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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1953
Page
2
A dense roster listing numerous church names and pastoral assignments across Greensboro area locations. It catalogs denominations including Adventist Baptist Christian Science Episcopalian Holiness Jehovahs Witnesses and more with pastors and street addresses. The page presents a directory snapshot rather than a narrative event.
Congregations across High Point announce schedules and sermons. North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends meets Guilford College all week beginning Tuesday. Green Street Baptist lists services and broadcasts with several evening meetings. West End Extension and First Church of Christ note typical Sunday and midweek programs. The period also covers Christian Science and Presbyterian activities with topics and times for worship, study, and fellowship.
The schedule lists Chafely School services at 9 45 a m at both churches. Morning worship at Randolph 11 a m and Evening worship at Crestwood 7 30 p m.
The First Baptist Church lists a full week of activities including Sunday services at 9 45 a m and 11 a m with guest speakers C W T Jr and C W Terrill Jr Nursery for under four Sunbeams for ages four to nine 5 30 p m Train ing Union 6 45 p m and 8 p m Evening Service Heavenly Power. Monday features Philathea banquet honoring Flora B Hamilton and Royal Ambassadors meetings. Other days include Boy Scouts Isabelle Coleman Circle weekly teachers meeting and Royal Ambassadors gatherings.
Wesley Memorial events include church school at 9:45 am and morning worship at 11 am with the sermon It Will Come Back to You. Evening youth activities at Jackson farm and Lindale program. First Evangelical and Reformed lists services, choirs, and youth meetings with various church offices and midweek prayer.
Sunday School at 9 30 a m worship at 10 45 a m with sermon Comforted Mourners. Evening service at 7 45 p m on Sweet Savoured Sacrifices. Fellowship groups at 6 45 p m. Wednesday includes praise Bible study prayer 7 45 p m and choir at 8 45 p m.
Sunday activities include 9:45 a.m. Sunday School and morning worship with the minister's subject. A 2 p.m. fellowship roast at the home of Mr and Mrs R B Moore 418 Gatewood if weather permits, otherwise at the church. Wednesday features 7:30 p.m. official board meeting and 8:30 p.m. Chapel Hour on WMFR from Burgess Memorial Chapel.
Parish notices show services at Main Street Methodist including Communion at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday School scheduled for 11 a.m. The 11:45 a.m. time appears garbled as 19:45.
A sermon reflection on Ephesians and Colossians themed around Christian home life. The piece notes biblical calls for wise living, mutual respect between spouses, obedience of children, and admonitions to masters and servants relevant to modern labor relations.
This reflection compares modern homes with Pauls ideal in Ephesians and Colossians. It argues that loving, respectful homes shape character and peace, urging harmony among spouses and children, church participation, and mutual duty in masters and servants.
The weekly agenda lists a 7 30 p m service and vesper with warnings to the strong. Tuesday features a Wesleyan Service Guild covered dish supper hosted by Mrs Paul Spencer and Mrs Harold Hall. Wednesday offers junior choir practice at 4 p m, prayer meeting at 7 30 p m, and senior choir at 8 15 p m.
Emmanuel Lutheran holds Sunday morning services at 8 30 and 9 45 with a sermon, church school, a Monday 7 30 meeting of the new program committee of the Senior Luther League in the Educational Building, 8 p m executive board of the Women of the Church with Mrs I D Mot singer Route 1, Thursday 7 30 senior choir rehearsal.
On Sunday St Marys Episcopal will hold 8 a.m. Holy Communion led by the rector and 9:30 a.m. family worship with Holy Communion. An informal reception in the parish hall follows for Fred C Harvison Jr postulant for Holy orders and Mrs Harrison before they depart for Alexandria Virginia where he will enter Virginia Theological Seminary.
Sunday worship at 9:45 am features a sermon on Divine Compassion and installation of Sunday School officers and teachers. Evening events include the United Society of Friends Women picnic and Young Friends sessions with Leonard Hall as speaker.
The United Mine Workers accuse Southern coal industry leaders of seeking to sabotage collective bargaining as John L. Lewis nears a notice to begin contract negotiations. An editorial targets Joseph E. Mooay of the Southern Coal Operators Association for saying the coal industry is sick and wage increases would be an economic outrage. The union defends equal pay and a united industry while noting 60 day contract cancellation rules and potential wage debates.
ASHEVILLE NC UP a 200 room French Renaissance chateau at Biltmore near Asheville draws steady visitors who pay for tours. The 12 000 acre estate includes the house azalea gardens and takes a day to tour. Biltmore remains owned by the Vanderbilt family and managed by local trustees.
In Meriden Connecticut two city officials braved near record heat to ski across the mud filled pond they planned to inspect. The unusual trip highlights the pond’s drained condition and the officials’ determination to assess its status firsthand.
Service details and sermon topic outline include a sermon on Planting Barbed Wire and Expecting Gra Vines. Junior Choir practice at 5 p.m. MYF at 6:45 p.m. Eve ning worship with pastor at 8 p.m. Circle No 2 WSCS Monday at 8 p.m. Ora Desk Circle Tuesday. LINDSAY MEMORIAL METHODIST Church Greensboro schedule shows evangelism visits and school worship times.
Police search for a 20 by 30 foot structure taken from a storage lot used by a construction company. Detective Raulerson cites large vehicle tracks as the only clues to the disappearance. The note mentions 1934 diesel electric passenger engines.
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