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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1944
Page
12
Boaz Alabama hosts a regional youth conference at Sneeds Junior College from June 19 to 24. Strong pastors lead diverse programs across churches including presbyterian and baptist groups with prayer services, Sunday schools, and revival plans.
Rev Ralph Feilds of Louisville Kentucky will lead a revival at Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church starting June 18 Rev C L Dobbs, pastor, announced Feilds home church members anticipate his coming The pastor praised Feilds ministry and urged plans to attend the services at the Sixteenth Avenue church.
Sunday school starts 9 30 with Miss Clio Lovin as superintendent. Morning worship at 11 features a sermon A Sobering Question. Evening and midweek services move to 8 o clock. Women’s Society circles meet Monday at 4 at church and 3 at Mrs Ray Kelley home. Wesleyan Service Guild meets Monday at 8 with hostess Mrs H N Peurifoy.
Westminster Presbyterian on Jackson Street at Eighth Avenue offers Sunday school at 9 40 a m led by Mr Jack Draper and morning worship at 11 with a sermon by Rev T G Henry St Johns Episcopal on Gordon Drive hosts church school led by Carol Smith and morning prayer at 11 St Johns and Westminster are joined by St Marys Methodist Rev John T Nolen leads 11 am worship at St Marys and St Marys Methodist John R Butler supervises church school at 9 45 am at St Marys and the sermon topic Opens Windows at 11 00 am Young people meet at 7 pm at St Marys Methodist Dr F K Gamble district superintendent preaches at 7 45 pm and conducts the third quarterly conference after service Also the W S C S meets Wednesday at 2 30 pm and prayer meeting is Wednesday at 7 45 pm Mildred Vaughn leads the meeting Come worship with us.
Rev. Otto Winton is pastor. Sunday school starts at 10:00. Preaching at 11:00 and 7:45. Cottage prayer meeting every Friday at 8:00 p m.
Pastor R. M. Howell announces church school at 9 30 a m and worship service at 11 with sermon by Rev K Lamb of Cullman in this brief notice.
St Pauls Lutheran Sherman St and Fourth announces Sunday school at 9 30 a m and worship at 7 30 p m The Rev E Lammert of Florence will conduct the service A meeting of L W M L is set for Thursday June 15 Visitors are welcome.
The Sun day school starts at 9 45 and the morning message titled The Step of Confession is by Pastor Elmer Freer. Evening service at 7 45 features Pauls First Letter to the Corinthians. Youth Fellowship Conference at Judson College Marion Alabama with Ruth Mulloc h Margaret Moore R H D Weaver and the pastor leaving Monday morning.
R D Underwood, Minister. Bible study Sunday morning 9:45. Morning worship 11:00. Evening worship 8:00. Ladies Bible class Wednesday 3:09. Bible study 8:00. Young People's training Saturday 10:00. In Underwood's absence K M Kelly will speak at both Sunday services. We welcome you to the services.
Scriptural selections from Jeremiah and Galatians frame a lesson on God as preserver. The First Church of Christ Scientist in Decatur, a branch of The Mother Church in Boston, presents a Sunday service with verses about faith and lineage to Abraham.
The text lists Sunday Service at 11:00, Sunday School at 9:30, and Wednesday Evening Meeting at 8. The Reading Room opens 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the rear of the church, entrance on Johnston Street. Public is cordially invited.
Memorial Drive Methodist Church at 9th Avenue West lists services with Pastor G. C. Corley. Church School at 9:45 am led by Superintendent C. Parker. Worship at 7:00 pm with Miss Margret Ann Yarbrough and Miss Anna Mae Sheats. Evening preaching at Union Grove in Lawrence County at 2:00 pm. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8:00 pm.
Jesse M. Rogers pastor leads Morning Worship at 11:00 with the sermon Holy Father Keep Them In Thy Name. Special service honors service members with prayers. Organist A T Hanson, choir director T M Jones, young people director Cliff Odom. B T U 7:00 p.m. Carl Hendon, director. Evening Worship 8:00 with sermon The Truly Unmovables.
Sunday School at People's Church in East Decatur at 9 530 am. Salvation Army Hall at 1331 4th Avenue South hosts 2 30 p.m. Young People's Legion meets at 6 30 p.m. followed by open air service. Evangelistic service at 8 p.m. Adjutant Leon Thomas to speak. Advisory Board secretary Mrs Estella Thomas.
