Dr. Wilhelm’s 50th Ordination Anniversary Service
Grace Reformed Church will mark the 50th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Raymond E. Wilhelm’s ordination with an 11 am service on May 23. A veteran pastor emeritus, he has served Grace Church since 1946 and remains active as interim minister to nearby congregations while continuing community roles and family ties in Walkersville.
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OCC
Raymond E. Wilhelm
Wilhelm
Strausstown
Simon Peter Wilhelm
Bernsville High School
Ursinus College
Collegeville
Central Theological Seminary
Dayton
Ohio
Frederick County
Adamstown
York
Catherine M. Heisler
Grace Church
Frederick
Emmanuel Reformed Church
Lansford
First Reformed Church
Spring City
Immanuel Church
Cambridge
Silver Run
Potomac Synod
Purd E. Deitz
Ursinus
Central Seminary
Deitz
Bloomfield
N.J
Graceham Moravian Church To Dedicate Memorial Carillon
Graceham Moravian Church in Graceham will dedicate a Memorial Carillon on May 23 during Morning Worship at 10:30 a.m. The Schulmerich electro mechanical carillon, built by Schulmerich Carillons Inc of Sellersville Pa, uses tuned bronze rods and electronic gear to produce bell tones with high purity. The gift commemorates Roland Otto Beall and the instrument chimes hourly 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and plays four hymns daily, with broader community uses possible.
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Graceham Moravian Church
Graceham
Schul~merich Carillons, Inc
Sellersville
George J. Schulmerich
Schulmerich
Sun Life Assurance Company
Riverside Church
New York City
Father Flanagan
George Schulmerich
Roland Otto Beall
Frederick Church of Christ guest speaker and tour
Dr Clza Huffard president of Northeast Christian College at Villanova Pa will speak at the 11 am service of the Frederick Church of Christ 1305 North Market Street Dr Hubbard renowned missionary and world traveler renowned for work with orphan homes is touring the south as a speaker two figures named in the reading
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Clza Huffard
Northeast Christian College
Villanova
Frederick Church
Dr. Hubbard
South
St Johns Olney to Host Fried Chicken and Ham Dinner
St Johns Episcopal Church Olney will hold its annual fried chicken and country ham dinner on Saturday May 22 from 3 to 7 PM. A flower booth opens at 10 AM with plants and garden items. autographed copies of The Valiant Years by the former rector will be available.
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St. John’s Episcopal Church, Olney
Pleasant View to Observe Homecoming Mortgage Burning
Pleasant View Church of the Brethren near Burkittsville will hold Homecoming Sunday May 23 with a 9:30 a.m. Church School hour led by Galen E. Strite and a 10:30 a.m. service preached by Rev. Dr. Emmett F. Bittinger. A noon basket dinner follows. At 2 p.m. the Mortgage Burning Service will mark the payoff on the new education building, with William Sowers and James Tritappe as co chairmen. The program features Dr. Bittinger, organist Ruth Bowlus, and a mixed quartet including Louise Blair and Wayne Guyton.
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New Market
Pleasant View Church
Gordon Blair
Lester Fauble
Emmett F. Bittinger
Bridgewater College
Bridgewater Va
Bittinger
W. Va
Bethany Theological Seminary
University of Maryland
Brethren
Emmert JF. Bittinger
Finance and Trustee Commission
William Sowers
James Tritappe
Harry V. Frushour
Ralph Cool
Wayne Guyton
Louise Blair
Galen Strite
Ruth Bowlus
Frederick
John Holter
Holter
Hulda
John S. Bowlus
Jefferson
Bowlus
Two Maryland Pastors To Be Honored At Keedysville Meet
Dr. John H. Ness Jr and Dr. Joseph H Yeakes former Maryland pastors will be honored May 22 at the United Methodist Historical Society annual meeting in Keedysville United Methodist Church. Ness, archivist for the UMC, will speak and has led the church history program since 1968. Yeakes is executive secretary of the UMC Board of Evangelism, formerly held a key EUB role before merging in 1968. The society, begun in 1855, will tour founding sites of the United Brethren Church in Frederick and Washington Counties and hold its annual business meeting at Keedysville hosted by a 200-year-old congregation.
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John H. Ness, Jr
Joseph H. Yeakes
Maryland
United Methodist Historical Society
Keedysville
United Methodist Church
Edison M. Amos
Ness
Evangelical United Brethren Historical Society
Centennial Eub
United Brethren Church
Frederick
Washington
Carroll Couny
Methodist
EUB
United Brethren
Bethel Lutherans Burn Mortgage in Parish Hall Ceremony
The Bethel Lutheran Parish Hall mortgage of 11,000 was burned in a Sunday evening ceremony on May 9. Pastor Rev. Joseph Sabo led the liturgy, with Rev. David L. Blackwelder preaching. Melvin Palmer certified the debt retirement, and Robert Saylor burned the document while a slide show reviewed the hall’s construction.
