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By Mattie Ann Callier-Spears
by Mattie Ann C allier-Spears
The NCNW-Portland Chapter
will host its annual Sew & Show/Taste
& Tell. Some reading this article may
ask the question, “ What is this all
about?” Well, the National Council of
Negro Women-Portland Chapter de­
cided several years to have an event
that would involve the entire city-not
just its members and their families.
What can we display to the public that
would be pleasing to them? They came
up with the idea of having a fashion
show that would showcase clothing made
and designed by local talent. Man) of
them just happened to be mommies,
aunties, and grandmothers who have
been sewing for many years as a way to
cut cost. What a neat idea! Then-they
thought and thought! What else can we
do besides model the fashions? Some­
one said, “ What is it that we all do
best...?” The response came back,
“ Cook!” That’s right! So, they de­
cided to have every member cook up
her specialty and spread it out on the
table. What a wonderful way to cele­
brate the Family!
The celebration will be held at
the Matt Dishman Community Center
on Sunday, July 15,1990 from 2-5 p.m.
Instead of going home and slaving over
a hot stove, come share an afternoon
with the NCNW as they prance and
munch. F ora small donation of $4, you
can go home with your mind filled with
ideas and your stomach full of delicious
morsels. There will also be fashions
modeled from the Women’s World -
Lloyd’s Center. Just come on out and
enjoy.
The NCNW is a nationally
recognized non-profit organization.
The 1990 NCNW Excellence in
Read: Genesis 9:8-17
RAINBOWS AND
ANGELS
It shall be, when I bring a cloud over
the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen
in the cloud. -Gen.9:14.
After the flood, God told Noah that the
rainbow would symbolize His gracious
pledge never again to destroy the earth
with water. Out of the clouds the deluge
came; yet it is in the clouds that God
places this colorful arch of promise.
The rainbow reminds me that little
beauty can enter our lives without the
clouds of trial. And when the sunshine of
God’s love floods our sorrow with light,
there a shining rainbow of hope appears.
Teaching A ward
The NCNW, in their strive for
excellence, has met the challenge by
hosting the first “ NCNW Excellence in
Teaching Award’ ’ as part of its national
promotion of excellence in education
in the 1990s.
There will be one national
awardee and six regional awardees. One
person will be selected from the top
nominees in each region. Each re­
gional winner wil be announced at the
Black Family Reunion Celebration in
Los Angeles, California at Exposition
Park on August 17-19, 1990. The re­
gional winner will recieve $5,000 and
the regional winners will recieve $1,000
each. They will each receive these
monetary gifts along with a specially
commissionaed commemorative sculp­
ture, a certificate of recognition and a
plaque that will be placed at the school
where the recipient teaches.
Mary M cLeod Bethune
founded Bethune-Cookman College in
the first decade of this century. She
along with five young girls and $1.50
made history. In 1935, she used her
creative leadership to begin the Na­
tional Council of Negro Women. She
could not rest knowing of the unhar­
nessed leadership among our women’s
organizations. She inspired the com­
munity-based organizations to stress
the value of education, health, thrift,
enterprise and the dignity of labor. With
all this, she taught them the importance
of collaborating and pulling together to
make their collective power felt. She
knew that self-sufficiency, at
best,
was not selfish. She urged that the
women should help one another as they
went along. And in her memorable
utterance, she said “ ...Not for ourselves
God does more than offer hope, how­
ever. Amid the troubling clouds, He
sends His angels to help us (Gen. 1:14).
In one of Germany ’ s famous art gal­
leries, a painting called “ Cloud Lane”
hangs at the end of a long dark hall. It
appears at first to be a huge, ugly mass of
confused color-unattractive and forebod­
ing. Upon closer examination, however,
you see an innumerable company of
angels. Theodore Cuyler writes, “ How
often the soul that is frightened by a trial
sees nothing but a conglomeration of
broken expectations. But if he analyzes
the situation from a position of faith...,he
will soon discover that the cloud is God’s
wonderful chariot of providence, full of
angels of mercy.”
If heavy clouds hang over your life,
□ Part two in a series of
excerpts from Your
c of knowl-
uit of that
and through
society, a series of active fellowships
sprang up in other parts of the country!
ihe “ Club” evolved into an active
church! Allen later reconciled with his
African Society, supporting fundraising
hildren and
subscription for a new church and put­
ting it first. The subsenption was suc­
ilk, so with
cessful, thanks to Allen’s efforts, after
the 1790 reconciliation. St. Thomas’
to a confi­
African Episcopal Church was dedicated
li walk to-
on July 17, 1794. Richard Allen de­
tibie under
clined an invitation to be its pastor, and
his friend Absalom Jones took over.
Mne under
Within twelve days, on July 29, Bishop
rancis Asbury dedicated the Bethel
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< hurch where Richard Allen led his
(lowers with the tenets of Methodism
rmly in place. How confident the path
that Richard Allen followed, true to his
objectives of spiritual outreach that could
spread as widely as possible.
Richard Allen is the father of the
free African movement in the United
andcondi-
States, the clubs, associations, churches
and groups that he inspired to follow
their own stars and destinies to confirm
: Alien was
( ’hristian life. Among those who see hu­
‘ opposing
manity undivided, there is for Allen a
'IpmiinHpH necessity to take a stand apart. Clearly,
le with his followers yearned for sim-
ves them-
plicity in Methodism and the right to win
,ouls for God, non-sectarian souls! Dis­
n morality
tinguished by being Black, desirous of
-n, the aim
evolving from slavery everywhere, the
tigma” of being African was turned
itorians to
in “ stigmata” ...the wounds of crucifix-
s surely an
h ,ii! Such wounds for Allen were univer­
orc of his
sal, and his Bethel Church opened its
ound! His
doors to people of all color. Allen’s faith
ociety that
had to transcendental embrace for all.
