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Churches in the community Abundant Life Fellowship-Nazarene Sunday School 9:30 am • Worship 10:30am 2301 Clemson Road • 462-1653 • www.AbundantLifeNaz.com Agape Worship Center Sunday Early Worship: 8:30am, Worship 11am 424 Lee Rd., Columbia • 454-2373 • www.agapeworship.org Calvary Community Church Services:Sunday- 3:00 pm, Wednesday- 7:00 2546 Main St. Elgin 803-403-6970 • Pastor Joe Covino Fair Lawn United Methodist Church Service: 9:00am, Sunday School: 10:15am 9203 Wilson Blvd. • 754-2070 Final Authority Chrisitan Church Sunday Service 10:00am • Thursday Bible Study 6:30pm 420 E. McNulty Road • 714-0761 Grace Cathedral Sunday School 10:00am • Worship 11:00am Wed. 7pm 8017 Winnsboro Rd. • 754-4690 Long Creek Church of Christ Sunday School 9am • Worship 10:15am & 6pm Wed. 7pm • 720 Longtown Road • 788-7997 Macedonia Baptist Church Sunday School 9am • Worship 10:15am 72 Macedonia Church Rd., Ridgeway • 803- 337-3205 Mt. Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church school: 10am • Worship: 11:15 Wed. Prayer Meeting: 6pm, • 216 Blue Ridge Lane, Columbia • Rev. Darwin Miller • 754-5208 Native American Fellowship Dr. Bruce “Peaceful Warrior” Newby, Pastor Services: Sundays 3pm • 1821 Emerald Valley Rd., Columbia• 731-9582 Village Church Sunday 9:15 & 10:45am 1151 Kelly Mill Rd.• 419-0989 • Erik Estep Church of the Nazarene ABUNDANT LIFE FELLOWSHIP WORSHIP 10:30 a.m. Ministering to the Families of Northeast Columbia 2301 Clemson Road 462-1653 Headache Sufferers Wanted Honest, caring doctor who has helped 100’s of pain sufferers using non-invasive trigger point techniques to eliminate tension and pain. Receive free telephone consultation. Call 803-622-7400 for details. All services provided by Dr. Dean McCaughan, DC and Dr. Kiran Sandrapaty, MD, Wellness Consultants. Church happenings • Divorced? Separated? Find Help. Discover Hope. Experience healing through Divorce Care at Breath of Life Lutheran Church, 125 Blythewood Rd. Meeting on Mondays from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM. Refreshments and Child Care will be provided. For More Information contact: 447-7767 • The Vineyard At Agape Summer Camp. Agape Worship Center Church of God located at 424 Lee Road will be having their Summer Camp for ages 5-12. The Vineyard at Agape Summer Camp will feature fun activities such as, Water Fun Week, Sports Week, Music/Drama Week, Career Week, Mad Science Week, Good Health/Fitness, as well as Reading, Math and Writing Enrichment. The Sport’s Week, July 6-10 and the Music/Drama Week, July 13-17, will be open to the community for a fee of $70 a week. Enroll now, you do not want your child to miss this opportunity for a fun filled summer with academic enrichment. For more information call us at 803-454-2373 or visit us on the web at www.agapeworship.org. •Nick@Night at North Point Community Church is a week of VBS with a mess! Bible point crafts, teambuilding games, cool Bible songs, and tasty treats are just a few of the Crocodile Dock activities that help faith flow into real life. Nick@Night will be held on June 22 -25, and runs from 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. on 532 N. Brickyard Rd. Pre-register at www.northpointonline. org for kids entering K-5th grade. Call 699-1008 for more information. •VBS Kickoff “Aussie Walkabout Adventure” at Sawney’s Creek Baptist Church, 14605 Hwy 34 East, Ridgeway 337-2925, Saturday, May 30 4:30- 6:30. Come join us for an introduction to this year’s Vacation Bible School theme, the “Boomerang Express, It All Comes Back to Jesus”. Food, games, crafts and loads of fun for kids, youth and grown-ups, all with an Australian flavor. Friends and neighbors invited to an afternoon of fun and fellowship! (Our VBS officially begins on Sunday, June 14 at 6:30pm.) Logo Screen Printing Hats, T-Shirts, Jackets, & More! • Quick Turnaround • Low Prices • Quality Printing Items to Promote Your Business or Event! Call or Come By For A FREE Quote! 10604 Two Notch Rd. 788-5979 Page 6 • May 21, 2009 • Win A FREE Print From Harold Branham Michelle Jackson, Publisher/Editor While out riding one day, Harold Branham came upon a scene that reminded him of days gone by. Days of his youth, days of a simpler way of life. He snapped a photo of the scene and decided to paint it. It’s title: The Old Neighborhood. “Back in the 50’s,” Branham said, “you could be just as comfortable in another neighborhood as in your own. There was more trust then. You could go to bed with your doors unlocked and your windows open. Television was black and white, and consisted of only three channels. Kids played outside. They rode their bikes to school, and gliding through other neighborhoods was safe. Neighbors knew each other, and looked out for each other. And as a kid, you behaved because everyone knew your parents. “Nowadays,” Branham continued, “doors are locked and curtains are closed. When I was a kid, if I left school to go somewhere, it was to the neighborhood store. Neighborhood stores had the best candy. I remember sneaking away from school to go across the street to the store for candy. My fear of getting caught back then was that my parents would find out. Nowadays, just going to school can be fearful. Deputies patrol the high schools, and kids carry weapons. Life was a lot simpler in the ‘50’s. “When I came across this scene, it reminded me of a time that was safe. A time that families really knew each other and spent every Sunday together. Stores weren’t open on Sunday, and families had nothing else to do but to spend time with each other and enjoy each other’s company. Neighbors would get together, and neighbors cared about one JavaNookBooks School Summer Reading Books Available! 