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Benson Baptist Revival

To Begin This SundayRevival services at Benson

Baptist Church will begin thisSunday morning, March 16, andwill continue through Fridayevening, March 21.- Guest evangelist will be theRev. Aubrey Patterson, pastorof Carmel Baptist Church inCharlotte. A graduate ofCampbell College, N.C. StateUniversity and SoutheasternBaptist Theological Seminary,he has pastored churches inseveral areas of the state.The evening services begin at

7:30 p.m. nightly, and thechurch choirs will providespecial music each evening.The nursery will be open for allservices.The church prayer room will

be open each evening prior tothe revival services. Mrs. Tony Woodall. ChurchPre-revival coffee hours and members are urged to attend

prayer meetings will be held these meetings, and other in-Saturday morning, March 15,at terested citizens are also10a.m. in the homes of Mr. and welcome.Mrs. P. B. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. The public is invited to attendT. W. Lee, Mr. and Mrs. all of the revival services,Garland McLamb, Mr. and I according toMrs. Eldon Paige, and Mr. and Price, pastor.

By JOE McLEANTimes Church Editor

Rev. Aubrey Patterson, pastor of Mt. Olivet BaptistChurch, has staged several "returns" in his pastoral career.When he went back to Charlotte in 1960, it was a return

to his home town. It also meant the renewal of several closeacquaintances made while in Raleigh.He was pastor of Boulevard

Baptist Church in Raleighfrom 1957through 1960.Whilehe was at Boulevard, hebecame a close associate ofDr. James S. Potter, thenpastor of Tabernacle BaptistChurch in Raleigh. HaroldShumaker, minister of musicat Tabernacle, was anotherassociate of Rev. Patterson'swhile he was in Raleigh.Rev. Patterson's second

pastorate in Charlotte was asminister for the youth andassistant minister at Prit-chard Memorial Ba p tis tChurch. Both Dr. Potter andShumaker were members ofthe !)taff at Pritchar dMemorial.There was another return

aspect to Rev. Patterson's ar-rival in· Charlotte. While bewas in high school, he was amember of the football,basketball and baseball squadsat Harding High.When he went from Raleigh

to Charlotte, he joined thecoaching staff of his almamater, serving as assistant'football coach.His coaching days are ap-

parently not over: Soon afterhis recent return to Raleigh,he accompanied his son overto a midget league basketballplaying site;

of the Baptist State Con-vention.He also served on the

faculty of Rid g e c res tAssembly as a monitor andyouth leadership teacher. Hewas president of the Break-fast Optimist Club ill Charlot-te.

While in Wake Forest, Rev.Patterson served as a licensedfuneral director, passing aState examination for the posi-tion.Mrs. Patterson is the former

Miss Yvonne Mundy ofCharlotte. Rev. and Mrs. Pat-terson are the parents of threechildren: Tim, 10, Barry, 9and Sheron, 5.Rev. Patterson plans to take

some courses at SoutheasternSeminary while in the Raleigharea. He has recently movedinto a new parsonage purchas-ed by the 325-member con-gregation.

Carmel Postor~s Role

How To MinisterTo he"Affluent?By WARREN BARNARD

NewsStaff Writer

When a family is hungry, orneeds shelter or clothin<1 aminister's concerns are e';'silyidentifiable. 'What does a minister do

when his members' salariesare closer to $25,000 a yearthan to $5,OOO? Or, when the

question is what college willthe young people attend ratherthan will they finish the eighthgrade?

"SO MUCH emphasis isrightfully placed on the innerCity, social needs and prob-lems like that," explains theR~,v. Aubrey Q. Patterson.

But too often we fail torecog.nize there are problemspeculiar to areas like this _tha~ they're not poverty, edu-cation or such common socialconcerns.""Areas like this" for Mr.

Patterson refers to the subur-ban southeastern section ofCharlotte and the immediatearea of Mecklenburg County.He is the pastor of Carmel

Baptist Church, located atC a rm e I and Sharon Viewroads, a growing affluent areaof big homes and seeminglywell-to-do families.

In such areas, Mr. Pattersonacknowledges a minister canidentify his role through such,vague generalizations, as "to

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Yet he believes that' is atrue statement for clergymenpositions similar to his own inwhich a seven-year old churchalready has a $140,000 budgetand in the two years of hispastorate has grown by some250 people."The first thing we need to

come to grips with here iswJiat is C h r i s t ian i t Y allabout," the Charlotte nativesaid.

"A MAN making $50,000 ayear needs Christ just asmuch as one making $5,000.You have to go beyond his ob-vious material gains," theamiable preacher pointed out."Too often we don't really be-come concerned about peopleuntil they're down and out."Actually, people in this

community need Christ just asmuch as those in our othercommunities ."In his ministry, the 38-year

Baptist comes in contact withthe drug problem, the turned-off youth and the brokenhome, even though econgmjcand social pressures may beabsent or at least different.

"The family I SUPfJOSe isone of the greajest problemswe have here," Mr. Pattersonoffered.

The basic problem, no mat-ter where people may be, heexplained, is in the familystructure itself where peop 10no longer take lime to be withone another .as much as inby-gone eras."The young people need to

know their parents, and theparents need to get to know

their children as well as theycan,"THE CARMEL church puts

a strong emphasis on the fam-ily. This summer a specialfamily life institute is beingconducted on Sunday nights,while special programsheld on Wednesday nights.

He stressed that his churchreally is not doing anythingmuch different from many lo-cal churches in various de-nominations."The point I'm making is

that we don't always realizethe needs may be a true in asituation like this as else-where.

"I think most ministers areaware of it, and yet we findourselves caught up in minis-'tcring to other areas while let-ting our own particular needsgo by," explained Mr. Patter-son, a 20-year veteran clergy-man who also has worked fora' local construction companyas counselor and salesman.

At one point in an interview,he expressed his belief thatthe Gospel has to have socialimplications as well as spiritu-al.

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