Origins of the nativity scene and St Francis tale
The article recounts how Francis inspired the living manger tradition in Italy, detailing his gift to John to recreate Bethlehem with a hay manger, ox, and donkey. It describes the Christmas Eve gathering by torchlight, the communion altar, and Francis’s sermon, noting the spread of creches and their message of love and service in church communities. See you at Midnight at Community Church.
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John
Jesus
Teceue
Bethlehem
Francis
Brownclad Brothers
Francis’ Manger
Italy
St. Francis
Thomas
Celano
Christmas Eve Communion Service at Community Church
Christmas Eve midnight service at Community Church features the Chancel Choir directed by Jerry Ford with special music including anthems by Gustav Holst and Paul Christiansen, readings by Rev. Malcolm C Bertram Jr, and a Holy Communion. A special Veterans of the Cross offering is collected for retired and needy clergy. Organist Mrs Rex Ladner. All are welcome.
Youth League to Decorate Trees and Christmas Services
Trinity Lutheran in Garden City lists a full Advent and Christmas schedule. Sunday worship at 8 and 10:30 a.m. with Sunday School at 9:15. Advent service at 7 p.m. with Rev. Walter G. Schmidt preaching. Youth League decorates two chancel trees. Chrismans used as decorations. Christmas Eve services at 6:30 and 8 p.m. include children's gospel presentation under the theme Behold the Light. Christmas Day festival service at 10 a.m. invites all residents to participate.
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Epices
Trinity Lutheran
Ith and Jones
Walter G. Schmidt
Youth League
Adam
Israel
Trinity
Mines
Reinhold Steitz
Wallace Headrick
Theodore Drees
Don Messenger
William Andrew
Phil Stoufe
Walter Schmidt
Garden City
Fellowship Baptist Ont
Nets
Phona
Bite Achoal
Garden Valley
Bretsford
Aundeyi Bundy
Preyer
A.m
Trinity Lutheran Church
Thomar
Paige Bartholomew
Main
Ea Theadey
Heal
Quarro A.m
Firmabyille Feorka Tred
Bundey
Sinang Sahoe
Worshl Ap Renoutte
A. Prise Ome
Baohoen Demon
Bani Iy
Bunday School
Union Areining
Wedabatay
Reese vi Ai Marvin D. Woke
A . Ly
Faules Aouth
Ant Worahar
Christmas Cantata at First Baptist Yale Cantata
The First Baptist Church at 1ith and Jones presents the Christmas cantata The Incarnation by Jane in La Rowe under Diana Daniel. Soloists include Wave Crase Flurry Kemper Beth Kemper Bob Meyer Don Meinrichs and Mrs Ed Nich a Pastor William H. Travis narrates. At 7:30 p.m. worship carols and a solo by Diana Daniel. The pastor’s sermon is The Virgin Birth. The PX BX retail empire posted 113 million profit on 2.1 billion sales for year ending Jan 25.
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First Baptist Church
1Ith
Jones
Jane In la Rowe
Diana Daniel
Wave Crase
Flurry Kemper
Beth Kemper
Bob Meyer
Don Meinrichs
Ed Nicha
William H. Travis
Army ,Post Exchange PX
Air Force Base Exchange
Nars
Presbyterian Candlelight Service and Christmas Choral Offering
The Presbyterian Chancel Choir of 20 will perform four Christmas numbers in 11 a.m. worship with Debra Vester on violin, directed by Charles Larson, featuring Silent Night and On This Good Christmas Morn. Alma Robinson at the console. The choir will later visit Dodge City to hear the Korean Children's Choir. A candle lighting service on Christmas Eve from 7 20 to 8 15 p m will include congregational singing and a brief meditation by the pastor with a light ritual, assisted by fifteen youths.
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Presbyterian Chancel
Charles Larson
Debra Vester
Alma Robinson
Presbyterian
Dodge City
Presbyterian Church
Nazarene Church Youths To Present Cantata Christmas Eve
At The Church of the Nazarene 1310 KE Kansas, youths will perform a children s cantata at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 10 45 a m on Sunday. The Rev Bob R Fetters will preach The Christmas Home. Evening services feature the adult choir cantata Joy to the World. Treats for all up through high school follow morning worship. Christmas Eve communion is at 7 p m Tuesday.
