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Sunday School 9:30 a.m
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Mt. Zion
Baptist Church
Rev. Lacey K. Johnson Sr.
Pastor
Rev. David Burks,
Pastor
Rev. Larry H.
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Rev. P.W.
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To Be Happy Daily...
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St. Matthew
Baptist Church
1917 N. Denver Blvd.
Tulsa, OK 74106
(918) 584-6038
P. 0. Box 265
607 East Fifth Street
Okmulgee, OK 74447
Phone (918) 756-6200
A medical building once billed itself as a Mental Health Prevention
Center.
"THOSE WHO KNOW SERVICE
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HANDY CHAPEL
A.M.E. CHURCH
St. James
Powerhouse
Church of God in Christ
Mission and Eufaula
Okmulgee, Oklahoma 74447
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756-9260 • Church
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First Baptist Church
Taft, OK
Rev. Woodrow McBride
Baptist Church
Taft, OK
Rev. Tony Wooden
Charles J. Jeffrey Jr.
Sunday School 9 a.m.
Bible Classes at: 6 pm. Sunday
7 p.m. Monday, 6 p.m. Tuesday •
for Non-Christlan Men Only
7 p.m. Wednesday: Prayer
Meeting and Bible Class
Witnessing Class Thursday at 7 p.m.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Morning Worship 10:30 am.
Mid-Week Prayer Service 6:00 p.m.
(Wed.)
Bible Study 6:30 p.m. (Wed.)
Marriage Ministry 1st Mon. 6:30 p.m.
Singles Ministry 4th Thur. 7:00 p.m.
Eastside Baptist Church
217 N Osage
Okmulgee, OK 74447
(919) 756-1686
Wilson Chapel
Baptist Church
Haskell, OK
Rev. John Williams
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
5 miles west/2 miles south
Beggs, OK 74421
Baptist Church
Haskell, OK
Rev. C.M. Masters
Baptist Church
Haskell, OK
Rev. Marshall Miner
4621 N. Lewis
Tulsa, OK 74110
THE MISKOGEE-OKMLLGEF. OKLAHOMA EAGLE
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Mt. Rose Baptist
Church
Coweta, OK
Rev. Joe Johnson
Baptist Church
601 Indianapolis Ave
Muskogee, OK 74401
Rev. Leroy Walker
Baptist Church
511 S.W. 5th St.
Wagoner, OK
Rev. DeVoy Hill
First and Broadway
Beggs, OK 74421
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Mt. Zion
Baptist Church
1500 N. Miami
Okmulgee, OK 74447
Church (918) 756-6553
Res. (918)587-1362
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Cherryville Baptist Church
P.O.Box124 Boynton,OK
74422
■ (918)472-7336 (church)
(918) 587-2975 (res)
First Baptist
Church
521N. Central
Okmulgee, OK 74447
(918)756-0578
(918) 756-3852
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ST. THOMAS PRIMITIVE
BAPTIST CHURCH
Summit, OK
Rev. A.W. Tubbs III
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Morning Service 11:00 a.m.
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Jazz all-stars kick off
The Oklahoma J azz Hall of Fame’s annual performance series kicks off Oct.
13,4:30 p.m., with a tribute to Miles Davis by the Tulsa Jazz Society.
All three sessions of the "Music For All Seasons” series will be held at the
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9:45 Sunday School
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11:00 a.m. Morning Worship
(2nd and 4th Sundays)
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210 W. Eugene
Boynton, OK 74422
Outreach Ministry of Love Church
1737E. 2tth PI. North TuIm, OK 74106 (914)428-6419
Motto: Mark 9:23 -
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Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Morning Worship 11a.m.
Mid-week Prayer Service 7 p.m.
Friday Worship 7 p.m.
Thursday Choir Rehearsal 7 pm.
>nia Baptist Church
1029 N. Soulx Okmulgee, OK
The House of Winn Funeral Home
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9:45 a.m. Sunday School
(1st and 3rd Sunday)
11:00 a.m. Morning Worship
(1st and 3rd Sunday)
Rev. A. Jay Holman Sr., Pastor
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Midweek Prayer
Wednesday 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 10,1991 • THE MUSKOGEE-OKMULGEE OKLAHOMA EAGLE - PAGE 3
A tale of two towns [3
By Amanda Fuhrwatts resulting bitterness and resentment Blacks must besur themselves and sit on I
Staff Writer every committee that has to do with the general welfare, becoming aware of I
“Oh, no, not again,” I groaned as I entered a luncheon meeting room ofa local the necessity to be “in on the ground floor” in all matters which even minimally
hotel, guest of a politician. affect them.