Central Baptist at 4th Ave and Grant St lists services with Dr. E. Dillard and Dr. J. E. Dillard. Sunday school at 9:30, morning worship at 10:45, Training Union at 6:30, evening service at 7:45. Vacation Bible school runs 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Monday to Friday for ages 5 to 17. Wednesday Bible study and prayer.
The Hartselle Church of God lists Rev A W Benefield and Rev Edwin Branscomb as pastors with Sunday school at 10 a m and 9 45 a m church school led by J K Haynes Dr E R Currier Adult Supt, 11 a m and 7 00 p m preaching services plus 6 45 p m Christian Crusaders and 8 30 p m Youth Fellowship. Weekly prayers and W S S meeting noted with invitation to all to attend church after invasion.
No Pastor. Sunday school at 10 a.m. Arthur Prince, Supi. Preaching at 11 a.m. Sermon by Rev. Thomas Hatchett of Decatur, Johnson Bible College student. Senior Missionary Society meets 1st Monday at 3 p.m. Young Matrons Society meets 2nd Monday at 3 p.m. Rev. Frank T. Smith, Pastor. Training Unions meet at 7 p.m. FE. P. Thornhill, director, Preaching.
Evening service at 8. Sermon by pastor. Scriptural study of Baptism and the Lord s Supper to follow. Woman s Missionary Society meets Monday 3 p m. Mid week Prayer meeting Wednesday 8 p m. Nazareth Church services listed. NYP S meets 6 15 p m. Evening worship 7 30 p m. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 30 p m. Teachers meeting Friday 7 30 p m. Bethel Baptist schedule with Sunday school 10 a m preaching 11 a m and 8 p m. BTU 7 15 p m first and third Sundays. Officers and teachers meeting Wednesday 8 p m. You are invited to worship.
Rev John R Havener serves as pastor with Sunday school at 10 am and preaching at 2 30 pm every second and fourth Sunday Visitors are welcome.
Hartselle Church of Christ announces Bible Study Sunday at 10:60 a.m. Morning Worship at 11:00 a.m. Evening Worship at 8:00 p.m. Ladies Bible Class Wednesday 3:30 p.m. Thursday Bible Study 8:00 p.m. Young People’s Training Saturday 2:30 p.m. Sermon topic Sunday Morning “Evangelism” with a question about whether evangelism is limited to an elect group.
A church notice invites worshipers to Evening Service themed The Lord's Additions and poses questions on additions by God versus man. It announces NEW CENTER with Rev M L Newcomb and Claude Waddell, listing Sunday school 10 am and service times. Our new church sits on the Barclay Bridge Road 112 miles southwest of Hartselle. Purvis sparked Purdue teams in 1929 31. Salt taxes and monopolies form part of the Oriental taxation system.
Fred Taylor, longtime political writer for The Birmingham News and Age Herald, is named Washington correspondent for the two papers and will depart for the capital next week. A Georgia Tech alumnus and Andalusia native, he has been a newspaperman since 1925 and with The News and Age Herald for 17 years.
Capt. Jim Purvis, former Purdue star, named physical training director for the Eastern training command at Maxwell Field. He succeeds Maj. Lex J. Fulbright, ex-assistant grid coach at Birmingham Southern and the University of the South, who will leave.
Corporal Paul W. Lindler of Eva has served in the European theatre since early 1943. Attached to a ninth air force service command depot in England, he works as an airplane and engine mechanic in a mobile unit handling emergency repairs and depot inspections. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Lindler, live in Eva where he graduated high school in 1940. He studied accounting at Athens College before enlisting in 1942. After basic training at Keesler Field and studies at Chanute Field, he served at Greenville and Walterboro in South Carolina, traveling through England and Scotland. He notes the American Red Cross supports soldiers with meals, lodging, and entertainment programs.
The Decatur Chamber of Commerce board calls a June meeting for Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Cornelian Hotel private dining room. The date moved from Monday due to President Robert T. Harris and others being out of town. All directors were informed of the change.
J. F. Moore of Decatur 2 suffered minor head injuries Friday around 11 am after a fall from a scaffold at Ingalls Ship yards where he worked. He received emergency treatment at Chenault clinic in Brown's ambulance and was later discharged from Decatur General Hospital Saturday afternoon.
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