Presbyterians Launch 12 Million Development Fund Drive
Local leaders named to co chair, John Wellford reports over 2 million pledged toward a 12 million goal. Eight boards participate as regional offices open in Atlanta Dallas Charlotte Columbus Houston Jacksonville Springfield Richmond to reach 4000 churches in 77 presbyteries before next year’s drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Development Fund
John Wellford
Drive For the Presbyterian Church
U.S
Lawrence W. Avent
Crestwood Presbyterian Church
Ray Haworth
City Planning Department
High Point
Wellford
General Assembly
Atlanta
Dallas
Charlotte
Columbus
Miss
Houston
Texas
Jacksonville
Fla
Springfield
Richmond
Christmas church notices and services featured around town
Rev Alvin E Spencer Jr will guest minister at English Street Baptist Church with his missionary wife in Okinawa. High Point Friends Meeting holds annual Candlelighting at 7 30 p m with three choirs directed by Mrs Currie. Emmanuel Lutheran Church lists Christmas Eve Candlelight and a noon festival service with slides and carols. First Baptist plans two Christmas programs including Hallelujah Chorus and The Pageant of the Holy Nativity directed by Mrs Laney and Miss McFarland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvin E. Spencer Jr
English Steet Baptist Church
Mr. Spencer
Okinawa
United States
Machinato
Freeport
Denison University
Granville
Ohio
Central Baptist Theological Seminary
Kansas City
Kan
English Street Baptist Church
George T. Tunstall
High Point Friends Meeting
Quaker Lane
Wilbur Currie
Barry Nixon
John Whitlow
Luther Barker
Cecil Haworth
Emmanuel Lutheran Church
N. Main Street
Harry D. Hawthorne
Emmanuel Lutheran
Nancy Percy
J. E. Rawlinson
Helen Laney
Handel
Leonard Young
David McWilliams
Laney
Elsie McFarland
Christ
C. F. Finch
E. I. Earnhardt
F. Stanley Hardee, Jr
Lebanon
J. Hobart Allred
Claude S. Canady
Robert Ingram
Diane Godwin
Roddy Starrett
Edwin Hackney
India
Christian Fellowship
Oakview Baptists
Ralph Schurman
Oakview Baptist Church
P. A. Tripp
Lee Cokerham
Mack Harris
George Winslow
Charles
Christmas Eve Service at Forest Hills Church
A Christmas Eve music and candlelight service is set for Monday at 7 p.m. at Forest Hills Presbyterian Church. Rev. Samuel R. Hope is pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Hills Presbyterian Church
Samuel R. Hope
Christ Is Born Narrated by Shepherds and Angel Hosts
Readers hear the nativity tale as shepherds in a field are visited by an angel who brings news of a Savior born in Bethlehem. The angels praise God, the shepherds hurry to see the child, Mary treasures the events, and all glorify God afterward.
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David
Christ the Lord
Bethlehem
Mary
Joseph
Christ
God
Savior
Parish Uses Laity to Visit 1500 Families in ROYAL OAK
St. John s Church in Royal Oak Michigan expands outreach by a lay ministry to visit each of 1500 families at least once a year separate from fundraising. The program aims to supplement clergy work and enlists volunteers to witness and assist, with about 4000 parishioners and 2300 confirmed.
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North Carolina
Texas
Appalachia
Florida
Louisiana
Welford
Royal Oak
Mich
St. John's Church
John M Shufelt
St. John’s
Canon Shufelt
Episcopal Church
St. John's
Detroit
Marshall Hunt
St. Paul's Cathedral Church
Methodist District News Directors Named Across Western North Carolina
The Western North Carolina Methodist Conference names district directors of Methodist Information to aid coverage for the Charlotte Area Office. Seventeen districts appoint clergymen including Laye Wingate Creech Sills Grose Jarrett Ellis Horn Reese Gilland Pyatt Perkins Hutchinson Jr.
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Western
North Carolina Methodist Conference
Methodist Information
Charlotte Area
Asheville
L. B. Laye
Weaverville
Albemarle
H. L. Creech
Wingate
Charlotte
Jim Armstrong, Jr
Paw Creek
Gastonia
John R. Sills
Boger City
Greensboro
J. C. Grose, Jr
High Point
Wilbur A. Jarrett
Marion
L. Donald Ellis
Old Fort
North Wilkesboro
Kenneth A. Horn
Stony Point
Salisbury
Malcolm C. Reese
China Grove
Statesville
J. C. Gilland
Thomasville
C. Dwight Pyatt
Waynesville
Merrill G. Perkins
Canton
Winston-Salem
Orion N. Hutchinson, Jr
Walkertown
Traditional Christmas Programs Planned in High Point Area
Readings and carols fill weekend schedules at Oakview Methodist Lebannon Lebanon Oakview Baptist Haworth Wesleyan and College Village churches. Programs include cantatas, candlelight services, choir offerings and special guest soloists with ministers delivering messages of Christmas joy and adoration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Christ
Oakview Methodist Church
First Baptist Church
Thomasville
Lebanon Methodist Church
Oakview Baptist Church
Haworth Wesleyan Methodist Church
College Village Methodist Church
Birth of Christ threefold study in prophecy history and theology
N Speer Jones offers a threefold presentation of the birth of Jesus drawing on Isaiah Luke John and Hebrews. The article reviews the timing of Jesus birth notes on medieval dating errors, explains the word Christmas, and discusses shepherds wise men and Herod as figures surrounding the Nativity. It highlights the prologue in John and Hebrews emphasis on incarnation and purification of sins.
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Jesus
N. Speer Jones
Christ
Isaiah
God
Bethlehem
Moses
David
Bill Dreyer Organ Recital In Wesley Memorial Church
William Dreyer of the American Friends Service Committee presents a Christmas Candlelight Organ Recital at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church Chapel on the Two Manuel Schlicker Organ Sunday at 5:00 p.m. He is assisted by violinist Miss Josephine Dunbar, daughter of A. W. Dunbar, a Salem College junior. Recital pieces include Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence and Adeste Fideles, with Dunbar performing Vivaldi and Yon works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Dreyer
American Friends Service Committee
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Manuel Schlicker
Josephine Dunbar
A. W. Dunbar
East Farriss Avenue
Astoral
Man Tows Stray Car After Parking Space Clash
Oakland resident Richard Click drove off and returned to confront a rude motorist. He accidentally hooked the other car’s bumper to his trailer hitch and towed it two miles from Alameda across a bridge, noting his vehicle seemed to drag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Calif
Richard Click
Click
Alameda
Indulging deceit echoes a defendant’s risky favor
A concise proverb by Mary Baker Eddy warns that pretending virtue while harming others only harms the deceiver, likening deceit to a defendant backing the plaintiff in a doomed decision.
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Faye Marks
First Baptist
Alvin Spencer JR
Forest Hills Presbyterian
Christ Is
John
Methodists
Oakview
Stanley Haworth
Robert M. Hardee
Miranda
Eastham
Sherry Byerly
Charles Huff
Hayworth
F. Henry Asbury
Hayworth Wesleyan Methodist Church
Ronald Whittington
High Point College
Velma Gentry
A. J. Argo
College Village
Frank Cross
Stewart Landon
Luke
Herod
National Council of Churches of Christ
Hin
Division of
Christian Education
U.B.A
Permission. Features Syndicate
Alfred J. Buescher
Bill Dreyer
Miss Dunbar
Allegro
Violin Concerto In
G Minor
Vivaldi
Yon
Mary Baker Eddy
Westchester
Country Club Drive
Haggai
Our Lord
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