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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1950
Page
2
Rev Grimes will deliver a sermon titled Growing Up to young people at 11 a.m. Sunday as Youth Week closes. Youth group representatives will lead the service. A 7:30 p.m. continuation on The Scope of Prayer will follow. Through February members read The Book of Acts daily.
Dr William Warren Sweet, longtime historian of American Christianity and current Perkins School of Theology chair, will preach at the University Methodist Church Sunday at 11 am. The choir led by Dr Archibald Jones will sing classical anthems and organ selections, followed by a union service with other Methodists at First Methodist Church at 7:30 pm.
The sermon topic at Tarrytown Methodist Church Sunday morning will be The Worship Which God Requires by the Rev. Ted Richardson. The night service will be dismissed for the combined Methodist meeting at the First Methodist Church.
A new Presbyterian Church will be organized Sunday afternoon at the Robert E. Lee School auditorium on Hampton Road. The Wilshire Boulevard Presbyterian Church will meet under Rev. David M. Currie, with Rev. John Mueller presiding at 3 p.m. The building site at Wilshire Boulevard and Shieffer Avenue was bought by First Southern Presbyterian Church. Until the church is built, services continue Sundays at the school under Dr. W. F. O'Kelley.
The Ward Memorial Methodist Church will serve the Lord's Supper Sunday morning and evening. The Rev John K Beery will preside assisted by John H Strickland. Morning message titled The Wonders of Redeeming Love. Evening message by Rev R L McIntyre.
The Rev. W. A. Flackmeier, director of parish education in the Texas District of the American Lutheran Church, will speak at St. John’s Lutheran Church Sunday at 10 45 a m on How To Become a Better Christian. He will also address the Sunday School on Ladder of Progress. Sunday adult Bible class at 9 30 a m led by Leslie Schulz will study The First Gentile Church.
Hyde Park Christian Church marks Youth Sunday with youth participation and a sermon by Rev. Archie K. Stevenson on Youth's Place in Building the Christian Home. The Church Life Institute continues with six classes at 6 p.m. and a Bible study class at 7 p.m. on the Book of Acts. Sixty-one students enrolled, others may join and receive course credit.
R B Sweet, minister of University Avenue Church of Christ, will preach at Methodist Church Sunday at 10 30 am on Content with Mediocrity. Handel anthem by the choir. Evening service at 7 30 pm unites with city Methodist Churches. Walton Minchew in charge.
Govalle hosts a Fisherman’s Club dinner Friday at Govalle Methodist Church with the Stamps Friendly City Quartet as featured guests. Rev. Howard Pitts will speak on Visiting. The new steering committee members are Fred C Watts W H Green and M W Anderson. Reservations available through them. Sunday morning the communion sermon will be by Rev. George J Evans retired Texas Conference minister. Sunday evening Govalle joins others to hear Governor Allan Shivers at First Methodist Church at 7 30 p m.
Giddings high school seniors will sponsor a Valentine Coronation on February 13 at 7 30 p m in the high school gym. The brief event announces a local school activity with students organizing the ceremony.
District court filings list divorce suits and injunctions across multiple districts with names such as Carrion Gua jardo Munson Gray Bozarth Johnson Harp Vallejo Aguilar Schiller and others. Marriage licenses released for Watrous Brooks Nelson Fernandez Rector Harris Billings Frazier and Stern. Building permits issued include numerous frame residences and commercial alterations in East Fifth Bellaire Avenue Payne Avenue Winsted Lane and other streets with totals approaching hundreds of thousands.
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