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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1966
Page
6
Yoshihiko Ujino a Tokyo shoe repairman writes poetry to keep happy. War and postwar experiences shaped his faith and art. He mentors 135 would be poets and runs Kuno to Mugi magazine. His Sunday school teaching informs his simple, innocent verse aimed at God.
Pat Robertson, former Marine and Yale Law School graduate turned Baptist minister, plans to expand a Portsmouth television station into a million dollar religious network serving the eastern seaboard. He aims to build a full color studio and radio-television center to reach the East Coast, starting with Tidewater Virginia. Robertson, 36, son of Sen A Willis Robertson, bought the station for 37 000 and formed the Christian Broadcasting Network in 1960 with an initial 3 dollar bank account after printing 10 000 prayer cards.
A 20 year old Samford University student Wayne Huron from Decatur Georgia will lead a weekend youth revival at Central Baptist Church in Decatur opening August 12. He is a junior at Samford and youth director at Butler First Baptist Church. Initial services will be at the home of Dr and Mrs Allen Rooks with an outdoor service planned by Central Baptist youth at Hunterwood Drive. The revival features Hulon as speaker at both Sunday services and includes a day long visitation program Thursday with an outdoor social to follow. An after glow is planned after Saturday’s services.
A moral examination condemns neglect of elderly parents, urging children to care for those who raised them. It stresses no provocation by parents, calls for mutual respect and individual dignity, and cites biblical guidance from Exodus and Ephesians on honoring parents and avoiding resentment.
The Powell Lacey Quartet of Boaz will perform at the annual all day singing starting 10 a.m. Sunday at Union Grove Baptist Church located two miles north of Morgan City on Highway 231.
Evangelist Rev Bill Prusett will head a revival at Valley Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Speake Community. Services start 7 30 p m Sunday and run nightly through Friday with ministers and church members inviting neighbors to attend.
Lebanon Methodist Church in Speake Community will hold full time services each Sunday starting tomorrow. Rev. J P Shakleford says Sunday school starts at 10 a m and preaching at 11 a m with a night service for young people at 6 15 p m and the regular service at 7 p m.
Dr. Joseph Avery, pastor of the Hillsboro Heights Baptist Church in Huntsville, will lead the upcoming Sunday worship service. He is expected to deliver a sermon focused on community outreach and faith in difficult times.
A religious study recounts the second table of commandments focusing on duties to fellow humans, emphasizing honoring parents as a primary commandment with a promise of long life. It cites Jesus at age twelve in Jerusalem, his obedience, and a critique of traditions that hinder caring for parents.
A concise quotation from Ephesians 6 4 admonishes fathers to avoid provoking their children and to raise them with nurture and the instruction of the Lord. It emphasizes parental responsibility and spiritual guidance within the family.
Decatur delegates Dr. Clifford Winefordner and Mrs. Winefordner will attend the 11th World Methodist Conference in London August 1826. Dr Winefordner, district superintendent designate, serves as delegate. Mrs Winefordner as accredited visitor. They plan to fly in early this month for sightseeing before Westminster Central Hall hosts the conference with the theme God in our World.
Rev Claudie R Burnes has become pastor of Brookhaven Baptist Church in Decatur. A native of Walker County he previously led churches in Bessemer Birmingham Carbon Hill and taught school in Birmingham. He studied at Howard College and New Orleans Seminary and is married with three children.
Westside Baptist Church schedules a revival from August 14 to 21 with an Athens minister and a Louisiana music director reading services. Rev. Wiford Junkins, pastor of Athens First Baptist, will lead daily preaching and singing, with James Carraway of Shreveport directing songs. Junkins, a veteran pastor and Army reservist, has served in multiple states and churches and holds degrees from Auburn, Mississippi College, and New Orleans Seminary.
Rock Creek Baptist Church opens a revival at 7 39 p m on Saturday led by host pastor Rev J D Douthit who will head the singing and guide services through Friday of the following week.
A tent revival at Chapel Baptist Church on Chestnut St SW begins at 7 30 p m Monday and runs through Saturday. Guest preacher Charles Maples of Birmingham will lead the services across the week.
Residents and visitors attend a revival at Rock Creek Baptist Church led by Evangelist Joe Avery. Services start 11 a.m. with lunch and singing, 6:30 p.m. training union, and 7:30 p.m. evening services. Local couples visiting relatives and a hospital illness are noted amid wedding shower honors for Allen McKee and Lafayette Weaver’s home.
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