Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1978 — Page 3
Indy realtist chapter rated ‘hardest working’
No pastorate for this preacher on the move
THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER , Arc , SATURDAY, SIPTEMMR 2, H7S ™GE 3
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HARD EARNED: Indianapolis’ delegation to the 31st National Association of Real Estate Brokers convention in Cleveland returned home with seve^f well-earned citations, including the prestigous “Hard Hat” award. Shown displaying the various award are (from left, front row] Milton S. Booth, designation in property management;
Nellie Grant, Pioneer Ward, Women’s Convention, NAREB; Albert Booth, Indianapolis Real Estate Brokers Association president, with certificate and hard hat, honoring Indy’s chapter as the association’s “hardest working.” (Recorder photo by Marcell W’illiamsl
IREBA FEMME POWER: IREBA member Nellie Grant [left] displays the Women Convention’s Pioneer Award given at the recent NAREBA convention. With her are
[from left] Delores Gordon, Edna Johnson, Rilma Brown and Linda Orr. [Recorder photo by MarceD Williams]
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AMERICA NEEDS REALTISTS: Indianapolis Real Estate Brokers Association members attending the recent national meeting were [from left, front] Linda Orr,
Rilma Brown, Delores Gordon, Nellie Grant and James Buchan nan, and [back] Milton S. Booth, Albert Booth and George Mayo. (Recorder photo by MarceD Williams]
REV. ALONZA MAYES A minister should be considered someone commissioned by Christ through the scriptural quote, “Go ye into all the
world.”
Literacy this means such a person should not restrict religious activity to any building or church location, but instead Rev. Stevenson chief delegate to convention Rev. John R. Stevenson, Central District Baptist Association moderator, heads Indianapolis’ delegation to the National Baptist Convention of America’s 98th annual session September 5-10 in Denver. When Rev. Stevenson discusses the convention’s theme opening day, he’ll have plenty of local rooters among the 10,000 expected delegates. They’ll include Ruby Lockridge and Charles Walker Sr., national office holders, and Reverends B.F. Sims, Hoy Thurman and Damon Roach. CDBA vice-moderators. Among those making annual reports will be Rev. Alexander Bernard, National Baptist BYPU Board chairman, who pastors Indianapolis’ St. Mark Baptist Church. Mrs. John Dumas is busy soliciting passengers for two convention buses sponsored by the State Nurses Auxiliary, while Mrs. Lucille Dobbins is doing the same for persons wanting to travel by plane. Rev. and Mrs. James T. Jones intend to head a large grttp departing from Mt. Par an Baptist Church. Main meetings will be at > Denver’s Union Missionary Baptist Church, pastured by Rev. A.L. Bowman. The weatherman has promised full cooperation with daytime temperatures predicted to hover around 80 degrees, dipping to 50 degrees at night.
spend time speading the good news from door to door, city to city, county to county, state to state, and, when possible,
country to country.
This is the religious philosophy tht drives Rev. Alonza
Mayes, a minister here since Neighborhood Coalition 1940 who has never held a members left their regularly pastorate. scheduled meeting last ThursAny given day, he can be day, impressed somewhat they found visiting the sick in their have “people power” at their homes and hospital patients as expose, via their association well as scouring the city for with larger groups with idenyoung job seekers. tical objectives for functioning “I feel I can do just as much in the Central Northeastside
good without being a pastor,” ar ea.
the soft-spoken clergyman This is what they were told says. "There s work out there hy several group representato be done and it s part of my tives who shared the meeting’s Christian duty.” agenda. The coalition was Rev. Mayes currently serves formed months ago to foster as Glenco Missionary Baptist attention to the ills of the Church assistant pastor, rep- northeastside community, facresenting his 13th such assign- i ng ra pid deterioration and ment. Still he has no qualms radical landscape housing reand has dutifully “filled in development designs by opposwhenever the pastor is absent. i n g a nd broader groups which . His ties with Baptist groups receive government support. are as strong as any of his Many residents of this area peers. He is chaplain of the are black and elderly.
Baptist Ministers Alliance and
Neighborhood Coalition plans task force ‘power’ developments
and a resume for minimum and acceptable housing standards. The invitation to the coalition to merge with other groups was initiated by Indy Neighborhood Development, Inc., who has offered assistance to the coalition in the form of a trained consultant, to build membership, and create liaisons with those in power. Gary Dymski, LSO econo mist and executive vice-presi-dent of NESCO (North East Side Community Organization), emphasized now is the time for coalition members to address the problems of getting power., “if you don’t have any. “NESCO has been successful because their people have supported the organization, as well as cooperating in a merge with
INDI.
Their efforts involved placing
Ron Bohannon, Legal Serv-
one time worked with its [ ces Organization attorney for a thorn in the side of the membership committee. the coalition, stressed the need powers that be as groups of
expressed gratitude for the concern groups have displayed by willing to share their resources. She added, residents of the old Model Cities and Central Northside com munities “must roll up their sleeves and get to work.” Dymski noted an extreme for importance Central Northside residents creating a strong powerbase for controline the future of their neighborhood. He called the area the coalition serves...“The hole in the doughnut- needed to make a strong voice in the inner-city. The Indianapolis Recorder is for women too... advertise your social event. Dial 924-5143.
neighborhood associations working together, creating a viable force for raising cane and building support for community development," Dymski observed. Members voted unanimously to accept the offered
assistance.
Dorothy Burse, Director of
To those who find his lack of f or coalition members to im desire to be a pastor strange, mediately organize several task he explains, “So long as you are f orce for fighting the tremen-
going and telling somebody the jous issues facing an array of
story of the Saviour of the m i s . informed northeastside world who came to redeem residents. The include; sinners and save them from *To recruit individual for
death and hell fires, you re input and opposition to plans of
serving. . redeveloping the “old north-
» j « j u s ‘de” at a hearing before the Citizens Multi Service Center And Rev Mayes does when- Historic p reS e rV ation Commit '
ever and wherever he gets a Seotember 14 chance, something time con- ,’ A P consistent oper a tion
suming but rewarding. It which wU1 allow area residents
would be impossible to count tQ monitor Bank ]oans tQ
the number of individuals bap residents for housi p Urch a Se s
tized through his Biblical ref- and home im p r0V e me nts. erences, many of them by him. * Devise a task force t0 At home for Rev. Mayes confront code enforcement in
(when he’s there), is 5005 E. search of true direction, simple 16th where he lives with he language for their rulings, a equally faithful wife, Cynthia, direction for future activities
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Hundreds of chapter members from throughout the country gathered for serious discussions on housing and better approaches to sales and man-
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