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Armed man arrested for interrupting protest at courthouseSuspect charged with public drunkenness, disturbing the peaceBY SLIM [email protected]

A man, armed with a rifle and hand-gun, was arrested Saturday after he disturbed a protest of the Confederate monument outside Lowndes County Courthouse.

Columbus Police Department Chief Fred Shelton said the man, Teddy Billingsley, 61, of Colum-bus, was arrested on charges of public drunkenness and disturb-ing the peace. Both charges are misdemeanors.

“There was a person who walked into the crowd with a long rifle and handgun,” said Shelton, who arrived shortly after two CPD officers had detained the man. “Him and some of the people got into a dialogue and he started giving them the (middle) finger. At that time, the officers removed him from the area.”

The Confederate monument on the courthouse grounds has been an open source of controversy lately, especially in the wake of the police officer killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis grabbing na-tional headlines and Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch dis-missing a manslaughter charge against white former Columbus police officer Canyon Boykin in the 2015 fatal shooting of Ricky Ball, a black man.

Lowndes County supervisors voted 3-2, along racial lines, last week to leave the monument at the courthouse rather than move it to Friendship Cemetery, where both Confederate and Union sol-

BY SLIM [email protected]

All across the South, the debate over what to do with Confederate memorials oc-cupying prominent public spaces rages.

Some such monuments have been removed, some even destroyed. The fate of others remains uncertain, with protests and count-er-protests raising emo-tions to a fever pitch.

In Macon, where a Con-federate memorial, erected

in 1901 and dedicated to the fallen Confederate soldiers of Noxubee County, stands on the northwest corner of the county courthouse ground, the debate — if you want to call it that — is dis-tinctly different.

The mood Friday matched the languid ear-ly-summer weather. If things move, they move slowly.

“I have heard a lot of talk about (the monument) here lately,” said Johnny Simpson, 57, who has lived

his whole life in Nox-ubee Coun-ty. “People are saying, you know, it needs to be gone. But I don’t think anybody’s mad. It’s just something people think should be done.”

Antonio Matheny, 48, was even less animated over the issue.

“It can go. It can stay. I don’t care that much,” he

said. “To me, I see the state flag or that m o n u m e n t and all it does is remind me of the civil rights move-ment. In a way, that’s a good thing.”

Both Noxubee County Supervisor Bruce Brooks and Macon Mayor Bob Boykin said they are begin-ning to get calls requesting

Calm prevails as Noxubee County considers relocating its Confederate memorialMove from courthouse to Oddfellows Cemetery could cost tens of thousands of dollars

NCAA TO MISSISSIPPI: CHANGE FLAG OR FACE CONSEQUENCES

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University officials, fans react to ruling on Confederate flag, hosting postseason playBY BEN [email protected]

Collegiate athletics in the Magnolia State are feeling the effects of the Mississippi flag debate.

Friday, the NCAA announced that championship hosting oppor-tunities earned on merit would no longer be allowed to be held in Mississippi until the state flag, which displays the Confederate battle emblem in its upper left corner, is changed.

Under previous stipulations set by the NCAA in 2001, Mississippi member institutions were allowed to host non-pre-selected champi-onships, but not those whose host sites were predetermined, like the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

The new change directly prohibits college baseball and softball

BY TESS [email protected]

The futures of the Mississippi state flag and Mississippi State University athletics — and by extension, the city of Starkville’s financial health — are inter-twined and in the hands of the state Legislature for the foresee-able future.

The NCAA, the governing body of college sports, ruled Fri-day that Mississippi institutions will not host regional events of any kind until the Confederate battle emblem is removed from the state flag.

“There are times when you have to be on the right side of an

State legislators see hope for changing the state flag in light of NCAA ruling

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Fans cheer during a 2016 NCAA baseball Super Regional game Mis-sissippi State University played against Arizona at Dudy Noble Field in this Dispatch file photo. The NCAA on Friday ruled Mississippi would be prohibited from hosting any postseason sporting events until the state flag was changed to remove the Confederate battle emblem.

Claire Hassler/Dispatch StaffA Confederate monument sits on the lawn of the Noxubee County Courthouse, as shown on Thursday, in Macon. County supervisors will be discussing relocating the monument from the courthouse lawn at a board meeting on Monday.

Billingsley

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FOCAL POINT A photo exploration of life inside the Golden Triangle

Photos and text by Claire Hassler/Dispatch Staff

Kids jumped in bouncy houses while a DJ played music and vendors sold food, beauty prod-

ucts and clothes to celebrate Juneteenth on Friday evening in Southside Park in Columbus.

Celebrations followed a similar suit in Starkville on Saturday afternoon, where food trucks pulled up in the parking lot and small business owners set up tents in the grass of J.L. King Sr. Memorial Park.

These celebrations mark 155 years since word of the Emancipation Procla-mation reached enslaved people in Tex-as, making June 19, 1865 the official end of slavery in the U.S. African Americans began celebrating the day a year later in Texas and over time celebrations have spread across the country and world.

“It’s a celebration of being Black,” said Khiry Erby, who attended the festi-val in Columbus.

Erby set up a barbeque stand and spent the holiday grilling with his dad while his kids drank strawberry sodas and ran around the park.

Erby fondly remembers celebrating Juneteenth in Columbus as a kid. He said it used to be a two-day festival where kids put on their best outfits and shoes.

“We used to see the parents in the middle of the field dancing, the blues singers coming. It was just amazing, you felt the love,” Erby said.

This year’s celebrations coincide with the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide protests for racial justice in response to George Floyd’s and many other Black individuals’ deaths at the hands of white police officers.

Latalla Harris, the director of the J.L. King Center and one of the main orga-nizers of the Starkville festival, said the climate of the country right now makes Juneteenth even more important.

“We’re free but we’re still not free,” Harris said. “This signifies rebirth for us this year.”

Harris said that despite uncertainty and struggle, Juneteenth is a day to honor.

Juneteenth celebrated in the Golden Triangle

‘IT’S TIME TO CELEBRATE’

Aaniyah Cole, 8, jumps up in the air while her cousin Kelvyianna Jackson, 11, watches on Friday during a June-teenth celebration at Southside Park in Columbus. Aaniyah and Kelvyianna are from Jackson, Tennessee and came to Columbus to celebrate Juneteenth with their grandpa, who lives in town.

From left, Nathan, 2, and Nicolas, 3, Lofton ride in a wagon pulled by Michelle Mar-tin while Shauncey Hill walks with them during a Juneteenth celebration on Saturday at J.L. King Senior Memorial Park in Starkville. Martin pulled Nathan and Nicolas through the parking lot and around a fire truck, which was parked so the kids could look at it during the festival.

TOP PHOTO: Kayla Rupert serves customers shaved ice during a Juneteenth celebration on Saturday at J.L. King Senior Memo-rial Park in Starkville. There was another food truck and several local restaurants also set up tents in the park during the festival. ABOVE: Laisey Khiry, 4, sips strawberry soda from a straw during a Juneteenth celebration on Friday at Southside Park in Columbus. After she finished her soda, Laisey ran around on the playground in the park with her siblings and friends.

Lauren Prince paints on the art wall during a Juneteenth celebration on Saturday at J.L. King Senior Memorial Park in Starkville. People were invited to paint or draw on the wall to commemorate the day. The mural will be hung in the J.L. King Center after the event.

From left, Stan-ley Erby and his

son Khiry Erby grill together

during a June-teenth celebra-

tion on Friday at Southside Park

in Columbus. The barbeque stand belongs

to Khiry, and he said his dad is “in training” to

help with the business.

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NoxubeeContinued from Page 1A

the monument be moved, as has Scott Boyd, edi-tor and publisher of the town’s weekly paper, The Macon Beacon. Boyd wrote a front-page edito-rial in this week’s edition calling for the monument to be relocated from the county-owned court-house grounds to the city-owned Oddfellows Cemetery, where both Confederate and Union soldiers are buried.

“I was hearing from people talking about the monument, so I thought it would be a good time to address it,” Boyd said.

To date, Boykin, Brooks and Boyd said the tone of the conversa-tions have been calm. So far, none of the men has encountered opposition to the idea of moving the monument.

Both Noxubee County and the city of Macon are roughly 70 percent black.

“I think, yeah, most people would like to see it moved,” said Boykin, in his 15th year as mayor. “I haven’t seen any division like you see in other plac-es. I know you’re not go-ing to please everybody, but I believe most people here think (moving the

monument) is the right thing to do.”

Although he has yet to discuss the issue with oth-er supervisors, Brooks said he expects a propos-al to move the monument will be supported by the board.

“We’re going to dis-cuss it at our board meet-ing on Monday,” Brooks said. “I’d be surprised if the board didn’t want to move it.”

Boykin said the town’s aldermen will take up the issue at its next meeting on July 7.

“By then, we should know what the supervi-sors have done,” he said. “I can’t speak for the board, but I’m pretty sure there would be support for moving it to the cem-etery, especially if the county says they want to move it.”

The bigger issue, all three say, is finding the funds to relocate the es-timate.

“In the editorial I wrote, the one thing I was sensitive to is taxpayers shouldn’t be asked to pay for it,” Boyd said. “I’ve

heard estimates any-where from $25,000 to $100,000. The county and city just don’t have the money for that.”

Brooks agreed that the relocation should be funded privately.

“So far, the discus-sions have gone pretty smooth,” he said. “We want to keep it that way. With that in mind, I don’t think I could support ask-ing taxpayers to pay for this.”

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diers are buried.Ricky Butler, one of

about 100 protesters Sat-urday who began gath-ering at the monument around 9 a.m., said the protest had been peace-ful until Billingsley’s ar-rival.

“There wasn’t any trouble at all,” Butler said. “Then, a little after 12, a gentleman came up carrying what looked like an AR-15 and a sidearm. He started yelling racial slurs and throwing up the finger. It looked like he was trying to provoke people so he could start shooting.”

Butler said several protesters began to move toward the man, but po-lice intervened and re-moved the man further down the sidewalk to-ward the YMCA.

Protesters Keisha Marchbanks, Ashley Hackman and Hack-man’s daughter, Khariya Blanchard, 13, told a Dis-patch reporter that when the man approached the crowd in front of the courthouse he “tapped his guns” against a truck parked near the protest-ers.

Another white male, dressed in camouflage and with what appeared

to be a handgun hol-stered at his side, walked toward the crowd, wit-nesses said. A few min-utes later, several of the protesters began walking toward him and yelling, causing him to walk back across Second Avenue from the courthouse as several law enforcement officers got between him and protesters. Officers took the man aside, and he left a couple of min-utes later. Both Police Chief Fred Shelton and Sheriff Eddie Hawkins said he was not arrested.

District 5 Supervisor Leroy Brooks was ad-dressing the crowd at the time of the incident.

“I was standing up next to the monument, prais-ing the young people for being actively involved,” he said. “The next thing I knew, a lady said, ‘Mr. Brooks. There’s a man with a gun over there.’

“I looked up and he was yelling and flipping the bird with both hands and some of the crowd was going towards him, but Chief Shelton and two other officers had

the man and were kind of shielding him from the crowd,” Brooks added. “It could have been a trage-dy, but the police acted quickly and were able to de-escalate things.”

By 12:15 p.m., all eight CPD officers on duty and numerous members of the Lowndes County Sheriff ’s Office had se-

cured the scene and the protesters began to drift away. Only a few people were still at the scene by 1.

Shelton said there were no other arrests and

no injuries.The entire incident

lasted about five minutes, witnesses estimated.

Dispatch News Editor Isabelle Altman contribut-ed to this report.

Isabelle Altman/Dispatch StaffKhariya Blanchard, 13, of Columbus, holds a sign that says “I (We) Can’t Breathe,” a reference to George Floyd’s last words as former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck until he died last month, during a protest outside the Lowndes County Courthouse Saturday morning. A crowd of about 100 people gath-ered to protest the Confederate statue outside the courthouse and Lowndes County Board of Supervisors President Harry Sanders who earlier this week told a Dispatch reporter that black Americans had been “dependent” since slavery. Blanchard is the daughter of Ashley Hackman, right.

Claire Hassler/Dispatch StaffA fence surrounds a Confederate monument, as shown on Thursday, outside the Noxubee County Courthouse in Macon. On the side of the monument a plaque reads: “Erected by the Walter Barker Chapter No. 242 United Daughters of the Confederacy Mississippi Division 1901.” Soldiers’ names are listed below the statement.

Isabelle Altman/Dispatch StaffProtesters at a demonstration against the Confederate monument outside the Lowndes County Courthouse yell at law enforcement officers and an individual who approached the crowd while appearing to be armed.


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Coach TuckerDale Tucker, 70, of Colum-

bus, MS, died June 17, 2020, at University of Mississippi Medi-cal Center, in Jackson.

Coach Tucker was born on March 19, 1950, to the late Earl Tucker and the late Dorothy Marshall Hammond, in Colum-bus, MS.

He was a 1969 graduate of Lee High School and an Alumni of Mississippi State University. He followed ev-ery MSU sport and always shouted “How about them Dawgs!” He started his coaching career in the 70’s, when he became a history teacher at Lee High School. He always had a love for sports. He loved football, basketball, golf, and baseball. Baseball was his favorite sport. He loved every-thing about the game of baseball. Over the years, he could remember every stat, inning, play, players, etc. to many games that he coached. After his teaching career, he played softball, for the Cash Distributing Team, with many of his friends. The team was filled with many talented players and they all loved to win! He also started his career as a salesman for Columbus Rubber & Gasket, where he was employed for 23 years. During these years, He started back coaching baseball in the Propst Park league. Coach Tucker LOVED teaching the boys the game of baseball. He loved to see the boys enjoying the game, just as much as he did. He also loved teaching the boys how to WIN! Everyone knows that Coach Tucker DID NOT like to lose. He always wanted to Win, but regardless he still loved the boys the same if they lost. The boys might “owe him 5” sprints, after the game, but he still loved to see the boys having love for the game of baseball. To all the boys/men who played for Coach Tucker over the years, he wanted you to know that be-ing “Coach” to all of you, were some of the BEST years of his life, and he wants to thank all of you for all of the wonderful memories! He decided to retire from coaching when his son, Robert, start-ing playing baseball for New Hope School. He moved to Elkhart, Indiana in 2004, to become a salesman for his brother Dennis’ company DART sales and marketing. While living in Indiana, he made many close friends, and he played golf al-most every day. He retired from DART sales and marketing in 2016, and moved back to Colum-bus to enjoy his retirement with his family, kids, grandkids, and friends.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his stepdad, Toby Hammond; brother, Danny Roy Tucker; sister, Doris Morgan; sister-in-law, Sue Tucker; and ex-wife, Dana Douglas.

Coach Tucker is survived by his sons, David Tucker, Columbus, MS and Robert(Hailey Cole)Tucker, Columbus, MS; daughters, Jennifer Tucker(B.D.) Dowdy, Columbus, MS and Steph-anie Kizer(Matt) Burns, Columbus, MS; sisters, LuLu(Randy) Hayes, Palmetto, AL and Don-na(Danny) Parker, Tuscaloosa, AL; brother, Den-nis(Rita) Tucker, Elkhart, IN; grandchildren, Rylee Jo Tucker, Jeradd Dale Tucker, and Sway-zee Lu Tucker; and a host of nieces and nephews.

A Memorial Service for Coach Tucker will be held Saturday, June 27, 2020, at 3:00 PM at Lake Lowndes, on Field 1, which is by the conces-sion stand. When you come to the gate at Lake Lowndes, please stop and tell them that you are there for the Memorial Service. Please feel free to come dressed comfortably, sign a guest book, and laugh and tell stories about your memories with Coach Dale Tucker.

In lieu of flowers, the family request that Me-morials may be made to Lowndes Funeral Home and Crematory to help with expenses.

Brad Thomas LamarMay 10, 1972-June 14, 2020

Brad Thomas Lamar passed away peacefully, at his mother’s residence, on June 14, 2020. He was surrounded by his loving family as he left this world to be with his Lord.

