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While three North Carolina cities quietly announced plans for partial desegregation in the fall (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Robert D. Ingle, for almost 30 years pastor of the Berea Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., was all set last week to see that no such fate ever befalls his flock. In what Ingle claims to be the first move of its kind in the South, his congregation has approved the building of a new twelve-grade private school to take care of up to 1,000 white pupils. The church has okayed a $300,000 bond issue for the building; the sale...
...morning and one at night); there was a giant picnic for 2,000 church members at noon, and at 3 p.m. there was a going-away party with an air-conditioned Buick as the main gift. Object of all the attention: Broadway Church's personable pastor-Matt Norvel Young, 41, an expansive man in an expanding church...
Faced with a congregation numbering zero. Pastor Higgins rounded up 15 volunteers, canvassed the neighborhood with flyers proclaiming: "Look what God has done! He has placed a new voice in the community!!!" One white woman called 125 friends and urged them to come for the next four weeks, "to establish a pattern for the congregation." Last week
...Pastor Higgins mounted the pulpit for his first sermon...
...overwhelmed with joy. I can say only thanks," said Nelson Higgins, tears streaming down his cheeks. Just before the benediction, an elderly white woman stood up and said: "God bless you, Mr. Higgins." Later. Pastor Higgins announced that he had received three applications for membership, and asked if there were more. Nine people came forward. (By week's end, membership had reached 16, including four whites.) To gather up the offering, pots and pans from the parsonage were pressed into service to supplement the four collection plates. In all, the throng contributed...