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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1963
Page
4
The notice lists Sunday school times morning worship and evening services for churches on several streets with pastors named including Huie Turner W J Johnson R E Bob Wilkins W K Stephenson and others. Midweek prayer services and training union times are posted for each church.
The Rev. Robert M. Landes, 24, pastors Fourth Avenue Baptist Church for the Deaf in Louisville. His 65 member congregation relies on sign language to spread the Bible message, part of a growing niche with about five similar churches nationwide. Landes, inspired by his deaf brother, has built a ministry path from Seattle to Richmond before arriving in Louisville.
The Rev. James C. Bodley, Rector, leads services at St. John on Gordon Drive and Jackson Street. Holy Communion at 7:30 a.m. Family Service and Classes at 9:15 a.m. Morning Prayer and Sermon at 11:00 a.m. Healing services at 5 p.m.
The notice lists services for Methodist churches at 805 Canal St NE and 1226 6th Ave SE. It notes ministers Ford McDonald and Rev. John Rutland and church events including sun day school morning and vesper or worship times, M Y F sessions, Wednesday prayer meeting, and a revival series led by Rev. Duncan Hunter from Saturday through Thursday at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Multiple churches in Jackson St and Eighth Ave areas report worship times church school and youth activities. Presbyterians Westminster Willoughby Oak Vine Streets NE State Ave and Grant Street provide service times and sermon topics for October events.
The notice lists services at Christian Science Church on 6th Avenue and Johnston Street including Sunday Services at 11:00 a.m. and a lesson sermon on Are Sin Disease and Death Real The Wednesday testimony meeting is at 7 30 p m Reading Room hours are 10:00 to 4:00 with Thursday nights 7:00 to 8:30 The radio program The Bible Speaks to You airs on WHOS 800 kc at 10:00 a m Sunday with A Gift You Can’t Lose as the week’s subject.
The notice lists service times at Memorial Drive Church of Christ with Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 10:30 a.m. A second worship is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on Sundays, with additional Monday activities implied.
Abdu'l Baha, son of Baháʼu'lláh, endured exile and imprisonment for Baháʼí beliefs. Released after the 1908 revolution, he led the faith worldwide, helped establish the Wilmette temple, and was knighted in 1920. By 1921 his leadership aided rapid growth to nearly 3 million adherents.
The Rev. R A Reinhardt pastor leads St Pauls Lutheran Sherman at 4th Ave with Sunday School at 9 30 a m and a 10 45 a m service featuring guest speaker Rev Hans Reuter.
Baptist 929 Fifth Ave SE led by Rev W W Coffey with Sunday school at 9 45 and worships at 11 and 6 p m Training Union at 7 p m Wed prayer. Sherman Riverview lists Willard Stallcup pastor with 9 45 Sunday school 11 morning worship 6 15 Training Union 7 evening worship and 7 Bible study Wednesday Tw 19th Ave and Cypress St Rev.
The Assembly Of God at 415 8th Ave SW led by Pastor Melton Bruce offers Sunday school at 9 45 a m morning worship at 10 45 a m Christ Ambassadors Class at 5 45 p m evening worship at 7 p m and mid week services on Wednesday at 7 p m.
The lesson explores the Christian view of personal conduct citing Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians and a Sermon on the Mount excerpt. It emphasizes not overvaluing food and clothing, avoiding Corinthian vice, and casting out known sinners while limiting social dealings with immoral people.
Text discusses anxiety in focus and dress, explains the biblical metaphor of lilies and Corinth as a cosmopolitan center. It cites Paul’s views on lawsuits, liberty versus helpfulness, and the body as the Lord’s temple, referencing the Division of Christian Education and Features Syndicate.
Sunday school begins at 10 a.m. morning worship at 11 a.m. Evening worship at 6 30 p.m. Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 30 p.m. Youth services Friday at 7 30 p.m. Prayer service Saturday at 7 30 p.m. Rev. F T Dismukes is pastor.
The Flint Church of Christ began in 1942 with 15 charter members in a home, built a brick church in 1955, and now has about 50 members. Current minister J. O. Morgan and a long history of service and mission support are noted, alongside officers, teachers, song leaders, and prominent families.
Two massive 65 000 horsepower electric motors have been installed at Grand Coulee Dam to pump water for irrigation, marking the project as one of the nation’s major waterworks undertakings.
Want ads outline weekly worship schedules for multiple churches. Harry Hasha Hatton Church of Christ Eugene Keenum Fellowship Baptist and James Myhan list Sunday services Bible study and worship times with midweek sessions and evening services for their congregations.
A historical overview tracks Baptist Association leaders from 1935 to 1945 including moderators Rev. Frank T. Smith and Rev. B. B. Burks, vice-moderators, church hosts, and key biographical notes on ministers like Rev. Franklin Ternace Smith. It lists session locations in Decatur, Moulton Heights, Hartselle, and other towns, and notes ordination, education, and pastorates of leaders.
HARTSELLE plans to buy land to build a new junior high in Morgan County. Superintendent J C Pettey said the Morgan County Board of Education met with the Hartselle City Council and school board to discuss future needs and aimed to have the school ready by 1964.
The Snead College advisory committee of the North Alabama Methodist Conference schedules a meeting for Tuesday October 22. Rev Warren C Hamby of Huntsville presides with Rev J C Draper Jr Birmingham as vice president and Rev Richard Huster Boaz as secretary. Members include James E Harris Athens Hoyt L Logan Clifford H Winefordner Decatur and Barry H Anderson J Duncan Hunter Jr Huntsville.
In Vatican City the only mass at the ecumenical council was offered Friday for the victims of Hurricane Flora and the Vaient Dam disaster in Italy.
The text notes the upcoming Hopewell session with vice moderators Rev. M. G. Fields and Rev. C. L. Stover. It adds Rev. Stover served as pastor at Austinville.
St Pauls Lutheran marks 65 years with special services at 10 45 a m led by Rev Hans Reuter former pastor 1908 1911. The congregation organized October 9 1898 with 25 charter members and later purchased property at Sherman Street and Gordon Drive.
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