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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1954
Page
5
A reflective piece recounts the Nativity lodging rejection and urges focusing on the Christ of Christmas. It laments festive greed, urges gratitude toward God, and calls for sharing and giving as the holiday spirit.
Memorial Baptist church hosts morning services with two choirs from the Training Union Convention in Coring Christi. The Youth choir performs I Saw The Master and One God, broadcast on KRCT. Intermediate choir performs Jacob's Ladder. The pastor’s messages cover The Mission Of The Church and The Supreme Ideal. Sunday school at 9:30 am and Training Union at 6:35 pm under H H Barren. choirs directed by Fred Parker with accompanists Miss Martyn Gildect and Douglas Hamill.
The Redeemer Lutheran church will host a Sunday morning service at 10 45 with Rev B F Lange delivering Willingness An Essential of Christian Stewardship. Mrs C Broderson plays organ, ushers are L J Deen and H Choleher, Sunday school and Bible classes start at 9 40, Ben Devereux Jr conducts devotional, junior Bible class led by Fred Clark, adult class by the pastor. Voters Assembly led by A C Kraft meets at 7 20 p m Wednesday. Canvass committee to meet at 7 20 p m Thursday.
An all girl accordion choir from Houston will present a gospel music program at 7120 Tim on Sunday. The service at Second Baptist Church features a sermon titled Proofs Of The New Birth by Rev. Paul Stephens who will also preach at the 8:30 and 10:50 a.m. services.
The Advent observance by Trinity Episcopal Church will be held on the first Sunday in Advent with the Rev. P. Waller Henekell celebrant and Dr. C. J. Dolph as epistoler. A breakfast for men follows service. Various church groups schedule classes, services, and a second session of Confirmation Instructions, with coffee time hosted and youth activities announced.
The Rev Elza Love of Cedar Bayou Methodist Church will preach A Penny For Your Thoughts Sunday morning with the Sanctuary choir directed by Mrs James F Jackson and accompanied by Mrs J D Giddings. Soloists include Mrs Elsa Love and Mrs D J Kitterman. Sunday night title Watch Your Language. A 1 pm prayer service precedes 6 pm fellowship groups and a chili supper Thursday at 6 30 pm. Dec 5 Bellaire Methodist choir to sing Messiah at Cedar Bayou. Earl B Lowder directs GO-voice with Mrs Lowder as accompanist.
Rev Dennis Barnes leads a morning sermon at First Baptist Highlands on Why Good Christians Like Sermons About Money. The second of two related sermons follows the first. The Woman's Missionary Society plans a brief week of prayer program for foreign missions during the 11 am service. Baptism will be administered at both morning and night services Sunday.
Cedar Bayou Methodist church hosts a three day leadership training school November 28 to 30 for Baytown area adults. Courses include Teaching Children by Madge Franklin Teaching Youth by Marshall Hampton and Adult Work In The Church School by Leon Matthis and Weldon Martin. Participating churches include Cedar Bayou Grace Mont Belvieu La Porte St John’s and St Mark’s. Lunch refreshments and nursery services will be provided.
The Baytown Church of Christ hosts a gospel meeting starting Saturday with Evangelist James W. Adams leading services at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. through December 5 at Prowth and Lobb Street. Adams, from Beaumont, will preach on themes including Rebuilding The Walls of Zion and Not For Sale.
The Rev Clyde Foltz of First Christian church joins about 200 church leaders at a statewide planning conference in Texas. The gathering at a Christian Youth Foundation camp near Athens runs Monday through Thursday to map missions and education programs for Christian churches. Foltz serves as district director of Christian Youth Fellowship in District 8.
Grace Methodist church schedules two morning services at 8 39 and 10 45 am led by Rev M 8 Jordan. Organist Mrs Keith King plays Pilgrim’s Chorus. Sanctuary choir performs Por Thy Gifts Untold by Gossler at the 9 23 service and the 10 45 service is broadcast on station KREL A Spirituel Steal Away by the Treble choir. Both choirs directed by Mrs Vault Black. Church school begins 9 35 am and Methodist Youth Fellowship at 6 pm. The night service features Rev Ww Hensley delivering a sermon from the Ordinary’s banquet theme.
Logan-Moores Construction of Houston hired to build a 5000 square foot addition including a fellowship hall 43 by 68 feet kitchen storage parlor and restrooms with air conditioning folding doors for extra classrooms. The 1949 structure will expand after a 1951 sanctuary fire.
Dr W A Hamlet will deliver the ordination message for five deacons at Central Baptist Church 4230 pan on Wednesday. The deacons elected include Gregory to Health and Virgil Gerdeon. January loyalty month aims for record Sunday school and Training Union attendance with emphasis on attendance prayer and visitation.
Bennie Middaugh will be guest soloist at St Mark's Methodist Church during the 11 and 11:55 a.m. services, singing The Lord's Prayer. The Chancel choir will present Prologue My Soul and Mrs Wallace Tate will be soloist for a special spiritual arrangement Lord I Want To Be A Christian. Pastor Dr Wayne McClextey will preach on Altitudes For Advent.
Mrs Ivy Henderson and Le Uilieman will sing solo at Highlands Assembly of God Sunday services at 11:00 am and 7:30 pm. Rev A L Parker will preach both sermons The Human Soul And Tip Capacities. Sunday school census results will be revealed with HH H Rosser in charge and Mrs A In Parker presenting the program.
First Baptist church plans a three story education wing of about 5000 square feet designed by Bon FB Greenwood of Houston. The wing will attach to the existing building, house nursery and beginner areas on the first floor, and place adults on the second and intermediates on the third. Construction could start early next year after bid and loan approvals. The project will expand total church space to about 30000 square feet and include refinishing of current education space and auditorium redecorating.
Mrs Liord Var Stane a missionary to the Dyna tribe in the Baliem Valley interior New Guinea will show pictures and films of the region to the Highlands Bible class at 7 15 pm Monday The pictures were sent by her husband who is in the region Van Stone and two fellow missionaries landed their Hecht seaplane on a river amid peaks about 17 000 feet high The Archbold expedition of 1938 is noted as earlier white contact in the area They were welcomed by the natives and treated as friends Mrs Van Stone and her two children will join Mr Van Stone in January The Bible class meets at the Assembly of God Church in Highlands for the Monday night feature.
Groundbreaking for a new Methodist center to house the Weasley Foundation program at the University of Texas will use air hammers instead of traditional spades. The 451,000 dollar project aims to serve about 4,000 students on the campus and will take place at 11 am on Thursday, Dec. 9, with bishops, college leaders, and foundation directors in attendance.
The M. Theren Hankin Memorial Chapel at Seinan Baptist University in Fukuoka was dedicated in a series of services. The event also marked the completion and dedication of the new university library and faculty building with speakers including Dr JK Imber Copeland, Buntaiyo Kimura, and Governor Sugimoto.
The Lutheran Hour in Cleveland Heights will air November 28 with Rev Kenneth Hoffmann delivering the sixth sermon in a ten part series. He urges reliance on Jesus rather than material wealth for true peace and life. The program, aired on 110 stations in 60 countries, is sponsored by the Lutheran Laymen's League.
St Paul Lutheran plans its annual Christmas Vespers starting Sunday with candlelit carols and readings from St Luke and Luther. The Rev Karl Bracker delivers a meditation on The Spirit of Charity. Morning service follows at 4:05 a.m. with the theme December Joy. Mrs Killough plays organ, Tommy Allen serves as acolyte. Church school meets at 9:740 a.m. under W G Mettke. pastor to preach adult class.
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