Limestone Church Opens at Former Milk Barn Site
Five miles north of Athens on Elkmont Road the Limestone Church began meeting last Sunday in a building formerly a milk barn. The Piney Grove Baptist association purchased the barn with a five acre tract for future expansion. Rev. L Wayne Howard of Decatur serves as pastor. Two Sunday services and a Wednesday prayer meeting are planned.
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Judy Jones
Limestone
Athens
Elkmont Rd
The
Baptist Association
Piney Grove Baptist
L. Wayne Howard
Decatur
Music School At Oakdale Baptist Church
A music school will be held at Oakdale Baptist Church from Sunday through Friday with Jean Scruggs as teacher. Miss Scruggs is connected to a music college.
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Oakdale Baptist Church
Jean Scruggs
Miss Scruggs
Mussic College
Clergy Moves and Local Church News
Notable church changes include Dr Norton filling pulpit at Notable First Christian Church while Rev Jerry Smith leaves for Birmingham. Five Decatur Methodist ministers stay. George Maness and Lamar Davis take new pastorates. Don Smitherman to Memorial Drive. Hartselle Missionary Baptist pastor H J Lancaster resigns for Brewton post and community anti poverty work. ABC program to discuss Church Today topics airs June 25.
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First Christian Church
Herman A. Norton
Disciples Divinity House
Vanderbilt University
Jerry Smith
Birmingham
First Christian Church of Birmingham
Decatur
George Maness
Chapel Hill
Lamar Davis
Ninth Street
Higgenbotham
Davis
Highlands
Huntsville
Don Smitherman
Memorial Drive
Sam Berry
Austinville
W. J. Cunningham
Gene McDowell
Central
Jack H. Graves
East End
E. M. Barnes
First
Bob Gunn
Wesley Memorial
H. J. Lancaster
Hartsellé Missionary Baptist Church
Lancaster
Brewton
Office of Economic Opportunity
Hartselle Missionary Baptist Church
Second St. Salome
Lakeside
Booker T. Washington High School
First Methodist WSCS Meeting Notes
First Methodist Woman’s Society of Christian Service gathered at the home of Mrs. Robert G. Mc. Mrs. Perry Orr and Mrs. John Maier led the McNelly Circle with a les.
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Perry Orr
John Maier
Les- McNelly
Robert G. Mc
Brigham Young Born in 1801 Milestone Highlight
The Mormon leader Brigham Young was born in 1801, marking a pivotal origin point in early LDS Church history and Western expansion.
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Brigham Young
Ripples of Christian Unity Include Papal Leadership Ideas
Proposals from Baptists Congregationalists Disciples scholars and Episcopal leaders push for conditional affirmation of papal leadership as ecumenical talks gain momentum. Archbishops call for unimpeded common worship among Roman Catholics Anglicans and planned Methodist union. Southern and Reformed churches explore merger while Christianity Today advocates evangelical cooperation. National Faith and Order Colloquium examines cross tradition evangelism.
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George W. Cornell
New York
Christian Unity
Disciples of Christ
Canterbury
A.M. Ramsey
Presbyterian Church
U.S
Southern
Reformed Church In
Christianity Today
National Council of Churches
Southern Baptists
University of Notre Dame
National Faith and Order
Growth of the Church Among Gentiles at Antioch
Acts 11 narrative describes Peter and Jewish and Gentile believers forming a diverse Christian community. Barnabas and Saul join in Antioch to teach and strengthen the church as Agabus warns of famine across the Roman world. The disciples are first called Christians there.
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Peter
Barnabas
Tarsus
Saul
Antioch
Jesus
Agabus
Jerusalem
Chris
Papal Infallibility Debate Sparks Interfaith Discussion
The article notes Catholic doctrine on papal infallibility as a rare prerogative and cites Protestant views on recognizing the Pope as a unity link without accepting infallibility. It also describes a church meeting with minutes read, a program led by Mrs. Virgil Wallace, prayers, hymns, and scripture, plus a galaxy fact about 10 billion stars.
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Paul VI
Edwin Pike
Virgil Wallace
Johnson
Johnny McCay
Eae Lee James
The Church in Antioch By R H Ramsey
A lesson on the early church at Antioch 12 years after the crucifixion. Gentiles hear the gospel, the Holy Spirit works, and many believe. Barnabas verifies the converts and affirms equal standing for Jewish and Greek believers.
Morgan County Baptist Association 1950 Minutes Highlights
The 1950 minutes note budgetary grants to church building funds, a resignation of missionary Rev Olin Ray, and a committee to study hiring a new missionary. The executive committee adopted a policy to employ a missionary under church oversight and to have the missions committee advise on missionary matters. A search committee was appointed to find a replacement and present candidates.
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J. W. Myers
Morgan County Baptist Association
C. E. Poole
L. B. Wright
Fred Speake
A. C. Sharp
Hopeweill Church
Association
Pine Ridge Church
Olin Ray
C. D. ‘Boozer
M. G. Fields
O. E. Burton
C. Marsh
Billy Stephenson
Messers
W. R. Wallace
T. K. Johnson
Missions Committee
C. D. Boozer
C. E. Burton
Holy Spirit
Moulton Methodist Guild Hosts Decatur District Officers
The Moulton Methodist Church Wesleyan Service Guild hosted the Decatur District Wesleyan Service Guild Officers Training Session. Churches from Athens Courtland Cullman Decatur Hartselle Lebanon Tanner and Trinity were represented. The meeting had 10 training groups with each group leader guiding her program portion and an end of session evaluation.
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Moulton
Faith in Action: Rev. H T Mook’s World Hunger Mission
The Rev. H T Mook, once a lawyer and Japanese interpreter in U S Naval Intelligence, organized famine relief in India. He led emergency food programs and long term farming training to lift farmers from dependence, urging the Christian community to meet worldwide needs.
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U.S. Naval Intelligence
Saipan
Rrr
Asia
United Church Board For World Ministeries
India
Mook
Missions Committee Advisory Role and Training Requirements
The record notes a proposals to make the missions committee an advisory body to the missionary and to require the employed missionary to be capable and properly trained. It urges interested parties to obtain and study a 1950 minute carefully. At the time the church field had only one living member.
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Missions Committee
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