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Bethel Lutheran Church
Joseph Sabo
David L. Blackwelder
Faith Lutheran Church
Oxen Hill
Melvin Palmer
Church Council
Robert Saylor
Charles F. Bowers
Frederick
Robert P. Schildt
Thurmont
Public Piano Recital by Claire Wachter at Local Church
Miss Claire Wachter, 1971 Eastern Divisional winner, will give a public recital at 3 p.m. on Sunday May 23 in the social room of the Evangelical Reformed Church on West Church Street. She will perform Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in D, Beethoven Sonata Op 53, Chopin Andante Spianato and Polonaise, and a piece by B Lees, as a new piano is dedicated.
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Claire Wachter
Evangelical Reformed Church
West Church St
Wachter
Music Teacher’s Association
JS. Bach
L. van Beethoven
F. Chopin
B. Lees
Distant Drummer to be shown at Shookstown Assembly of God
A 45 minute color film Distant Drummer will be shown at the Shookstown Assembly of God Church on Friday May 28 at 7 30 p m The program includes Rev Herbert Nunley as guest speaker and a free will offering for the church building fund All interested residents are invited to attend with no admission charge.
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Assembly of God
Shookstown
Shookstown Road
Edgewood Church Road
Persia
India
Turkey
China
United States
Herbert Nunley
Mr. Nunley
Washington, D.C
Edgar A. Hare
Germantown Baptist hosts Rev. Tierney for evangelistic week
The Germantown Baptist Church at Highway 118 and Biffleford Road invites the public to a week of evangelistic meetings led by Rev. John Tierney from May 23 to 30. Evening services are 7 30 p m with a 11 a m climax on May 30, nursery for birth to three years.
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Germantown
Stith to Speak at Frederick WSCS Spring Meeting
The Rev. Forrest C. Stith, executive secretary of the Baltimore Conference Board of Missions and Church Extension, will address the Frederick District Women’s Society of Christian Service at Otterbein United Methodist Church on May 26. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Stith will discuss The Connectional Church Its Structure and System. The program includes devotional, spiritual growth, conference scholarship fund emphasis, nursery, lunch, and attendees from United Methodist churches in the district.
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Forrest C. Stith
Board of Missions and Church Extension
Baltimore
United Methodist Church
Frederick District
Sharp Street Memorial
Stith
Otterbein United Methodist Church
N. Queen St
Martinsburg
W. Va
Roger Elgert
W.S.C.S
United Methodist
Frederick
Public recital in memory of Mrs Reine Bowers
A public recital is announced in memory of Mrs Reine Bowers in the church program. Attendees are invited to attend as a memorial event and pay respects to the deceased.
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Reine Bowers
Cleric Returns From Successful Haiti Campaign
The cleric has spoken of his tours in prominent pulpits across America and abroad including Canada Spain Scotland Portugal the British West Indies Africa and Ecuador. He has just completed a successful campaign in Haiti.
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America
Canada
Spain
Scotland
Portugal
British West Indies
Africa
Ecuador
Haiti
Family Fest supper at Evangelical Lutheran Church
A covered-dish Family Fest at Evangelical Lutheran Church occurs Sunday May 23 in Trunk Memorial Hall from 5 30 to 7 pm. The program God s World and Our Responsibility For It engages the family group with a preschool program and is hosted by the Christian Growth Committee as a family education effort. Next Sunday May 30 the annual Strawberry Sunday follows at 6 30 pm in the church yard with a brief congregational meeting.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church
Trunk Memorial Hall
God’s World
Christian Growth Committee
Wheat pans and bread for Baptist convention service
Thirty one bags of wheat from Neil Dorach of Flagler Colp are used in Minneapolis to bake 310 loaves for the opening communion at the American Baptist Convention on May 12. Local Baptist women bake in 150 new pans donated by Len Perron of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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Minneapolis
Flager
Colp
Neil Dorach
American Baptist Convention
Sioux Falls
S. D
Len Perron
Whites Respond To Texarkana Church Bombings
In Texarkana, Texas, white Christians raise funds to rebuild two Negro churches bombed amid racial strife. Rev. Lory Hildreth of a local white Baptist church says unity in Christ guides white leadership to confront the crime and oppose such acts.
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Texarkana
Tex
Lory Hildreth
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