Brad was born in Columbus on May 10, 1972, to Robert Earl and Rose Mary Wright Lamar. He attended S.D. Lee High School and Marion Mil-itary Institute in Marion, AL. After graduation, he enlisted in the United States Army and was transferred overseas to Germany. A veteran, he served his country during Desert Storm with pride and devotion. Upon his return to Columbus, Brad began his career in Computer Technology. As a computer network specialist, he enjoyed most his work at Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville, AL and The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science.

Although Brad’s disabilities caused him pain, he always kept his sense of humor. He will be missed by all of his family and his friends.

In addition to his father, Robert Earl Lamar, he was predeceased by his paternal grandparents, Earline and Earl Lamar; and his maternal grand-parents, Aileen Harrison Price and J.P. Wright.

In addition to his mother, Rose Mary Lamar, Brad is survived by his sons, Andrew Kyle La-mar of Columbus and Cameron Thomas Lamar of Kapolei, Hawaii; his sister, Alison Harvey of West Point; his brother, Robert Earl Lamar, II of Columbus; his granddaughter, Elizabeth Rose Lamar; and his three nephews, Boyce Moody, Trey Lamar, and Matthew Lamar.

A memorial service will be held on Sunday, June 28, 2020, at 2:00 PM at Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home Chapel, 2nd Avenue North location, with the Rev. Prentiss M. Gordon offi-ciating. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service. Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home & Crematory, 2nd Avenue North location, has been entrusted with the arrangements.

Memorials may be made to the Disabled Amer-ican Veterans, 164 Harris Drive, Columbus, MS 39705, Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Trian-gle Hospice, P.O. Box 1307, Columbus, MS 39705 or to the donor’s favorite charity.

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Larry JohnsonLarry Mitchell Johnson, 72,

of Columbus, MS, passed away Thursday, June 18, 2020, at his residence.

A graveside service will be Sunday, June 21, 2020, at 5:00 PM at Mt. Vernon Cemetery, Columbus, MS, with Lowndes Funeral Home directing.

Mr. Johnson was born Sep-tember 19, 1947, to the late Nuburn “Bud” and Jimmie Nell Holliman John-son, in Columbus, MS. He retired as a supervisor with Omnova Solutions after 35 years of service. Mr. Johnson loved hunting and especially loved fishing.

In addition to his parents, Mr. Johnson was preceded in death by his wife, Lina Christine “Chris” Crouse Johnson; son, Mitchell Drew Johnson; and brother, Nuburn Dwight Johnson.

Mr. Johnson is survived by his daughter, Pame-la Beamer; brother, Jimmy Johnson; grandchild, Abby Johnson; special friend, Wanda Williams; and nephews, Gary Johnson, Eric Johnson, and Jeff Johnson.

Honorary pallbearers will be Kevin Campbell, David Beamer, Charles Little, Bob Luecke, Brad Williams, Dalton Williams, Grant Williams, Ter-ry Whitten, Gary Johnson, Eric Johnson, Aiden Johnson, and Owen Johnson.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.



Lou Ella ReedLou Ella “Lella” Reed, 88 of Columbus, MS,

passed away Tuesday, June 16, 2020, at College View Personal Care Home, Columbus, MS.

A graveside service was held Saturday, June 20, 2020, at 10:00 AM at Tabernacle United Meth-odist Church Cemetery, Ethelsville, AL, with Bro. Tommy Gillon officiating, and Lowndes Fu-neral Home directing.

Mrs. Reed was born on October 24, 1931, to the late John Webster and Cleba Brown Winslett, in Meridian, MS. She was a member of Fairview Baptist Church, Columbus, MS, where she was a Mission Friends teacher, Sunday School teach-er, and church volunteer. Mrs. Reed served as a reading tutor, girl scout leader, and cub scout leader.

In addition to her parents, Mrs. Reed was pre-ceded in death by her husband, Charles Reed Jr.; and grandchild, Robert Christopher.

Mrs. Reed Is survived by her daughters, Nic-ki Cole, Debra (Gary) Erb, Charla Boyd, and Gail Henderson; son, Wes (Buffy) Reed; and 13 grandchildren, Heather Christopher, Nathan Erb, William Boyd, Dakotah Reed, Kiki Reed, Katherine Cole, Christopher Cole, Chloe Cole, Shay Boyd, Tristen Boyd, McKenzie Boyd, J.D. Boyd, and Kayla Erb.

Honorary pallbearers were Lona Sutherland, Gladys Morris and family, College View Personal Care Home, Caroline Reed and family, Dr. Duck-worth, and Baptist Hospice.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.

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Steens, MS2nd Ave. North Location

Brad LamarVisitation:

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phus Horne, 86, died June 19, 2020.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Carter’s Funeral Services of Macon.

Ruth TurnerVERNON, Ala. —

Ruth Turner, 95, died June 19, 2020, at Gener-ations of Vernon.

Services are 2 p.m. Monday at the First Baptist Church in Vernon with Joe Beck-on officiating. Burial will follow at Vernon City Cemetery. Visi-tation is Monday one hour prior to service at the church. Chandler Funeral Home of Ver-non is entrusted with arrangements.

Mrs. Turner was born May 11, 1925, in Suggsville, Alabama, to the late Marion E. Thompson Sr. and Ar-temisa Thompson. She was a faithful member of the First Free Will Baptist Church in Ver-non and was employed as a dental assistant.

She is survived by her sons, Zadus Turner Jr. and Joe Turner, both of Vernon; sister, Linda

Leps of Midland, Tex-as; five grandchildren and 14 great-grandchil-dren.

Pallbearers will be Jody Turner, Walt Turn-er, Turner Kilpatrick, Jon Kilpatrick, Cade Hatfield, Zane Turner, Nathan Kilpatrick, Trey Pinkerton, Landon Kil-patrick and Wit Turner.

Odie Harris Sr.STARKVILLE —

Odie James Harris Sr., 67, died June 15, 2020, in Starkville.

Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. today, at First Baptist Longview Cemetery. Burial will follow. Visi-tation was from noon-5 p.m. Saturday, at West Memorial Funeral Home. West Memo-rial Funeral Home of Starkville is in charge of arrangements.

He is survived by his wife, Eddie Dean Har-ris; son, James Roshun Harris; daughters, Tarsha Shereta Gibson, Linnell Rice-Hender-son, and Jessica Briana Harris; and brother, Selven Smith Jr.

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It was almost 10 years ago that I first

wrote a column on the state flag and the need to look at changing it. It is past time to revisit that discussion. The present flag was a creation of the Mississippi Legislature in 1894. The move for a new state flag that year was started by Mississippi Gov. Stone with the following message to legislators:

“Executive Office, Jackson. Miss., Jan. 22, 1894. – To the Senate and House of Representatives: Gentlemen – I respectfully submit for your consid-eration a question often asked of Mississippians the inability to answer some-times confuses their sense of patriotic ardor and puts their State pride before a point of interrogation. That question is ‘What is the coat of arms of Mississippi? What is your state flag?’ The humiliating answer is, ‘We have no coat of arms, we have no state flag!’

“Prior to the year 1861 there seems to have been no action taken on those subjects. In that year a convention of the people of Mississippi did adopt a coat-of-arms and a flag for the state. But in August 1865, another convention was in session, and on the 23rd of that month, the ordinance of 1861, creating a coat of arms and a state flag being abolished and since that time, the state has had neither.”

The coat-of-arms adopt-ed was:

“A magnolia tree containing a nest of eagles, which are being defended by the mother bird from the attack of a serpent, a bale of cotton, plow, steamboat, citizen, soldier, fortifications and cannons, with motto: Istis Donfen-soribis.”

The flag was:“A white ground, a mag-

nolia in the center, a blue field in the upper left hand corner, the flag surrounded with a red border, and a red fringe at the extremity.”

In 1894 there was little public fanfare or discussion about either the new flag or state coat of arms. I have with Carolyn Kaye been pouring through Missis-sippi newspaper archives looking in 1894 papers for

news articles on the new flag. Other than the governor’s message that appeared in several papers, we found only short mentions of the adoption of a flag and coat of arms. The most de-tailed follow-up

article was in the Feb. 9, 1894 Yazoo Herald:

“A Coat of Arms and State Flag were adopted this week. The flag is a combination of the United States Flag and the old Confederate Battle Flag; the Coat of Arms is an American Eagle with extended wings with the thirteen stars surrounding its head, and upon the Ea-gle’s breast is a shield. The designs are very pretty and when the flag and coat of arms are finished, will be admired by all. Mississippi is the only State in the Union that has not a Coat of Arms (or) Flag of State.”

Eight years ago I wrote a column suggesting Mis-sissippi return to the Mag-nolia Flag of 1861. Though dating to the Civil War, it is a pretty flag with no purely Confederate symbols. Concern over that flag’s canton, now often referred to as the Confederate Bon-nie Blue Flag, ignores that a white or yellow star on a blue or red background was the flag of revolt against Spanish oppression by its American colonies. That “lone star” still graces the flags of Texas, Chile, Cuba and Puerto Rico. It is a flag with roots from 50 years before the Civil War. Eight years ago it was a good idea. Times and people have changed and that window of opportunity has closed. We now look at a call for a completely new flag.

In a 1935 address before the House of Commons, Winston Churchill stated, “When the situation was

manageable it was ne-glected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure.”

A large part of our state’s population does not feel that a Confeder-ate battle flag represents them and are offended by it. Some of that feeling comes from the fact that hate groups have staked a claim to the Confederate battle flag with barely a whimper from those who truly viewed that flag as a legitimate symbol, not of hate, but of their heritage. When that “situation was manageable it was neglect-ed.”

We now need to consid-er a change in the Mis-sissippi flag, not because someone makes us, but be-cause it is the right thing to do. Unfortunately our state flag recalls a time in our history with which most of us are uncomfortable.

As to the Confederate battle flag on the Missis-sippi flag, it was the battle flag of the Confederate Army of Northern Virgin-ia. Interestingly, the flag used by the Confederate veterans organization in Columbus (UCV) after the war was simply a horizontal red stripe, a white stripe and another red stripe. I know that because I inherited that flag. It was passed to me having originally belonged to my great-great uncle, Maj. John Billups, 43rd Miss. Infantry Regiment, and my great-grandfather, Lt. T.C. Billups, 6th Miss. Cavalry Regiment, who had also served as ensign or flag bearer for Co. A, 44th Mississippi Infantry. I understand the heritage but I also see the pain of those whose ancestors had been enslaved under that flag and that pain cries out for understanding and healing.

The 1861 flag was cre-ated by the state Legisla-ture as was the 1894 state flag. That means that the

decision on the state flag and whether there should be a completely new one or possibly an alternative one rests in the hands of the Legislature. Today in Mississippi there is a need for healing and unity. The present flag provides nei-ther, and the Legislature should change the 1894 state flag or at the very least create an alternative official flag.

I believe it is time to change the flag and have a state flag that can repre-sent everyone in Missis-sippi. The most commonly mentioned alternatives are the Stennis Flag and the Mississippi Bicentennial flag of 2017. I have seen several businesses still fly-ing the Bicentennial Flag and I like it.

Rufus Ward is a local historian.

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Confederate monuments made Harry SandersA s an architectur-

al historian and preservationist

raised in Mississippi, I am frequently asked my opin-ion regarding monuments to the Confederacy. “I don’t want to erase histo-ry,” people say, “so what do you think we should do about Confederate monuments?” My answer? Take them down. Unequiv-ocally. Remove them from town squares, parks, and venerated civic buildings. They will not be missed. “But why not just add new signage that recontextualizes the monuments?” Nope. Unacceptable.

I was once on “Team Recontex-tualize.” I thought that by providing the appropriate context –many of these monuments we erected in the early 20th century as a method of solidifying white supremacist ide-ology nationwide – the dark history of these statues could be mitigated with a simple plaque about “Lost Cause” propaganda. I was wrong. This line of thinking omits a crucial factor: the negative impact these monuments to white supremacy could have on African Americans

today. On the topic of Confederate monuments, former New Orleans May-or Mitch Landrieu asked people to consider how they would explain them

to a young African American girl. He said, “Can you look into that young girl’s eyes and convince her that Robert E. Lee is there to encourage her?”

The only answer is no. Last week, the Lowndes County

Board of Supervisors voted on a motion to relocate the Confederate monument that stands in front of the Lowndes County Courthouse. Given the bias against African Americans in the United States justice system, the placement of this monument is particularly sinister. Harry Sanders, President of the Board of Supervi-sors and Supervisor for District 1, dismissed desires to relocate the monument and said, “In my opinion,

they were slaves…they didn’t have to go out and earn any money, they didn’t have to do anything…they be-came dependent, and that dependen-cy is still there.” While his words are abhorrent, how can we be shocked by Sanders’ comments when a mon-ument topped with a figure evocative of a hooded Klansman presides over the courthouse?

We can’t. The monument’s in-scription honors men who fought to defend “principles of right” like the subjugation of African Americans. Confederate monuments created Harry Sanders. Persistent glorifi-cation of the Confederacy through these monuments allows for white supremacist ideology like Sanders’ to survive today. Complicity in the preservation of this message in the name of “heritage” allows for racism to fester and grow in Mississippi. To be blunt, this “heritage” honors traitors to the United States who per-

petuated the enslavement of African American people. There is no ques-tion. Mississippi’s secession from the Union clearly states: “Our posi-tion is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery — the greatest material interest of the world.”

This is not something to be cele-brated. The Confederacy should be an embarrassment to Mississippi, a place I love with all my heart. This difficult part of our history must be confronted, not heroized. To move forward, these monuments must be taken down. I am not advocating for the destruction of these stat-ues. They are important artifacts of American history and should be relocated. But this is another topic for another time — we have to defeat the last remnants of the Confederacy first.

Don’t even get me started on that godforsaken flag.

Anna Marcum is an Architectural Historian and Preservationist. She was raised in Starkville, where her parents still live. Anna received her Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University and Master of Preservation Studies from the Tulane School of Architec-ture.

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The Confederacy should be an embarrassment to Mississippi, a place I love with all my heart. This difficult part of our history must be confronted, not heroized.

To Harry Sanders and other supporters of the status quoH arry

Sanders, I do not owe

you this letter. You aren’t owed my at-tention or my time. If anyone owes anyone anything, America and her racism owes me. She has exploited black people for well over four cen-turies, but the debt she owes — the death and the violence she has caused us — is incalculable.

Instead, I write you out of pity for your willful ig-norance. George Floyd’s murder has led to a moment of reckoning. Some have asked tough questions about the plight of black people, including how far we’ve come and how far we need to go. Others have wrestled with their internal convictions and examined how they’ve fallen short in valuing and protect-ing black life. And then there are citizens like you, who not only fail to reckon with your racism but also espouse anachronistic views that are dangerous and wicked.

At a Lowndes County Board of Supervisors meet-ing concerning the relocation of a Con-federate statue,

you mustered up the audacity to say, “Slaves became depen-dent, and the dependency is still there.”

This is an incendiary state-ment, explicit racism couched in historical ignorance, from an official who has taken an oath to represent all citizens of Lowndes County. It should go without saying that slaves did not depend on white slave owners. White slave owners depended on my ancestors’ skilled labor and used beat-ings, rape and family separa-tion to enslave them. America continues to depend on black and brown labor, especial-ly in the South where the workforce is majority black in many places.

But that aside, the irony of your statement is that it’s an intended consequence of erecting Confederate stat-ues. After Reconstruction, the Daughters of the Confed-eracy erected Confederate statues across the South to glorify their ancestors. This action was part of a larger project to rewrite the South’s wretched history, including transforming how American slavery is taught in schools. This leads to a harsh truth: Your status as a white, South-ern elected official relies on a revisionist history. So, which of us is truly dependent?

But I do not only blame you or the Daughters of the Confederacy. You are a symp-tom of a larger ill.

