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2 CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE / JUNE 1989
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go on a trip, and they laugh when I say I have
to stay home to work,” she said.
A member of the Oakland Church of
Christ in Southfield, a Detroit suburb, Cobb
works with choral groups as a clinician. She
offers a Gospel Song of the Month club, sheet
music and recordings of her compositions.
Cobb has also written a handbook for
church choral directors and recorded a series
of motivational cassettes for choral per
formers. Although much of her work has
been among churches of Christ, she also has
written some secular music and occasional
ly works with church choirs.
A minister's daughter who grew up in
Detroit, she is one of 12 children. She later
went to Harding University, Searcy, Ark.,
where she was a musical revue emcee.
“She gave enjoyable performances, got
along well with everyone and was a good stu
dent. Later, she brought a choral group here.
SCARLETT
BOWEN
and it was obvious they responded well
and she knew her business,” said Dr.
Moore, the now-retired chairman of Hatd^
music department.
A graduate of Southwestern Christ tan Q
lege, Terrell, Texas, and Harding Univoi
Cobb worked at Southwestern as director)
the college’s chorus. She also taught i
Luckett Christian Academy in Warren. Md
Although Cobb loves her work, she rein
tantly acknowledges a few thorny probits
"ftople tend to think it’s an honor lor met
have my work photocopied. It’s not inabdol
They just don’t realize it keeps me strug
ing to support myself.” she said
But she is tenacious about writing gag
songs. “I guess I’m more of a traditional)
I think the message is most important If|
rhythm and music camouflage the wo«j
then you’ve lost something,” said ( obb.«|
believes popular groups such as Take 6 ha
helped to mainstream a cappella music
“ftypular music with religious words aJ
fensive to me, though. It’s not enough ■
to be commercial or entertaining.' she a
“I believe in music, especially relipa
music, because I see the importance md
plays in the average person’s life I wishm
writers would return to the message of wa
God can do in your life -to the power of hod
she said.
Some ministers object to choral mia
because they claim it requires so much pi
lice time that choral members don't haven
for evangelism or teaching.
But Cobb sees music’s potential Musa
churches is important, especially in the bn
churches, and congregational singing caw
so many things in a worship service, ha
edify, uplift or assist in converting It isn't ■
coincidental that Billy Graham uses Jud
I Am to close with. There is somethingahd
that song, the way it’s written, what it 4
something really persuasive.” she said
Cobb's enthusiasm for the minsitrn
music makes it clear she intends to bed
energetic, prolific force in contempaa
church music. — r. scon iamajcI
SILVIA ROSE COBB
... professional composer
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PARTNERS 16
Pepperdine offers master’s of divinity
Colleges honored by Templeton
129-JULY 3_____
Eual Conference
L-The Westbury Church of
L fourth annual Gulf Coast B
L for individuals and congre
jin ministries among Spanish sj
6d speakers are J. Eligio Gc
Fity, Juan C arlos Bautista,
d Liberate Ovalle, Chiapas
^speakers include Harland 0
C Texas and Larry White
White. Oklahoma City, an
ttleton.C olo . are scheduled u
niger will make a theatrical pi
ed “Gtxl Views,” and the Ac
nd will also perform.
Icampusot < Jklahoma C host t
genesis program offers young
experience in ( hristian evang
Idren and the elderly.
J5£
I Northwest Works
k Wash—The 11th annual
It Evangelism Workshop will
I Pacific Iuthcran Universi
rHallelujah. What a Savior.'
jespeakers are Max Uicado. J
as: Marvin Phillips. Tulsa. Ok
dahbu. ( alif. Jeff Walling,
ill Ronnie White. Oklahon
ierson. Abilene. Texas, and I
>dll.is hentv eight other spe.
day program will include
y.Claudette Jones. Jim and 1
Ben Merciless and Melvin
AWARDED: The Congressional Award to
Scarlett Bowen, a member of the Fairfax. Va.
church of Christ. She
received the award, the
highest youth service
honor in the United States,
for her voluntary work at
a local hospital and as a
camp counselor.
DIED: Dr. Luigi Lisi,
minister of the Berkeley.
Calif., Church of Christ,
was accidently killed while boating alone in Ita
ly. May 3rd. He was vacationing with his wife.
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COVER NEWS 1
Diana singing celebrates 20 years
Churches begin home meetings
Malawi government donates land
Pitcher, 81, leads church team
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nferencc is designed to accom
its of all ages. Special activiti
ual Bible bowl, religious movie
s are planned.
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Bis ’89
)MA ( IT V -Genesis '89. a p
wgh 12th grade students, wil
ie theme "We Don’t Need /
Evangelina Settembrini Lisi, on Lake
Prassimeno, in the Province of Umbria, Italy. •
Lisi attended the School of Biblical Studies of
Milano, and the School for Preachers al
Frankfort. After establishing a strong church
in Trieste, Italy, he moved to the United States.
Dr. Carl Mitchell, director of ftpperdine
University at Florence, Italy, officiated at the
funeral at ftssignano sud Progemeno, Italy,
where Lisi was buried.
HIRED: Roger E. Massey, 45 as minister of
the Grand Central Avenue Church of Christ
in Vienna, WV. The congregation also recent-
ly installed ten additional deacons who join
other deacons serving under five elders.
