meeting, I am sure we will all agree that these are the most critical, the most crucial and the most crisis struck times that we have ever faced. There is an unrest throughout the land. I am not saying that sin is unique to our times, but it certainly seems to have increased during our times. Horn osexuality, immorality^ and this thing they call "the' new morality" is running unchecked like water down rain-drenched gutters. Disrespect for authority, disobedience and disregard for leadership seems to be the order of the day. There are frightening, turbulent and rugged times. With Reaganism in the White House, with God and prayer expelled from the school house, with the lack of discipline af our house, and with the bickering and backbiting at the church house, what else can we conclude but that "there's trouble all over this land." To stand here tonight, however, and enumerate the bleakness of our terrible times would only serve to further frustrate an already terribly frustrated world. I have rehearsed the conditions of our times as a springboard from which I can share with you the challenge that I believe God would use Holy Women to face as we go forth from this Annual Women's Convention. For you to spend hundreds and thousands of dollars to gather here only to be reminded of how Continued on oage 2 MOTHER FREDDIE BELL
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Full text | VOLUMN XIV, NO VI C.O.G.I.C. HEADQUARTERS, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE JUNE, 1981 WOMEN'S CONVENTION DRAWS NEARLY 10,000 The. 3.1stsession of^the Annual Women's International Convention of the Church of God in Christ, Inc. challenged its delegation with the striking theme: "Dedicated Women that times like these demand.*' The purpose of the convention was to promote better homes, better communities and a better world. The support of missions was and always has been a chief objective. This year the convention site was the Tarrant County Convention Center located at 1111 Houston Street in Fort Worth, Texas. Approximately 10,000 delegates, both national and international, convened there from May 26-31. They were hosted and welcomed by the Bishop J. Neaul Haynes and Mrs. Emma F. Barron along with other participating jurisdictions. Both men and women are in attendance at this great covention which was pioneered by the late Mother Lizzie Robinson and further organized by the late Dr. Lillian Brooks Coffey. Dr. Mattie McGlothen keeps constantly before the women the memory of these past leaders, including her predecessor, the late Dr. Annie L. Bailey. As the women remember from whence they came, they are motivated to enter into "new dimensions and horizons in the spirit" today. The Convention workshops played a leading role in conveying this year's theme: "Dedicated Women That Times Like These Demand." The workshop committee, chairwoman Dr. St. Carrie Dinwiddie, Dr. Gwendolyn Howard, Mrs. Odessa Newman and Mrs. Geraldine Wright very masterfully prepared outlines for information, instruction and enlightenment. While the convention is focused towards women, they have been successful in attracting men to its sessions. Bishop Neaul Haynes and Elder E. Calloway conducted workshops for the brethren in attendance. Highlights for the convention included the keynote address delivered by Mrs. Freddie J. Bell, State Supervisor of North Carolina 2nd Jurisdiction. Dr. Mattie McGlothen was the principle speaker on Thursday, May 28. The presiding bishop, Bishop J. O. Patterson addressed the convention on Friday, May 29, at the 7:30 p.m. service. The session climaxed on Sunday, May 31, with the closing message delivered by Elder Carlis Moody, President of the Home & Foreign Mission Department. All the delegates were challenged to share in the concern for missions around the world. Those that went expecting returned to their various homes pleased that the Lord had met them in a tremendous way. When the two sisters began searching for each other they found that the orphans home in Louisville had burned and that all records had been destroyed. The adoption records of Mrs. Garrett were sealed, and she had considered hiring a lawyer to try to open them. "I didn't have to pay no lawyer," she said. "God was my lawyer." This was not the only highlight. Continued on page 8 MOTHER mattie McGlothen WOMEN'S CONVENTION UNITES TWO SISTERS AFTER 62 YEARS Two sisters, who last saw each other 62 years ago when one was adopted out of an orphans home, were reunited Friday when they sat down together during a women's international church convention at the Tarrant County Convention. The stranger-than-fiction chance meeting brought together Martha Garett of Kansas City, Mo., and Emma Jones of J^arrell, Pa. The two had been trying to find each other throughout their adult life. "Now when we die, we can die happy," said Mrs. Garrett, 65, psy m , mm |
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