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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1954
Page
5
A playful spoof asserts a mysterious salesman arrives in the city delivering pep and a warning to alibi makers. The speaker imagines a soothsayer advising the hustler who rises early, wears purple and linen, and wins with Inspiration and Perspiration. A quip ends with a Sunday school call.
Highlands Church of Christ honored its four elders with an ice cream and cake supper on the church lawn. Gifts of two books for the men and crystal and milk glass for their wives were presented by deacons Burton Doran and James Moore. The church is served by minister Ray Fullerton Jr and elders Charles Hallingsworth, J Edward Kelley, Ray Kelley and C R Wolfe. Sermon topics for Sunday include The Mission of The Church and The Honest Gentile. Plans for the new auditorium opening around August 1 are under way with S A Freeman to conduct the first evangelistic meeting in the new building.
St. Mark's Metholete will hold two morning services Sunday at 8 45 and 10 55 a.m. Reverend Wayne McClesky will preach on Keeping A Focus On God. Chancel choir and Junior choir will perform pieces, and an evening service at 7 00 p.m. features old time hymns, special music, and a topic The Great Grace Of God.
The Rev. M. Jordan will preach at Grace Methodist church Sunday morning with the subject When Faith Is Dim. Services begin 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. Special music by Bennie Middaugh. The 10:45 a.m. service is broadcast on station KREL. Church School starts 9:45 a.m. Youth Fellowships meet at 6:36 p.m. An evening service follows at 7:30 p.m.
Rev George J Englist selects Christ like Consideration for the 10 80 am service at Baptist Temple Sunday A 2nd service at 2 pm will show a film Their Future Is Yours A message The Conditions of Salvation will be delivered by the pastor The baptism ordinance will be administered after the service Music directed by Barney Webber Sunday School begins at 9 45 am Training Union at 7 pm The zipper was invented about 1895.
The Rev M E McPhail resumes duties at First Presbyterian Sunday vow after a week at a Buffalo Gap Church Workers Institute. Morning service features Morgan anthem directed by T F Seale and organ by Mrs Mary Pennington. Junior Westminster Fellowship at 6 pm. Prayer hour Wednesday at 8 30 am. Choir rehearsal 8 pm Wednesday. Vacation church school runs July 12 to 23 from 8 30 to 11 am with four departments including kindergarten Ferrary junior and junior high. Youth choir planned pending interest. Seale Hug to conduct on trial Sundays nights July August. seniors and junior high may join.
Central Baptist Church designates Sunday as Youth Day with services run entirely by church youth and guest participants. Tommy Kimball, a ministerial student, presides in the pastor’s absence as Rev. John Osteen conducts a Hemstead revival. Ralph McPheeters preaches at morning and directs night music, with Charlie Tatum of Enchino Baptist Church as guest. University of Corpus Christi day features special recognition and a Girls chorus provides special music for the night service. Services start 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Baytown's delegates to Girl's State Patricia Ann Ussery Delores LaVerne Bryan Martha Lee Hodges and Hima Carol Jones may seek public office in the future after a talk by Attorney General John Ben Sheppard At the Governor's Inaugural banquet he told the 328 delegates that they are better qualified and more likely than any prior generation of women to fill government offices The event took place during Bluchonnet Girls State in Austin this week.
Morning worship at St Paul Lutheran Church begins 8 30 am with Rev Karl H Bracker delivering A True Disciple sermon. Mrs W B Killough at the organ and John Wayne Meek as acolyte. Church school at 9 30 am studies Abraham is Good to His Neighbors. E C Winegartner opens the dévodrama for Junior and Senior departments. Mrs A A Holle leads Kindergarten. Pastor teaches Adult class.
The Youth choir performs Great Is Thy Faithfulness at 8:30 a.m. and the Sanctuary choir The Temple of the Living God at 11:00 a.m. Rev A L Jordan preaches both services on Jesus Presented. The KRCT broadcast begins 12:10 p.m. with Let Your Light Shine as the 2 p.m. sermon. Sunday school starts 9:30 a.m. and Training Union 6:45 p.m.