RED: Dan Anders with the 2(
Ptian's 1989 C hristian Joe
piers, minister for the Maltbt
fChriM. preached for sixteen
Rfore going to California in I
pisl board member of 20r/i
•nd Restoration Quarterly, J
p^vr/or Today. Image, and ]
RATULATions. to Christy I
r® place in the elementary di]
^*na Fair at Florida
Apnl 28 She is a member of
^Church of Christ, Taml
mED: Dav id Wade as editor J
“May He replaces Flavil Nicn
[ preaches for the Sixthl
Tasper. Miss., which overseel
Don Seat as elder fori
*( hurch of Christ in Valdol
* joins four other elders. 1
G-P Holt, Sr., minister I
church. Indianapolis]
and retirement program I
*rved 30 years with the J
June 30 He suffered a 1
J*1* Dr C Philip Slatel
T1 Graduate School of rJ
' k™1 effective July | Slatel
Cobb writes gospel music, drama
REDFORD, Mich —When Silvia Rose Cobb
sits at the piano to compose a song, she may
take her inspiration from a Bible verse, her
own emotions, or a conversation she
overheard.
Little things inspire Cobb to the clear, pro-
found and simple thought she believes make
a song appeal to audiences and performers
alike Sometimes her husband, Lanza, comes
home from work with a meaningful phrase
or thought scribbled on a scrap of paper.
At other times, the dramatic also inspires.
When she was researching the civil rights
movement last year, she saw a photo of Jac-
queline Kennedy and Coretta King holding
hands as they mourned the tragic death of
civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
The photographic image was the inspira-
tion for The Strength to Love. That song has
come to be one of Cobb’s favorite moments
from Long Live the Dream, her musical
drama that debuted early this year to pack-
ed houses in Detroit and Toledo, Ohio.
After a 15 year career as a college choral
director and songwriter, Cobb said at first she
felt “over her head" directing a 25-actor pro
duction backed by $40,000 in corporate and
private sponsorship. But when 3,600 paid to
see the show, Cobb said she began to have
dreams of launching the production in an off
Broadway show.
Despite the success of Long Live the
Dream Cobb believes she is still primarily a
songwriter who wants to give listeners hope.
Among her efforts as an encourager is Songs
of Faith, now in its fourth printing. It is a
50 song collection of what Cobb calls “gospel
songs,” of which she has written about 160.
How to characterize her work is an on
going dilemma, says the 35-year-old Detroit
native. Her songs are based on Negro
spirituals, she admits. But she tries to keep
the lyrics and moods contemporary and
varied. Her husband teases her about writing
the “Christian blues."
Cobb's status as a gospel song writer is even
a problem, she said. “Fteople disregard what
song writers do as work. They want me to
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Publisher. JAMES Q BAIRD
Editor. HOWARD W NORTON
Managing Editor. JOY L. MCMILLON
Staff Writer, R. SCOTT LAMARCUS
AdvartMag Managar, CYNTHIA R FLETCHER
Production Specialist. UNDA PARKER
Madia Editor. DARRYL TIPPEM
laaras, TRISHA SHOWN. DAVID HARTMAN
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CONGRATULATIONS: To Rodn
as one of the nine members of the
School Academic Decath
Ion learn that won the Na
tional Championship. He
met with former President
Ronald Reagan and ap
peared on “The Tbnight
Show" May 5. He also met
with California Governor
Deukmejian. ( rump is a RODNflH
member of the church in Van Nuyv
HONORED: Dr. Joseph I Pryor*
commencement ceremonies at Hardin)1
sity when President David Burks and
the naming of the university's setencel
as “the Joseph E. Pryor Science Gen*
retired in 1983 as the university’s
and vice president for academic
retired this year from teaching
SELECTED: David VsnlandingM
Dieto, CaHf., as “Alumnus of the ¥*
Preston Road Center tor Christian *
in Dates. Mintandinghsm has pread*
Pacific teach Church o(Christ sincel*
tea 1974 graduate of the School of J
INSTALLED: Ebner Copeland. W
zareechi, Ken Merritt as elders of the’
Church of Christ in Stockton. CaM
APPOINTED: Dick Case as the new direc
tor of the Bear \falley School of Biblical Studies,
effective August I, 1989.
Formerly the personal
evangelism director at
Memorial Church of
Christ. Houston. Texas, he
succeeds Warren Wilcox.
Wilcox will continue as in-
structor and academic
dean. DICK CASE
FURLOUGHED: The Ron Holland family
from the Philippines for one year. The Hollands
will be recruiting additional workers. Their
sponsorship is being picked up by the Oakridge
North church, Spring, Tfexas.
HONORED: Kent Watson as Rookie
Fireman of the War by the Abilene, Texas fire
department. Watson is a member of the
Southern Hills Church of Christ.
INSTALLED: Barry Kirk, James May and
George McNeal as the first elders of the Com
munity Church, Union City, Ibnn. The con
gregation was established October 9, 1988.
CONGRATULATIONS: Bessie tell Melton
of the Shady Acres church, Hotnton, Ifexas, on
her 100th birthday, May 27.
INSTALLED: Thomas W. Nabors as elder
for the church of Christ in Columbus, Miss.
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