When The Commercial Dispatch ran my column about defunding the police, which I stand by, Kathy Reed of Lowndes County, a white

moderate, penned a letter condemning its publication. White moderates, like Kathy, are just as much to blame. They would rather prioritize their comfortability and willful ignorance over our freedom and equality. Kathy didn’t respond to the merits of my argument for re-priori-tizing funding from policing to community groups. Kathy wasn’t compelled to write a letter to the editor when the life of George Floyd was kneed out of him, or when the Attorney General dismissed the case against Officer Boykin without an explanation. It was only when The Dispatch dared to cover racism and police brutality that she felt motivated to write. How dare her local pa-per give a voice to an opinion about racism and police that is different from hers?

Her fear that unauthorized

force will replace authorized force is analogous to the fear that white slave owners had when slaves advocated for their emancipation. A person only fears a world with fewer police, when she believes the status quo protects her more. And white people’s protection cannot come at the expense of black lives.

Why did I also address Kathy in an open letter to you? Because though she is a white moderate, her perspec-tive, like yours, is an exten-sion of her white privilege and fear. Kathy, like you, has refused to engage with well-substantiated truths. It is what Governor Tate Reeves continues to do. It is what Mississippi continues to do.

Racism makes you less loving and less caring, Har-ry. It holds the heart and the human spirit hostage. Mis-sissippi is still burning. And she will burn until people like you stop lighting a match to her soul.

Justin Brooks is a native of Starkville, Mississippi, and a third-year student at UC Berkeley School of Law.

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It should go without saying that slaves did not depend on white slave owners. ... America continues to depend on black and brown labor, especially in the South where the workforce is majority black in many places.

OUR VIEW

These remain our neighbors“Temper is a weapon we hold by the blade,”

— James M. Barrie

When we pause for a moment of in-trospection, most of us will admit we are not quite ourselves these

days.Why should we be?For the past few months, we’ve found

ourselves facing a combination of stress-es never before seen by this generation. COVID-19 has created isolation, fear for our health and the health of our loved ones and fear, too, for our livelihoods in the face of an illness without cure or treatment.

If that weren’t enough, we are confront-ing deep-seated issues of race that have an added dimension of resonance here in Mississippi, where such issues have lain dormant, just under the surface of society.

The pressure from these issues has slowly built, unnoticed, yet dangerous.

Recent public incidents of police brutality directed toward black citizens have opened the door to a righteous anger and frustra-tion over racial inequality — both intention-al and unintentional. Debates over whether Mississippi should change its Jim Crow-era state flag and the Jim Crow-era Confederate Monuments on public property simmer.

And when Lowndes County Board of Supervisors President Harry Sanders said blacks, alone among all American races and ethnic groups, have failed to assimilate and are “dependent,” the fuse was lit.

We don’t know how long the fuse is or even how to put it out.

There are some who wonder if it should be put out at all, that the explosion has been a long time coming.

We are frustrated, fearful, unsettled, angry — emotions that can manifest them-selves in unexpected ways. Little slights become major offenses. Disagreements become arguments. Misunderstandings become malice. In a moment, we may turn on friend as well as foe.

We are not ourselves. We need to rec-ognize that and check our temper when it threatens to overtake sound judgment.

The editors of this paper are not so arro-gant as to dictate how anyone should feel in this hour.

Your emotions are real and legitimate.But, as Barrie, the author of Peter Pan,

reminds us, we carry the weapon of temper by the blade, and we will live among the ashes of the fires we feed.

In the end, this remains our home and these remain our neighbors.


On Harry SandersAs a concerned citizen, mother,

grandmother, retired educator, but most of all a Christian woman, I am troubled by the lessons we have learned and are teaching the next generation. The statements made by Supervisor Harry Sanders are oblivi-ously based on lessons he learned as a child, and they have carried over to his adulthood. He commented to the news outlet, “This is what I think.” Note, Proverbs 23:7; have you read it Mr. Sanders? You just displayed to our community and state of Mississippi who you really are! What lessons have you taught your children who are adults now? They are still learning from you. I taught your children. Our children went to the same schools. I worked with your wife. One of my chil-dren works in the same facility as one of your children. Can you imagine how they are dealing with your comments? What lessons have you learned, but more importantly, what lessons are you teaching? Changing the symbols and images of the Confederacy will not change the past. History has already been written. However, change is needed for progress. The true change must be in the attitudes and mindset of the human race. We are all created in the image of a sovereign God. Black people don’t need to be reminded of being black. We already know who we are as a people. We will always be black. Assimilation will not change that fact. You may be half true when you said, blacks never assimilated like other ethnic groups. Truth be told, blacks never meant to assimilate. Instead, we as a people chose to ac-climate, acculturate and accumulate. Columbus is a decent place to live. I’ve been here all my life, even through segregation. I chose to stay. I hope the lessons I’ve learned and taught have had a more positive impact on our future as a united people than the com-ments of Supervisor Harry Sanders. “Let all things be done decently and in order”. Mr. Sanders, you are out of order and hopefully out of a position of leadership for the people of Lowndes County.

J.M. BushColumbus

Today Lowndes County Board of Supervisors President Harry Sanders has the option to show love and care for his community, but that window may be closing quickly. Today, he could admit how wrong his words were, ask for forgiveness, and step off the board.

When he spoke from such a depth of ignorance about slavery this past week, Mr. Sanders’ words underscored the need for Confederate monuments to be removed from the public square. Such monuments support a false narrative of history. This particular monument says: “A tribute of love to our honored dead, whose memory we enshrine in our hearts, whose princi-ples of right, as a sacred heritage we bequeath to our children…”

Our public monuments should not honor men who fought for the right to oppress a whole race of our people. When such monuments neglect to tell the full truth of the inhumane way en-slaved people were treated, they bear a false witness in our community.

The supervisor’s words indicate he has believed those lies.

Our country has never really enjoyed the richness of diversity that could be ours if truth and love perme-ated the public square and its monu-ments.

As long as a man with such ideas is on the board, the Lowndes Coun-ty Board of Supervisors sends the message they aren’t ready to embrace truth and love.

Jeff and Kim MillerWest Point

Harry Sanders experienced a melt-down on June 15. All the contempt, ha-tred and disdain that he felt for blacks exploded as he expressed his objec-tion to the removal of the monument in the front of the Lowndes County Courthouse. His remarks reflects that he needs a lesson in the true history of blacks in our country. The dependen-cy issues of blacks on their masters, as stated by him, is totally miscon-strued. And how dare he compare the assimilation of Irish, Italian, Polish and Japanese in this country to that of blacks. Did he consider the following: Were they the color “black”? Were they uprooted from their home coun-try and brought to this country? Were they dehumanized? Were they harshly enslaved over 200 years? Were they considered 1/5 of a person? Were they subjected to Jim Crow Laws? Were they subjected to De Facto Laws? Did

they experience ‘racists’ knees on their necks?

From Harry Sanders remarks, there appears to be no love in his heart for blacks, and he considers them dependent subordinates, no matter how well educated, independent and successful they are. His deep rooted feelings about the black race hampers progress. He has held his position as a Lowndes County supervisor for too many years and has impeded the progress of the county and the city of Columbus. His time is over! He needs to resign or be removed from office! He is a stain on the county and the city of Columbus and must be rooted out!

Goldie Turner-SmithColumbus

It is time for Harry Sanders to step down from serving the community. He does not represent me and my views. I believe that he has gotten his way for entirely too long in Lowndes County. Please just go to the house.

Danielle BerghuisCaledonia

I wrote a letter on Wednesday call-ing for Supervisor Sanders to resign, arguing that his views are out of step and render him unfit to represent and lead in Lowndes County. Today I focus on his questionable judgment.

We all have biases. I would argue that, for that very reason, it is essen-tial to question broad generaliza-tions — the kind Sanders made on Monday — even if, in fact, especially when that generalization is your own. The very fact that you are making a statement that suggests you know something should be questioned. Why do I think that? Do I have evidence? Is the evidence substantial? Has it been collected from a variety of sources? Are those sources representative of the group or category about which I make this claim? If the answers to any one of those questions is “no” then I would argue that your best recourse is to never let the statement come out of your mouth.

I would argue further that, for most of us, the answer to at least one of those questions is “no” in virtually every instance. In fact, the answer to ALL of those questions is objectively ‘no’ in almost every case. Without that sort of rigor, however, you cannot say you ‘know’ something.

I don’t think Mr. Sanders asked himself those questions Monday night or any time prior. And that leads me to question if Mr. Sanders has the type of reasoned judgment that a supervisor needs to effectively represent constitu-ents — and I would say that under any circumstances.

But it is one thing to have those views; saying them publicly is quite an-other. What were you thinking, sir?

Finally, that Mr. Sanders would make those remarks aloud in the wake of Attorney General Fitch’s decision to drop charges against Canyon Boykin in the Ricky Ball shooting, though, is stunning. That he would make those remarks in the wake of George Floyd’s death is even more stunning. That he would make those remarks in the wake of Rayshard Brook’s death just days earlier is beyond comprehension. In my view, these facts should make one question Sanders’ judgment still more. Far more. Orders of magnitude more.

I’ll say it again. Supervisor Sanders should resign. He should resign today.

Paul MackColumbus

Believes there are other ways to address injustices

I believe the evidence would show that little has changed in the places where “Confederate cleansing” has taken place. How many Confederate statues and monuments do you sup-pose there are in the City of Chicago or New York or Los Angeles? How many do you suppose there are in Minneapolis or Seattle? Even so, the response may be, “the monuments and symbols are still there and inflame rac-ism!” Whether that may be true or not, we have heard much lately that peace-ful protests, and even violence, looting and murder are ways of “free speech” in this country whether we are com-fortable with the message or not. I ask you: Why are not Confederate symbols and monuments regarded as “protests” and free speech? Have you ever con-sidered that slavery may not have been the single issue for those who served the Confederacy? It is a fact that the vast majority of Confederates and their families owned no slaves. Most were drawn into the conflict by a perception of abuse of power by the Federal Gov-ernment and Lincoln’s disregard of the Constitution. Sound familiar? Perhaps

that is why they are important to many people today.

If your answer is that they incite riots and encourage violence against a group of persons, what have we just witnessed? Peaceful protests have been infiltrated by those hoping to incite violence and destruction, which has led to massive property losses, hospitalizations and death to many innocent people, many in communities of color.

If our seemingly irreparable divi-sions are caused by politicians, remove them! If they are caused by extreme personalities, disavow them. The greatness of America is Americans! If we want to talk about ancestors, what do you think they would feel about what we have done with what they (of every color and creed) struggled and sacrificed to give us? How important is their legacy to us? What are we doing with the character inheritance we received from their constant effort to make their world a better place for us?

If we are unhappy, we can take the right and legitimate steps to reclaim our country. If we think there is in-justice, we have a moral obligation to address it in the right and legitimate way. Justice requires moral determina-tion and patience. No lasting change will come from riots, looting, burning, murder, assault, and intimidation. This not only will be unsuccessful as a change agent but think of the sort of legacy and “character” we will leave our children and grandchildren. Is burning, rioting, looting, assault and murder the America we wish to pass on to those who follow us? We are all in this together and we are better than that.

Presley Hutchens Brooksville

Editor’s note: Like other letters we have received, this one makes reference to protesters burning, rioting, looting and assault. Within the Golden Trian-gle, groups large and small have gath-ered only in peaceful protest to advocate for change.

Convinced being a ‘good’ person isn’t enough

I am white. Nothing I did made this possible, but with that shade of skin, I have a multitude of privileges. Through the years I have seen how it works. As a child, though I questioned the practice, I drank from the “White Only” fountain. As a mother, I didn’t have to have the “talk” with our chil-dren about being wary of policemen, fearing they may not understand the child’s intentions. As an adult I found white people have “connections” that keep them out of trouble, even when they are guilty. White people — not all, but many — have opportunities given them that people of color do not have. People of color do not have these through no fault of their own... just because they aren’t white.

I have thought I was doing enough by being a “good” Christian and eliminating my personal prejudices, by helping the disenfranchised, poor and marginalized by working through ministries and church projects and by contributing money to these causes. I have seen first-hand in this work how hard it is to be a person of color in Mis-sissippi and sincerely wanted to help.

But, in the last few months I have been convinced this is not enough. I must pro-actively work to help these individuals and families have the same privileges I enjoy. And so, I must speak out on current events.

First of all, the comments of the President of the Board of Supervisor were offensive to people of color and to right-thinking, just people. I was speechless and infuriated at the same time. Mr. Sanders violates the trust that we placed in him as an elected official. His words reflect racism and prejudice. He should resign.

Secondly, the Mississippi Flag must be changed. Though we love our Southern heritage, in many ways this flag represents a way of life offensive to so many of the residents of Missis-sippi. Changing the flag could mark a new era of understanding. It says, “We heard you and we are willing,” and for many of us too late in responding, ”We are sorry it took us so long.”

Thirdly is of that tired topic of the monument. So much has been writ-ten articulating how positive a move it would be for our whole communi-ty, extolling how it would be so in keeping with Friendship Cemetery, how it would enhance the mission of our state and city to be open on this. Strangely, the people with an opposing view have not given any good reason for keeping it there, refusing to ex-plain their position.

I do love Mississippi. We have the

most friendly and kind people of all colors who want to live in peace and raise their families in a safe, willing and open community. It must begin somewhere and I’m pretty sure that means it must begin with me not just talking about justice, but promoting justice, so that the privileges I enjoy may be enjoyed by all peoples.

Karen OverstreetColumbus

On claims ofthe Confederate flag’s roots in religion

Mr. C.T. Carley Jr.:I want to write concerning com-

ments in a recent Commercial Dis-patch letter to the editor. I want to try and do so in the most gracious way possible as 1 Timothy 5:1 says, “Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father.”

I encourage you to reevaluate your statement that the Confederate Flag, “came from the Bible.” Maybe you meant that it was inspired by the Bible, but even so, I believe this is misguid-ed. I researched your claim to see why you might believe that and ran across a website that explained how the flag “came from the Bible.” These claims do not take into consideration the original designers of the flag.

The fact is that the flag was de-signed for a political system that fought to keep the ownership of slaves. It was not designed as a Sunday school lesson. Changing the meaning of the flag in this way is to twist the original meaning for political expediency.

Although there is a cross on the flag, this is St. Andrew’s cross. This is not in the Bible but comes from an ex-tra-biblical account of the death of An-drew. Neither are the stars biblical in nature. These stars were not intended to represent Jesus and the twelve dis-ciples fulfilling the Great Commission in Matthew 28. They were designed to represent those states in the Confeder-acy. Furthermore, wars where men die has little to do with Jesus’ words to: “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19, NIV).

Another troubling consequence of your words is that it leads others to be-lieve that the Bible endorses the view of the Confederacy. This runs contrary to the message of freedom found in Je-sus. Jesus said, “He (God the Father) has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free” (Luke 4:18). I humbly ask you to take these things in the Bible into consider-ation and consider restating what you have said. I believe much good would come from it.

Hunter JohnsonColumbus

The possibility of BRAC in 2021

Imagine the City of Columbus with-out Columbus Air Force Base. As one of many numerous military retirees that reside in Lowndes County, we can attest to the fact that the military has an established zero-tolerance policy against any form of racism or discrimination. I would like to remind everyone that Columbus AFB has been considered for closure in the past under what is known as the BRAC list. The purpose and mission of BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) is a process by which the United States federal government was commis-sioned to increase the United States Department of Defense’s efficiency by planning the end of the Cold War through the realignment and closure of military installations. More than 350 installations have been closed in previous BRAC rounds; 1988, 1991, 1993, and 2005. President Trump is asking Congress to approve a BRAC in 2021. If approved, will CAFB be on the BRAC list? Will it survive another round of military installations facing the chopping block of closures? The nation is looking at Mississippi in light of its present statewide political climate as well as on a local level with the present issues facing Lowndes County. Some state leaders have stat-ed how outside influences should not interfere with our state. How will the nation view a community that tolerates racism? Are we saying Mississippi is not able to assimilate with the rest of the nation? Imagine having to one day remove all planes and signs showing that the City of Columbus was once the proud home of Columbus AFB. It is about time Mississippi assimilates with the nation’s move to end any form of racism. God bless.

