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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1968
Page
1
Friday's Pulpit notes that on May 22 the City Fathers created by resolution a Human Relations Commission to foster mutual understanding across all groups. It calls this a positive, stable step addressing prejudice, discrimination, poverty and exploitation under a goal of amicable city relations.
The Garden City community supports creating a Human Relations Commission to promote fair play tolerance and better inter group relations. It will advise the city council study and survey problems, act as a mediation and clearing house for discriminatory situations, and encourage educational programs and voluntary action.
Whitsunday or Pentecost will be observed Sunday at St Thomas Episcopal Church with Holy Eucharist at 7 15 and 9 35 am. The day is a high holy day of obligation with red colors. Rector Rev John P Bartholomew will celebrate both services and be away June 2 to 9 in Stockton for youth conference duties. Lay readers will officiate weekday offices. Penance available Saturday 4 to 5 pm.
The text notes major metropolises with populations over a million, including Taishun-iLuta in China Ahmadabad in India Novosibirsk in the Soviet Union and Nagoya in Japan, pointing to a contrast between global cities and American awareness.
AP profile of Dr. W Amos Criswell and First Baptist Church of Dallas detailing a multistate growth hub in downtown Dallas with a 15,000-member, $1.9 million budget church campus across blocks, plans for denominal leadership, and a shift toward integration and modern prosperity. Includes church size, property value, facilities, attendances, media reach, staff, and Criswell’s evolving views.
The Jocal Assembly of God will run a five day vacation Bible School from Monday to Friday starting 7 p.m. led by Rev. Paul F. Bryant. Theme Hold High the Word with crown of Thorns symbolism. Grades from ages 4 to 14 cover Life of Jesus to Basic Doctrines. Transportation available. Sunday enrollment at 9 45 a m with a later awards service and open house.
The Community Church begins summer worship at 9 30 a.m. from June through August and the first Sunday in September to allow a full day of activities. The Rev Malcom C Bertram J will deliver the sermon More Power To You. Lay Reader is Charles Sinclair and greeters are Mr and Mrs Robert Lange. Men are invited to a 7 a.m. breakfast in Fellowship Hall on Sunday.
Trinity Lutheran Church at 1th and Jones will run a two week Vacation Bible School starting Monday with daily sessions from 9 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. The theme Tell the Good News will use film strips. Grade teachers include Mrs Grady Kuhlman Mrs Walter Schmidt Mrs Ted Drees Mrs Edith Pennington Mrs Larry Menz and William Boles leads music. Rev Walter Schmidt will lead daily opening devotions. Parents may call the church for more information. Thailand, about three quarters the size of Texas, has 23000 Buddhist monasteries.
Vacation church school at First United Methodist Church opens Monday and runs through June 14 with kindergarten to sixth grade classes from 9 to 11 a.m. A “Singing in the Sunshine” feature is planned from 8:45 to 9 a.m., weather permitting, and all children in the age group are invited.
The First Christian Church announces two morning worship services through the summer with 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. times in Baker Chapel and the sanctuary respectively. Pentecost Sunday is Children's Day with a special missions offering, plus Vacation Bible School runs five days from 9 to 11:30 a.m. beginning Monday for pre K to sixth grade. Director contact details and volunteer roles are listed. The Christian Women's Fellowship meets Thursday at 2 p.m. in Baker Chapel with new officers being installed. The Merle Tillery and Mary Lou Groups hostesses. Ethel Shreve group directs. A Men’s outing to Lake McKinney is planned for Wednesday night, with fishing gear the only item to bring. The note ends with a random historical line about the first fan.
The Rev. Leonard A. Clark, new minister of the First United Methodist Church, Garden City, will preach his first sermon Sunday morning at 10 45. He comes from Wichita where he led Grace Methodist for seven years and has previously served in Beloit Downs Portis and Jamestown. He is a Pittsburg State College and Perkins School of Theology graduate and a former high school teacher. He and his wife Dorothy have a son, Rev. Gary Clark, in Delphos Kansas.
The Rev. A. V. Shultz, minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, plans to be in Enterprise for the annual church camp meeting held on the denomination's secondary school campus. He will join 35 workers in setting up tents chairs and duties before the opening session Tuesday evening. Rev. R. G. Beck leads preparations with daily study and worship sessions directed by Rev. S. S. Will of Topeka. Frost and drought threaten wheat.
Directory lists numerous Garden City churches with pastors and service times including St Marys St Dominic St James Lutheran Bethel Fellowship and more, noting contact numbers, addresses, Sunday School times, worship services, confessions and weekday schedules for a broad local church roster. The entry presents a dense contact-and-schedule snapshot for faith communities in the area.
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