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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1968
Page
5
A series of summer revival meetings unfolds across Hartsville Athens Danville and nearby towns with guest ministers including Fred W. Smith Sr. of Elizabethton Tenn and Darrell Dunn of Oklahoma City Okla. Programs run Aug 4 through Aug 11 at multiple churches daily services and weekend events draw crowds and announce volunteer singers and local leadership.
Dr. Padgett C. Cope, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Little Rock, evangelizes at Westmeade Baptist Mission through Aug. 9 with daily 7 30 p m services and a 10 30 a m Sunday service. The mission meets at Beltline Hwy location while a church is built at Runnymeade and Bettye Streets. Westside Baptist Church sponsors the effort.
Morgan County report notes large Sunday turnout with three new members joining after baptismal services. Revival led last week by Rev. J A Smallwood of Gilliam Springs Baptist Church. Also mentions visitors James Criscoe family from Paris Texas and Jimmie Allen family from Titusville Florida. University library cited for archaeology tapes.
Rev. E. B. Ledlow leads a new Free Will Baptist mission in Decatur planning a church with services Sundays at 11 a.m. and 7 30 p.m. and Sunday school at 10 a.m. Ten families show interest as meetings begin at the Pet Dairy Hospitality Room. Ledlow, from Montgomery, invites locals to attend or call 355 2473. The effort is backed by National and State Home Mission Boards to plant churches in cities lacking Free Will Baptist houses.
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