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The New Hope
Baptist Church, 2002
Birch Avenue, is the
"Church Where The
tapfe Care", and Rev. Billy R Moton is the
IcrVket were great last Sunday morning.
Services began at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday
School and all officers and teachers at their
pott of duty. Thirty minutes were allowed for
instruction. Afterwards, all classes reassembled
into the church auditorium. High points
of the lesson were given.
Secretary's Report: Ail classes reported a
rjemitfftil report. After this, Sunday School
vm dismissed tor morning service. Sunday
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Follbvitip,wiU bhojd'Mtmday, flight,
December 16, 1996 bagirmiiig tl 5:30 p.m. in
Fellowship Hall.
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TEXAS - St. Mary Hospital's
- MIS Club will host the 11th annual "Breakfast
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With Santa," Saturday, Dec. 14, 1996, from 9:30
io 11 a.m., in the sixth-flo- or
Hospital's
Arnett
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Room (4000 24th Street).
; The morning's activities will feature face
painting, Kids Club Mascot Krlsten the dinosaur,
and, as a special treat, Grady Good Day and the
Good Day Gang with music and fun.
Included : in the program is storyteller Janie
uray, wno wm narrate a special unnstmas story
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C lebritiofi wilt be held S
22, 1996 at 2:30 p.m.
rtday, December
, The Annual Church meeting will be held
Monday, December 9th at 7:00 p.m. Let's all
come praying with love in our hearts for one
another. Thank God ior bringing us this far in
1996.
Lucille Jackson said:
"I was just
Thanksgiving at all of my children were
home. What a time! What a time!"
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Keep praying for our sick and shut-in- s. God
is able. Sister Bernice Kelly is still jfehut in.
Sister C.H. Davis is back in the nursrjgg home.
During the month of December, the
Christian Education ScholarshipCommittee is
conducting the devotional period for prayer
meeting and Bible study from 7:00 p.m. to
7:30 p.m. each Wednesday evening.
St. Mary Hospital's Kids Club Host
11th Annual "Breakfast With Santa",
Saturday, December 14, 1996
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and introduce the arrival of Santa and Mrs. Claus
and their elves. Children from Girl Scout Troup
289 of Wolfforth and Lubbock, will play Santa's
elves.
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Tickets must be purchased for the event at a
cost of $5 each, which includes breakfast. Every
child must be accompanied by an adult.
Reservations are required and can be made by
calling the Women and Children's Center at
(806) 796-666- 7.
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HOTLME is answered throughout the holiday sefeori.
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for Many Blacki
After a decade'of ri ing drug tne, growing vk
fence, md declining measures of health among
some segments of the Mack population, a turnaround
appears to be occurring among the
nation's 33.5 million African-American- s, reports
The New York Times.
While there is much debate on whether the
gains are temporary, and although wide gulfs in
opportunity, incomes and education still exist
between b'acks and whites, signs of Improvement
abound: The black teenage birth ; ite fell
by 9 percent in 1995 and has dropped by 17 percent
since 1991. Last year, the percentage of
black babies born out of wedlock fell to 69.5
percent, from 70.4 percent, the first drop in the
proportion of black children born outside of
marringe since 1969.
For the first time since the Census Bureau
began keeping track in 1959, the poverty rate fell
below 30 percent of all blacks in 1995. Median
income for black households rose by 3.6 parent,
far faster than the 2.2 percent increase for white
households. (Census data slfBwthat many of the
strongest gains in earnings are at the bottom,
rather than at the top, of the black income scale.)
Blacks are the only group whose inflation-adjuste- d
median income exceeds what it was in
1989, the year before the last recession. In 1989,
"households headed by black married couples
earned 769 percent as much as their white counterparts.
By 1995, the gap was 87 percent.
The rate at which black people were victims of
murder dropped an estimated 17 percent last
year, and the average life expectancy for black
men rose to 65.4 years, the highest since 1984,
when crack cocaine and accessibility of weapons
like assault rifles began to engulf many black
communities. The proportion of young black
adults, age 25 to 29, who have completed high
school has reached that of young white adults.
Verbal scores on Scholastic Assessment Test and
performance on other national tets have been
rising faster for black students than for whites,
but African-America- n students still score much
lower than white students.
"I think that this is a short period of really very
substantial and significant gains.: said Milton
Morris, vice president of the Joint Center for
Political and Economic Studies, a Washington
group that tracks trends among
African-American- s.
"In therMt ffJhpolitiejl
and atmosphere of tneslast year'orscf very fe
people have been paying serious attention. And
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yet when you do, you see that by virtually
vy
measure of well-bein- g, A4rkAmericam htte
been on a significant uptrend durinf the 9fc.
Yet mere remain large gaps betwtin
Atrfetit-Amerka- ns
and whites in educational attornment,
infant mortality, income and poverty mas. Aad
soctoiogt stSjj economists, tietiKigrapnen ana civil
rights advocates caution that the improvements
should not mast continued problems with crime,
welfare dependency, discrimination and unemployment
that stilt confront the black population
in this country.
Some scholars also worry (hat the recent fains
may be reversed If the economy falters or, in the
short term, by the new welfare law. A number of
economists and sociologists note that in 1995 the
black unemployment rate tumbled underlO percent
for the first time in 20 years, though it has
Since inched up above that level.
And while a brighter labor market hblps
account for black gains in income and the drop
in, poverty rates for African-American- s, many
experts cannot fully4 fcxpluiri improvements i the
birth rate or the teen-ag- e pregnancy
rate. .
Researchers in New Jersey credit the drop In
the
birth rate among the state's
welfare families - about 46 percent of whom are
black - to its 1992 law denying increased cash
benefits to women who have more children.
Other states, like Delaware and Indiana, which
did not institute policies like New Jersey's until
recently, have also reported such decreases.
"Something
is going on," said Kristin Moore,
the executive director of Child Trends
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research group. "Whether it's cultural factors, Or
a thousand programs finally seeing some success,
we don't know."
Some economists argue that the closing of the
gap between blacks and whites is partly
explained by surveys that often count most
Americans of Hispanic heritage as whites.
Recent increases in the number of Hispanic
immigrants, many of them low income, thus
hold down overall white performance.
Some economists also say the nearly 800,000
black adults in federal and state prisons and local
jails are not counted when looking at things like
unemployment or high school completion rats..
'Stjithe meastfissf blacft improvements seem
higher than they aauallyJire.
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purpose, creativity, and faith.
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ear of corn and unity oup.
GHfts are simpls and handmade.
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such a pofridgs, beans and
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