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A student from Hong Kong at Neosho County Community Junior College will be the speaker for World Community Day service at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the First Baptist Church. Wah Hing Siu will use this year’s theme, “Discover the Aspiring Majority, for his remarks. The service is sponsored by the Chanute Church Women United. Mrs. Kenneth Keas, general chairman, will in troduce the speaker. The St. Cecilia Music Club chorus will sing. Mrs. Kent Dobson directs the chorus and Mrs. P. L. Forslund is accompanist. Readers for parts of the service include Pearl Chapman and Mmnes, Charles Henshall, Glenn Hanson, Willard Carlson, Bob Giertz and Marion Wise. The service is open to the public and those who attend will be joining people across the country in the annual celebration of this day. The origin of World Community Day can be traced to the week of Pearl Harbor when the con stituting convention of United Council of Church Women met in Atlantic City. Inaugurated as a day of peace in 1942, the observance became known as World Community Day, concerned with the price of an enduring peace. The theme this year leads into the subject matter of the United Nations International Women's year to be observed in 1975. As women, now a majority in the world, examine their values and goals, they will discover the aspirations that bind them together. In celebrating this day women will be giving expression to the stated goals of the International Year, striving for justice for women, and increasing their participation on all levels to bring the welfare of the world and the course of peace nearer to realization. On World Community Day, Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox women unite in worship services to manifest the hopes, concerns, and joy they share with women everywhere. Participation in a nationwide offering, which goes into a fund called Intercontinental Mission, will help Church Women United, through approved agencies, fulfill its goals of justice and peace. Some concrete examples of witness and service rendered through this fund are continuing educational programs for women in Christian colleges overseas; underwriting a staff working on social and economic development in the Caribbean; vocational training and health services in Lebanon; community and water development projects in Kenya, Botswana, Ghana, Zambia, Zaire, Brazil and Costa Rica; rebuilding the women’s training center in Nigeria destroyed during the Biafran War; support for international students in urban areas in the U.S.A. and continuing educational scholarships for overseas women, funding for a canning project to help American Indian women combat malnutrition. Throughout the year, but especially on World Community Day, church women give tangible expression to their concerns by purchasing $3 gift certificates for aid in rehabilitation projects for war-torn areas; seed money and training for self help projects; and disaster relief with blankets, food, shelter, health and other services. Wah Hing Siu
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Chanute Tribune
Chanute, Kansas, US
Tue, Oct 29, 1974
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