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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1946
Page
12
A page lists Sunday school and worship times for Sherman Street Church of God Memorial Drive Methodist Willoughby Presbyterian First Methodist Central Baptist and related church groups. Activities include Mother's Day sermons Youth fellowships prayer meetings and social events with varied service times.
The Rev G M Davenport leads Central Methodist services with church school at 9 30 morning worship at 11 00 and evening worship at 7 30 The sermons titled A Great Woman and The Afterglow of the Resurrection and Peter follow the 6 30 Youth Fellowship The Young People will sponsor church attendance this evening The W S Co S will meet Monday afternoon
The Grant Street Church of Christ revival, led by ministers R. D. Underwood and K. M. Kelly, continues daily with H. E. Patton preaching and Wayne Hemingway leading song services. Schedule includes Bible study at 9:45 a.m., morning worship at 10:45 a.m., evening worship at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday Bible study, Friday men’s class, and Saturday Junior Young People meeting at 10:00 a.m.
Robert Glenn minister. J B Har low superintendent. Church School 9 45 a m Morning worship 11 00 a m Christian Youth Fellowship 6 30 p m Evening worship 7 30 p m All are invited to attend on the Lord's Day.
Rev. R F Miller hosts worship with Rev Forrest Ashcraft sermon at 11 A M Sunday School follows at 9:45 A M. Evening Evangelistic service with Ashcraft. Junior and Children gatherings at 6:30 P M. Pastor Wells directs singing and Wednesday prayer and praise at 7:30 P M. Invitation to worship.
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church outlines its Mother's Day program during the morning service with Rev. L. C. Radford preaching on Pentecostal Power For Motherhood. Pastor Radford will be away at the Southern Baptist Convention in Miami. Vacation Bible School workers meet today at 2:00 pm. Sunbeams and Junior G A meet Monday afternoon, prayer meeting Wednesday, and visitation Thursday. Save Sunday for the soul.
Westminster Presbyterian church lists Sunday School at 9 40 a m worship at 11 00 with a sermon by Rev William P Lockwood Choir practice Wednesday at 8 15 p m.
Sunday service details include 9:45 a.m. Sunday school led by W. W. Glass, pastor, with further notes on church activities at the Corner of Oak and East Vine Streets.
A. J. Coleman presides as superintendent with a morning worship at 11:00 a.m. featuring the sermon titled Am I a guid mother tae ye Be sure God maun be handle kinder. Afternoon services at Limestone Presbyterian Athens and Oakland Presbyterian Chapel Tanner at 2:30 and 3:00 p.m. respectively. Youth Fellowship leads at 6:30 p.m. with Miss Mary Louise Garrett as adult advisor. Evening service follows at 7:30 p.m.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Decatur hosts a lesson sermon titled Adam And Fallen Man with a Golden Text from First Corinthians. Scriptural readings include Luke describing a woman bent by infirmity for eighteen years, whom Jesus heals. Sunday services begin at 11:00 with Sunday school at 9:45, Wednesday meeting at 7:30, and a reading room open 2 to 5 on Wednesdays and Saturdays at the rear entrance on Johnston Street.
The schedule lists services at St John’s Episcopal Church at E Gordon Drive and Jackson Street with the rector Rev Eugene Marsden Chapman. Morning prayer and sermon at 11:00 a.m. at St John’s, 9:45 a.m. church school, and a 2:00 p.m. service at St Peter’s Mission Wilder Place plus 9:00 a.m. service at St Timothys in Athens and auxiliary units meetings on Monday and St Johns Service League on Tuesday.
D H Turner Jr pastor leads Sunday school at 9 45 with G O Devine superintendent Morning worship at 11 The Universal Quest sermon Fed Westminster Fellowship at 530 and Evening worship at 730 Sunbeams Tuesday 230 Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 Choir practice 8 Welcome to join any or all worship services.
The Sherman Street Church of God formed with six members in October 1930 under Rev. Charles Morgan. It met in homes then a small building, faced police court scrutiny, moved locations, and by 1936 Rev. Ivy Crumpton arrived. Under Rev. Batts the church grew, moved to its current site, and plans new buildings. Pastor Rev. Raymond Taylor leads a debt free congregation with over 500 missionaries worldwide.
Wor ship superintendent W A McClanahan announces schedules including service at 2 PM communion, senior choir at 7 PM, Wednesday evening events, men's meeting Friday at 7 PM, junior choir and study class Saturday at 9 AM. Weekly thought urges abstaining from all appearance of evil per 1 Thessalonians 5 22.
Rev. J. A. Gomes presides with Sunday school at 10. Alvis Briscoe supt. Preaching at 11 on They Shall Rise Up And Call Her Blessed. Training Union at 6 45 directed by Horace Fielding. Evening sermon at 7 43 on The Refuge of Lies. Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 30. Everyone welcome.
Mrs Eliza Drinkard of Eva Alabama gathered her relatives for a four year apart family reunion at her home on May 5 to welcome Monroe Drinkard just discharged from the Army after service in Germany An outdoor dinner followed with relatives attending from Greer South Carolina Eva Alabama Vinemont Hartselle and nearby communities.
Plan to plant in the garden every month this year and arrange for fruit jars and other canning containers before they are needed.
Berlin reports that Swiss watch sales to Russians have collapsed as shortages of cash and rising imports from the U.S. dampen the black market. A GI named Joe trades a sun stick for a thousand marks, showing shifting values as cigarettes, chocolate, and soap lose value amid postwar currency pressures.
The report notes a six dollar bar price rising to three and black marketeers suffering with gum selling for two per five cent packet while cognac reaches forty dollars a bottle and coffee eighty per pound. Berlin remains the main market in human misery until shortages ease. Officers nicknamed a Spanish brandy “Franco” revenge for its tearful, stomach-wrenching effects. An average egg weighs ten percent of a pound.
Miss Peggy Sue Gorham of Cullman High School has been elected queen for the upcoming Strawberry Festival in Cullman on May 16. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grady Gorham. Her attendant is King Wright Christian.
In Fiji, the head is sacred and reaching over another person’s head is considered an insult, reflecting local norms that protect personal space and honor through age old traditions.
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