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Church of the Nazarene
Kansas
Bob R. Fetters
First Church OF God
Baptist Training Union
Deerfield First Baptist Church
Phonie
Training Union
Church OF the Nazalene
Bob Fattera
Inaugural Special Train to Wichita for Docking second term
An inaugural special train will depart Union Station Kansas City and stop at Lawrence Topeka Emporia and Newton to transport Gov Robert Docking and state officials to Wichita for his second term inauguration. Lt Gov elect DeCoursey and Supreme Court members aboard Santa Fe train. Tickets range 15 12.50 10 5 and 2 from respective cities. Passengers include a barbershop quartet two banjo players and four Washburn University men.
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Topeka
Union Station
Kansas City
Lawrence
Emporia
Newton
Robert Docking
Wichita
Paul Pendergast
Democratic State Committee
James DeCoursey
State Supreme Court
Santa Fe
Washburn Universi
Skier Nancy Greene Named Canada's Woman Athlete of the Year
Montreal AP reports Nancy Greene of Rossland British Columbia, retired, has been named Canada's Woman Athlete of the Year for 1968 by the Canadian Press. The 1968 honor recognizes her achievements in alpine skiing and her prominence in Canadian sports.
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Montreal
Nancy Greene
Rossland
B.C
Canada
Canadian Press Today
The Power of Faith by Wood Ishmael China Missionary Art
A historic note on Christian missions in China from Nestorian to Jesuit influence. Luke Chen, a Chinese Christian artist, painted biblical scenes in Chinese style at Pekin’s Catholic University and praised for blending sacred themes with traditional art.
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Ishmael
China
Luc Tcheng
Catholic University of Pekin
Luke Chen
Egypt
Peking
Sostanjini
Luka Chen
Ulysses Synod Holds Historic Ordination for Spangler
The Rev. Robert J. Spangler will be ordained a priest at 2 p.m. in St Mary Queen of Peace Roman Catholic Church Ulysses with Rev. John P. Bartholomew of St Thomas Garden City as titanist and Bishop William Davidson of Salina as chief celebrant The ceremony gathers Episcopal clergy from Western Kansas and marks the first ordination in Ulysses history Local congregation led by St Johns Ulysses priest-in-charge since 1960 and attending Garden City Episcopalians expected
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Ulysses
John P. Bartholomew
St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church
Garden City
Robert J. Spangler
Mr. Spangler
Hays Daily News
Fort Hays State College
St. John’s — Episcopal Church
Herd
California
Jyne
St. Mary Queen of Peace
Romhan
Father Bartholomew
Kansas
Bernard Groome
St. Mary’s
Harold Taves
Church of God
William Davidson
Salina
Episcopal Church
Holy Communion
St. John’s
Spangler
St. John's
Hickel Attacks U S Conservation Practice
Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel, Nixon’s secretary of the terror, criticizes federal conservation policy. He says withdrawing vast public lands for conservation and locking them away from the public is wrong, urging more accessible use.
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Washington
Nixon
Alaska
Walter J. Hickel
Hickel
Special Music Planned for Yale Worship Sunday
The Community Church will feature three choirs Children's Youth and Chancel in a Christmas Sunday service. The children's choir will sing There's Music In the Air the youth choir Here We Come A-Carolling and the Chancel Choir Christmas Day by Gustav Holst with four soloists. A Fanfare for Christmas Day will open the choral introit. Traditional carols will be sung by the congregation and a new folk carol by Mary Lynn Austin will be performed. The sermon Birth days Mean Little It's the Life Lived That Counts will be given by Rev. Malcolm C. Bertram. A caroling party Monday at 7 pm invites all church members and families, followed by refreshments and a Senior High Youth Ministry party. Garden City area residents without a church home are invited to attend and join the coffee hour after worship.
