J une 22, 1994 • T he P ortland O bserver
Edwin Hawkins’ Release,
Kings & Kingdoms
Spotlights Youth
Johnson Gives Life To
Classic Hymns
If ask ed w h at m ak es a song G os-
pel, m ost people w ould probably agree
it’s th e ly rics. B ut d o n ’t tell that to
D o n ald Jo h n so n . A s o n e o f the le ad
ing m u sic ia n s in C h ristian m usic
p e rfo rm in g G o sp e l-ja z z , D o n a ld ’s
m usic is ex h ila ra tin g p ro o f that the
H oly S p irit m o v e s in both m usic and
w h at they m ean t, b u t w hen they
ex p la in e d it I ag re ed an d ask ed
them to w o rk w ith m e. I w an ted
to be p art o f it a ll,” Jo h n so n
w ords.
J o h n s o n ’s la te s t r e le a s e o n
I n te r s o u n d , P a s s M e N o t, g iv e s
n e w lif e to c la s s ic h y m n s th a t
in c lu d e W a d e in th e W a te r, P a s s
M e N o t, a s w e ll a s c o n te m p o r a r y
c h u rc h f a v o r ite s lik e C y n th ia
C l a w s o n ’s O h ! (H o w C o u ld 1 L iv e
W ith o u t Y o u ) a n d B e B e & C e C e
W i n a n s ’ M e a n tim e .
A s soon as it becam e know n
D onald p la y ed the saxophone, he w as
rec ru ited to play w ith the church s
band. B ut w as soon to learn that hot
licks alone w ere not enough.
“ A fter a w h ile o n e o f th e pasto rs
ca m e to m e a n d said , 'D o n a ld , you
play real w ell, b u t in o rd er to c o n
tinue p lay in g h ere y o u ’re g oing to
have to be sa v ed and receiv e the g ifts
o f the H oly S p irit.’ I d id n ’t know
E dw in H aw k in s has n ever been
on e to rest on his laurels. A s o n e o f the
w o rld ’s m ost p o p u la r G o sp el artists
for the last 25 years, h e ’s ch o sen to
use h is in flu en ce to help n urture new
said.
W ith the fin an cial help o f
friends and h is w ife, and m oney
he w as able to save from a jo b in
the m ail room o f the S eatd e
M etro system , Johnson produced
h is first C D an d cassette tape
w hich beg an to sell im m ed i
ately. A fter sellin g o v er 10,000
units co m p letely on his o w n , he
suddenly found lo ts o f industry
interest in h im an d his G o sp el-
ja zz m usic.
“ I try to reach o u t to peo p le
w ho a re n ’t in c h u rc h ,” Jo h n so n
said. “ I w an t to bring them in
and show th em w here life is
really at. T h e p resen ce o f the
H oly Spirit d raw s peo p le to the
m usic, even if they d o n ’t know
it, an d then th a t gives m e the
chance to tell them w hat H e’s all
about. M y w hole thing now is
Donald Johnson is one of the
ju s t to spread the G o sp el to as leading musicians in Christian music
m any p eo p le as I p ossible c a n .” performing Gospel-jazz hymns.
Heaven Help Us
by
W illiam R eed
When it comes to us gaining
social and economic parity in
America, the majority of us seem
to be waiting for jesus to come.
In this land of capitalism and free-
enterprise, the bulk o f our kind continu
ally refuse to do anything that makes
economic sense when it com es to doing
the type of thing s that can help more o f us
reach the American Dream. Ask any
African American man or woman you
see, “D o you know the meaning of capi
talism and how it works?,” and they will
tell you, “O f course 1 do!” But then you
should put the “outcom e” statistics in
front of them and ask, “T hen how is that
you expect our race to grow when in
1990 we spent only three cents o f each of
the $300 billion we had in our collective
pockets that year with each other?”
Even though statistically w e know
that black-ow ned-and-operated busi
nesses have an established track record
of hiring 80 to 90 percent of their em
ployees from our community, why is it
that they d o n ’t get the support they need
form the black community? If we know
so much about capitalism, why is it that
the majority of us d on’t realize that un
less we retain a larger percentage o f our
money in our com munities and stimulate
businesses and banks to create jobs and
capital for us, w e will always be slaves to
others? The outcome for our earthly
dreams is that we will have to exhibit our
ow n self-help and independence or wait
until Jesus comes again to save us.
W ho among you doesn’t believe
that Heaven helps those who help them
selves? When are we going to look around
and see the answer to our economic
woes? Although Asians have less than
20 percent o f the population numbers of
African Americans, they have a record of
spending 80 cents out o f each of their
dollars with each other. W hile Asians
seem to go out of their normal way to buy
from each other, the record shows that
blacks seem to go out of their way to
avoid their population, but they control
three times their number in the nation’s
wealth. Jews also buy form each other,
sell to each other and mostly hire only
each other. Neither J e wish people, Asians
or Arabs placed gaining their American
on political em powerment the way we
did. N either W hites, Jew s nor Asians
consider politicians to be their “lead
ers,” they simply us them as “public
servants” to make, pass and enforce laws
to enable them to have com merce as they
wish.
We each have daily need that have
to be addressed. When will w e realize
that the power of the consum er dollar,
that we spend every day, has more power
over the direction of our collective lives
m
a n u the
iep political
u n u c ai ballot?
uaiiut.' W
n u hen
w iw will
u iu our
iu
than
expertsincapitalism figureoutthatw hen
we buy gas, shoes, cars or bread we are
stimulating growth of jobs and com
m erce for someone else other than our
own? W hen we buy gas, cars, bread or
shoes from a Brother’s B ailey’s outlet,
we are making the way for that black
businessperson to hire and train one, or
more, of us. Since the 1980s the number
of black families making $50,000 a year
has increased from 762,000 to 1.2 m il
lion families and the numbers o f those of
us in managerial and professional spe
cialty occupations grew form 1 million
to nearly 2 million. But this has not
helped the majority of blacks, because
these A frican A m ericans took their
money and investment potential and went
to suburbia and its malls and split levels.
