Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 33

SUNDAY September 18 2005 I W3 THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE LOCAL 3 Childhood memories fuel mission to restore church HANKS to a recent generous donation from a former Oak land the 100 year old New St Paul Mis sionary Baptist Church on Martin Luther King Jr Way and 10th Street is undergoing much needed renovations and restoration says fund raising committee member Addie Madison are so very grateful to Terrance razier for his con tributions of funds and com mitment to our says Madison I Annalee ALLEN LANDMARKS Another church member James Smith who tirelessly pursued landmark status for the church despite battling on going health issues is also glad to see visible progress St has made such a difference in my life that I wanted to see it pre served just as other historical churches in Oakland have says Smith razier now living in resno where he heads a real estate development firm re cently returned to Oakland to attend the funeral of his grandmother and immediately noticed how deteriorated the church of his youth had be come remember well the time as a small child I walked with my mother and grandmother and the rest of the parishio ners from the former location where we worshipped (on 24th Street) to bur new church home op the comer of Martin Luther King Jr Way and 10th across from Lafayette Park a distance of aboutlhree miles" recalls razier memory has stayed with me and now that I am in a posi tion to I want to be able to do that so some child of today can feel that same feeling of pride and love I once felt" of my family in cluding my mother Glenda StanciH and my late grand mother Vera Davis have been attending New St and worshipping with Pastor lemon Henry ever since the move back in the late 1970s This is a church with a mis sion to feed and minister to the poor and the homeless and while they focus on that we will focus on fixing the roof and repairing the According to the landmarks files the cornerstone for the church was laid on Nov 18 1900 by a local congregation of 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more than a century say the landmark files The original congregation moved to the Glenview district in the 1940s and for a time the church became known as the Lutheran Memorial Chapel for the Deaf Pastor group acquired the structure in the 1970s and renamed it razier attended remont High School where he was a standout baseball player going on to play at resnO' State and the Oakland A's Modesto minor league team during the mid 1990s attending my grand service I saw a printed poster saying the church was seeking to raise funds for roof repairsj I checked with the city to see if its landmark status would qualify It for grants" said ra zier soon learned that it is very very difficult to get public dollars for religious buildings It is a significant problem throughout the whole country" Smith also has encountered sympathy but little tangible as sistance The offices of local elected leaders know him well laughs Smith started calling roofers in the area and contractors who could fix the old 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