Paul VegaMSgt USAF Retired

Columbus

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issue, and I think they are (at the N C A A ) , ” S t a r k v i l l e Mayor Lynn Spruill said. “I’m very sad that out-side pressure is now com-ing to bear on something we should have taken care of ourselves.”

The economic hit to cities like Starkville, Oxford and Hattiesburg would pile onto the ex-isting strain caused by the COVID-19 coronavi-rus pandemic. Starkville implemented a series of cost-cutting measures in April, including city em-ployee furloughs and pay cuts, to counteract the ex-pected drop in sales tax revenue due to restricted business activity.

MSU sporting events bring in revenue for the city via its food/bever-age and hotel-motel sales taxes, and tourism raises the city’s profile, so the NCAA’s ruling means Starkville could “lose in multiple ways,” Spruill said.

“COVID is kicking our butt, and the flag is creat-ing problems that sadly shouldn’t be an issue,” she said.

Where to go from hereNone of Mississippi’s

eight public universities flies the state flag, and the executive officers of all eight schools released a joint statement Friday saying they respect the NCAA’s decision.

Both MSU and Oktib-beha County facilities lowered the flag in 2016, a year after Starkville al-dermen voted to do so at city properties.

Local legislators’ opin-ions differ on who should be responsible for chang-ing the flag, but most agree that the flag should change.

“Flags are symbols, and symbols are supposed to be lofty, high-mind-ed, almost unattainable because of the type of ambition and purity of the spirit of the people,” State Rep. Cheikh Taylor (D-Starkville) said. “But when we look at our state flag, we seem to look in the rearview mirror and we find that our past should be getting smaller and smaller as we move forward, instead of us looking out of the wind-shield at the big picture. That’s what we’re doing right now: looking at the rearview mirror and not at the windshield.”

A bill to change the state flag stalled in com-mittee and is unlikely to see a vote before the leg-islative session ends on June 28. Both the House and Senate would need a

two-thirds majority vote to suspend the rules and revive the bill.

If no such action is tak-en, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves would be respon-sible for calling a special legislative session to ad-dress the flag issue or making legislators wait until they reconvene in January. Reeves does not support changing the flag but has expressed sup-port for a referendum, which would allow voters to decide.

Rep. Rob Roberson (R-Starkville) said he doubts the Legislature will vote to suspend the rules but believes the NCAA’s ruling could “change hearts and minds.” He said he sup-ports replacing the flag with one that “represents us all” but believes the potential “crippling” eco-nomic consequences for college towns and the state will be the deciding factor for many.

“From an econom-ic standpoint, you don’t keep something that’s going to harm you,” Rob-erson said. “As Southern-ers, we have a tendency to cut our nose off to spite our face when it comes to stuff like this, but I don’t get the luxury of making decisions that only affect me. I have to make deci-sions that are going to economically affect other people.”

Taylor, Rep. Kabir Kar-riem (D-Columbus) and state Sen. Angela Turn-er-Ford (D-West Point) all said the motivation to change the flag should come from a place of mo-rality, not economic con-cerns, but they agreed the flag should change through any means nec-essary.

“For some, I don’t think it’s a moral issue. I hate it, but that’s the re-ality,” Turner-Ford said. “I think we all know that we cannot stand to suffer further economic blows especially in light of a global pandemic.”

A public or legislative vote

Mississippi schools had already been restrict-ed since 2001 from host-ing pre-selected NCAA championships, but the new ruling bans postsea-son events like baseball or softball regionals or women’s basketball tour-nament opening rounds that are earned.

Also in 2001, the deci-sion to change the state flag came to the public in a referendum, and more than 64 percent of voters chose the current flag over an alternative de-sign.

Rep. Dana McLean (R-Columbus), a fresh-man legislator elected

in November, said there should be another refer-endum instead of a vote in the Legislature. She pre-viously told The Dispatch she would not support a bill to change the flag but might abstain from vot-ing on it instead of voting no.

“That was my position when I ran (for office), and I feel like I need to stand by my word,” she said Friday.

McLean, Taylor, Kar-riem and other elected state officials spoke at Starkville’s racial justice rally on June 6, the city’s contribution to nation-wide protests on behalf of the Black Lives Matter movement. McLean, the only Republican in the group, told the audience of thousands that racial justice was not a parti-san issue but a matter of “good and evil” and “right and wrong.”

She told The Dispatch on Friday that her words of support were about the larger issue of injus-tice against Black Amer-icans, including police brutality, and that she “wouldn’t say” the ques-tion of whether to keep a Confederate symbol on the state flag is a matter of good versus evil.

However, she said the issue of student-athletes feeling safe and welcome at Mississippi colleges is “for me, the most import-ant issue” rather than the potential economic con-sequences for cities like Starkville if the flag does not change.

Spruill said the Leg-islature should decide

the flag’s fate and “quit kicking the can down the road.” Taylor, Kar-riem and Turner-Ford all agreed.

“That’s what we were elected to do: to make the tough decisions,” said Karriem, who is the vice chair of the Legislative Black Caucus. “I think sometimes we use refer-endums when we don’t want to make tough deci-sions.”

A new design or a two-flag option

Reeves said Thursday he would be open to the option of having two state flags so Mississippians can choose which one to display. McLean told The Dispatch she is open to “whatever is the best compromise,” including Reeves’ suggestion.

The other legislators disagree. Turner-Ford said having a second flag would likely not satisfy the NCAA’s demand that Mississippi remove the existing one, and Rober-son said the suggestion “would have the smell of ‘separate but equal,’” the doctrine behind racial segregation in the 20th century.

Karriem said the idea of having two flags “doesn’t sit well” with him because “Scripture says you can’t serve two masters.”

He also said the ques-tion of whether to keep or reject the current flag is a different question than what a new flag would look like. McLean agreed and said the public should

vote yes or no on the cur-rent flag before voting on a new one.

“I’m not married so much to the design as to allowing the people to have the vote,” she said. “Times have changed (since 2001), the demo-graphics have changed, and hopefully people’s hearts have changed too.”

Turner-Ford said re-placing the flag could be a “multi-stage” effort by the Legislature.

“We can vote to take the flag down, and at some point, hopefully no later than January when the Legislature recon-

venes, we can be present-ed with an alternative de-sign that does not include the current flag and the Legislature could vote (on it),” she said.

Roberson said the Leg-islature should vote yes or no on the current flag and then present new de-sign options to the public for a vote.

“Mississippians need to have a little skin in the game and be able to choose whatever direc-tion we go, assuming we understand that the current flag is no longer something we can sup-port,” Roberson said.

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MISSISSIPPI STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL

CARTER TO PLAY INTERNATIONALLY WITH GREEK TEAM

Jim Lytle/Dispatch file photoTyson Carter averaged a career-best 13.9 points his senior season at Mississippi State, shooting 40 percent from the floor and 32 percent from beyond the arc. He amassed 1,352 career points and played at least 32 games in all four seasons at MSU. Now he’s set to play overseas with Lavrio Aegean Cargo in Greece.

BY GARRICK [email protected]

STARKVILLE — Ty-son Carter is officially starting his professional basketball career.

He’s not short on confi-dence, either.

“I thought it was a good opportunity to make a name for myself on a pro-fessional level,” the former Mississippi State standout guard told The Dispatch.

Carter signed with Lavrio Aegean Cargo, a basketball team located in

Greece, last week.“It came about because

they watched the season last year, and I thought it was a good opportunity,” Carter said.

The Starkville native is expected to report to the team’s training camp sometime in August. De-spite living in Starkville all his life, Carter said he doesn’t anticipate being overwhelmed by living in a foreign country.

“Not really, because I’ve been planning for this moment for a while,” Car-

ter said. “I knew I couldn’t stay forever. I’ve dreamed of being a professional, so I knew that I was going to have to leave soon.

“I don’t know too much about Greece; I’ve never been there. But it should be pretty fun. There might be a little bit of a language barrier right away, but I don’t think it’ll be too big of an adjustment.”

Carter said he hasn’t been in contact with any of his new teammates yet but hopes to reach out in the coming weeks.

The 6-foot-4, 175-pound guard averaged a ca-reer-best 13.9 points his senior season at Missis-sippi State, shooting 40 percent from the floor and 32 percent from beyond the arc. He amassed 1,352 career points and played at least 32 games in all four seasons at MSU.

He and his father, Greg, are the only father-son duo to each score at least career 1,000 points in the history of the Southeast-ern Conference. In his ju-nior season, Carter helped

lead the Bulldogs to their first NCAA tournament berth for the first time in a decade.

Carter never got to ful-ly finish his career with MSU, as the Southeastern Conference tournament was canceled a day before the Bulldogs were sup-posed to take the court because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In what turned out to be his final perfor-mance as a Bulldog on March 7, MSU throttled Ole Miss in a 25-point win in which Carter received a

curtain call on senior night with 3 minutes remaining.

He capped off a special goodbye to the Humphrey Coliseum faithful as he kissed the big M located at center court before jog-ging off to the bench.

But now, he’ll be suiting up for a new team.

“I want to be as success-ful as I can be at any level,” Carter said. “Whether that’s being a professional overseas or coming back to the U.S. and playing in the NBA. I just want to be the best player I can be.”

MLB

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Extra innings that start with runners on second base, games ending in ties and re-entry are among the possibilities for a radi-cally altered 2020 Major League Baseball season, one limited to a maxi-mum 60 games by teams that claim they can’t af-ford more due to the coro-navirus pandemic.

MLB included the con-troversial extra-inning runner rule in its proposal Wednesday for a 60-game season, down from an initial 82, and also wants it for 2021. The players’ association accepted the rule Thursday for 2020 only in its counter-pro-posal for 70 games, down from an initial 114.

The union also said it wants to discuss allowing games to end in ties “af-ter a certain number of innings” and “the relax-ation of substitution rules in extra innings.”

Copies of both pro-posals were obtained by The Associated Press. Some aspects were first reported by USA Today. The runner on second rule has been used in the minor leagues for the last two seasons.

One big on-field change already has been agreed to by both sides if

there is a deal: expansion of the designated hitter to games involving National League teams.

But a deal is far from certain.

MLB Deputy Commis-sioner Dan Halem told union chief negotiator Bruce Meyer on Friday that teams will not make another proposal. Com-missioner Rob Manfred has threatened an an even shorter schedule of perhaps 50 games or few-er.

The union’s executive board is likely to meet Saturday.

Complicating any pos-sible resumption, MLB shut all 30 training camps in Arizona and Florida for COVID-19 testing af-ter Philadelphia said five players and three others

tested positive. Toronto and San Francisco also reported either positive tests or symptoms that could indicate the dis-ease.

While the NBA,NHL and MLS have found ways to restart their sports, baseball has been unable to cope with the econom-ic dislocation caused by the new coronavirus and the prospect of playing in empty ballparks, revert-ing to the fractious labor strife that led to eight work stoppages from 1972-95. With time slip-ping away, the sport will have at best its shortest schedule since the dawn of professional baseball in the 1870s.

Players and MLB are increasingly dismayed with each other and ap-

pear headed to a spring training lockout in 2022.

Manfred flew to Ari-zona and met with union head Tony Clark for five hours on Tuesday in an effort to end the fighting and strike a deal. Man-fred said the next day the sides had reached a framework for a 60-game regular season schedule and the full prorated pay that players had demand-ed, and the postseason would expand from 10 teams to 16 this year and either 14 or 16 in 2021. Like the extra-innings ex-periment, the larger post-season would occur only in the event of an agree-ment. MLB wants the right to institute a “bub-ble” environment if need-ed for health reasons, but the union is insisting it should have to give con-sent, “which shall not un-reasonably be withheld.”

But Clark refused to call it a framework and said his eight-player ex-ecutive subcommittee rejected it. The union countered with a 70-game schedule as part of a pro-posal that left the sides about $275 million apart.

“MLB has informed the association that it will not respond to our last proposal and will not play more than 60 games,” the union said in a statement on Friday night.

Odd ball: Runners start on 2nd base, tie games, re-entry?

Thomas B. Shea/USA TODAY SportsWashington Nationals left fielder Juan Soto flies out against the Houston Astros during the ninth inning of Game 7 of the 2019 World Series on Oct. 30 at Min-ute Maid Park in Houston.

HORSE RACING

NY-bred Tiz the Law wins barren BelmontTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Tiz the Law has won an unprec-edented Belmont Stakes, claiming victory Satur-day at the first race of a rejiggered Triple Crown schedule and crossing the finish line in front of eeri-ly empty grandstands.

The 3-year-old colt from upstate New York charged to the lead turn-ing to the frontstretch and now can set his sights on the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby and Oct. 3 Preak-ness. All three legs of this year’s Triple Crown schedule were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Belmont, usu-ally the series capper, was initially scheduled for June 6.

Tiz the Law gave New York a hometown cham-pion in its first major sporting event since the coronavirus pandemic seized the area. He’s the first New York-bred horse to win the Belmont since Forrester in 1882.

This Belmont States was unlike any of the 151 that preceded it. The Long Island track can pack in nearly 100,000, but this race had about 100 on hand, including jockeys, media and park staff.

Masks were mandat-ed for all but the horses — even the jockeys wore face coverings.

Closed to the public since March, Belmont Park hardly resembled the summer soiree New Yorkers are used to. Bet-ting windows and gift shops were closed, no boozy Belmont Jewels shaken to order.

Foot traffic was so slow that a few weeds over a foot tall sprouted up be-tween bricks paving the track-side pavilion.

Silence at the 115-year-old venue was broken when New York Gov. An-drew Cuomo issued the traditional “riders, up!” call remotely via video. Bugler Sam Grossman pulled down his facemask to tap out “Call to the Post,” and racers strolled onto the track to a record-ing of Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York.” A PA announcer introduced them to empty grand-stands.

Tap It to Win led out of the gates and seemed poised to give train-er Mark Casse a third straight Triple Crown race victory.

Instead, Tiz the Law powered past him on the outside and cruised to a four-length victory.


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teams in Mississippi from hosting Regionals or Su-per Regionals, as well as women’s basketball teams from hosting first- and sec-ond-round NCAA tourna-ment games.

“There is no place in college athletics or the world for symbols or acts of discrimination and op-pression,” Chair of the NCAA Board of Governors and President of the Ohio State University Michael V. Drake said in a news release Friday. “We must continually evaluate ways to protect and enhance the championship experience for college athletes. Ex-panding the Confederate flag policy to all champion-ships is an important step by the NCAA to further provide a quality experi-ence for all participants and fans.”

Among the more recent attempts to change the Mississippi state flag was a referendum in 2001 that asked voters to choose be-tween the current banner — originally adopted in 1894 — and a newer design stripped of the Confederate battle flag. In response, 64 percent of voters chose to keep the 1894 flag.

The Legislature has been asked several times since to address the issue itself, but so far no flag-change bill has made it to a floor vote in either house.

“Again, it is unfortunate that our hard working stu-dent-athletes, staff and coaches could be potential-ly affected by something beyond their control, but we understand this is much bigger than athletics,” MSU Athletic Director John Cohen said in an offi-cial statement Friday. “As previously stated, we will continue support for this long overdue change.”

The Dispatch attempt-ed to contact Mississippi State athletes, including incoming recruits, but was

informed the university’s athletic department would not make them available for interviews on the subject.

Counting the costSince 1999, MSU has

hosted five Regionals and three Super Regionals in the NCAA college base-ball tournament, while Ole Miss has held nine Region-als and three Super Region-als during that span.

Last season, MSU’s Super Regional matchup against Stanford brought roughly 25,000 fans to Dudy Noble Field over the course of the two-day event.

The MSU women’s basketball team has also hosted a first- and sec-ond-round NCAA tourna-ment regional every season between 2015 and 2019 and was slated to do so once more before the COVID-19 pandemic canceled this year’s event.

“There is no place in our society for symbols of hatred, discrimination, and oppression,” MSU wom-en’s basketball head coach Nikki McCray-Penson said in statement issued to The Dispatch. “As a Black wom-an coaching at one of the most diverse universities in the SEC, I look forward to seeing change that unites us and accurately rep-resents our great commu-nity. I understand our stu-dent-athletes and fans may be affected by the NCAA’s decision, but ultimately, this marks an important step toward inclusivity and an end to racial injustice.”