The wealthier, and the not-so-wealthy
Obituary: Brisco Morgan
Address: North Portland Date of death: 06/11 /94 Place of birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Place & Date of marriage: Dec. 23,1928 in Texas How long in local area: Since 1956
Occupation: He worked for the Union Pacific Railroad, while he lived inTexas, and worked
in construction for various companies through the union Local #296. Retired in 1970.
Service: Funeral at Sunset Hills Memorial, 11:00am, Friday, June 17,1994
Survivors: Wife - Charlie Bell Morgan; eight daughters; and many grand and great
talen t.
H e founded the M usic & A rts
S em in a r M ass C h o ir and released the
first o f its an n u a l alb u m s in 1982.
N ow o v e r 3 0 0 v o ices stro n g , th e
C h o ir’s n ew e strele ase on Intersound,
K in g s & K in g d o m s, c o n tin u es in the
lo n g -sta n d in g tra d itio n fan s h av e
co m e to know an d love. H ead q u ar
te re d in O a k la n d , C a lifo rn ia , th e
M usic & A rts S em in ar now has o v er
2 0 ch a p te rs n atio n w id e, ea c h w ith its
ow n artistic an d m u sical m in istry and
o u treach to local co m m u n ities, v isit
ing h o sp itals, p riso n s, n u rsin g h o m es
an d v ario u s ch arities.
E n co u rag in g the talents o f young
w riters, sin g ers an d in stru m en talists,
the S em in a r so licits m aterial from
new w riters each year an d the album ’ s
rep erto ire is ch o sen form the b est o f
th eir w ork. N o tab le alum ni o f p re v i
ous S em in ars include n o w -su p erstars
John P. K ee, D aryl C oley and Y olanda
blacks need to realize that when w e save
our money in a black bank, or invest in
others o f us in a theater or inner-city
convenience store, we help all of us
ascend to a higher economic plane.
A d am s, am o n g others.
A m o n - g the
stan d o u ts on K ings
.
& K in g d o m s is H e is G o d A lo n e, a
h ea rtfe lt song o f praise w ith all t e
earm ark s o f a classic. “ I C all on Jesus
is a sp irited , h an d -clap p in g an th em
(greater J^am t JsHepfyen
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“Serving The Lord
With Gladness”
Psalm 100:2
Sunday School 10am
Morning Worship 11:05
Wednesday
Prayer & Bible Study 7pm
Rev. G.L. Black I Pastor
3605 N.E. Mallory Ave.
(503) 281-8117 Portland,
OR 97212
business resources, send $5 to the Inter
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soloist.
E dw in H aw kins stresses a sense
o f C h ristian co m m u n ity th at is n ot
o nly the fo undation o f th e M usic &
A rts Sem inar C h o irs, but o f the church
as a w h o le.
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Rev. and Mrs. G.L. Black
testify in g to the L o rd ’s etern al faith
fulness. T he album d raw s its title
from a line in B ill G a ith e r’s stan d ard ,
“ T h e r e ’s S o m e th in g A b o u t T h a t
N am e,” d one here as a stately, so u l
stirrin g b allad th at featu res E d w in as
Empowering US Ministries
many black entrepenuers. They have to
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leam effectively that in the land o f capi-
M arcel W ip , M .S., M .F .C .C ., is
talism and mutual support grows from the facilitato r o f th e sem in ars. H e is a
mutual respect. Black business owners b o rn -ag ain A frican -A m erican m ale
must m ove to make sure that those o f us P asto r-T h erap ist, rad io -co m m u n ica-
who com e into their restaurants, service to r> m o tiv atio n al sp eak er an d licen se
shops or dry cleaning establishments m arriag e, fam ily and ch ild th erap ist,
shouldn’th a v eto stan d in lin eo rrecc iv e An O akw ood C ollege graduate in 1975
inferior products or service. Along with w ith a B .A . in T h eo lo g y an d Sociol-
the product or service necessity that they o gy, he also earn ed a M aster o f Sci-
provide and the vision and courage it cn ee deg ree in C lin ical P sychology,
takes to start off on the road to entrepre- He has practiced psycho-therapy since
neurship, blacks in the business of serv- 1978, w ith ex p erien ce in the areas o f
ing other blacks will always have to be F o r e n s ic P s y c h o lo g y , A b u s e d
aware ofour broad-based need for simple C h ild ren s S ervices, M eth ad o n e S er-
respeet,
v ice. C o n serv ato rsh ip S erv ices, M ar-
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governm ent agencies, franchiors and S erv ices. P asto r W ip is cu rren tly
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foundationsthatprovidecapitalandother p a sto n n g the V alley V ista F am ily
grandchildren.
We W elcom e You to The
Gospel Artist Edwin Hawkins
Has moved Sunday ser vices Io
Family Life Center,
8725 N. Chautauqua Blvd.,
at Willis Blvd.
Dr. Joe S. Hardie. Pastor
We Invite You To Come And Worship With Us.
The Church Where Everybody is Somebody And Christ
Is All.
Worship Services 8:00am & 11:00am,
Church School 9:30 to 10.30 am,
Bible Study, Wednesdays, 116 NE Schuyler, 10:30am & 7:00pm
Radio Ministry each Sunday, 8:00am on KBMS
A Teaching Church With A Reaching Ministry
Dr. James E. Marlin, Senior Pastor
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