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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1957
Page
6
A weekly religious message urges honoring God as Father links to being honored as a father. The article cites 1 Samuel 2 30 and emphasizes living godly lives, providing for children, and inspiring them to honor God through precept and example.
The Holy Name Society of SS Philip and James Church will host a fathers and sons Communion breakfast after the 9 a.m. Mass. Pastor Rev. V. V. Stanczelewski will celebrate. The group will convene in the church social rooms for the breakfast program and honor a yet undisclosed Father of the Year. Leonard Burket chairs the society. Frank Lockwart handles reservations. the Altar Rosary Society will prepare and serve.
The Bob Jones University Male Quartet will perform a sacred music program at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Harmony Baptist Church. The Greenville group will present hymns and varied sacred selections, many arranged for this group. Director Richard Rupp is from Ohio. quartet members are Pat Robinson Georgia Harold Nussbaum Indiana De Witt Huntington Florida and Glenn Chambers Colorado.
Faith Baptist Church in Harlansburg ends its Vacation Bible School with a 7 45 p m Sunday service and a youth program. The 11 a m morning worship honors fathers with a gift for each father in attendance.
Rev. George Jones will address the McKinney Bible Class tomorrow at First Presbyterian Church. The topic is Errors that Cannot Be Interred with Our Bones.
Beginning July 1 and ending September 1, outdoor services will be held each Sunday at 7 30 p m with several speakers. The schedule includes Central Presbyterian Harbor UP Epworth and other churches in rural suburban locations. Leaders include Rev H P Albright Dr Sam Flemming Rev Harold Harrington and others.
Due to the Erie Annual Conference meeting there will be no morning or evening service at Croton Methodist Church. Sunday School will be held as usual.
The Rose Point and Camp Run Methodist Churches sponsor an evangelistic crusade from June 18 to 30 at the Majorette Restaurant in Portersville. Rev. Paul and Shirley West speak at evening services each day at 7 30 with Sunday sessions at 2 30 and 7 30.
The 99th General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church voted 161 to 121 to merge with the Presbyterian Church USA. The merger takes effect next year with a joint conference and a new church name to be United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Dr. Robert N. Montgomery expresses determination for a strong united church. Delegates sing The Churchs One Foundation as the session closes on Muskingum College campus.
Dr. Bradshaw the Presbyterian missionary held four years by Chinese Communists will address Slippery Rock Church Wayne Township at 11 a.m. tomorrow. He and his wife, released in 1955, endured beri beri and separation after arrests at Linhsien Kwangtung Province hospitals. He trained at Mount Union College and the University of Pittsburgh before returning to China in 1928.
The Chautauqua Institution religion department lists nine ministers as chaplains for the 1957 season from June 30 to August 25. Dr. Will W. Orr, president of Westminster College New Wilmington, is scheduled as chaplain for the week August 18 to 23.
The Mahoningtown Church of the Nazarene holds a dedication service Sunday at 2 30 p m with Rev R F Heinlein superintendent of the Pittsburgh district as guest speaker.
The St. John's Lutheran Brotherhood will meet in the church on June 18 at 8 p.m. A congregational dinner follows on June 20 at 6 50 p.m. in the church dining hall.
Church notices list service times and pastors for many local congregations including Baptist St Pauls First Christian First Congregational Episcopal Trinity Presbyterian Salvation Army Alliance Gospel Tabernacle and other denominations with schedules Bible school worship times and sermon topics for each location.
The article portrays a tireless minister whose duties span sermon prep visitations church administration and youth activities. It notes long hours eight to ten daily seven days a week and daily routines from 8 a.m. start to 9 10 p.m. finish with weddings baptisms and funerals.
The Daily Vacation Bible School at First Presbyterian Church Jefferson and Falls Streets enters its second week starting Monday. Director Mrs. Charles H. Magill says enrollment is the largest recently. Classes run through Thursday followed by a picnic Friday at Gaston Park chaired by Mrs. Daniel Patton.
Sr. Captain Lambert Bittinger will conduct special Salvation Army meetings at 208 N. Mer cer St Sunday Fathers Day. First service at 11 a.m. second at 7 30 p.m. Bittinger grew up in Connellsville Pa and trained in New York City becoming a Salvation Army officer. He and Mrs. Bittinger have served in Ohio New York and were transferred to Pittsburgh in 1956 where he works as divisional auditor in the Finance Department.
The Church of the Nazarene at Cedar and Clayton Streets invites attendance at a 2 30 p m dedication service led by Rev. R F Heinlein superintendent of the Pittsburgh District as the special speaker.
A memorial service for Revolutionary War soldier Joseph Ashton will be held at Edenburg Christian Church at 2:30 p.m. The Daughters of American Revolution will lead the service and the Bessemer American Legion will provide an honor guard at the grave. Congressman Frank M. Clark is slated to speak.
Rev James Clinefelter will preach at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Second U P Church in Pittsburgh. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Frank Clinefelter and recently served as assistant minister at Miami Shores Presbyterian Church in Florida after graduation from Pittsburgh Xenia Seminary.
About 60 students from Dewey Avenue Church Daily Vacation Bible School will take part in the closing exercises at 11 a.m. tomorrow.
Rev I R Barnes will conduct evening Bible lessons starting at 7 45 p m tomorrow and continuing nightly except Monday through June 22. The series covers religious instruction with daily sessions through the final date.
Dr Gene Stone pastor of First and Falls Streets will preach on a program sponsored by the New Castle Ministerium over Station WEST Sunday at 8 p m The message titled Boy Meets Girl will be delivered with organ accompaniment by Garth Edmundson from First Church.
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