All of the guests, like myself, were black. The meeting went well. All was Or blacks and non-blacks alike can sit back and nurse their prejudices, and
pleasant and informauve, and it ended on that general note. But only blacks thereby miss an opportunity to convert Muskogee into a strong, productive,
were invited. “Why, Mike Turpen?”
Months earlier, a similar meeting look place, with the same racial compo-
sition. “Why, Mike Synar?”
I feel sure that both men have admirable goals, for they are admirable men,
but seriously misguided in one area.
For far too long, blacks have been subjected to too many segregated
situations for them to be enamored by them now. Concern is aroused.
There is, instead, a real need for Muskogee residents to move together in the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, 322 Greenwood Ave.
same direction — to discover that we arc more similar than we are dissimilar, 7^ opening program is the result of a combined effort by 2 Tulsa-based
that we hold in common, the same common goals: improved employment organizations known for their efforts to promote public education about jazz
opportunities, schools, street and highways, planned recreation for our chil- arxj especially, the contributions made by jazz musicians and performers of
dren, health and general welfare and reduced crime.
Who would not want these things? Sharing and working toward them
together can only make for an improved understanding, a state sadly missing
in our town.
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music closely related to jazz such as blues and gospel, to Oklahoma’s cultural
heritage.
Pam VanDyke said the Tulsa Jazz Society’s Al 1- Star I mprovisation ensemble
will perform tunes at the Oct. 13 session that are associated with and written
1 cannot relate to “divide and conquer.” 1 can relate to “united we stand, by the late Miles Davis, internationally-acclaimed trumpeter who died in
divided we fall." September at age 65.
There arc some key words which lend to push us even further apart. Many VanDyke, a vocalist and founder of the Tulsa Jazz Society, will be featured
non-blacks in Muskogee do not dare venture north of Fondulac, across certain jn performance along with Sonny Gray, Bill Crosby, Ken Leverette and Randy
streets, and Martin Luther King Center and NAACP spell "off-limits.” Yet ail Wimer in the rhythm section. Frank Adams, Joe Davis, Mile Bennett and Tom
are so very welcome. Sterlingcomprisethchornsection.SpecialappearancesbyJulianNorthington,
A great friend of mine always corrects me when I forget and use the term George Dennie and Lori Adams will be part of the program and other Jazz
“integration.” He murmurs “desegregation.” Society members are expected to sit in, VanDyke said. Society members will
My son summed up his position on the matter. “We will never be really comment on the Davis contribution.' to jazz between selections, and Earl
integrated until we feel comfortable in the homes and churches of each other." Goodman will present readings about Davis’s life between seis.
Some Muskogee blacks sit across from non-blacks at committee and board -pbc 199] series marks the second time the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame has
meetings, but when thcdinncr bell rings and when thechurch bell rings, the two invited the public to attend a multi-session senes devoted to jazz and related
towns retreat behind their own color lines. Having said that much, it must also music. A traditional part of the program is a brief discussion of the omi of
be said that no one is so naive as to believe that this slate of affairs will change musjc being played which precedes the session. There is an admission fee.
any time soon. OthcrprogramshavebecnsetforNov. lO.withadiscussionanddemonstralion
So, we live our lives in separate places. . .in separate towns, and it’s of blues music and Dec. 8, on the topic of gospel music.
hazardous to our communal health. But, there is one significant measure that The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame was co-founded in 1989 by Maxine Homer
can be activated in the meantime that might case some of the tension among an(j penny Williams, both state senators. Ils activities regularly venture
us: beyond educational and cultural programming. The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of
Black Muskogee residents must arise from their beds of passivity and Famc js known for its annual sponsorship of the “Juneteeth on Greenwood”
indifference, and move with gusto and energy into the mainstream of Muskogee celebration.
affairs.
Blacks tend to wail until the majority population acts, then blacks react to a
situation already settled, thus increasing their sense of unfair treatment and the jhe lungs of ■ smoker ere stained with tars and nicotine. You can clean
your teeth but no one can wash out dirty lungs.
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