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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1950
Page
4
A condensed list of church services and schedules across Austin presented in a weekly community guide. It highlights locations such as Oak and North Drive churches, Trinity and First Baptist, and notes service times for Sunday and midweek events.
The University Methodist Church plans a 7 30 p m Sunday choral worship featuring a 50 voice choir and soloists performing Bethlehem a Christmas cantata by J H Maunder The program includes shepherds gifts kings gifts and a final call to self giving with Dr Archie N Jones directing soloists listed and accompanying music by Eldon Sutton invocation by Rev Robert Ledbetter and readings by Dr Edmund Heinsohn The 11 a m service features The Prince of Peace with Heinsohn sermon and choir pieces including Hail Glanding Noel Basque and To Us a Child Is Born
Rev Sidney Hawkins will preach on Strange Christmas Mixtures at South Austin Christian Church Sunday at 11. Charles Bludworth will sing Arise Shine for Thy Light Is Come. Children perform a Christmas program Sunday at 7 30 pm with treats and a fellowship party to follow. White gifts and cash are asked for the Juliette Fowler Home Dallas.
The Rev. Earl Martin will speak at 10 50 a m on Our World Before Christmas during the St Johns Methodist Church service. At 7 p m he will discuss The Prince of Peace followed by an hour of fellowship and refreshments.
Dr. John Barclay will deliver a 10:55 a m sermon on The Word Became Flesh at Central Christian Church Sunday. Special music includes a duet by Mrs Weldon B Scheel and Mrs James R McRill singing The Virgin by the Manger Franck and the choir anthem I Wonder As I Wander with Scheel as soloist.
The Rev Arthur E Graf will preach at 11 am on The Kingdom of God at Trinity Lutheran Church. A 7 30 pm sermon titled The Advent Message of a Great Preacher follows. Pledge Sunday will receive and dedicate all pledges for the new church building and current 1951 expenses.
Shettles Methodist Church presents a Christmas story pageant Sunday at 7 30 p m featuring a music driven service under Bill Reynolds and Mrs Bill Reynolds with a manger scene narrator Worth Brown and a choir led by the pastor delivering the Christmas message.
Rev Calvin W Froehner of Asbury Methodist Church will speak on Not Reproof But Love at 11 am Sunday with Mrs H A Cartier as pianist. Evening worship at 7 features favorite gospel hymns and a devotional. sermon Lost And Not Missed. Friday hosts annual Christmas carols and a children's division program.
Manchaca and Creedmoor plan Christmas services with Rev John K Beery speaking at Manchaca on The First Christmas on Earth and The How of Saving the World. Joe Young to lead the Cedar Creek morning message. A Christmas tree and program are set for Thursday at Manchaca and Friday at Creedmoor.
A bakery ad lists items including French rolls, orange rolls, orange coconut cake, and 2 layer cake in an eight inch size. Prices shown include 29 cents per dozen and 27 cents per dozen for some items.
The Austin Gospel Tabernacle choir will present the Christmas cantata From the Cradle to the Cross on Sunday at 7 30 p m at the church located at 701 Trinity.
The First Southern Presbyterian Church choir under Dr. Flynn V. Long will present a Christmas program Sunday at 8 p.m. in the Eighth and Brazos sanctuary. The evening features the Fred Waring cantata The Song of Christmas with solos, a male quartet, choir hymns, and an organ accompaniment, culminating in the cantata and Scripture reading.
The Rev. R. L. McIntyre, 84 year old retired Southwest Texas Conference minister, will preach the morning sermon at Trinity Methodist Church Sunday marking the church's fourth anniversary. A charter member, he will add honor to the occasion. He previously pastored St. John and Trinity churches and led a summer revival at Cristobal.
The Rev. James P. McCrary will preach a pre Christmas sermon Sunday at 11 am in the Robert E Lee School Auditorium. His topic is How Far Is It To Bethlehem with musical selections Mendelssohn Hark the Herald Angels Sing Adeste Fideles and O Little Town of Bethlehem.
Dr. Lewis P. Speker will deliver a morning sermon on Getting Into the Light as the third Sunday in Advent is celebrated at First English Lutheran Church. Miss Gladys Day leads the senior choir in Handel's And the Glory of the Lord. children will be presented for baptism at the service’s close.
Two choirs from First Baptist and Central Christian Churches unite for a 70 voice performance of Handel Messiah in First Baptist Church sanctuary. Soloists Grace Watkins Lottie Hancock Hank George Moody and Fletcher provide featured aria pieces as in last Sunday's joint concert.
The Rev John Mueller continues his Christmas series at Hyde Park Presbyterian Church with a morning service at 11. The event features organist Mrs Jack Lenhart the choir directed by Mrs B E Smith and special music including works by Humperdinck Brahms Nolte Mendelssohn and Engelmann. Evening session at 7 30 p m covers Should Evil Lives Be Spared with liturgical readings and the Youth Choir led by Dewey Crowder Jr will perform The Holy City. A Sunday School Christmas tree service follows at 7 30 p m with Darby Hammond in charge and Margaret Bell set to sing soclo.
Hyde Park Christian Church choir with First Street Christian Church joins to present The Heavenly Child, a Bernard Hamblin cantata, at 7 30 p m. Soloists include Hutton Gough and several members. Intermediate Sunday School depicts Living Pictures. Rev Archie K Stevenson will preach Keeping Christmas at Home at the 10 50 a m service with Mrs A T McFadden singing.
Dr. Tom W. Brabham pastor of Central Methodist Church will lead a Sunday service themed Walking With God. Mrs Fane Anderson directs morning anthem Almighty and Everlasting God with Joyce Gilstrap as organist performing Prelude A Christmas Carol So How a Rose Eer Blooming and Postlude From Heaven Above to Earth I Come. The choir will direct evening services and the Christmas musical message.
The First Church of Nazarene unveils its new West 30th and University Avenue campus at 10:45 am with Pastor J Erleen Moore Jr leading the morning service. R P Stamnitz directs congregational singing, Eleanor Mann oversees special music, L T Gaddy directs the Sunday School Christmas program at 7:45 pm, and the cost of the building reached $45,000 funded by L E DuPuy of Austin as general contractor with many members donating labor. The facility includes a main auditorium, two Sunday School auditoriums, 15 classrooms, two baths, a kitchen, and a pastor’s study.
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