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The deacon and deaconess ministries of Mount Zion Bap­ tist Church will celebrate their first annual Service of Cel­ ebration 4 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. Joseph B. Parks,

pastor of Zion Hill Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, will speak. He will be accompanied by his choir, ushers and con­ gregation. Parks, former pastor of

Yadkin Grove Baptist Church, Salisbury, was recently elected statistician for the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Inc. He has been appointed special assis­ tant to Dr. Henry J. Lyons, president of the National Bap­ tist Convention USA Inc. Garry Robinson is chairman

of the deacon ministry. His wife, Mary G. Robinson, is the chair of the deaconess minis­ try. The Rev. Nilous M. Avery II, is pastor of Mount Zion, 413 N. Church St.

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- -~'\\ • Pastor charged with rape ~ Joseph Butler Parks was arrested yes­

terday and chargea' with second-degree rape in an incident involving a woman in his church congregation. Capt. Joe Tuttle of the Forsyth County

Sheriffs Department said that Parks, 31, of 5325 Wanda Vista Court, turned him­ self in yesterday morning. Parks has been the pastor of Zion Hill

Missionary Baptist Church on Greenway Avenue for about 13 months. He is accused of sexually assaulting

Alma Hairston, 2 7, at his house in Pfaff­ town on Jan. 2. Hairston said that Parks had asked her

to bring some cough medicine to the house for his son because he did not want to leave his son home alone, detec­ tives said. A bond of $81,000 was set for Parks,

but court papers say that the district attorney's office "consents to an unse­ cured bond condition." Under an unse­ cured bond, Parks does not have to pEt up a 1y money to get out of jail but ~

~/ cble for the a~unt if he does not ap- } \ ~;:U. in court.

Parks is also ordered not to contact Hairston, according to court papers. Detectives also served two criminal

summons for worthless checks from 1989 and 1993 and an order for arrest J ~a probation violation. ~

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Fugitive - profiled on America's Most Wanted - was captured Sunday in Nashville

Captured man could be in N.C. by week's end By Cindy Roberts JOURNAL NORTHWEST BUREAU

WILKESBORO Ricky Allen Bright, a fugitive who was captured

Sunday in Nashville, Tenn., after being featured on a segment of America's Most Wanted, could be back in North Carolina by the end of the week. Sheriff Dane Mastin of Wilkes County said that

Bright is scheduled to be arraigned as early as Thurs­ day in Charlotte on federal charges of unlawful flight to . .

in an October attack on a 9-year-old girl from the Bright had lived on the other side of Carrico last "When I first talked to him, he made out to be a Hayes community. summer and fall, authorities say. church-going person and a preacher," Waddell said. Bright, 41, had been charged with being a fugitive Authorities suspect that Bright, whose address was "To me, he deserves the death penalty," she said.

Oct. 12. listed on warrants as Charleston, W.Va., drove the girl Like many other residents of the Hayes community, Rita Freeman Taylor, the mother of the girl, said she to an area near Charleston before assaulting her. The Waddell said she was relieved to hear that Bright had

cried when she saw Bright in the custody of federal girl was later found back near her family's mobile been captured. Bright was placed on the FBI's most- marshals on television yesterday. home about 2 p.m. the same day that she was taken. wanted list last month. "I'm glad he's captured," she said. "I just hope we Taylor said, "I would wish for the death penalty, but The television show America's Most Wanted had

find justice." what he did to my daughter can't be made right." filmed a segment on Bright shortly after he was Bright is accused of breaking in through a window of Taylor, who has now moved her family to Morganton, charged with being a fugitive.

· ome where the · 1 was stavin and kidnap- said, "I'll do everything I can to make sure that justice Ken Walsh a · ........ 1111111 .

The Rev. Joseph Butler Parks of Winston-Salem has assumed duties as pastor of Yadkin Grove Mission­ ary Baptist Church, Leonard Road.

A Forysth County native, he is the son of Mary Lee Parks of Winston­ Salem and the late Joseph But­ ler Sanders. He J is married to & the former Parks Evelyn Elaine Fielder of Bastrop La. He is a graduate of the Univer

sity of North Carolina at Charlott with a degree in religious studie and psychology; of Piedmont Bibi College, Winston-Salem, with a degree in church doctrine and Ne Testament; and Fleetwood In. stitute of St. Mary's University, Baltimore, Md., with a degree in Christian leadership and church polity.

A former member of Union Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, he has been associate minister of Union and Galilee Baptist, Winston-Salem and First Baptist of Statesville. He is a member of several

groups, including the General Bap­ tist State Convention, of which he was past president of its usher convention; the Progressive Na­ tional Baptist Convention; the National Baptist Convention of U.S.A. Inc.; and Lott Carey Foreign Missionary Convention. He is also a member· of the

Rowan and Guilford Baptist As­ sociations; the Ministers Inter­ denominational Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity; and the Baptist Ministers Conference of Winston-Salem. He is coordinator of Forsyth

Mental Hospital, on the board of .directors of Twin City Little League and is a sponsor of the Forsyth Mets Baseball Team. He is the founder of the Winston­

Salem/Fors yth County Youth Council and in 1980 served on the sub-committee of the Winston­ Salem Public Safety Council. He is a member of the North

Carolina Juvenile Law Study Com­ mission; the Housing Authority, City of Winston-Salem Drug Task Reinforcement Program; and a member of the North Carolina Long-Term Care Association. He was listed in "Who's Who in

America" in 1986. He is employed as the adminis­

trator for Forsyth Village Long­ Term Care Center in Winston­ Salem.

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The pastor of Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem was charged yesterday with raping a woman in Virginia, six months after he was released from jail after his arrest on charges that he raped a woman in Forsyth County. Detectives arrested Joseph But­

ler Parks Jr., 32, at~urch about 3:20 p.m. yesterday. He was in the Forsyth County Jail last night with no bond allowed. Investigators in Forsyth County Fire/Police

charged Parks with second-de- Briefs I gree rape six months ago. A mag­ istrate set bond at $81,000, but the district attorney's office agreed to let Parks out of jail without bond. Three months later, investigators say, Parks raped a

woman in Henrico County, Va., outside Richmond. Detectives from Forsyth County, Virginia and mem­ bers of the Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested Parks l yesterday. Assistant Sheriff Joe Tuttle, who supervises detec­

tives, said that he was not aware that Parks was allowed out of jail after a magistrate set his bond at $81,000. ( "It doesn't appear that it was the right thing to do,"

he said. ~J. "Rob" Lang, an assistant distri& attorney, said)

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