The NCAA’s decision to levy harsher restrictions on hosting events in Mis-sissippi came less than 24 hours after Southeastern Conference Commission-er Greg Sankey put out a statement Thursday threat-ening the SEC would un-dertake similar measures, including not allowing

the state to host any SEC championships, should the flag remain as is.

“The rulings by the SEC and NCAA affect our kids and community greatly, but we understand their in-tent,” MSU baseball coach Chris Lemonis said in an official statement Friday. “My job as a head coach is to unite our players in a common goal and a change to our state flag is needed to unite Mississippi.”

Speaking on SiriusXM SEC Radio Friday, Sankey backed up his comments, arguing that the confer-ence had hoped change would arise in regard to the Confederate iconography on the Mississippi state flag but it hadn’t.

“You’ll note in my cur-rent statement, the obser-vation is it’s past time for change,” he said Friday ac-cording to Saturday Down South. “We hoped change would come naturally. It is time for us to say, ‘Well, we don’t play our predeter-mined championships in the state, and now, if there isn’t change, we’ll remove those (that) rotate.’”

MSU women’s basket-ball players Andra Espi-noza-Hunter and Sidney Cooks previously chimed in on Sankey’s comments Thursday night, tweeting in support of the motion, writing “You love to see it,” and “period,” respectively.

Beyond Starkville, Ole Miss Chancellor Glenn Boyce and Athletic Direc-tor Keith Carter issued a joint statement in support of removing the Confed-erate battle flag from the state’s official banner, writ-ing, “Mississippi needs a flag that represents the qualities about our state that unite us, not those that still divide us.”

The presidents of Mis-sissippi’s eight public uni-versities — including MSU, Ole Miss and Mississippi University for Women in

Columbus — also released a joint statement Friday, writing: “In keeping the current state flag, Missis-sippi will potentially for-go the millions of dollars in economic impact that NCAA postseason events bring to our state. This is unfortunate. Our stu-dent-athletes and coaches, who devote so much of their time, talent, hard work and dedication to their sports and our universities, will potentially be negatively impacted through no ac-tion of their own.”

Fan reactionOn a more local level,

the state flag debate and its effect on student-athletes is more divided.

While administrators, coaches and players have come out in favor of the change, there remain some in the Golden Triangle who

are less willing to budge on the issue.

“I’m not racist, I’m not prejudiced,” Starkville res-ident Bonnie Britt, who is white, told The Dispatch. “But the thing is, if (peo-ple) read their history … they’d understand that it’s the original Mississippi flag. Nobody on this God’s green earth to this day — I don’t care if you’re 90 years old — you, your parents and your grandparents did not own slaves over hun-dreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Let it go, man. Let it go.”

Fellow Starkville res-idents Charles Spruell and Robert Guy, both black, were less matter of fact. They weren’t wholly against changing the flag, but they argued against pe-nalizing student-athletes in the process.

“That flag’s been flying

ever since I was in the war,” Spruell — a Vietnam vet-eran — told The Dispatch. “And why they want to stop the games on account of the flag not being changed; that ain’t got nothing to do with the game.”

“If you’re going to go ahead and change it, change it — that’s fine with me,” Guy added. “(But) don’t stop the kids from playing ball.”

As for Starkville resi-dent Deshawn Kelly, who is also black, she felt that in to-day’s climate, it takes dras-tic measures to bring about change but that change should be welcomed.

“I think so,” Kelly said of whether Mississippi should adopt a new state flag. “Hell, change it. Move on. Change is good some-times. ... It’s time to move on from this. Do something different.”

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Jan Swoope/Dispatch StaffMatt Pearson, far right, helps three of his children — from left, Malachi, 8, Aedynn, 12, and Paige, 10 — with buckets to be washed at Operation Ukraine in Columbus. The containers are sent primarily to Haiti, where villagers need them to haul water for drinking, washing and laundering. The Pearson family has volunteered with the nonprofit since 2015.

Dispatch file photo

Members of 100+

Women Who Care meet

in Columbus in this April

2019 file pho-to. With the

group’s March meeting

canceled due to COVID-19,

members voted online

to select a spring 2020

Impact Award winner,

Loaves & Fish-es Community Soup Kitchen.

BY JAN [email protected]

Where there’s a will, there’s a way — and the Loaves & Fish-es Community Soup Kitchen is

a beneficiary of that resolve. By mid-March, it was apparent to

the 100+ Women Who Care steering committee in Columbus that its March 24 spring meeting would have to be canceled due to the global pandemic. That presented a dilemma, for it was at that gathering — the Giving Circle — that members would hear presenta-tions from three nominated nonprofits, then vote on which would receive the organization’s biannual Impact Award in excess of $10,000. The group only meets twice a year, each time to select a philanthropic cause to receive a pooled

donation created when more than 100 women each contribute $100 to the total.

“We were poised and ready for a March Giving Circle when the world shut down,” remarked Beth Imes, who co-founded the Columbus chapter with Jamie Davidson.

Disappointed but determined, the committee — which goes by KISS, Keep It Simple, Sister — looked for an alternative. Other chapters around the country were using Zoom, but locally the answer proved to be Punchbowl.com, an online invitations service.

Three potential recipient organiza-tions were randomly drawn from among more than 20 member-nominated and vetted Lowndes County nonprofits — Building Bridges of Hope, Community


A recurring thump of empty 5-gallon buckets on concrete punctuated a hot afternoon at the Operation Ukraine

warehouse in Columbus Wednesday. In spite of the heat, three children aged 12 and younger energetically sorted the donated containers like experienced pros. They have been doing it for the past five years. Doing that, and more.

“We’ve been volunteering as a family here since 2015,” said the youngsters’ dad, Matt Pearson, carrying buckets. So Aedynn, Paige and Malachi Pearson were much younger when they started learning what it means to help someone else. Matt and his wife, Allison, believe it’s a life lesson to instill early.

“I learned, and my wife learned, responsibil-ity and chores in our early childhood, and we both feel like that gave us a strong work ethic,” said Matt, a Regions Bank branch manager and Mississippi State alumnus. “We want that for our children, too. We also realize we want them to be active members of their communities, wherever they end up.”

Imparting that began young, with baby steps, Matt said.

The family first became aware of Opera-tion Ukraine as part of an outreach of Vibrant Church. Operation Ukraine is a nonprofit relief organization that collects items from food to medical supplies for global distribution. The Pearsons expanded their volunteer time there as a family. Early tasks for the kids were some-times as simple as passing out water bottles, or taking a bucket to an older helper.

“We discovered that even our youngest kids were able to participate, even if it’s handing something from one box to the next so an adult could do what needed to be done with it,” Matt said. “Each thing completed was celebrated. We treat it as a family outing.”

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As the children grew older, they became a veteran bucket-washing brigade. It’s a perpet-ual need at Operation Ukraine. Donated by Sqwincher Corp. in Lowndes County, empty buckets are cleaned and shipped primarily to Haiti, where many villagers have to trek long distances for water. The nonprofit’s founder and director Kathy Cadden has firsthand knowl-edge of the need, having spent much time on the ground there. Hurricane Matthew devastat-ed the impoverished tropical country in 2016.

“In Haiti, a person has to work a whole day, and some a day and a half, to buy a bucket — and you must have a bucket to haul and store drinking water in,” said Cadden, adding that people line up for the free buckets she ships in.

“Some come two and a half hours down a moun-tain to fill up buckets and put them on donkeys to go back up.”

Aedynn didn’t fully grasp the significance of buckets in 2015, but he’s 12 now and realizes how important each one he scrubs out can be.

“I’m more aware now that all people don’t actually live like we do,” he said. “We’re so privileged in America. It’s not like in parts of Ukraine and Haiti or those types of places, where they may have to walk a long way to get their water. We just have to walk to our sink.”

Malachi, now 8, likes pitching in to do something for people who may be very poor, he said, “to help them so they don’t suffer much more.”

At 10, Paige has become a trusted helper at sorting clothing and other items being shipped to underdeveloped countries. But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March, her focus turned to packing food boxes for people here who suffered a job loss or reduction.

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Helping Hands and United Way of Lowndes and Noxubee Counties are

once again combining forces to collect box fans for residents who need help beating sum-mer’s heat. Many are seniors who may not have working air conditioning, or who are living on fixed incomes and unable to afford running existing cooling units.

Pandemic disruptions caused the fan drive to get off to a bit of a late start this year, said Help-ing Hands Executive Director Nancy Guerry, but as tempera-tures climb, requests for help are ramping up.

“We’ve had a lot of calls,” said Guerry. “People are begin-ning to understand that sum-

mer is finally here.”New box fans, in their

packaging, may be donated to Helping Hands from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday-Thursday at 223 22nd St. N. in Columbus.

“If someone needs to do it at another time, we’ll make arrangements,” Guerry said.

The director acknowledged some people might be uncom-fortable shopping for fans in a crowded store at present due to health concerns. If so, checks made out to Helping Hands and designated for fans are welcome. They can be mailed to Helping Hands, P.O. Box 1241, Columbus, MS 39703. The non-profit agency will use the funds to purchase box fans through a partnership with Military Hardware.

The global pandemic’s effect

on the local economy is being felt by agencies including Help-ing Hands. Jobs lost or hours cut in the commercial com-munity as a whole have meant some families can’t stretch the budget to run air conditioners. It’s also increased need for the agency’s food pantry, as well as appeals for assistance with rent or utilities.

“We’ve seen so many more people,” said Guerry.

The fan drive will continue as long as hot weather does, the director remarked.

“As long as the fans come in, as long as we have a fan to give out,” she said.

For more information, con-tact Helping Hands at 662-328-8301.

Helping Hands, United Way seek fan donations

Dispatch file photoHelping Hands Executive Director Nancy Guerry is pictured in July 2019 with box fans donated to the annual fan drive conducted by Helping Hands and United Way of Lowndes and Noxubee Counties. This year’s drive is underway.

SPECIAL TO THE DISPATCH

Area residents who qualify can get free short-term

workforce training at East Mississippi Com-munity College through the Skills2Work (S2W) program.

The training is avail-able through EMCC’s Workforce and Commu-nity Services Division. Programs of study include Certified Nurs-ing Assistant, Pharmacy Technology, Phlebotomy, Medical Coding, Man-ufacturing Skills Basic, Welding, Commercial

Drivers License and Welding.

To qualify, applicants must: be enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP; reside in EMCC’s district, which includes Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbe-ha, Noxubee and Kemper counties; and present

a Silver-level Nation-al Career Readiness Certificate, which can be obtained at EMCC.

“The purpose of the program is to provide SNAP recipients with work skills that are in demand by local employ-ers,” EMCC Workforce and Community Out-

reach Program Director Sha’Carla Petty said. “The best part is there is no cost other than the students’ time and moti-vation.”

The S2W program is funded by the Mississippi Department of Human Services. Those accepted into the program are eli-

gible for support services such as assistance with transportation costs, testing fees and training supplies and materials.

For more informa-tion or to apply for the program, email Petty at [email protected] or call her at 662-243-1930.

BY SUSAN COLLINS-SMITHMSU Extension Service

RAYMOND —

With social distancing measures still

in place, Mississippi 4-H’ers will participate in the state’s first-ever Virtual State 4-H Con-gress in 2020 instead of

the traditional in-person gathering.

The event will be held online July 6-31 and is open to senior 4-H’ers who were 14 to 18 years old as of Jan. 1, 2020. The theme is “4-H: Inspires Vision.”

Each year, senior 4-H members come together from across the state to participate in the three-

day event customarily held on the Mississippi State University campus. Participants engage in leadership and education-al opportunities.

Traditional contests held at State 4-H Con-gress will not be held on the virtual platform. 4-H’ers can sign up to participate in one or more educational modules. The four modules are Career Readiness, Agriculture

and STEM, Leadership and Citizenship, and Healthy Living and Fami-ly Consumer Sciences.

Participants can work at their own pace and earn a certificate when they successfully com-plete the module. 4-H’ers must contact their 4-H agent to register. Local deadline to register is June 26, according to the Extension office in Lown-des County. It may vary

in other counties. Partici-pants should contact their county Extension office and provide a valid email address.

To participate in the Share the Fun contest, 4-H’ers can submit a video to share their talents. The best video submissions will be selected from the applicants to appear in the final video. Deadlines may vary among counties. Contact the 4-H agent for

the Share the Fun video submission deadline.

For more information, visit the Extension web-site at https://bit.ly/2ZU-0crj. 4-H is the youth development program of the MSU Extension Service.

MSU is an equal op-portunity institution. For disability accommodation, contact Cobie Rutherford at 662-325-3353 or [email protected]

4-H to host first-ever Virtual State CongressSenior 4-H members can register now

EMCC offering free workforce training to eligible SNAP recipients

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 21). Your cosmic birthday gift is an aura of excitement around you. Many find your presence energizing, as though extra oxygen is pumped into the air around you so wherever you go is zesty fresh. Your emotional energy will be directed to what you truly value. Caring for your crew will be top priority, and in this, you will thrive. Virgo and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 3, 33, 19 and 1.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). The people around you may be too busy executing the action to pause and consider why they are doing it or whether there might be a better way. That’s where you come in — the

witness with an objective overview. TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

There’s a pang of longing for some-thing different. You don’t have to be somewhere new to experience anoth-er place. You can create the effect with an alternate point of view.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). When traveling to a new place, it helps to know the customs there. Places and people are the same in this regard. Each person has a culture, and learning another person will keep you deeply involved today.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Your humanity and the kinship of humans will be a strong theme of the day. You’ll regard your fellow travelers as

partners, whether they happen to be your family, friends, co-workers or strangers.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Watch, listen, study, contemplate... these are the directives for an interesting life. Your mental powers will be even brighter than usual to help you see deeply into simple things.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The energy of passion goes beyond the realm of reason and even the realm of responsibility. The energy of passion extends impressively, though not nearly as far as the energy of loyalty and duty.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). When someone appreciates all of the little

things you do, it makes you want to do them more. Gratitude brings out the best in all of us. You’re a giver.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Relationships will be illuminated in a whole new light. You’ll notice the ways you are alike, and how you want the same things but go about getting them in entirely different ways.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Communication chasms abound and the information gets dropped, looped, scrambled. You’re observant and patient, which is good because this puzzle will take more than one pass to sort out.

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DEAR ABBY: My girlfriend and I split up, but she doesn’t want to tell anyone or change stuff

on Facebook. When I told her that, for now, I just want to be friends, she got mad at me for changing the password on my account. She can get mean and hateful when she doesn’t get her way, and she keeps bringing up my past and won’t let it go.

She wants to get back together. We have broken up and gotten back together several times. This time, though, I’m not sure I want to. I love her, but I don’t know how much more I can take. She tells me she’s sorry every time she calls me names or is mean and thinks that it will fix everything. When I

told her it wouldn’t, she threatened to block me if I put “single” on my profile. Please give me some advice. I don’t think this is healthy, and I don’t know what to do. — CONFUSED IN KENTUCKY

DEAR CONFUSED: Listen to your gut, which is telling you this romance isn’t healthy. There’s a reason the two of you have broken up repeat-edly. Your ex-girlfriend is verbally abusive and controlling, and she threatens you.

Go ahead and post on your profile that you are single, and if she blocks you, so be it. The first step to healing your wounded heart will be to

start meeting others. Give it a try, and you will find it’s very effective.

DEAR ABBY: There are many videos about prop-er hand-washing on the internet as well as video clips that have been aired on television demon-strating the proper technique. But just about every-one I have seen leaves the water running the whole time they are washing their hands. I don’t think it is a good idea to try to teach people, especially young children, a technique that is so wasteful.

