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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1955
Page
2
Local residents and relatives gathered for visits and meals at homes in the Alma area through the week. Numerous families from Clare, Rosebush, Mt Pleasant, and Farwell shared hospitality while others traveled to see relatives and attend church events.
Church notes say Rev Harold Smith and others plan to attend a Missionary District Rally in Midland on Tuesday evening September 20 with Dr Hynd of Africa as guest speaker. The Young Peoples group also plans a party Thursday at Norman K Cooper home.
Mrs Bertha Cappaert entertained Sunday honoring three birthdays. Guests included Mrs de Hanslet and daughter Alice, Mrs Elia Sherman, Mr and Mrs Fateiner, Olive Oliver, Kate Morgah, Hari, Susie and Sherry. Gifts given to the honored guests as friends visited during the afternoon.
Reuben Heberts Jr visited his father as Beebe Lake sees busy Boy Scout activity causing restricted fishing. John Wisner from Sag-inaw State Police Post joined Mr and Mrs Ben Kleinhardt for a Friday visit. Ben shows off a new car.
The southernmost part of British Guiana is inhabited by 60 Wai Wai Indians and a handful of missionaries. They live in four villages, travel by water, and rarely enter the jungle except to hunt for food.
A listing notes United States towns bearing names tied to distant places such as Arabia Kentucky Argentine Pennsylvania Bavaria Kansas Belgium Wisconsin Bohemia New York Bolivia North Carolina and Russia Ohio reflecting historical ties and emigration patterns.
Associate Prof. Otto G. Graf of the University of Michigan German Department warns that foreign language study enhances careers across engineering science law medicine education and business. He notes government service offers 20 plus opportunities for multilingual graduates and that exceptional ability can lead to training in another language. The teaching field alone needs over 2,000 trained foreign language teachers annually with chances to work in schools abroad for military and civilian dependents.
Michigan claims the longest U S coastline with a 3121 mile shoreline matching the Atlantic stretch from Maine to Florida. The figure highlights Michigan's extensive lake and shore access and underscores its vast geographic reach along Great Lakes margins.
Central Michigan hosts a week long Michigan Baptist Missionary conference from September 25 to October, featuring Miss Virginia Lasuer of Brazil and a lineup of Rev. speakers from the Philippines, Germany, Venezuela, India, and Belgian Congo. The program visits multiple area churches including St. Louis, Mt. Pleasant, and Midland with slides and pictures to showcase global missions.
Nearly 100 youth groups from ages twenty five to fifty five travel abroad for a month to work on projects in Greece France Switzerland and other nations. Organizers include United Christian Youth Movement and World Council of Churches with national councils and major Protestant groups coordinating village reconstruction housing repairs and agricultural redevelopments.
The national Christian Education Week promotes “Make disciples of all” from Septem ber 26 to Oct 2 in Protestant churches. It highlights church school enrollment and attendance and Rally Day along with World Communion Sunday, stressing teachers and parents as allies in reaching unchurched families.
In its 120th year of service to the blind, the American Bible Society issued 55,076 Scripture volumes in 21 languages during 1954. New publications include the Small Volume of Scripture Passages in English Braille, the pocket Bible, recorded on five Talking Book records in Portuguese for Brazil, plus Braille portions in Portuguese, German, Armenian, Korean, and a new colloquial Japanese. The German edition targets the Eastern zone. Korean and Japanese are complete New Testaments. Parking Book records, touch‑system Bible recordings, were sent to Liberia, France, Switzerland, England, the Philippine Islands, Japan, and Ethiopia.
The first verses set the Roman census under Augustus Caesar explaining Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Joseph and Mary travel for enrollment, Jesus lies in a manger wrapped in swaddling clothes. An angel appears to shepherds and a heavenly choir proclaims joy, urging adoration of Christ.
Readings for Farwell Michigan Gospel Church and Our Savior Lutheran in Harrison Michigan note Bible School at 10 a.m. or morning worship at 11 a.m. and evening services at 7 45 p.m. plus Vernon City in Clare details for Sunday School 10 a.m. and worship 11 a.m. with an 8 p.m. Sunday evening service. Reverend Raymond Mueller and Reverend Harold Smith are named pastors.
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