Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 2002 — Page 17

FRIDAY, JULY 19,2002

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Indianapolis to host Church of the Nazarene

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General Assembly

The Church of the Nazarene has chosen Indianapolis once again to host its General Assembly convention in June 2009. An expected 35,000+ delegates, administrators and religious leaders will descend on the city June 17-26,2009. According to the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association, Indianapolis was selected after final presentations, which included Atlanta and St. Louis, to Nazarene leaders in Nashville. Tenn. The General Assembly will bring an estimated $23 million in economic impact to Indianapolis, but this is not the first time the city's won the Nazarene vote. This represents the third consecutive General Assembly in Indianapolis (June 2001, June 2005 and June 2009) and fifth overall in

Indianapolis. The organization also made Indianapolis home to its 1989 and 1993 General Assemblies. "We are pleased to bring the Church of the Nazarene to Indianapolis once again. Our city's selection is a testament to Indianapolis' outstanding team of hospitality professionals and our impressive infrastructure. They really like Indianapolis and have confidence in our ability to service the needs of their General Assembly" said Bob Bedell, president and CEO of the ICVA. The Church of the Nazarene General Assembly will utilize the Indiana Convention Center and RCA Dome and occupy more than 25,000 hotel room nights throughout the city.

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should be put in harm's way, or one bomb dropped on Iraq, that there should and there must be congressional hearings," Farrakhan said. Iraqi officials should be permitted to participate in those hearings, he continued. - The threatened U.S. military action to remove the government of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein must be debated, Farrakhan insisted, and those who desire war with Iraq must "put before the American people the reasons that justify such action and allow the scholars and scientists who disagree with the administration's position to testify” so that the American people can hear both sides of the question. Any war decision against Iraq must be based on "the will of the majority of the American people, and not the will of any lobby, no matter how strong that lobby may be," said Farrakhan. Iraq is the sixth Middle East country visited by Min. Farrakhan and his delegation on a historic peace mission to the Middle East and Africa. Government officials showed the delegation members the “consequences of the embargo imposed on Iraq, which has caused the deaths of 1.6 million people so far, because of the extreme lack of medicine and supplies," the official Iraqi News Agency reported. The U.S. government’s “aim is against the people of Iraq, not the regime, otherwise why are (they) not giving permission for contracts to be approved for the sewer system?" complained Dr. Abd AlRazak Al-Hashmie, director of the People’s Friendship, Peace, and Solidarity Committee. "What are the dangers of surgical sutures? What are the dangers of children's toys? What is the (prohibited) use of kitchen appliances? So when you ask them, there's of course no answer,” he said of U.S. and British officials who oversee the sanctions and who have the final say even for food and medical items purchased under the controversial “oil for food” program approved by the United Nations nearly five

years ago. "We are suffering from the cumulative effects" of sanctions and the Gulf War in 1991, added Health Minister Dr. Omeed Mubarak. There is a radiological effect, as well as a chemical effect, he said. “And this radiological affect causes a change in the genes (for) millions of years, on the soil and other affected areas.” Iraqi citizens, especially children are suffering from cases similar to what has been found among U.S. veterans — the socalled “Gulf War Syndrome.” The culprit. Dr. Mubarak said, is the use of depleted uranium in U.S. weapons. Members of the Farrakhan delegation were shocked. “What you have just told us is crimes we are committing against you, killing your children, poisoning your water, spreading diseases,” the Rev. James Bevel, a disciple of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., told Dr. Mubarak. “This is like a prime example of what we’re going to see in the future against many nations if we don’t dissolve the American (war) mentality. That has to be done because you get an Iraq today, tomorrow you get a Syria, you get a Sudan, and then Afghanistan. That's just like Mississippi. We had to dissolve that mentality,” he continued, recalling his leadership in both the struggles to desegregate the South and get voting rights for Blacks, as well as to mount massive resistance against the Vietnam War. Because of the on-going sanctions, and despite some improvements in the medical system since the end of the Gulf War 11 years ago, the hospitals in Iraq are often not able to render assistance to patients. Routine illnesses, some of which would be treated at home and not a hospital in the United States, become acute, lifethreatening medical emergencies in Iraq, according to Dr. Mubarak.

