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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1971
Page
6
The Enterprise will not publish on Christmas Day December 25. The Religious News Page, normally Saturday, will appear in the Friday paper. For one week only the news deadline for church programs and activities is Thursday December 23 at noon.
Area churches schedule a series of Christmas cantatas services and pageants. Trinity Baptist hosts a 7 p.m. Sunday cantata Glory to God with soloists Abury Teague Kaney Dickens and Dawalt. Grace Lutheran to host youth service and charity gifts. Main Street Methodist hosts candlelight services caroling and a live nativity on Abbotts Creek road. College Village and Lexington Avenue Baptist plan cantatas candlelight events led by pastors Robbins and others. First Baptist N Main hosts Messiah selections and receptions honoring Rev Pharr before his move to Ocala Florida.
Hillcrest Baptist Church on Rt. 1 Kernersville schedules three Christmas events. On Sunday at 11 a.m. the Adult Choir will perform The Night the Angels Sang. Sunday at 7 p.m. the Junior and Senior High Youth present The Church Bell Rings Again. Wednesday at 7 p.m. the church children present The Message of the Bells.
A 5 p.m. Sunday Christmas service at Lebanon United Methodist features Bach's For Us A Child Is Born with soloists Carol Huff Stephen Hardee Terry Starrett and Britten A Ceremony of Carols with Mrs Darrell Hawks Mrs T J McCarter Mrs Robert Montgomery and Sammy Patterson Jr. as soloists. Accompaniment includes Debra McCarter violin Richard Montgomery Jr. piano and Bill Kivett Jr. Steve Kivett on trumpets.
Southside Baptist Church presents Immanuel Forever cantata by Rachel K. Green and Haldor Lillenas this Sunday at 11 a.m. directed by Grayson Mickey. A Christmas is a Miracle play by Wilma W. Burton follows at 7 30 p.m. with directors Mrs. Ruth Welch and Mrs. Betty Rodden.
Grace Lutheran in Thomasville will host a participation service titled Celebrate the Gift. The event invites community members to join in a reflective service with music and fellowship.
A Cape Town AP report cites a Dutch Reformed Church publication claiming about 75 percent of divorces begin on the dance floor. The clergyman-author condemns modern dancing as stirring bodies into a single, sensual unity.
The Church of God of Prophecy on Ward Avenue presents Ring the Bells a Christmas cantata at 7 p m Sunday sung by church youth under Shirley Adams. The annual Christmas program To All the People follows Wednesday at 7 30 p m directed by Linda O Quinn and Linette Brisson.
Emmanuel Lutheran hosts a service of lessons and carols with a manger scene and choirs including The Carol Cherub Confirma tion and Senior Choirs participating. The Chrisman Tree lighting and Holly Communion Candlelight Service occur Friday at 10 30 p.m. Pre service music features the Senior Choir and instrumentalists.
The Allen Jay Baptist adult choir will present John W. Peterson's Night of Miracles during the 11 a.m. worship service. Choir director Pat Taylor leads the performance as Dr. Beldon D. Smith serves as pastor.
The Pentecostal Holiness Church will hold Christmas services with an 11 a.m. Sunday visit by Rev. Elvio Canavesio, a missionary from Argentina, and a Christmas drama titled To All People.
Brentwood Baptist announces changes to the Sunday schedule with morning worship at 10 a.m. and Sunday school at 11 a.m. A Christmas treat is distributed after the service. At 7 30 p.m. the adult choir directed by Henry Enochs of Piedmont Bible College performs Christmas music and the Gift for the Lord missions offering is received.
Two Christmas plays will be presented Sunday at 7 p.m. at High Point Evangelical Methodist Church on Joe Moore Road Burton Street. The Seniors perform The Greatest Gift and the Juniors present Gods Host both directed by Pauline Garner per Rev Coy Crowe.
A Christmas Eve service will be held at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church on Friday at 7 30 p m with carols sung by the congregation and special music by the chancel choir and soloist. Carols will be played on the chimes after the service. An impressive feature of the event is not fully readable.
The Trindale Pentecostal Holiness Church on Uwharrie Road hosts the Christmas play The Newborn King tonight at 7 30 p.m. Members and guests are invited to attend this seasonal presentation.
The combined choirs of Peoples Baptist Church will present the annual Christmas program featuring carols and arrangements by church musicians. The performance aims to spread seasonal cheer and showcase church members in a shared musical offering.
Dr. Ben C. Hobgood who led the University Libre de Congo at Kisangani formerly Stanleyville has been named director at Southern Methodist University Dallas. He was born in Lotumbe Congo to American missionaries and spent nine years as a Disciple of Christ missionary there. He later served eight years on Congo Inter University Commission and studied at the Ecole Coloniale in Brussels.
The Conrad Memorial adult choir presents the cantata Chimes of the Holy Night by Fred B. Holton at 11 a.m. Sunday. Soloists include Mrs. Robert Talley, alto, and Mrs. John.
Calvary Baptist Church invites worshipers to a special Christmas service titled No More Darkness on Friday December 24 at 11 p.m. The program features Handel Messiah excerpts by the choir the Christmas Affirmation led by Pastor Trotman and a candle light ceremony concluding at 12 01 A M
Director Ryland K Young leads the Chan cel Choir in a Sunday cantata at 11 a m. Soloists include Ann Parks Libbie Smith Betty Miller James Apple Joe Hill and Ronnie Huff. Accompanists Ruth Sharrock Gail Huff Karen Myers Julie Taylor Brian Lee violinists Robert Gamble cello Mina Harrington flute.
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