A church service this Sunday will explore Christian Science as taught by Mary Baker Eddy. The lesson cites Bible passages and Eddy's work to illustrate healed sickness and the divine Principle, noting Jesus’ healing and the Bible as sole authority for Christian Science practice.
The Redeemer Lutheran church will host a Sunday morning service at 8:00 with Rev. E F Lange delivering God's description of the Early Christian Church. Mrs C Brodergen plays organ, L L Deen is head usher, and Sunday school and Bible classes meet at 9:30 led by Ben Devereux. Lifes telecast airs Sundays on KPRC TY at 11.
Pastor Paul Stephens of Second Baptist outlines two Sunday sermons titled Faith For The Atomic Age and Power We Need In The Atomic Age Both messages will be at the church morning and evening with a 8 30 PM radio broadcast on KRCT The Bible school closed Wednesday with 304 unsettled and an average attendance of 252
The Rev. Dennis Barnes will preach at First Baptist Highlands morning message titled Faith That Makes Devils Tremble and evening sermon Divine Rescue. Fifteen youths and three adults depart Monday for the San Jacinto Association Youth camp at Pineywoods camp near Carrigan.
Memorial Assembly of God in Cedar Bayou hosts a two week revival starting Sunday with Evangelist Charles Davis as guest preacher. Mrs Davis to sing and assist with musical numbers. Rev Davis recently left the Laredo Assembly of God. Pastor J R Woods says nightly services begin 7 45 p m except Saturdays, with Sunday School at 640 a m worship at 11 a m and Young People's service at 645 a m. Also Nazarene Church preacher Rev E T Stewart will speak Sunday morning on If Christ Had Not Come.
Rural church workers from across Texas attend the ninth annual Rural Church conference at Texas A and M College Station June 29 to July 1. Dr Daniel Russell leads arrangements for the event under the Department of Agricultural Economics and Sociology with support from state agencies and private groups.
Wooster Baptist church is highlighted in a Tim- Pyress magazine spread by Timber Structures Inc Portland Ore. The article notes Baytown Texas refinery workers aided the church’s construction with laminated arches built in Portland and shipped to Baytown. Six large photos show men at work on the arch braces and the crew is led by Vic Carter of Houston.
The Rev Thomas T H Neal a seasoned Assemblies of God minister has accepted the pastorate of West Main Assembly in Baytown Texas Bringing 25 years in ministry he previously led churches in Houston Beaumont and Breckenridge He built two churches in Beaumont and led revivals including large healing campaigns He is a graduate of Southwestern Bible College and has worked with Voice of Healing Services start at 7 48 pm nightly with daily services except Saturday.
The Rev Br Couch will present The Chela yuats Philosophy and The Simplicity of The Christianity as sermon topics at the Sunday evening service at First Baptist Church at 7:38 p m Miss Pat McGuire will sing at the morning service and the choir directed by Warde Pa Boxe will perform In The Hour Of Trial at the night service Sunday school starts at 9 245 am and Training Union at 5 30 am
Rev Clyde Foltz will speak on If You Are Carnatians at 9 am Sunday service at First Christian Church. Sunday School for all ages at 10 am. Youth group meets 4 pm at the church for a swimming party at Roseland Park. Evening service at 6 30 pm.
Committees have been named to lead a youth revival at Wooster Baptist Church on July 17 under Baptist Youth oversight. Janet Revers and Jimmy Crawford head the final planning group with Mary Atta Yount, Mac Hargrove, Priscilla Myers, Shelby Zimmerma, Bobby Craig, Wands Price, Elnio and Floyd Lancaster, plus other chairpersons and ushers. Hugh Meredith of Oklahoma Baptist University and Southwestern Seminary will preach. The Baytown Singing Convention meets Sunday at Second Baptist Chan nelview, with the revival climax featuring Burl Caretor, The Melody, and the Lee Baler quartet from Houston.
Holy Communion to be celebrated at Trinity Episcopal Church Sunday morning with Rev P Walter Hetckell as celebrant and B E Wilson assisting. Church school and Bible class meet at 9 30 am. Choir directed by George Meason will sing Love Divine during offertory.
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