Miami Herald (MH) - Friday August 2, 1991
Adon Taft; Herald Staff Writer

The AIDS Wellness Group will hold its first weekly meeting at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Broward General Hospital, 1600 S. Andrews Ave., in Fort Lauderdale.

Rabbi Harold Richter, director of the federation's chaplaincy service, and social worker Vickie Schulman are leading the nondenominational group. For the past two years, they have led a support group for families of people with AIDS.

For information call Schulman at 355-5300 or Richter at 921-8810 weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Overtown, once the cultural and business center for Miami's blacks, is served by 19 Protestant churches, according to a survey by the Community Awareness Program of the Metropolitan Fellowship of Churches. Among those churches are the two oldest black congregations in Miami: the Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church and Mt. Zion Baptist Church, both established in 1896.

Based on information compiled by the Latin America Mission, a well-known evangelical organization that has studied church attendance in Dade County communities for the past three years, 3,600 people attend services in those Overtown churches on an average Sunday, but most of the worshipers come from outside Overtown. The area, which had a population of nearly 45,000 in 1960, now is home to about 10,000. The former Northeast Baptist Church, at 6720 NE Fifth Ave., which closed its doors last fall after 42 years, has returned with a new name and a new mission. Morningside Baptist Fellowship drew 110 worshipers to its first bilingual service Sunday, says Doyle Wetherington, director of missions for the Miami Baptist Association. The church offers English-language Bible teaching at 10 a.m., followed by an 11 a.m. worship service and a French-Creole Sunday school at 11 a.m. followed by a preaching service at noon.

Wetherington says the church plans to open a job training and placement program and will help people who don't speak English fill out job applications and other work-related forms. The church also is working with the University of Miami Medical School to establish an entry-level medical screening clinic for homeless people. The Rev. Joey Smith, who worked with ministries in New Orleans and recently was a counselor for Broward's Catholic-operated Covenant House, will direct the ministry of the Morningside Baptist Fellowship in an area that is predominantly Haitian. Four Episcopal priests have been named canons of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral.

Bishop Calvin O. Schofield honored the men with the title of canon in recognition of their service to the Southeast Florida Diocese of the Episcopal Church.

They are the Rev. Elisha S. Clarke, a native Miamian who has served eight different parishes and now is rector of the Church of the Transfiguration in Opa-locka; the Rev. Henry N.F. Minich, for 27 years the rector of the Chapel of the Venerable Bede at the University of Miami where he also teaches bio-medical ethics; the Rev. James S. Rasnick, rector of Holy Trinity Church in West Palm Beach and former assistant to the bishop and secretary of the diocesan executive board; and the Rev. Max I. Salvador, rector of Todos Los Santos Church, who started the Episcopal Church's Hispanic ministry in South Florida.

Leaders of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, a Coconut Grove landmark, have postponed a decision on whether to relocate or renovate existing facilities.

The vestry instead has scheduled a September hearing on a proposal to redesign the site at 2750 McFarlane Rd. with new and remodeled church and school buildings.

In either case, the congregation intends to continue its West Grove ministry through its food distribution program at Christ Episcopal Church and grants to the St. Alban's Day Care Center.
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