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I’ve never been to Japan, never set foot there, but my Dad went. Thus Japan has touched me in ways obvious and ways hard to explain. The obvious is easy. I drive a Honda. I take digital photographs with a Fuji S3000. Japan Victor Company built my flatscreen. Sony manufactured my home sound system. My Vortex binoculars came from Japan. I talk on Panasonic telephones. The rest is less straightforward and weightier. My Japanese musings took over me the day I heard about Chrysler’s bankruptcy. For me, Chrysler sits at the intersection of two key memories, memories of a boyhood discovery and a 1956 Plymouth, turquoise and white, with delicate fins. It’s the first car I remember Dad buying, not that long after World War II. Dad pretty much bought Chrysler cars all his life. We who buy Japanese cars drove a few nails in Chrysler’s coffin, but don’t blame us. Japanese cars last. They’ve come to embody the phoenix-like rise of a country leveled by war, demolished by us in a way like no other but brought back by us as well. From a nuclear funeral pyre, Japan rose to give us dependable cars, radios, TVs, telephones, and more. Japan, the vanquished enemy, conquered as no country has ever been conquered, came SMOKEHOUSE RESTAURANT 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM Order Early! BBQ Hash • Ribs Chicken And All The Fixin’s! roaring back. The other memory goes way back as well. Rambling through closets as a boy I discovered silk flags, relics of Dad’s time in Japan. Unfolding them, a rising sun with spectacular rays burst off the alabaster silk as if afire. Japan—Land of the Rising Sun. The Imperial Japanese Navy flew those flags as did the Japanese Army. In battle, those flags were among the last sights many warriors on both sides saw. To me, they were playthings. I made parachutes of those silk flags, tying a rock to them, hurling them up, and watching them drift lazily back to Georgia soil. Somewhere in my boyhood those flags disappeared. What a loss. I’d love to have one framed with an inscription. “Liberated and brought to the United States by Sergeant John M. Poland Jr.” With Japan’s surrender August 14, 1945, Allied Occupation Forces banned the Rising Sun flags. Maybe that’s how Dad came by them. Confiscated. Thus it began. Dad journeyed to Japan on a troop carrier in Operation 2436 Main Street Elgin 803-438-3249 Tom Poland Columnist Our Changing World Touched by Hiroshima Downfall, the Allied plan to invade Japan. Along the way the atom bomb brought Japan to its knees, and some 200,000 servicemen, would-be invaders, occupied Japan instead. My thoughts drift to Hiroshima. My father served in U.S. Army Ordnance and he spent time in Yokohama but he also went to Hiroshima not long after the Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy.” There in the land of geishas and samurai, he might as well have been walking on the surface of the sun. He was at most, 19 or 20. The things he must have seen as he tread Hiroshima’s toxic soil. There was no way he could avoid horrors. Skinless people. Men with stripes burnt onto their skin. They were wearing striped shirts when the brilliant flash hit them, the nuclear burst that stenciled dress patterns onto women’s bodies. Dad never talked about things like that, but they happened. That and worse. He returned to Georgia with evidence of his Hiroshima days: the flags and • • Say Goodbye To Those Outdoor Bugs! Finally A Safe Solution That Really Works Proven Experts in Mosquito, No-See-Um Lake Midge and Spider Control The Bugslayer system can be installed on your property and will automatically deliver a safe, measured spray to kill and repel a broad range of insects. STOP THOSE BITING INSECTS! Professionally Installed by All Seasons Services (Licensed and Insured) ANT TREATMENTS ALSO AVAILABLE 803-240-7056 horrific photos. The photos, taken from a low, wide perspective, reveal block after block of charred rubble with I-beams drooping like melted candles. The next time you drive past a field of corn chopped close to the ground, imagine it burnt too. That’s what Hiroshima looked like, a charred, leveled cornfield. At ground zero the heat reached millions of degrees. Some victims left shadows etched into rock ... vaporized ... perhaps that’s why censors placed rectangles black as midnight on some of Dad’s photos. No need to generate sympathy for the enemy. By the end of 1945, radiation and injuries, burns in many cases, raised the total to 140,000 dead. Even as a kid, those photos told me Hell itself had been unleashed on Hiroshima. It didn’t come as a surprise. Awaiting the bomb’s first test, Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, held onto a post to steady himself as the seconds ticked down ... “3, 2, 1, Now!” A brilliant burst of light and a deep growling roar staggered him. Apocalyptic words escaped his lips: “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” ... words from the “Song of God,” a treasured Sanskrit Hindu scripture. Worlds destroyed sixty- •See Hiroshima, Page 15 The Blythewood Leader May 21, 2009 Page 7
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