Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 3 February 2000 — Page 3

The Muncie Times, Febuary 3, 2000, page 3

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Christ Temple apologizes to Munsonians

If my people, which are called by name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14) We, the Christ Temple Apostolic Church family,

want to extend our deepest apologies to you for our failure over the many years of our existence to deal with you in a consistently loving and godly fashion. Undoubtedly, our air of exclusivity and general aloofness toward other Christians in this community during the majority of our 77-year

history has caused more than a little pain and bad blood between us. We have not always displayed the love of God and as a result some may have actually been driven from God and are still suffering as a result of our insentivity and transgressions. We do not take this lightly and wish

to publicly extend our sincerest apologies to any and all who may have sufferd as a result of our judgmental attitudes and critical tongues. We dare not venture forth into this new era, in the history of the church, without humbling ourselves and renouncing any ways that we grive our Lord and

Savior, Jesus Christ. Please forgive us and pray for a new Christ Temple for a new millennium! Your brothers and sisters because of Christ, Pastors Michael and Denise Millben and the Christ Temple Church family Muncie

KING FROM PAGE 1 through the effort and support of representatives from Muncie Community Schools, TEAMWORK for Quality Living, the Ivy Tech Multicultural Student Organization, and college faculty and staff. The oldest son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King has motivated audiences around the world with his messages of hope and responsibility. As a human rights advocate, community activist and political leader, he had been involved in significant policy initiatives to maintain the fair and equitable treatment of citizens at home and abroad. His commitment to worldwide humanitarian concerns was demonstrated in the 1970s when he was asked to represent President Jimmy Carter

in two official delegations to promote peace in foreign countries. As a member of the board of directors of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, he conducted a fact-finding mission to five drought-stricken African nations in 1984. The Africa Initiative, a program developed to end starvation on that continent, was a result of the tour. In the 1980s, King spoke against the injustices of South Africa and worked toward the freedom of Nelson Mandela. During the 1900s, he addressed the moral and political dilemmas of Third World nations, such as Haiti and Nigeria. In 1986, King was elected at-large representative of more than 700,000 residents of Fulton County, Georgia.

During his service on the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, he worked to implement change in regulating minority business participation in public contracting, strong ethics legislation, purification of the county’s water supply and stringent hazardous waste disposal requirements. An advocate of personal, educational and skill development for youth, King developed the King Summer Intern program to provide employment opportunities for high school youth. Other youth programs initiated by King include Hoops for Health, a charity basketball game with the purpose of increasing public awareness of new-born babies who suffer from the effects of substance abuse and A Call to

Manhood, an annual event that unites young African American, males with positive adult role models. In 1997, King was unanimously voted the fourth president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization cofounded by his father in 1957. A long-standing member of the board of directors, he has devoted much of his adult life to the continuance of his father’s mission of nonviolent conflict resolution through many programs of the SCLC. He became SCLC president on Jan. 15, 1998, the anniversary of his father’s birth. King has a bachelor’s degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., where he majored in political science.

WILLIAMS FROM PAGE 1 The AALS has committed to help law schools achieve these goals. We are developing a comprehensive strategic plan to promote diversity that includes immediate, short-term, and long-term goals. We pledge to help law schools that face attacks on their diversity efforts. We will seek alternative methods to provide access for persons of color to law school, so we do not lose a gen-eration of prospective law students. And, we will develop strategies to even reach down to elementary and

middle school students so that we encourage the next generation to think about professional careers at the very beginning of their school years. We must also teach our students that as lawyers, they will be leaders. We must give them the education, the skills, and the experiences they need to go into communities and to work for racial justice. By inculcating in our students with the values of diversity and of lawyers in the service of

society, we will ensure that future lawyers devote part of their careers to the pursuit of justice for all Americans. As a mixed-race youngster growing up in the black housing projects of Indiana, I thought no one was willing to listen or to pay attention to the problems of discrimination and segregation that existed in my hometown in the early 60s. As a college sophomore, I heard John Kennedy’s “Call to Action.” That call gave me hope and

crystallized my desire to become a lawyer and a person who stood ready to open the doors for all people. Today, the Association of American Law Schools is pleased to join President Clinton in reaffirming the “Call to Action.” Today, we recommit ourselves to the principles of openness, inclusion and opportunities for all that this nation’s lawyers have actively embraced for the last 35 years.