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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1966
Page
5
The Parsis, about 115000 globally with 75000 in Bombay, trace roots to 706 A D from Persia. Prominent members include Tata family and MP M R Masani. the Tower of Silence in Bombay houses caged bodies for exposure to vultures before burial through drains and purification.
The Methodist sub district hosts a folk festival at De Lano Park on September 24 from 2 to 7 30 p m with The Old West as the theme. Nina Reeves Camp Sutanga leads folk games and singing while others join in recreation. The event raises funds for a church in Brazil. No admission fee.
SOMERVILLE The $30 000 auditorium at New Friendship Baptist Church will not be finished until about early next year due to delays. Groundbreaking was in April with completion hoped for by late August. The church plans 15 new classrooms by converting the old auditorium, adding a 500 seat sanctuary, nursery, baptistry and basement. The project, by Bennie Walker of Decatur, includes central air heating and cathedral beams. A second building on two acres will be added later, bringing property to four acres.
Frankfort based Kentucky Commission on Higher Education says every state university must establish a second campus within 15 years to handle growing enrollment. The plan aims to expand access across the state and ease crowding at main campuses.
R H Ramsey reflects on the ninth commandment denouncing false witness in speech and action. He warns against perjury gossip slander selective truth and deceptive advertising illustrating with McCarthy era vitriol and Peter’s denial. Moral integrity requires God's grace to resist deceit.
A Christian exhortation cites Ephesians 4 25 and Proverbs to condemn gossip falsehood and character assassination. It urges truth telling in love and warns that false witness harms individuals and the community while urging maturity in Christ and Spirit led living.
Nadine and Jim Rupp of Morgan County plan a 12 week training in Chapas Mexico with Wycliffe Bible Translators to learn survival skills and linguistic methods before field assignment. They aim to translate the Bible into an unwritten tribal language near the Tzeltar Indians, then continue to Mexico or New Guinea for future work.
Groundbreaking for a new Brookhaven Baptist Church facility is planned for 2 30 p m Sunday at 635 Memorial Dr SW Rev Claudie Burns pastor said the chapel style building will seat 308 and sit on four acres of land The existing structure will be used for education bonds have been sold to raise funds with 13000 still needed Credit for the bond program goes to Rev W W Coffey and bond committee head Charles Reggins Brookhaven was organized May 8 1957 with 30 members growing to 80 in a year and services were once held in the Cooper Wells Hosiery Building}
Cedar Creek Free Will Baptist Church names the Rev. Billy Sharpton as pastor. He previously led Beech Springs Free Will Baptist Church in Tupelo Mississippi and hails from Florence. He is married to Shirley Goode of Carthage Texas.
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