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SAVE 15% OR MORE! When you visit our new location at Deer Crossing in Mashpee Our custom framing sale continues through January 31 st . Just mention this ad. | We'd be delighted to serve you! j miller pictnreframer FINE FRAM ING «>GAM.EIU Deer Crossing • Routs 28 • Mashpee • 508-539-3888 j "When the difference matters.. ." \ Tuesday - Saturday 10 00 to 5 30 Zion Union hosts gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick By Edward F. Maroney emaroney@barnstablepatriot.corr EDWARD F MARONEY PHOTO A GRAND WELCOME - The Rev. Bernard Harris introduces gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick to the congregation at Zion Union Church Sunday. The occasion was the inaugural worship service of the Black Ministerial Alliance of Southeastern Massachusetts to celebrate the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. No one was worried about keeping church and state separate Sunday night as Zion Union Church marked the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday with a service that proudly merged politics and prayer. Keynote speaker and gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick, former President Clinton's chief civil rights lawyer, recalled being taken by his mother to a Chicago park to hear King. Other speakers celebrated the found- ing of the Black Ministerial Alliance of Southeastern Massachusetts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "Sometimes things happen in the life of God's people for something to be resurrected ," said the church's pastor, the Rev. Bernard Harris. Recalling the arrival of storm survivors at Otis Air Force Base, he said, "The governor invited all the clergy from Boston to wait upon the needs of people on Cape Cod, not understanding we have clergy, too -spirit-filled clergy." Harris advised the congregation not to "get hung up on the name Black Ministerial Alliance. John said, 'If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men to me.' Our purpose as a Christian organization is serving God by servingall of God's people." Wouldn't it be something, Harris asked, "if one Sun- day, every church on Cape Cod would come together at the college and worship?" Already, the little church on North Street held well over 150 people, including a good number of clergy, as the music ministry of Zion Church got everyone out of their seats to worship with voice and movement. Young Sister Shynia Warner of New Hope Full Gospel Baptist Church led off a reading of King's "I Have a Dream" speech with such power and verve that listen- ers cried out amens as if they were hearing the words for the first time. Later, pint-sized Sister Kessera Grimes read her prize-winning essay on "What Rosa Parks Means to Me" with similar effect. They joined Sister Charnelle Davis of Zion Union and Sister Jennifer Bradley of First Baptist Church of Pocasset in receiv- ing the Rev. Emma 0. Cutler Youth Foundation Awards, presented by the beloved pastor 's widower, 96-year-old Brother Charles Cutler. Patrick asked everyone to remember that King "changed America. He did that by challenging America to be true to its founding ideals." Recalling a childhood of "limited means but limitless hope ," Patrick reviewed the opportunities that took him out a poor Chicago neighborhood to Milton Academy and on to Harvard, government service, and influential positions with Texaco and Coca Cola. "I know what's possible in America," he said. Yet, he observed , "I am afraid that Dr. King's faith in ultimate human goodness and possibility is slipping away from us. We made every problem we confront today, but I wonder whether we have lost the capacity to imagine how to solve them." We need "leaders to lead," Patrick said, "and share in the struggles of others." The Rev. Bernard Harris will offer the sermon at the second annual Cape Cod Week of Prayer for Christian Unity worship on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at St. Pius X Church on Station Avenue in South Yarmouth. All are welcome. Politics and prayer come together at MLK service i ag^woll 1ft*te% ^A** *?W^ 1 *3^ Sunday February 5th < J J 3 12:00 - 2:00 pm \ ' 1436 Lona Pond Road lliiiWimawiiMMl Brewster b j B Conic our tour I our camPus- We are committed to ^r ^ ^^^^B I sma " challenging W^ ? ' 1 I educ ational experience i^ IF^Kk PreSchool-Elementry ¦ 4 cieativ*fut f Af a «&ut&HicacJtUvtmutt 508-896-4934 www.laurel -school.com Spirited song keeps Martin Luther King's hope alive Music accom- panies voices of protest and prayer By Edward F.Maroney emaroney@barnstablepatriot.com EDWARD F MARONEY PHOTO WEATHER OR NOT-Heads bowed into a furious and freezing wind, 50 hardy souls are led by Ralph Dagwan and Frank Rhodes on the annual march in Hyannis that's a tribute to Martin Luther King. EDWARD F MARONEY PHOTC GRASP SUCCEEDS;THEY REACH- Led by the Voices of Praise Singers from New Hope FullGospel Baptist Church, the congregation in Federated Church of Hyannis for the NAACP's and Cape Cod Councilof Churches' service of commemoration for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King shares the message of "We Shall Overcome" Sunday. The Rev.Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr. once said he would like to be remembered as "a drum major for justice" and "a drum major for peace." To the beat of marching feet, inspirational music and speakers' stirring cadences, the Cape Cod Chapter of the NAACP and the Cape Cod Council of Churches kept faith with King's legacy Sun- day.Fifty people marched down South Street, up Old Colony and down Main to evoke his marches for civil rights and economicjus- tice, then joined some 200 others at Federated Church of Hyannis for a service of commemoration. The mood was set by the harmonies of the Voices of Praise Singers from New Hope Full Gospel Baptist Church. Before the service, the four women held hands and prayed with pianist Gleison Da Silva. One said, "Touch the people in this place," and her prayer was answered. Looking out over the con- gregation, the Rev. Ellen C. Chahey, Minister of Spiritual Care at Federated , invited everyone to "enjoy each other's company, enjoy this foretaste of what heaven will be: all God's children together." Cape NAACP President John Reed celebrated the creation of a county human rights commission and the loving response of Cape Codders to the arrival of Hurricane Katrina survivors at Otis Air Force Base. Diane Kessler, executive director of the council of churches, pointed to an- other joint effort of Cape Codders: Operation in from the Cold, which has been en- suring that homeless people living in the woods around Hyannis have a place to go when they can't partici- pate in the NOAH shelter program or the Salvation Army's Overnights of Hospi- tality at houses of worship. Recalling an old Paul Simon song, the Rev. Steve Carty Cordy of The Unity Church of the Light told the congregation that "the mother and child reunion is only a motion away," which he used as a metaphor for "the reunion of all God's children with each other, with the planet." Chantelle Joseph of Barnstable High School in- troduced principal speaker Michael S. Van Leesten, director of public affairs for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. Van Leesten recalled his early days as "a colored kid from Rhode Is- land" who had few thoughts beyond that milieu until a friend gave him a copy of The Negro Revolt by Louis Lomax. "It was earth-shattering for me," said Van Leesten. "I wasn't gonna be that nice colored guy. I had a responsibility - helping my people." That led him to spend a week in Atlanta with 360 other students and Mar- tin Luther King in 1965, during a training session on voter registration in the South. King was teaching non-violence resistance. Not long before , he had accepted the Nobel Prize with these words: "After contemplation , I conclude that this award which I receive on behalf of that movement is a pro- found recognition that non- violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time -the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to vio- lence and oppression." Van Leesten decried con- temporary racial and eco- nomic conditions that have one of out 3 black youths involved in the criminaljus- tice system. He called for an infusion of opportunity into America's cities, and did not shy away from suggesting the controversial subject of reparations needs a full airing. Recalling King's declara- tion of "eternal hostility to poverty, racism and milita- rism," the Rev. Dr. Kristin Harper of the Unitarian Church of Barnstable gave her own benediction: "May we have faith in life to do wise planting." 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