Exclusion was prejudicial, yet Allen had
the courage to establish a church adher­
of Black
ing to principals of long range growth.
ual awak*
Wasn’t that excluding those who had
ociety he
followed his lead to set up other African-
a had been
named entities? Was Allen’s independ­
I Quakers
ice to preserve Methodism the path to
follow? Why not pursue what is in our
notout of
carts with passionate purpose? Why
is lor the
not be able to separate from mainstream
the multi­ temptations to dispense with God and to
lake your place in a church community
lo simple.
sworn to be part of a nation that belongs
:hing and
!<’ us, a place to prosper and multiply?
’s African
( To be continued next week)
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Church and You.
the personal solicit;.
By A. Lee Henderson
They are the fall,
alone, but for others” . This was the
Forewarned is forearmed!
their flocks! You ,i.
motivating theme as early leaders broke
What can you do when someone
concern.
down barriers and opened doors in the
spins stories that are untrue? Answer
Just as you icami
armed services, in the workplace and in them truthfully! Or least at the very
faith, your first step
many, many areas of world affairs.
least, you can seek that information to
are to begin with, v. 1
Purland’s NCNW Chapter Presi­
set the record straight. Once you put on
dent, sturdy slant t
dent Speaks Out
a new suit, dress, hat, or hair-style, you
gether, in time, joyou
“ As the President of the Port­ are subject to criticism, good and bad.
the banner of lovi pr
land Section of the National Council of
You have made yourself visible.
can Methodist Ep; ,
Negro Women, I, for a long time, have
The same is true, to a much larger sig­ God.
held die same desire for education that nificance, however, when you announce
O U R A .M .E. 1 M i l
Mary McLeod Bethune held. After yourself to be a “ something!” .
Heal division wiO
being out of school for twenty years, I
I am a member of the African Meth­ the purpose of our 1
enrolled in Portland Slate University in
odist Episcopal Church, ’ ’ you announce
len. In this heroic
1980. I received a Bachelor of Science proudly. Be prepared to answer any
fathers of the consi ...
in Social Work in 1984 and with a questions that follow because 1) You are
cession, a splitting o!
Fellowship from the Association of Uni­
making yourself visible 2) You are cre­ an accession to slave
versity Women, I was admitted to the ating a potential fellowship in the mind
“ Back to Africa!” Tt
Graduate School in Public Administra­ of the person who receives news of your
view history is from
tion. I received my Masters Degree in status or 3) You are introducing a barrier
tionsofthe past. FnS.
1986.
in the mind of the person who receives
five by placing your
I am now working in a posi­
news of your status as an implied threat
when twenty-year- :
tion that will help me to fulfill that last
to his/her status!. We wish to remove all
set free! The outre.
sentence in Mary McLeod Bethune s division bctween ouf
and other
legal slavery as a v •
Legacy. It reads thusly, T leave you human beings. Indeed, weask for greater a united opposite
love...1 leave you hope...I leave you the fenOwship and can invite it. Knowing
than the insurrectii
challenge of developing confidence in about our African Methodist Episcopai
selves. Clearly, to :i
one another...I leave you a thirst for Church is an exciting way of inviting
mandate based on ih
cducation...I leave you a respect for the fellowship and a chance to welcome
seen and felt by Richa:
use of power...I leave you faith...I leave others in our African Mcthodist Episco.
was to unite in sire..
you racial digmty.,.1 leave you a desire pal Church family The call tQ evangeli.
Allen viewed thine s.
to live harmoniously with your fellow calm.nistry often inspires new members
view him as a “ simp!.
man...I leave you, finally a responsi- [0 reach out earnestly; and what greater
understatement. Il
bilily to our young people.
way of dojng that then by learning all
simplicity that made
I, Edna Pittman, ask that this aboutyour African Methodist Episcopal
withdrawal from ih
community, its organizations, sorori- Church'
he founded was fi r tl
tics and all other groups, as we head
Have you ever noticed that people
ing to an original inn
into the 1990s, that we, as a SOCI- volunteer put-downs when they feel thrcat- dating the comin. u
--Leave No One Behind! But in- ;ne(j? Membership in the African Meth-
communicants in
stead, pull together. Assume a creative ocjjsj Episcopal Church can make you an ening. Ironically, ilk
coordinated leadership position. Work
(hem “ out >• You may be subject had established in 1
together. Meet, head on, the challenges
a barrage of misinformation. The wary
impacted by well
that face us as we tread into the wonders Christians call it “ Satantic attack! ’ ’ The
whose formality pa ' .
of the 21st Century.
psychologists call it “ outsider
preferred. Alien s
syndrome.” Whatever you call it, call it rigidity at all. Ra.
greater purpose o'
look for the rainbow of hope. Your can off! Call it off by arming yourself with
tudes, particular!'
be sure that G od’s angels will be there to the strength o f informed facts. Would
you agree to anyone readily if they told
believed would lx
meet your needs. -H.G.B.
your stories you knew nothing about
inspirational Me if
ways. Y etinthev >. 1,
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