There’s no reason for the water to be running all the time someone is washing their hands or brushing their teeth because that water just goes right down the drain. While it’s very important that everybody wash their hands to prevent viruses from spreading, it is also important to recognize that water is a precious resource. Care should be taken not to waste it. — ENVIRONMENTALIST IN NEW JERSEY

DEAR ENVIRONMENTALIST: You are right, which is why I am printing your timely reminder. In the

Southwest, where drought is common, the impor-tance of water conservation is a fact of life. Be-cause I was surprised to receive a letter from New Jersey on this subject, I went online and learned to my surprise that starting in 2001-2002, there was a drought that lasted 55 weeks in your state.

Folks, because water is not an infinite re-source, be prudent. And I’m not just suggesting you be mindful when washing your hands and brushing your teeth. It’s also important to consider when rinsing dishes and — men — shaving once the quarantine is lifted.

DEAR READERS: Today I wish a Happy Father’s Day to fathers everywhere — birth fathers, stepfa-thers, adoptive and foster fathers, grandfathers and all of those caring men who mentor children and fill the role of absent dads.

P.S. And a big shout-out to dual-role moms. I applaud you all.

Dear Abby

Dear Abby

IN THE GARDEN WITH FELDER

Do your plants signal what kind of per-

son you are?Gardening more

than provides people with food, fiber, medicine, shelter and beauty. Woven throughout the most basic acts of finding and growing plants is an undercurrent of communities, both subtle and overt, with their own cultures and world views.

Yet, if you step outside the highly-personal confines of your own garden, you might discover that, in spite of socie-tal constraints, other gardeners are looking for nonjudgmental ways to share with you.

Four of the most basic garden approaches and their often-overlapping communities are folks who grow for subsis-tence, scientific-interest horti-culturists, preening fashionis-tas and amateurs who garden simply for the love of it.

What they have in common are plants, which are non-

judgmental. They don’t care about education, income, who your mama ’n them are, what you believe, who you love, or whether or not you vote. Freed from artificial human constructs, they simply want a good place to grow that meets their minimum needs. It’s we who make

them more or less socially acceptable.

Which brings me to my main point, that for too long gardeners have held up some plants as OK while sneering that others are grown only by “certain people.” You know what I mean: Country people. Old ladies. Various ethnicities. Anything that can be used to peg people by the style of their garden or the plants they grow.

What got me started on this was a deep discussion with Jenks Farmer, a dear friend in South Carolina who is working on a new book about “outsider” gardeners. He’s long struggled

to reconcile his horticultur-al training with his country gardening upbringing and find ways to bring marginalized gardeners and those who toil physically in the gardens of others, usually without recog-nition, into the mainstream. The ones who go home and garden just for themselves in ways they like, without regard for what others think.

I call them determined independent gardeners, or just DIGrs, They’re not rebellious,

they’re escaping — trying to provide for themselves physi-cally, mentally, emotionally and even spiritually.

I remember clearly how irked my horticulturist great-grandmother became when a local garden center owner sniffed about her wildflowers and native azaleas, which weren’t fashionable with folks clamoring for new vari-eties of petunias and azaleas. And yet she herself criticized her country bumpkin daugh-ter-in-law — my grandmother — who proudly displayed a con-crete chicken in a front-yard circle of striped monkey grass.

Sadly, neither wanted to grow common folk plants such as cannas, orange daylilies, white iris, milk-and-wine crinums, purple cane, elephant ears or castor bean, because they were other folks’ plants.

These plants, of course, are typically easy to grow, simple to propagate and share, and usually showy in an everyday gaudy sense — the glass bottle trees of the plant world, what I call poor man’s Chihuly art glass.

It wasn’t exactly racist, because it applied to every-one. It was more attempting to degrade the horticultural value of commonly-shared plants and objects that lacked a sense of cultural finesse. They were guilty of a class thing, of assigning status to plants and accessories.

Funny, though, how garden-ers of all stripes are lightening up on this now. Those once-de-rided old cemetery-tough plants are now being displayed in the finest botanic gardens. And gardeners embracing them are finding unexpected social connections in the pro-cess, discovering that, inside, all plants have green sap.

To borrow a phrase from Jenks, they are looking for a chance to “push back against the azalea wall.” Sharing plants without prejudice is a good way to open the dialog, start the discussions.

Felder Rushing is a Mississip-pi author, columnist, and host of the “Gestalt Gardener” on MPB Think Radio. Email gardening questions to [email protected].

Share plants without prejudice

Felder Rushing

Felder Rushing/Courtesy photoPo’folk plants have social con-nections, too.

Impact AwardContinued from Page 1B

Benefit Committee, and Loaves & Fishes. Each was asked to submit a video presentation. Nor-mally, they would have sent a representative to the March meeting to tell members about their mission.

Through Punch-bowl, members had a week to view the videos and do any research on the organizations themselves, then vote, explained Imes. Loaves & Fishes was selected as the spring recipient. It will receive a minimum

Impact Award of $13,600. Community Benefit Committee and Building Bridges of Hope will each receive $500.

“We’re very proud and excited about this new way our Giving Circle has come together to cast votes,” said Imes. “All these organizations that have been nominated are out there doing wonder-ful things for our com-munity; they are well-de-serving and so needed.”

“The officers, board members and numerous volunteers who work with

and assist the mission of Loaves & Fishes Com-munity Soup Kitchen of Columbus expressed heartfelt appreciation when they were notified that our organization was chosen to receive the Im-pact Award,” said Nancy Smith, Loaves & Fishes co-president, along with Ann Sparkman.

Award funds will sup-port the work of the soup kitchen, which will begin its 12th year of operation in August. It currently provides about 25,000 meals per year.

“This will allow us to continue opening our door to feed the disad-vantaged and hungry citizens in our city with Christian love and respect for each,” Smith continued. “Thank you to each donor who made a personal donation to 100+ Women Who Care that made this award possible.”

So simple, so positive

For busy women invested in their com-munity, the concept of

100+ Women Who Care is a perfect fit. Members gather for a one-hour meeting in fall and spring, learn about local charities, gift $100 twice annually to go to an or-ganization the group se-lects. Every penny goes to the Impact Award. The combined donations make an impact without time-consuming fund-raising. Accomplishing the spring selection in the midst of a pandemic was a challenge, but the way the Columbus chap-ter managed it has been

of interest to steering committee members of the national 100 Who Care Alliance.

“We learned a lot,” said Imes about devising a successful solution when members could not meet in person.

The Lowndes County group’s Autumn Impact Award meeting is set for Oct. 27. Women from all walks of life are invited to join in “coming together to give together.” Learn more at 100wwccolum-busms.org.

PearsonContinued from Page 1B

“I think packing the food has been special,” Paige said. “It just makes me feel good that it’s helping somebody who possibly wouldn’t be able to be alive, because they may not have money to buy food.”

Food items and funds to purchase groceries were donated by staff at Matt’s bank branch on Highway 45 North. Other donors helped as well.

“Paige went with me to buy food, and

we bought about $400 worth,” said Cadden, who had to use a scoot-er at the time due to a health issue. “I’m on a scooter, and here she is getting the (groceries), comparing prices and everything.” All three kids, along with their dad, helped pack boxes.

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The Pearsons have five children, two very young. But in the past

five years they also became foster parents. Their foster children have been introduced to volunteering at Opera-tion Ukraine as well.

“Whatever we need to do to get out there as a family and give back a little bit,” Matt said, quiet-spoken.

Cadden values the un-f lagging commitment to teaching by example.

“Their kids are learning how to do physical giving, not just

writing a check, but to give of their time, their energy,” she said. “He’s teaching them to share, and these kids are being taught to pray about people they know are sick or in need. He and Allison are raising kids with compassion. They’re teaching grace. They are raising their kids to be thinking people.”

“I feel like it ’s what we’re called to do,” said Allison. “It ’s the great

commis-sion. It ’s showing the love of Christ that he’s shown to other people.”

Through the vol-unteer experience, the Pearsons hope the chil-dren develop a heart for others in need, a genu-ine sense of empathy.

“I’ve definitely seen a maturity and sense of

compassion with them as they’ve gotten older,” commented their father.

Life lessons are taking hold, Cadden observed.

“Those kids are going to be good, strong kids for society,” she said. “They are very comfort-able with who they are. They don’t have to have expensive clothes and stuff to be somebody. They are already some-body.”

A. Pearson

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BAPTISTANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH — Hwy. 45 N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Mitch McWilliams, Pastor. 662-328-4765ARMSTRONG BAPTIST CHURCH — 1707 Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bible Study Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. William Vaughn, Pastor. 662-328-0670ARTESIA BAPTIST CHURCH — Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor Jeff Morgan.BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 3232 Military Road. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Walter Butler, Pastor.BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH — 2096 Bethesda Rd, Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Discipleship Training 6:00 p.m., Worship 7 p.m., Wednesday 7:00 p.m. Allan Dees, Pastor. 662-272-8734BORDER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 12771 Hwy. 12 E., Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study – Adults, Children, and Youth classes 6:30 p.m. Dan Louman, Pastor. 662-386-0541. www. borderspringsbaptistchurch.comBROOKSVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH — Main Street, Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. CALEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH — 7840 Wolfe Road, Caledonia. Sunday Men’s Prayer Service 9:30 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday, Worship 11 a.m. Sunday, Bible Study 4 p.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Kelby R. Johnson, Pastor. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 295 Dowdle Dr. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Choir rehearsals and Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:15 p.m. Rev. Ralph Windle, Interim Pastor. 662-328-6741CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 385 7th St. SW, Vernon, Ala. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. (6 p.m. - Daylight Savings Time), Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Wil Corbett, Pastor. 205-270-1845CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1008 Lehmberg Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Paul Shaw, Pastor. 662-327-3771CANAAN MB CHURCH — 2425 Bell Ave. Sunday School 8:15 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Jimmy Pounds, Pastor. 662-327-1226COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 2490 Yorkville Rd. East Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study, Children & Youth Classes 6:30 p.m. Matt Moehring, Pastor. Edward Rhinewalt, Music Director. 662-327-5306CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH — 844 Old West Point Rd., Starkville. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Greg Upperman, Pastor. 662-323-6351 or visit www.cornerstonestarkville.comEAST END BAPTIST CHURCH — 380 Hwy. 50 W. (Hwy. 50 and Holly Hills Rd.) Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Worship 5 p.m. followed by Discipleship Training, Mission Friends and GAs 5 p.m., Sanctuary Choir 6:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting, Youth Worship, Preschool & Children’s Choirs 6:30 p.m. Bryon Benson, Pastor. 662-328-5915EASTVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 1316 Ben Christopher Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Junior Eads, Pastor. 662-329-2245 FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 127 Airline Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr. Breck Ladd, Pastor. 662-328-2924FAITH CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1621 Mike Parra Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Rev. Michael Love, Pastor. 662-434-5252FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — 7th St. and 2nd. Ave. N. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m. (Worship televised at 10 a.m. on WCBI-TV, Columbus Cable Channel 7), Contemporary Worship 11 a.m.; Sunday Evening Worship 5 p.m., Midweek Prayer Service Wednesday 6 p.m. located downtown. Dr. Shawn Parker, Pastor. 662-245-0540 columbusfbc.orgFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STEENS — 40 Odom Rd., Steens. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST — 125 Yorkville Rd. W. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. John Gainer, Pastor. 662-328-6024 or 662-328-3183GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 708 Airline Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Charles Whitney, Pastor.GRACE COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — 912 11th Ave. S. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. Pastor Sammy Burns. 662-328-1096GREENWOOD SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — 278 East between Gattman & Amory. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:15 p.m. Rev. John Walden, Pastor. 662-356-4445IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 6342 Military Rd., Steens. Bible Study 10:30 a.m., Worship 9:15 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. 662-328-1668KOLOLA SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH — Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., AWANA 4:45-6 Ages 2-12th grade (Sept. - May), Worship 5 p.m., Choir Practice Wednesday 6 p.m., 252 Basics Children’s Ministry an Cross Training Youth Wednesday 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Don Harding, Pastor. LONGVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH — 991 Buckner Street, Longview. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Discipleship Training 5:15 p.m., Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.; Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Interim Pastor Ron Linkins, or email [email protected], 662-769-4774MCBEE BAPTIST CHURCH — 2846 Hwy. 50 E. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Discipleship Training 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Jimmy Ray, Pastor. 662-328-7177MIDWAY BAPTIST CHURCH — Holly Hills Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., Prayer Service every Saturday 6 p.m. Rev. Denver Clark, Pastor.MOUNT PISGAH BAPTIST CHURCH — 2628 East Tibbee Rd., West Point. Sunday Worship each week 8 a.m., 1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday Worship 11:30 a.m., Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Donald Wesley, Pastor.MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1791 Lake Lowndes Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Steve Lammons, Pastor. 662-328-2811MT. VERNON CHURCH — 200 Mt. Vernon Rd. Sunday Worship 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Service Life Groups for all ages 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Connection Cafe 10 a.m., Discovery Zone. 662-328-3042 mtvchurch.comMURRAH’S CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 9297 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m.NEW COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH — Highway 50 E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Service 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Ed Nix, Pastor. NEW JOURNEY CHURCH — 3123 New Hope Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Small Groups 5:30 p.m., Kevin Edge, Pastor. 662-315-7753 or thenewjourneychurch.orgNEW SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH — 7086 Wolfe Rd., 3 miles south of Caledonia. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m., Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Sunday Evening - AWANA 4 p.m., Discipleship Training, Youth & Adult 5 p.m., Evening Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday - Adults, Youth & Children 6:30 p.m. 662-356-4940 www.newsalembaptistcaledonia.com Bro. Mel Howton, Pastor. NORTHSIDE FREE WILL BAPTIST — 14th Ave. and Waterworks. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Pat Creel, Pastor. OPEN DOOR MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, 405 Lynn Lane, Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. 1st 2nd and 4th Sundays. Donnie Jones, Pastor. 662-263-7102

PLEASANT GROVE MB CHURCH — 1914 Moor High Road, Crawford. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Riley Forrest, Sr., Pastor. 662-272-8221PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST — 1383 Pleasant Hill Rd. Join us at phbccolumbus.com or on Facebook for services. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. & 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Bill Hurt, Pastor. 662-329-3921PLYMOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH — 187 Plymouth Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Randy Rigdon, Pastor. Neil Shepherd, Music.SOVEREIGN FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH — 7852 Hwy. 12 E., Steens. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Service 5 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Charles Young, Pastor.SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH — 12859 Martin Road Spur, Northport, Ala. Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Bible Study noon. Todd Bryant, Pastor. sovereigngrace.netSTATE LINE BAPTIST CHURCH — 7560 Hwy. 1282 E. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Night small group 6:30 p.m. Robert Gillis, Pastor. 662-329-2973TEMPLE OF DELIVERANCE BAPTIST CHURCH — 4307 Sand Rd., Steens. Maurice Williams, Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-327-2580UNITED CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHURCH — 2 blocks east of Hwy. 69 on Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. Dr. Steven L. James Sr., Pastor. UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH — 1104 Louisville St., Starkville (located in Fellowship Hall of St. Luke Lutheran Church). Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Bert Montgomery, Pastor. www.ubcstarkville.orgVICTORY FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH — Victory Loop off of Mill Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Pastor, Al Hamm.WOODLAND BAPTIST CHURCH — 3033 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Worship 6 p.m., AWANA Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Kevin Jenkins, Pastor. 662-327-6689. Brad Wright, Youth Minister.10TH STREET FAIRLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH — 1118 7th St. S. Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Youth Ministry Wednesday 4:30 p.m. Rev. Brian Hood, Pastor.