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ing that there would be mt>re time, a new opportunity in life. Peter Alas we come to the realization proclaims, "Blessed be the God that there was not enough lime left, and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ In light of how God has looked which according to his abundant beyond our faults and realized our mercy hath begotten us a lively needs, it should be easy for us to hope by the resurrection of Jesus merit out mercy because when we Christ from the dead.” have been on the list for mercy The reason that the Christian Jesus Christ has always donated lives a life worth living is because mercy to us. When we have been in there is always hope, we hope need of forgiveness. God has al- against hope. We hold on to hope ways found some forgiveness to- because hope is the substance of wards you and me. Peter must have faith. Those who do not know the also been thinking about the time Lord Jesus Christ as their savior go when he denied Jesus three times, around life always moping and There is something healing groping for answers, when we ponder on those times in But the Christian responds to our lives when we dmpped the ball the issues of life by hoping and and just did not make the grade, being optimistic. These are not There is something about when we some pie-in-the-sky empty wishes take quality time to come clean but sound facts God is still God. and deal with the fact that we have We can have a blessed hope about made some mistakes, errors in judg- the here and now and about the ment, and bad decisions. sweet by and by. Peter today shares with us that We believe that we can live a despite those times when we just life of great faith here in the present did not do well. God has an abun- and that we have "an inheritance dant mercy for us. Mercy is com- incorruptible, and undefiled, that passionate treatment for persons fadeth not away, reserved in who really do not deserve it. Mercy heaven" (1 Peter 1:4), just for us. is for those who really cannot af- This is a life worth living because ford it. Many times in Bible history God cured enough about you and we have heard the despairing cries me to send his son Jesus Christ, of “Have mercy on us. have mercy Jesus went to the cross to bear your on us.” It has been stated that grace and my sin. is offered to us when we do not Becauseofhisdyingonthecross deserve mercy. we live, our dreams live, our aspiWhen was the last time we cried rations live. The bleak times in our out to God for mercy? When was lives are replaced with bright opthe last time that we asked God to portunities. Because of his resurforgive us for our thoughts, words, rection we are kept by the power of and deeds that were really not pleas- God. "He lives, Christ Jesus lives ing to him? God has a great gift of today, he walks with me and he mercy just for us. talks with me." Jesus lives today When God grants us mercy it and he lives for tomorrow. He is causes us to be reborn. It’s when the God for all seasons. Because of we receive the mercy of Jesus Jesus Christ we live a life that is Christ we fully understand that the worth living. We live a life of hope slate is wiped cleaned and we have of joy and of promise.

Oh yes, we sometimes experience difficulty and set back; oh yes, we are sometimes heavy in our spirit. But we hear the master call for us as he told Mary to find Simon Peter when Jesus, after summoning for the disciples, called Peter by his name "and Peter too.” Even though we might have problems right now we can still greatly rejoice in Christ Jesus. Even when we are being tempted and tried, James tells us that the trial of our “faith is more precious than gold.” It’s a miserable thing to be without forgiveness and hope, but Jesus forgives us and supplies us with many opportunities so that our hope be filled. Despite what we might do or say that is wrong, there still stands a God who is ready to forgive us. We stand on the mountaintop of understanding when we stand on the shoulders of Jesus Christ. The crucifixion is the setting for all of our errors to die because through his death our sins are purged. We stand at the front door of many sunlit possibilities because with the resurrection we are given a new opportunity. This is a life worth living and we should praise God. "Blessed, thank you for your mercy, thank you for your forgiveness, thank you for your understanding, thank you for your love, thank you for your peace, thank you for forgiving me. Thank you for bearing my burdens, thank you for offering me a life that is worth living just because you live!” The Rev. Dr. Michael C. Carson is pastor Historic Wayman Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Kokomo, Ind.

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