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Show Mountainwest Minority Reporter & Sentinel, August Zimbabwe keeps to welcome South Africa back to the international sporting community. ban on all sporting links with South Africa. The officials indicated Zimbabweans will stay away from competi- tions where newly admitted South Africans are taking part and that the end of embargoes by the International Rev. France A. Davis Two — Sports officials in Zimbabwe said Thursday the country will continue its “A message featuring a minister in our Utah and Idaho communities.”’ Branches John 15:2,5 Olympic Committee and the tional Cricket Council will mediately alter Zimbabwe’s toward South Africa. ‘“The paramount question is fering of black people in South THE TRUE VINE IS JESUS THE CHRIST — the source of our being, the author and finisher of our faith. God the FATHER IS THE HUSBANDMAN -— the maker, the keeper, we will reason together about you, human Today, be- ings, the branches. No longer are you your own. Now you belong to the Master. No longer are you loose and free. Now you are engaged and married, and the two are now one. Jesus said, ‘‘I am the Vine, you are the branches.”’ (15:5) The vine is the main stem. The branches are the offshoots. The vine - is the source. The branches are extensions. The vine is bigger and the branches are smaller. The vine stands alone. The branches cannot stand Internanot impolicy the sufAfrica. The dismantling of apartheid is not enough. We want to see a univeral Every believer in Jesus Christ has a new relationship. If you have experienced the new birth, your position has changed. No longer are you independent. Now you are dependent. You must lean and depend on God. | alone. So that there is unity between the Master and the disciples. The branches get their strength from the Vine. When Jesus talked about this special relationship, He said, ‘‘Every branch in me ...’’ Our affairs are his affairs. His affairs are our affairs. | Notice if you will that there are two kinds of branches. And they are not the same. They are as different as night and day. No amount of wishful thinking, of scheming and conniving, of excuse making will make them the same. There are two branches. First, according to our test, one branch is unfruitful. It looks like the franchise or a constitution leading to that,’’ said Tobaiwa Mudede, chairman of the Zimbabwe Sports Council. South Africa also will not be included in next year’s World Cup of cricket because that nation’s readmission has come too late for scheduling purposes. Powell The ICC, which a day earlier welcomed South Africa back into international play after a 21-year absence, said Thursday it would be impossible to make wholesale changes less than a year before the tournament. The World ‘Cup will held in Australia and New Zealand this winter. | real thing but isn’t. It does not produce any fruit at all. It wears the same on it. (Luke 13:6-9) Because it does not produce fruit, it is good for nothing. Richards, chief executive of the Australia Cricket Board. ‘‘It would name but does not do the same thing. Like the fig tree, there is no fruit It is, therefore, cut away. He who knows the difference trims the unfruitful branch off. I wonder if some of us are not just wearing the name, talking the game, and looking the same without producing any fruit. We are reminded in another passage that these who have opportunity and do not produce are Gen. Colin Powell says he is proud of the disproportionate number | of minorities in the military because it serves as an example to business and unions to provide more opportunity for them. — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of olin Powell Staff made his comments last week at the NAACP’s 82nd annual convention, “military, then go tell business. Go tell where he received the Springarn ‘unions ... to provide those types of opMedal, the civil-rights group’s highest . portunities.”’ Powell, the first black to be the nahonor. tion’s top military officer, added: ‘I’m’ ‘TI never apologize to anyone when at the top of the hill in my profession. we’re accused of having a disproportionate number of minorities who seek I’ve climbed hard, and I’ve climbed: military careers,’’ Powell said to well. But I never forget that I climbed thunderous applause. ‘‘If you don’t want on the backs of the contributions and disproportionate numbers in_ the the sacrifices and the blood of others.”’ of Spain, Bernhard Langer of Germany, and Sandy Lyle of Scotland. They have all expressed interest in have meant moving heaven and earth.’ Organizers of the Scandinavian Masters golf tournament seem willing to make the necessary moves. They playing in Sweden. hope the highest sports body in Sweden **We wish they could make a fast decision, but we can’t demand it,’’ said Carl-Gunnar Sandin, executive director of the Scandinavian Masters. ‘“They can come to Stockholm the day before the tournament starts if the Swedish Sports Confederation doesn’t make its decision until July 30.”’ will lift its ban on golfers who com- ‘There would be very dignificant logistical difficulties,’ said Dave peted in South Africa before the tournament starts Aug. 1. The Swedish Sports Confederation still bans athletes whose names are on a United Nations blacklist from com- peting in sports events in Sweden. But athletes who signed a pledge they would not participate in future South African events were allowed to compete in Sweden in the last nine months. The U.N. blackist includes leading European golfers Jose Maria Olazabal Ken Schofield, head of the PGA European Tour, has called for Sweden and the Netherlands to scrap the blacklist and lift their bans on individual South African golfers. G N I K C E m CH fit for nothing but to be cut off and burned in the fire. For “‘he who puts his hands to the plow and looks back is not fit for the kingdom.”’ (Luke 9:62) 3 So this first branch is like a fish out of water. Itt is like a child away branch does not do | .gasoline.. from home=4It-iselike-a-car-withoutThis anything; bears~no-fruit,.is. worthless.and good for nothing. But thanks be to’'God for a second brafich. This second branch is a bearer of fruit. It bears and continues to bear more and richer and more excellent fruit. The Vinedresser encourages this branch to always be at its best. It gets the highest level of attention. The branch is cleansed and repeatedly pruned. While it is already producing and putting out, it will now produce and put out even more. There is fruit here because of the closeness of the branch to the Vine. And more fruit comes with the pruning discipline, the trouble that comes _ with and makes for spiritual strength and fertility. We who are in the tender hands of God can bear more fruit — love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. (Galations 5:22-23) Which branch are you? Are you connected to the True Vine? Are you bearing fruit for the Kingdom? With an Economy Checking Account from West One Bank, you get the convenience of a checking account, without a hassle. | ‘That’s because there are no minimum balance Elsie M. Jones passes away Elsie Marie Jones, 61, passed away requirements to worry about. And no handling fee for compassionate, loving care. the first ten checks you write — every month! 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