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'.Ministry helps small group of poor
Church provides aid for foreigners
By James Florez
Reporter
probleJ The Emmanuel Baptist Church in
)e chanjsfBryan was once one of Bryan’s most
prominent churches, boasting a con-
effectivJg ie 8 at * on °f more than 200 people.
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throur. Emmanuel Baptist, established in
1951, is not the typical Southern
inion, Baptist church that its red-bricked,
e to pre-tlll-stfepled exterior might suggest.
\yhgp. It now caters to a congregation com-
)v | ( prised mainly of Laotians, Mexicans
' '/Bid Cubans.
h an 7l After a charismatic movement
ulessot decimated the membership of his
e * s Pnjfturch, the church fell on hard
onds ™tiines, says the Rev. Clyde Wilton,
eir qua; Astor of Emmanuel Baptist for the
^pst20 years.
to give ■“We welcomed all,” Wilton says,
beenn. J charismatics came in throwing
, their hands up, saying ‘hallelujah’
’ TBid talking in tongues, and ran most
n the I oi our stable members off.”
'tcjuife. After the chat ismatics’ movement
nion its failed and they left, Wilton says the
■lurch’s roll stood at about 15.
1 suffer' I “Nobody wanted to be involved
hite mjBth a church that was a failure,” he
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ukt l u; t wo s howed up for services,
day U Oi|l “A lot of people were saying,
umbers ‘Look, you have a great opportunity
i positk to rebuild, but please don’t involve
are mak% in it. I want to go where the ac-
jght, H tion is already coming off.’ ”
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Although the uncertainty of the
church’s future was frightening, Wil
ton says he used the opportunity to
move the church’s operation more
into keeping with New Testament
teachings, such as taking care of the
poor.
“I visited several churches in the
community,” he say's, “and I always
asked myself, ‘Where are the poor
people? Who is taking care of their
needs?”
eigners in the congregation has also
hindered the church’s growth.
“When American, English-speak
ing people come here and see all
these foreigners, they want to go
where their people are,” he says.
Marrow adds, “The Mien, Cubans
and Mexicans feel the same pres
sure. After a while,' they feel the
need to be with their own people
and move on. Our membership is
very transient.”
“Most people would commend the work we do. They
say it is noble and kind to do this. But as for being ac
tive, one-on-one church members with these people —
they are not interested. ”
— The Rev. James Marrow, assistant pastor
“We’re not a prestigious church —
we have a bunch of poor people
here. If you are looking for prestige,
you’ll be disapointed here. For that
reason, just about all of the Anglo-
whites have gone.”
The Rev. James Marrow, a Texas
A&M graduate student who serves
as assistant pastor, says that because
of the church’s ministry to the poor,
its membership hasn't grown much.
“Most people would commend the
work we do,” Marrow says. “They
say it is noble and kind to do this.
But as for being active, one-on-one
church members with these people
— they are not interested.”
Wilton says a high number of for-
Wilton says Emmanuel Baptist be
gan to sponsor refugees shortly be
fore the fall of South Vietnam, when
the church sponsored a family of 13
Vietnamese. Since then, the church
has sponsored families and individu
als from Laos, Cambodia and Cuba.
Kao Meng Saetern, spokesman
and translator for the Mien mem
bers of the congregation, says his
family fled Laos nine years ago to es
cape communism.
“The communists, when they
came, they were friendly — almost
like Christian people,” Saetern says.
“Later, they changed their rules and
made us work on farms. When the
communists took over, we became
discouraged.”
Wilton says the church provides
free housing and financial support
for the refugees until they are able
to find work. He says after 21 days,
the residents of the church’s housing
units are asked to help with their
share of the utility costs. A garden
also is planted each year to help cut
food costs.
Marrow says the church’s housing
project is open to any individual in
need, but warns that there are strict
rules for those who live there.
“We have an agreement of disci
pline,” Marrow says. “If they live
here, they must attend church serv
ices.
“We are not a housing project. We
provide for material needs to show
our love for these people. We do this
work so that they might hear the
preaching of God’s w'ord and be
come believers.”
Wilton’s and Marrow’s sermons
are translated into Mien and Spanish
by translators in a small room at the
back qf the church. Members can
hear the translation through head
phones connected to the seats in the
church’s sanctuary.
Although a proposed move by
many of the Mien members of the
congregation threatens to cut the
church’s enrollment even further,
Wilton and Marrow are optimistic
about the church’s future.
un goes undetected; guard taken off duty
GRAPEVINE (AP) — A security guard at Dallas-
Fort Worth International Airport has been taken
off duty for retraining after a woman claimed
she carried a pistol through airport security bar
riers undetected, an airline official says.
