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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1954
Page
5
In eight weeks many graduates head to college and start adult life. The piece urges parents and youth to choose good company, heed lessons learned, and bend toward righteousness as they leave home, ending with a Sunday school invitation.
Trinity Sunday will be observed at Trinity Episcopal Church. The choir directed by George Meason with guest organist Dr. Dan Nicholson will perform Buck's Festival Te Deum and Aldridge Benedictus as canticle. Ushers are Trenkmann and Anderson Jr. Acolytes include Mason Dippel Burch and Humphrey. Vestry meets Tuesday at 7:30 pm. Church School choir rehearses Wednesday and regular choir Thursday.
The Highlands Church of Christ schedules Sunday sermons on The Law of Moses and Christ by Ray D Fullerton Sr with focus on love as central to both, and Obedience to Pattern from Romans 6 17. Evening service features Anchors of Faith and a Bible school drive with 163 enrollments.
John Wesley Finn highlighted the North Texas Conference session in Dallas with a film showing. Bishop Charles C. Seleeman received special honors while Bishop Tippett of the Methodist Radio and Film Commission and Rev. Harry Rember offered appreciation. The Joan Wesley film was noted in Life Magazine last week.
Belgrade officials of the Serbian Orthodox Church protested to Yugoslav authorities against using the unfinished St. Sava church shell as a parking lot and repair shop. They said the site is consecrated ground and urged removal of equipment, noting the project was halted by war after starting in 1939. The church, planned as a Balkans’ largest edifice, sits near a sports field on the site of a historic Turkish burning. The church argues the shell could be boarded over and left undefiled until funding or conditions allow resumption.
The Rev. George English will deliver two sermons at Baptist Temple Sunday. The 7:50 p.m. service will be titled Choosing a Bride and the 8:00 p.m. hour will feature Iraux Christ Lord of the Conservence. Music is directed by Barney Webber. Sunday school starts at 4:15 a.m. and Training Union at 7. Vacation Bible School begins Monday at 8:00 a.m. with Mrs. B. O. Reichenan as principal. Ages three to sixteen are invited.
The Rev Clyde Foltz of the First Christian church will preach Sunday morning on Faith Takes Name. Service starts 9 am with church school at 10 am. Next week Mrs Robert Herrington and Mrs Clyde Childars of First Inn join the faculty at a birth camp at Camp Ross Sterlgo this week.
A new organization of Methodist Men at St John's Methodist Church on 7th Street and Alexander Drive has been chartered by the General Board of Lay Activities in Chicago. B. M. Knowles serves as president with Sean Daniels as vice president and Edwin W. Bac cus as secretary treasurer. The Rev. Leon C. Matthias is pastor. The colony aims to help reach a goal of 10,000 clubs by 1886 with over 7,000 already formed. Board executive secretary Robert G. Mayfield says the group will mobilize the church's men to support Christ and the church through consecrated service.
Washington conference sponsored by the General Commission on Chaplaincy charted four major lines to aid American servicemen overseas. Twenty seven clergymen from mission boards and church bodies define problems, survey church resources, adapt mission assets for Americans abroad, and plan coordinating procedures. They named a nine member coordinating committee and an executive group including Dr Luther Gotwald, Dr Willard Wickiter, and Rev Marion Creeger to push the plan.
The Golden Text from Deuteronomy appears in the Christian Science lesson sermon "God the Preserver of Man" to be read Sunday. Nehemiah echoes the forty years of guidance and protection in the Red Sea and wilderness and the Science and Health selection reflects journeying from matter to spirit. A domestic center item notes a behind the scenes visit to a blood center, listing lab supplies.
Seven women who attended the National Conference of Presbyterian Women at Purdue University will speak at the 7 30 p m Sunday service at First Presbyterian church They include Mrs Joe Keating Mrs Chester Rogers Mrs M E McPhail Mrs EO McBride Mrs T B Ball Mrs C L Ewing and Mrs Guy Hensley The Rev M E McPhail will preach at 11 a m Sunday and Sunday school starts 9 30 a m The pastor will leave Monday to attend the South Texas Senior conference at Bastrop A junior high camp will follow at Lost Finer park and a church workers institute is planned June 21 25 at Buffalo Gap
Morning services begin at 8 45 and 4 55 p m at St Marks Methodist Church with Rev Wayne H MacClashkey preaching on Religion and Vacations The second Sunday choir will lead early service and night service with James H L Martin directing and Riel Clarke as organist Chap el choir directed by H Bruce Day sings at the second morning service Beside Still Waters by Hatchlen is the anthem Mra CG Ro Martin plays the organ Night service starts at 7 p m and the pastor will speak on The Story of John Wesley in preparation for next Sunday's John Wesley film showing
A confirmation service is scheduled Sunday at Redeemer Lutheran Church beginning at 9 am. Catechumens will testify to their faith and pledge loyalty to Christ. Pastor Rev. Lang will speak on Continue In The Faith. Sunday school follows at 9:20 am with Ben Dev presiding. This is The Life telecast on KPRO TV Sundays at 6:30 am. Lutheran Hour airs Sundays on KTHT at 12:40 pm.
Rev J D Cook of Bethany Oklahoma will preach at the 11 a m Sunday service at the Albright Drive Church of the Nazarene. In the evening, Rev E L Stewart will preach and prayer meetings are set for 7 45 p m Tuesday with the regular service scheduled for 7 40 p m.
The Rev Dennis Barnes returns to the pulpit at First Baptist Highlands after a one week absence attending the Southern Baptist Convention in St Louis Missouri The morning service at 11 begins with the sermon God's Orders for Us Forward and the afternoon sermon Faith Working Through Love in the program
Rev Albert F Trekker reported to the North Texas Conference that sobriety forces won all efforts this year Over half a million school pupils reached through the educational program 142 dry counties 20 counties legally wet and 73 North Texas churches contributed about 4900 past year Fut vial was more than three cents per member for the Conference
The Rev M W Jordan will preach at Grace Methodist Church in Grace. service details, special music by Janie Tarburton, and youth and junior choir activities are listed. The night service will feature Tom Fydan as preacher. Official Board meets Monday.
Berlin clergymen face a ban on signing political petitions after Bishop Otto Vibellous told Premier Otto Grotewohl such signatures are obtained improperly. An incident at a new church ceremony in Schlersdorf involved two Communist members forcing a sign on a Peace Appeal. Bishop Dibelius signed unintentionally to restore order, later described as signing to end disturbances rather than endorsing the petition.
The Baptist General Convention of Texas approved an eight and a half million dollar mission budget for 1054455 and authorized a $250,000 building fund for Decatur Baptist College plus a $300,000 dormitory loan for San Marcos Baptist Academy. Half the funds support state missions and educational institutions. the rest fund world mission causes through the Southern Baptist Convention.
Dr B James of Vernon elected editor of the Baptist Standard denominational paper in Dallas. He will succeed Dr David M Gardner who retires in November after leading the paper since 1944 with circulation growth to 280000. James will move to Dallas with Mrs James in September.
In St Paul Lutheran church the Festival of the Holy Trine is observed at 8 40 a m. The Rev Karl Bencker will deliver a sermon titled The Triune God At Work Mrs A Broderson will play the organ and Jack Phennig will serve an agalyte The church choir will meet at 9 30 a m under R F Plennig Mrs W G Muttke will end the kindergarten department The elder will teach the Adult class The pew graph will study the canon God Calls Abraham Later in the day at 7 p m the Brotherhood will sponsor a Father Son banquet Rev Clyde Foltz of First Christian church will be the speaker
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