INDEPENDENT BAPTIST BETHESDA CHURCH — 1800 Short Main. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Nathaniel Best, Pastor. E-mail: [email protected] BAPTIST CHURCH — 5860 Hwy. 50 E., West Point. Sunday School 10 a.m., Service 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH — 1720 Hwy. 373. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Martin “Buddy” Gardner, Pastor. LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH — 5030 Hwy. 182 E. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. 662-327-1130SHINING LIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH — 957 Sunset Drive, Starkville in the Comfort Suites Conference Room, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Pastor John Harvey. slbcstarkville.org 662-648-0282

MISSIONARY BAPTISTANDERSON GROVE MB CHURCH — 1131 Woodlawn Rd., Steens. Sunday School 9:20 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Bible Study Wednesday 6:20 p.m. Rev. William Sparks, Pastor. 662-356-4968.ANTIOCH MB CHURCH — 2304 Seventh Ave. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Kenny Bridges, Pastor.BETHLEHEM MB CHURCH — 293 Bethlehem Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 1st and 4th Sundays 8 a.m., 2nd & 3rd Sundays 9:30 a.m., Worship 1st & 4th Sundays 9:30 a.m., 2nd & 3rd Sundays 11 a.m., Wednesdays 6 p.m. Rev. Willie James Gardner, Pastor. 662-356-4424BLESSING MB CHURCH — Starkville Sportsplex, Activity Center 405 Lynn Lane Road. Sunday Worship 2nd, 4th & 5th Sundays 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Pastor Martin. 662-744-0561BRICK MB CHURCH — Old Macon Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. each Sunday, Worship 2nd and 4th Sundays only 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Everett Little, Pastor.CALVARY FAITH CENTER — Hwy. 373 & Jess Lyons Road. Sunday Worship 8:00 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Robert Bowers, Pastor. 662-434-0144CEDAR GROVE MB CHURCH — 286 Swartz Dr. Worship Services 11:15 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Johnnie Richardson, Pastor. 662-434-6528CHRISTIAN HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 14096 MS Hwy. 388, Brooksville, MS 39739, Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11:00 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Bobby Bowen, Pastor. 662-738-5837/549-6100CHRIST MB CHURCH — 110 2nd Ave. S. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., B.T.U. Program every 1st & 3rd Sunday 6 p.m.ELBETHEL MB CHURCH — 2205 Washington Ave. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7:00 p.m., Rev. Leroy Jones, Pastor.FAITH HARVEST MB CHURCH — 4266 Sand Road. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Bible class Tuesday 6 p.m. Hugh L. Dent, Pastor. 662-243-7076.FOURTH STREET MB CHURCH — 610 4th St. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. Jimmy L. Rice, Pastor. 662-328-1913 FRIENDSHIP MB CHURCH — 1102 12th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr. Stanley K. McCrary, Pastor. 662-327-7473 or 662-251-4185GREATER MT. OLIVE M.B. CHURCH — 1856 Carson Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 7 a.m. Donald Henry, Pastor. HALBERT MISSION MB CHURCH — 2199 Halbert Church Rd., Ethelsville, Ala. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Ernest Prescott, Pastor. HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 4892 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9 a.m., Minister Terry Johnson, Interim Pastor.JERUSALEM MB CHURCH — 14129 Hwy 12 E., Caledonia. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Willie Petty, Sr., Pastor.MAPLE STREET BAPTIST — 219 Maple St. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Joseph Oyeleye, Pastor. 662-328-4629MILLERS CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 425 East North St. Macon. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Ron Houston, Pastor.MISSIONARY UNION BAPTIST CHURCH — 1207 5th Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Antoine T. Colvin, Pastor. 662-327-5408 www.missionaryunionbc.orgMOUNT ZION MB CHURCH — 2221 14th Ave. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Jesse J. Slater, Pastor. 662-328-4979MT. ARY MB CHURCH — 291 S. Frontage Rd., Lot #4. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Erick Logan, Pastor.MT. AVERY BAPTIST CHURCH — 12311 Nashville Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. every Sunday except 5th Sunday. Rev. John Wells, Pastor. MT. OLIVE MB CHURCH — 2020 Atkin Rd., Millport, Ala. Sunday School 9 a.m. Worship Service 10 a.m. Pastor Benny W. Henry. 205-662-3923NEW HOPE MB CHURCH — 271 Church St., Artesia. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Thomas E. Rice is Pastor. 662-494-1580NEW BAPTIST TEMPLE MB CHURCH — 5937 Nashville Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 9 a.m. each week except 5th Sunday, Worship 10 a.m. each week except 5th Sunday, 5th Sundays: Ushers Board Fellowship. Rev. L.A. Gardner, Pastor. 662-329-3321NEW ZION PILGRIM MB CHURCH — 5253 New Hope Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship Services 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Christopher Wriley, Pastor.NEW ZION STEENS MB CHURCH — 3301 Sand Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor Rev. Billy D. Hill. 662-329-5224OAK GROVE MB CHURCH — 1090 Taylor Thurston Rd. Sunday School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., 5th Sunday 8 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:15 p.m. Pastor Therman Cunningham Sr., 662-798-0179OAKLAND MB CHURCH — 18 Fairport Road, Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible study 7 p.m., Mass Choir Rehearsal - Wed. before 1st and 2nd Sun. 6 p.m., Male Chorus Rehearsal - Wed. before 3rd Sun. 6 p.m., Junior Choir

Rehearsal - Wed. before 4th Sun. 6 p.m. Rev. Sammy L. White, Pastor.PLEASANT GROVE ROBINSON MB CHURCH — 9203 Hwy. 389 N., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Service/Bible Study 7 p.m. Pastor George A. Sanders. 456-0024PLEASANT RIDGE MB CHURCH — Ridge Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. A. Edwards, Sr., Pastor.PROVIDENCE MB CHURCH — Old Hwy. 69 S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Gilbert Anderson, Pastor.SAINT MATTHEWS MB CHURCH — 1213 Island Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Curtis Clay, Sr., Pastor.SALEM MB CHURCH — Hwy. 86, Carrollton, Ala. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. David J. Johnson, Jr., Pastor. SECOND JAMES CREEK MB CHURCH — 4898 Baldwin Rd., Brooksville. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Michael Tate. 662-738-5855SOUTHSIDE MB CHURCH — 100 Nashville Ferry Rd. E. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Rayfield Evins Jr., Pastor.SIXTH AVENUE MB CHURCH — 1519 Sixth Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m., Bible Study Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. W.C. Talley, Pastor. 662-329-2344SPRINGFIELD MB CHURCH — 6369 Hwy. 45 S. (1st & 3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., (1st & 3rd Wednesday) 7 p.m. Robert Gavin, Pastor. 662-327-9843STEPHEN CHAPEL MB CHURCH — 2008 7th Ave. N. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:45 a.m. Bible Study Wednesday 10:45 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. ST. JAMES MB CHURCH — 6525 Hardy-Billups Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6:15 p.m. Rev. Chad Payton, Pastor. ST. JOHN MB CHURCH — 3477 Motley Rd., Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Joe Brooks, Pastor. 327-7494.ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — Robinson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Willie Mays, Pastor.ST. PAUL MB CHURCH — 1800 Short Main St. Disciple Training/Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9:00 a.m. Rev. John F. Johnson, Pastor. 662-241-7111STRONG HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH — 325 Barton Ferry Rd., West Point. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. TABERNACLE MB CHURCH — Magnolia Drive, Macon. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.UNION BAPTIST MB CHURCH — 101 Weaver Rd. (Hwy. 69 S) Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Pastor McSwain.UNION HOPEWELL MB CHURCH — 150 Spurlock Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Carlton Jones, Pastor.WOODLAWN LANDMARK MB CHURCH — 8086 Hwy. 12. East, Steens. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. David Retherford, Pastor.THE WORD CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 366 Carson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. John Sanders, Pastor. ZION GATE MB CHURCH — 1202 5th St. S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 8 a.m. and 10:45., Children’s Church 10:15 a.m., Worship 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Dr. James A. Boyd, Pastor.

PRIMITIVE BAPTISTABERDEEN PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — Washington St. & Columbus St., Aberdeen. Sunday 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Herb Hatfield, Pastor. 662-369-4937HAMILTON PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — Flower Farm Rd., 2 miles South of Hamilton, just off Hwy. 45. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Jesse Phillips, Pastor. 662-429-2305 MAYHEW PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — 842 Hwy. 45 Alternate, Starkville. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m. Herb Hatfield,Pastor. 662-315-4937SPRINGHILL P.B. CHURCH — 3996 Sandyland Road, Macon, MS. Walter Lowery Jr., Pastor. Sunday School 9:00 a.m., Worship 10:00 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6 p.m. 662-738-5006.SULPHUR SPRINGS PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH — North of Caledonia on Wolf Rd, Hamilton. Sunday 10:30 a.m. & 1st Sunday Night at 6:30 p.m. Elder Joseph Mettles, Pastor. 662-369-2532

ANGLICAN CATHOLICSAINT DAVID’S AT MAYHEW — 549 Mayhew Rd., Mayhew. Holy Eucharist - Sunday 10 a.m. 662-244-5939 or anglicancatholic.org

CATHOLICANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC CHURCH — 808 College St. Mass Schedules are as follows: Sunday 8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m., Monday, Wednesday & Friday 8 a.m., Tuesday 5:30 p.m., Thursday 8:30 a.m., and Annunciation Catholic School (during the school year). Father Jeffrey Waldrep, Priest.

CHRISTIANFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 811 N. McCrary. Lavelle Smith, Pastor. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCECHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH — 720 4th Ave. N. and 8th St. N. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.

CHURCH OF CHRISTCALEDONIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — Main St., Caledonia. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 6 p.m.CHURCH OF CHRIST — 4362 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m. , Wednesday 6 p.m. Loviah Johnson 662-574-0426 or E-mail: [email protected] OF CHRIST — 437 Gregory Rd. Sunday Bible class 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Richard Latham, Minister. 662-328-4705CHURCH OF CHRIST DIVINE — 1316 15th St. S. Morning Worship (1st, 2nd, & 4th Sunday) 9:45 a.m., (3rd & 5th Sunday) 8:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-327-6060 Bishop Timothy Heard, Pastor.COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2401 7th St. N. Sunday Bible Class 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Sunday Bible Study 5 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Paul Bennett, Family Life Minister; Billy Ferguson, Minister of Discipleship; Hunter Johnson, Youth Minister.EAST COLUMBUS CHURCH OF CHRIST — Highway 182 E. at Gaylane. Sunday Worship 9 a.m., Bible Study 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. http://eastcolumbuschurch.comHWY. 69 CHURCH OF CHRIST — 2407 Hwy. 69 S. Sunday Bible Study 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Minister Jay Street. www.highway69coc.comLONE OAK CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1903 Lone Oak Rd., Steens. Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.MAGNOLIA CHURCH OF CHRIST — 161 Jess Lyons Rd. Bible Study 9:15 a.m., Worship, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Minister David May, Pastor. 662-769-5514.NORTH HILLCREST CHURCH OF CHRIST — 900 North Hillcrest, Aberdeen, MS 39730, Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m., Bro. Arthur Burnett, Minister, 662-304-6098. Email: nhill [email protected] CHURCH OF CHRIST — Steens Vernon Rd. 9:15 a.m. Bible Study, Worship 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Tim Gentle, Minister.10TH AVE. N. CHURCH OF CHRIST — 1828 10th Ave. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Bible Class 5 p.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Willie McCord, Minister.WOODLAWN CHURCH OF CHRIST — Woodlawn Community. Sunday 9 a.m., Worship 9:45 a.m., Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Willis Logan, Minister.

CHURCH OF GODCHURCH OF GOD IN JESUS’ NAME — Hwy. 12. Sunday 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. David Sipes, Pastor. CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 7840 Wolfe Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Tony Hunt, Pastor. 662-889-6570

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LATTER RAIN CHURCH OF GOD — 721 7th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday 6 p.m. Brenda Othell Sullivan, Pastor.NORTH COLUMBUS CHURCH OF GOD — 2103 Jess Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Clarence Roberts, Pastor.YORKVILLE HEIGHTS CHURCH — 2274 Yorkville Rd., Sunday Connect Groups 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Worship 7 p.m.; Nursery available for all services (newborn-4). Scott Volland, Pastor. 662-328-1256 or www.yorkvilleheights.com

CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRISTBIBLE WAY PROGRESSIVE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 426 Military Rd. Sunday School 8 a.m., Worship 9 a.m., Monday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday Prayer Noon. Tommy Williams, Pastor.FIFTEENTH ST. CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 917 15th St. N. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion C. Bonner, Pastor.GREATER PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 1601 Pickensville Rd., Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Monday 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. Ocie Salter, Pastor.MIRACLE TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 5429 Hwy. 45 N. Sunday Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 9:30 a.m., 4th Sunday Fellowship Lunch, Youth Sunday 4th Sunday, Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Elder Robert L. Brown, Jr., Pastor. 662-327-4221. Email: [email protected] FAITH CENTER MINISTRIES — 425 Military Road, Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday Night Bible Study 7 p.m. Elder Samuel Wilson, Pastor.OPEN DOOR CHURCH OF GOD — 711 S. Thayer Ave., Aberdeen. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday Bible School 10 a.m. & 6 p.m., 2nd & 4th Thursday Evangelist Night 6 p.m. Johnnie Bradford, Pastor. 662-574-2847.PETER’S ROCK TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — 223 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., Starkville. Sunday Worship 7:45 a.m., 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Sunday School 9 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. VICTORY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — Minnie Vaughn Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 12 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Donald Koonch, Pastor. 662-243-2064

COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASECAFB CHAPEL — Catholic - Sunday: Catholic Reconciliation 4:00 p.m., Mass 5 p.m. Catholic Priest Father Paul Stewart. Protestant - Sunday: Adult Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m. Wing Chaplain Lt. Col. Steven Richardson. 662-434-2500

EPISCOPALGOOD SHEPHERD EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 321 Forrest Blvd. Sunday Bible Study 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Sandra DePriest. 662-574-1972ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — 318 College St. Sunday 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:15 a.m. Rev. Jason Shelby. 662-328-6673 or stpaulscolumbus.com.

FULL GOSPELBREAD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP — New Hope Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Jack Taylor, Pastor.BEULAH GROVE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 8490 Artesia Rd., Artesia, MS. Sunday Service 8:30 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Timothy Bourne, Senior Pastor.CHARITY FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 1524 6th Ave. S. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 6 p.m. Charles Fisher, Pastor.CHARITY MISSION FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 807 Tarlton Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:40 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Prayer Hour Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m., Saturday 8 a.m., New Membership Class 9:30 p.m., 5th Sunday Worship 6:30 p.m. 662-272-5355 COVENANT LIFE MINISTRIES CHURCH — W. Yorkville Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Evening 6:30 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m.FAIRVIEW FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 1446 Wilson Pine Rd., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Bobby L. McCarter 662-328-2793 GREATER MOUNT ZION CHURCH — 5114 Hwy. 182 E. Sunday Corporate Prayer 8 a.m., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7 p.m. Doran V. Johnson, Pastor. 662-329-1905GOD’S ANNOINTED PEOPLE MINISTRY FULL GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP — 611 Jess Lyons Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Jerome Gill, Pastor. 662-244-7088 HARVEST LIFE CHURCH — 425 Military Rd. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. F. Clark Richardson, Pastor. 662-329-2820NEW BEGINNING FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 318 Idlewild Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. 662-327-3962NEW LIFE FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 426 Military Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Michael Love, Pastor.PLUM GROVE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH — Old Macon Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday 6:30 p.m., Thursday 7 p.m. Samuel B. Wilson, Pastor.SHILOH FULL GOSPEL BAPTIST CHURCH — 120 19th St. S. Sunday School 8:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Missionary Service every 2nd Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Freddie Edwards, Pastor.

JEWISHB’NAI ISRAEL — 717 2nd Ave. N. Services Semi-monthly. Friday 7:30 p.m. 662-329-5038

UNIVERSALISTUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST — Meeting at Temple B’nai Israel, 1301 Marshall, Tupelo, every 1st & 3rd Sunday. 662-620-7344 or uua.org

LUTHERANFAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (WELS) — Hwy. 45 N. and 373. Sunday School/Bible Class 3:45 p.m., Worship 5 p.m. 662-356-4647OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH (L.C.M.S.) — 1211 18th Ave. N. Sunday School 9 a.m.. Worship 10 a.m. Stan Clark, Pastor. 662-327-7747 oursaviorlutheranms.org

MENNONITEFAITH MENNONITE FELLOWSHIP — 2988 Tarlton Rd., Crawford. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Sunday School 11 a.m., 2nd & 4th Sunday Worship 6 p.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Kevin Yoder, Senior Pastor.

METHODISTARTESIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 50 Church Street, Artesia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Gene Merkl, Pastor.CALEDONIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 811 Main Street, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. John Longmire, Pastor.CLAIBORNE CME CHURCH — 6049 Nashville Ferry Rd. E. 2nd and 4th Sundays - Sunday School 10a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., 1st and 3rd Sundays - 3 p.m., Geneva H. Thomas, Pastor.CONCORD INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH — 1235 Concord Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Robert L. Hamilton, Sr., Pastor.COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 618 31st Ave. N. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Eugene Bramlett, Pastor. CRAWFORD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Main St., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. and service 10 a.m. Kathy Brackett, Pastor. 662-364-8848CROSSROAD CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Steens. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Carl Swanigan, Pastor.FIRST INDEPENDENT METHODIST — 417 Lehmberg Rd. Sunday bible study at 10:15 and morning worship at 11 a.m. Minister Gary Shelton.FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 602 Main St. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 8:45 & 11 a.m. Rev. Jimmy Criddle, Lead Pastor; Rev. Anne Russell Bradley, Associate Pastor; Rev. Aislinn Kopp, Associate Pastor. 328-5252 FLINT HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 80 Old Honnoll Mill Rd., Caledonia. Sunday Worship Service 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:30 a.m. John Longmire, Pastor.GLENN’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 1109 4th St. S. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. Rev. Raphael Terry, Pastor. 662-328-1109HEBRON CME. CHURCH — 1910 Steens Road, Steens. Meets first, second and third Sundays, Bible class

each Wednesday at 7 p.m. Earnest Sanders, Pastor.MILITARY CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Hwy. 12, Steens. Sunday School 9:45, Service 11 a.m.. Meet on 2nd and 4th Sundays. Wednesday Bible Study 6:00 p.m. Rev. Antra Geeter, Pastor. 662-327-4263NEW HOPE CME CHURCH — 1452 Yorkville Road East, Columbus. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Worship service first, third and fourth Sunday (Youth Sunday) 11:00 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 5:00 p.m. Rev. Cornelia Naylor, Pastor. 662-328-5309NEW HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 2503 New Hope Road. Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 5:30 p.m. Rev. Sarah Windham, Pastor. NEW ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 2169 S. Montgomery St., Starkville. Sunday School 9:30-10:30 a.m., Young Adult Bible Study (ages 18-30) Thursday 6:30 p.m. Tyrone Stallings, Pastor. 662-324-0789ORR’S CHAPEL CME CHURCH — Nicholson Street, Brooksville. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Saturday 9 a.m.PINEY GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 102 Fernbank Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m., Sunday School 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Andy Tentoni, Pastor.PLAIR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 1579 Sun Creek Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 8:45-9:45 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6-7 p.m. Rev. Sylvester Miller III, Pastor. 662-324-0036SANDERS CHAPEL CME CHURCH — 521 15th St. N. Sunday School 8 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m., Tuesday 11:45 a.m. Rev. Dr. Luther Minor, Pastor.SHAEFFERS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 1007 Shaeffers Chapel Rd., Traditional Worship Service 9 a.m., Rev. Curtis Bray, Pastor.ST. JAMES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 722 Military Rd. Breakfast 9:10 a.m., Sunday School 9:40 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Adult/Children Bible Study Wednesday 6 p.m. Rev. Dwight Prowell, Pastor.ST. PAUL INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH — Freeman Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Services 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Youth activities 5 p.m. John Powell, Pastor.ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 307 South Cedar Street, Macon, Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. , Wednesday Bible Study 6 p.m. Demetric Darden, Pastor.ST. STEPHEN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — 800 Tuscaloosa Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Andy Tentoni, Pastor.TABERNACLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Rt. 2, 6015 Tabernacle Rd., Ethelsville, AL. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Carol Lambert, Pastor. 205-662-3443TRINITY-MT. CARMEL CME CHURCH — 4610 Carson Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Pastor Lizzie Harris. 662-329-3995TURNER CHAPEL AME CHURCH — 1108 14th St. S. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 5 p.m. Yvonne Fox, Pastor.WESLEY UNITED METHODIST — 511 Airline Rd. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 10:55 a.m., Wednesday 5:15 p.m., Chancel Choir 7 p.m., Youth Monday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Sarah Windham.WRIGHT CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — Hwy. 45 Alt. S., Crawford. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:15 a.m., Tuesday 6 p.m. Kori Bridges, Pastor. 662-422-9013.

MORMONCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — 2808 Ridge Rd. Sacrament Meeting 9 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Priesthood & Relief Society 11 a.m., Youth Activities Wednesday 6 p.m. Bishop Eric Smith. 662-328-3179.

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENEFIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — 2722 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:30 a.m.,Worship 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Stephen Joiner, Pastor.

NON — DENOMINATIONALA PREPARED TABLE MINISTRY — 1201 College St. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:10 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Timothy J. Bailey, Pastor. 662-889-7778ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 611 S. Frontage Road. Sunday 9:30 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Craig Morris, Pastor. ALL NATIONS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH, INC. — 1560 Hwy. 69 S., Sunday 9 a.m., Wednesday 6:45 p.m., Friday Corporate Prayer 7 p.m. Pastor James T. Verdell, Jr. crosswayradio.com 9 a.m., 11 a.m., & 7 p.m. on Fridays only.CALEDONIA OPEN DOOR WORSHIP CENTER — 3288 Cal-Vernon Rd. Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Randy Holmes, Pastor. 662-855-5006COLUMBUS CHRISTIAN CENTER — 146 S. McCrary Rd. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., Kid’s Church 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Kenny Gardner, Pastor. 662-328-3328CONGREGATIONAL WORSHIP CENTER — 109 Maxwell Lane. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 11:15 a.m., Wednesday Prayer 6 p.m., Wednesday Bible Band 7 p.m. Grover C. Richards, Pastor. 662-328-8124CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER — 98 Harrison Rd., Steens. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m., 1st Sunday Evening 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Marion (Bubba) Dees, Pastor. 662-327-4303EMMANUEL CIRCLE OF LOVE OUTREACH — 1608 Gardner Blvd. Services every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7 p.m. J. Brown, Pastor.FAITH COVENANT CHURCH — 1133 Northdale Dr. Sunday Worship 5:30 p.m. Lee Poque, Pastor. 662-889-8132FINDING YOUR WAY THROUGH CHRIST MINISTRIES — 1472 Blocker Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., 2nd Sunday Morning Worship 9 a.m. Pastor Kenyon Ashford.FIRST CALVARY FAITH AND FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN CENTER — 247 South Oliver St., Brooksville. Prayer Saturday 5:30 p.m., Bible Study 6 p.m., Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. Pastor David T. Jones,III. 601-345-5740FULL GOSPEL MINISTRY — 1504 19th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. Maxine Hall, Pastor.GENESIS CHURCH — 1820 23rd St. N., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Darren Leach, Pastor. HOUSE OF LIFE FREEDOM MINISTRY — 1742 Old West Point Rd. Worship 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday 6 p.m. Donnell Wicks, Pastor. HOUSE OF RESTORATION — Hwy. 50. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 a.m., Pastors, Bill and Carolyn Hulen. JESUS CHRIST POWERHOUSE OF THE APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH — 622 23rd St. N. Sunday School 10:30 a.m.; Service 11:45 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m., Prayer Mon., Wed. and Fri. noon. For more information call Bishop Ray Charles Jones 662-251-1118, Patricia Young 662-327-3106 or 662-904-0290 or Lynette Williams 662-327-9074.KINGDOM VISION INTERNATIONAL CHURCH — 3193 Hwy 69 S. Sunday 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Pastor R.J. Matthews. 662-327-1960LIFE CHURCH — 4888 N. Frontage Rd. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. For more information, call 662-570-4171LOVE CITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — 305 Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, Starkville. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Pastor Apostle Lamorris Richardson. 601-616-0311LIVING WATERS LIFE CHURCH INTERNATIONAL — 113 Jefferson St., Macon. Sunday Service 10 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Johnny Birchfield Jr., Senior Pastor. 662-493-2456 E-mail: [email protected] BEGINNING EVERLASTING OUTREACH MINISTRIES — Meets at Quality Inn, Hwy. 45 N. (Every 1st and 3rd Sunday) Sunday School 10 a.m., Bible Study 10:30 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. Pastor Robert Gavin, 662-327-9843 or 662-497-3434.NEW COVENANT ASSEMBLY — 875 Richardson. Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m. Bruce Morgan, Pastor. NEW HORIZONS GOSPEL ASSEMBLY — 441 18th St. S. Sunday 10 a.m. Dr. Joe L. Bowen, Pastor.PLEASANT RIDGE HOUSE OF WORSHIP — 2651 Trinity Road. Sunday School 9:45 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Every 2nd and 4th Sunday Intercessory Prayer 9 a.m.,

Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Donna Anthony. 662-241-0097TABERNACLE OF MERCY (MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST) — 4435 Hwy. 45 N., Sunday Service 9 a.m., Wednesday Prayer 6:30 p.m., Bible Study 7 p.m. 662-241-6723THE LORD’S HOUSE — 441 18th St. S. Thursday 7 p.m. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.THE RIVER CHURCH — 822 North Lehmberg Rd., Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Children’s Church 3&4 yr. old, 5-12 yr. old. Wednesday Worship 6:45 p.m. Pastor Chuck Eubanks. THE SHEPHERD’S CARE & SHARE MINISTRY CHURCH — 4068 Jess Lyons Rd., Sunday Prayer Time 9:50 a.m., Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Thursday Bible Study 6 p.m., Annie Hines-Goode, Planter and Pastor. 662-630-5216TRIBE JUDAH MINISTRIES — 730 Whitfield St., Starkville. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday Bible School 7 p.m. Rev. Greg and Rev. Michelle Mostella, Pastors. 662-617-4088TRUE GOSPEL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY — 2119 7th. Ave. N., Sunday School 9 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Clyde and Annie Edwards, Pastors.TRUE LIFE CHURCH — 435 Cedarcrest Dr. (corner of Yorkville and Cedarcrest), Sunday prayer 8:45 a.m., Worship 10 a.m., Wednesday prayer 6:30 p.m., Service 7:30 p.m. 662-798-0259TRUE LIFE WORSHIP CENTER — 597 Main St., Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Eugene O’Mary, Pastor.TRUEVINE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES — 5450 Cal-Kolola Rd, Caledonia. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Pastor Francisco Brock, Sr. 662-356-8252UNITED FAITH INTER-DENOMINATIONAL MINISTRIES — 1701 22nd Street North, Columbus. Sunday Worship 8-9:30 a.m., 662-889-8711VIBRANT CHURCH — 500 Holly Hills Rd. Sunday 8 a.m., 9:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The Vibe Cafe 7 a.m., First Wednesday 7 p.m. Age 6 weeks through 5th grade, Champions Club (special needs children). Jason Delgado, Pastor. 662-329-2279WORD IN ACTION MINISTRY CHRISTIAN CENTER — 2648 Tom St., Sturgis. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Curtis Davis, Pastor. 662-230-3182 or [email protected]

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANST. CATHERINE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH — 725 4th Ave. N. Visit www.stcatherineorthodox.com for schedule of services and updates on this Mission.

APOSTOLIC PENTECOSTALAPOSTOLIC OUTREACH CHURCH — 204 North McCrary Rd., Prayer/Inspiration Hour Monday 6 p.m. Danny L. Obsorne, Pastor.DIVINE DESTINY APOSTOLIC CHURCH — 2601 14th Ave. N. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Worship 12 p.m., Tuesday Bible Class 7:30 p.m. Pastor Easter Robertson.JESUS CHRIST POWERFUL MINISTRY OF LOVE — 1210 17th St. S., behind the Dept. of Human Resources. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Friday 7:30 p.m. Gloria Jones, Pastor.SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 267 Byrnes Circle. Sunday Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor. 662-324-3539THE ASSEMBLY IN JESUS CHRIST CHURCH — 1504 19th St. N. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:45 a.m. and 7 p.m., Wednesday and Friday 7 p.m.THE CHURCH OF THE ETERNAL WORD — 106 22nd St. S. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m., Tuesday Bible Study 7 p.m., Thursday Prayer 5 p.m. District Elder Lou J. Nabors Sr., Pastor. 662-329-1234THE GLORIOUS CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST — Billy Kidd Road, Caledonia. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.. Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7 p.m. Ernest Thomas, Pastor.VICTORY APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH — 6 6 Boyd Rd., Starkville. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Noon, Tuesday Prayer 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m. Mildred Spencer, Pastor. 662-341-5753

ONENESS PENTECOSTALNEW HOPE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 875 Richardson Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., 6 p.m., Tuesday 7 p.m. Jared Glover, Pastor. 662-251-3747 E-mail: [email protected]

PENTECOSTALFAITH AND DELIVERANCE OUT REACH MINISTRIES — 118 S. McCrary Road, Suite 126. Sunday 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Christian Women Meeting Friday 7 p.m.LIVING FAITH TABERNACLE — Shelton St. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Youth Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Rev. James O. Gardner, Pastor.LIVING WATER MINISTRIES — 622 28th St. N. Elder Robert L. Salter, Pastor. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m.SPIRIT OF PRAYER HOLINESS CHURCH — 922 17th St. N. Sunday 11 a.m., Wednesday 7 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. Terry Outlaw, Pastor, VICTORY TABERNACLE P.C.G. — 5580 Ridge Road. Sunday School 10 a.m., Praise & Worship 10:45 a.m., Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. G.E. Wiggins Sr., Pastor.

UNITED PENTECOSTALCALEDONIA UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 5850 Caledonia Kolola Rd., Caledonia. Sunday 10 a.m., 6 p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Grant Mitchell, Pastor. 662-356-0202FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — 311 Tuscaloosa Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Sunday Evangelistic 6p.m., Wednesday 7 p.m. Rev. Steve Blaylock, Pastor. 662-328-1750

PRESBYTERIANBEERSHEBA CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 1736 Beersheba Rd., New Hope Community. Rev. Tim Lee, Pastor. Sunday Worship 10 a.m., Church School 11:15 a.m., Wed. Mid Week 6 p.m. 662-327-9615COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (EPC) — 515 Lehmberg Rd., East Columbus. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 4 p.m. John Richards, Pastor.FIRST CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 2698 Ridge Rd. Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m., Adult Choir 4 p.m. Youth Group 5 p.m., Bible Study 5 p.m.; Monthly Activities: CPW Circle #2 (2nd Tue. 4 p.m.), Ladies Aid (3rd Tue. 2 p.m.); Weekly Activities: Exercise Class Tuesday and Thursday 8 a.m. Rev. Luke Lawson, Pastor. 662-328-2692FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 3200 Bluecutt Rd. Worship 10 a.m., Youth Group Sundays 11 a.m., Adult Choir Wednesdays 6 p.m., Fellowship Suppers-3rd Wednesdays 6 p.m. B.J. Chain, Pastor.MAIN STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (PCA) — Main and 7th St. N. Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Worship 10:40 a.m. and 6 p.m., Wednesday Fellowship Supper 5:30 p.m., Bible Study 6 p.m. Rev. Todd Matocha, Pastor. MT. ZION CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — 3044 Wolfe Rd. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.

SALVATION ARMY CHURCHTHE SALVATION ARMY CHURCH — 2219 Hwy. 82 East. Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship Service 11 a.m., Wednesday Men’s Fellowship, Women’s Fellowship 5:30 p.m., Thursday Character Building Programs 5:30 p.m., Majors Alan and Sheryl Phillips, Commanding Officers.

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTCOLUMBUS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH — 301 Brooks Dr. Saturday Service 9 a.m., Sabbath School 10:30 a.m., Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. Ray Elsberry, Pastor. 662-329-4311SALEM SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST — 826 15th St. N. Saturday Sabbath School 9:30 a.m., Divine Worship 11 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Roscoe Shields, Pastor. 662-327-9729

APOSTOLIC CHURCHTRUE FAITH DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES APOSTOLIC CHURCH — 3632 Hwy. 182 E. Sunday School 10:30 a.m., Sunday 11:30 a.m., Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Wednesday Prayer Noon, Wednesday 7:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m.

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