H Henry Conley, district director for Delta Air
Lines, said that the airport’s security company,
Stanley Smith Security Inc., took the person who
was on duty Saturday off duty to be reviewed and
retrained “as a precautionary measure.”
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■ Freda Freeman of Terrell said she deliberately
left a derringer pistol inside her purse as it went
through an airport X-ray machine at Delta’s Ter
minal 4-E to see what would happen.
Frank Freeman, her husband, told the Dallas
Morning News the incident makes him “pretty
damn nervous.”
Mrs. Freeman said she remembered she was
carrying the gun as she escorted her mother to
the security gate Saturday morning while her
husband parked their car.
The woman said she didn't want to leave her
mother, who has Alzheimer’s disease, so she de
cided to keep the gun in her purse.
After she walked through the gate, Mrs. Free
man told her husband about the incident.
Freeman said he notified a Delta supervisor
who assured him he would notify the proper
people.
Conley said removing the person from duty is
standard procedure for the security company.
Airport officials never saw the woman’s gun,
Conley said. He said Freeman refused to give his
name when he reported the incident and that
Mrs. Freeman never talked to officials. The Free
mans left the airport after Mrs. Freeman’s
mother got on her flight.
There was no videotape on the security system
that could be reviewed to see if the gun actually
passed through it, Conley said. The weapon
should have shown up on the security system’s
viewing screen.
“Normally, it would be picked up if it were a
gun.” Conley said.
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Monday, May 4, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3
Sex-for-leniency case
against felony judge
begins in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH (AP) — Tar
rant County’s senior felony judge
goes on trial today in a sex-for-le
niency case involving his love af
fair with a former prostitute.
State District Judge Tom Cave
will be wearing civilian clothes
rather than judicial robes as attor
neys question potential witnesses
who range from judges to jun
kies, prosecutors to prostitutes.
Cave, 57, faces felony charges
of forcing female probationers to
have sex with him in exchange
for leniency in court. Attorney
Ronald W. Aultman and bail
bondsman Joe Dorsey Adams are
charged with helping arrange the
sexual liaisons.
In one instance, Cave is ac
cused of engaging in sex with a
probationer 90 minutes before
ruling on her case.
Jury selection is scheduled to
begin this morning, and officials
say the case could last for weeks.
Jurors lively will hear accusa
tions of sexual misconduct, police
corruption and abuse of public
trust. Although Cave and his co
defendants are the only ones
charged with violating civil rights,
Fort Worth police have come un
der fire, too.
Defense lawyers are expected
to try to shift attention from the
defendants to what they say was a
runaway police investigation that
ended up itself being probed by
the U.S. Justice Department after
a Fort Worth lawyer complained.
An FBI report on that matter
still is being reviewed by the Jus
tice Department’s Civil Rights Di
vision, a spokesman said Friday.
“This type of prosecution
makes every judge in the state of
Texas a potential target,” Cave
said last week. “These people
have got their victims mixed up.”
Police officials have refused
comment since Cave’s indictment
Nov. 14. Police Capt. Jerry Blais-
dell, who headed the initial inves
tigation of Cave, said he and oth
ers were under strict orders by
the Justice Department and the
grand jury not to discuss the case.
The Cave investigation began
almost two years ago as the
judge’s 34-year marriage was
crumbling and as his love affair
with Rachel Tallent, a 33-year-old
former prostitute, was budding.
Tallent, to whom Cave was en
gaged until last year, was con
victed twice of prostitution in
1981 and was on probation for
cocaine possession when Cave
met her. Prosecutors say she had
sex with Cave in a hotel room in
March 1984 and 90 minutes later-
appeared before him in court,
where he refused to revoke her
probation.
The jury is expected to hear ac
cusations that Cave had sex with
at least six women whose criminal
cases were pending in Tarrant
County courts. Six women have
been subpoenaed as witnesses.
One is coming from state prison;
all have criminal records.
Cave, Aultman and Adams are
charged with one federal felony
count each of conspiracy to vio
late the women’s civil rights. Gave
also is charged with four misde
meanor civil rights counts and
three counts of felony mail fraud.
Adams and Aultman also are
charged with one misdemeanor
civil rights violation and three
counts each of mail fraud.
If convicted on all counts. Cave
could be sentenced to a maxi
mum of 29 years in prison. Ad i
ams 26 and Aultman 36. Each
could be fined $1 million.
Cave and Aultman could be
disbarred if convicted. The judge j
could be removed from office.
Defense lawyers say some ol
the testimony presented to th
grand jury was perjured, are
they accuse police of using un
crupulous tactics — includin;
electronic listening devices — t
secure information about Cave.
“We’re convinced that the gov
ernment has literally manufac
tured a federal case out of this by
twisting the words of witnesses j
and we’re hoping that other wit
nesses will feel free to come ion
ward with the truth for the jut v,
Cave said.
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