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Jesus
First United Methodist Church
Garden City
Creche
Italy
Francis
John
Robert Loper
Jerry Ford
Chancel
Ford
Gustav Holtz
May Lynn Austin
Louise Jones
Lawrence Dawson
Robert Lange
Martin Shaw
Jerry Chmelka
Mary Lynn Austin
Wichita State University
Mary Lynn
Mary Penny
Malcolm C. Bertram
Michael Gibson
Robert Minter
Mal Bertram
Fothers
Children’s
Ray Chappell
Larry Bell
Lydia Schmale
Midnight Mass at St Thomas Episcopal Church
Midnight mass at St Thomas Episcopal Church begins 11 15 p m Christmas Eve with Rev John P Bartholomew as celebrant The service features choral music antiphonal hymns and a creche Nativity scene The second mass will be on Christmas Day at 10 15 a m A series of holy day Eucharists runs through Christmastide with services on Saint Stephen Saint John Evangelist Holy Innocents and Sundays after Christmas
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St. Thomas Episcopal Church
John P. Bartholomew
Bartholomew
Stephen
Saint John, Evangelist
St James Plans Seasonal Christmas Services at Church
St James Lutheran Church Gar den City outlines a series of Christmas events led by children and youths. The program starts Sunday at 7 p.m. with a child centered service The Story As Told by a Christmas Tree. Additional rites include a Christmas Eve candlelight service at 8 p.m. featuring light symbolism and the Advent wreath. The Christmas Day festival service follows at 10 a.m. with special music and scripture. Community members without church affiliation are welcome.
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St. James Lutheran Church
Garden City
Christ
Communion Service Sunday Night at First United Methodist Garden City
The First United Methodist Church of Garden City holds a Christmas Service of Holy Communion and candlelight Sunday at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary. Choirs and organ prelude mark the evening with a sermonette From a Cradle to a Cross and Sacrament of Holy Communion led by Rev Vogt and Rev Clark. A nursery is provided. There are 19 stock exchanges in Brazil.
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First United Methodist Church
Garden City
Howard Blanchard
Joe Vanderweide
Louis Taliafer
Assembly of God
Paul F. Bryant
Kansas
Leonard A. Clark
Jerald W. Vogt
Holmes
Church OF Gon IN Christ
B. D. Williams
Directory of Garden City Churches SE
A listing of area churches with pastors, contact numbers, and weekly service times across numerous denominations including Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Pentecostal, Church of Christ and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Details cover Mass times, prayer meetings, Sunday School, worship schedules, and rectory addresses.
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Gustav Holt
Paul Christiansen
Robert S. ‘Hines
Malcolm’ C, Bertram ,Jr
United Church of Christ
Rex Ladner
The
Community Church
Birth of
Yale
Nazarene Church
AP News
U.S
Fellowship Book Store
Christian Supply Headquarters
6Th Street
Garden City, Kansas
St. Thomas
St. James
St.James
Earth
Brazil
Directory of
Garden City Churches
Emil F. Din
Welgal
Walter F. Dunk
Edmund Steel
Masden
Cominig Roman Catholic L
J. Potter
Phant
J.C. St. Sunny
Sigekand
Saturda Sonkeys
T. James Lutheran At
Ard and
First Christian Church
Seventh Day Adventist
Lester L. Myers
Phono BR
Ars WA Abeunday
Chi Bo
Wasleyan Church Generale Pratt
Young People's Meeting
First Presbyterian Church
New York Ave
Joseph Romero, Jr
Sumday School
Church OF Christ
Deerfield
Jehovai's Witnesses Kingdom
Paarl
Church OF Jesus Christ OF Latter Day Raints Elden Anderson
Ariesthaut
Holcomb Community Presbyterian
J. Merion Kadyk
M. U.P.Y
William H. Travia
Church OF the Brethren
A. Harrison Smith
Eighth
St. John Sts
Prairie View
Community Oackon Ae United Church
Third and
Walnut
M. C. Bertram
Arch School
Pat's Drive
Kansay
Franc Rervica
Templo Bautista
E. Santa Fe Escuela Dominical
Miler
Monica BR
Bible Christian
Alex Bills
Jennie Wilson
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