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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1972
Page
5
The We Care Mission at First Methodist Church unites Lay Witness and revival styles with a professional ministerial team. Three day local visitations, small group discussions, and worship aim to provide spiritual direction and friendship without honoraria. Ministers travel at their own expense to demonstrate care for every home and member.
Randle Butler was elected chairman of the Key 73 executive committee at the first meeting in First Methodist Church with Rev Ed Sullivan as vice chairman. Ten Pecos churches sent representatives to organize six phase committees to coordinate city wide evangelism. The December launch includes Noon Prayer Calls Faith in Action TV and Launch Sunday. Phase two features Luke and Acts study across cultures with Bible distribution through February. Phase three emphasizes Christian witness.
The document details a six phase evangelism program beginning in February with a witness survey and intense Christian sharing. Phase four in May and June features video programs and arts ministries, Phase five in June-October includes youth outreach weeks and Area Impact Weeks, and Phase six ends with a world concerns drive and a Christian festival. Church representatives are urged to vote on proposals at a 4:30 p.m. meeting October 22. St Catherine's Catholic Church also announces rummage sales October 6-7 and October 13-14 in the Parish Hall.
The Presbyterian youth expresses sincere thanks to friends neighbors and relatives for help and gifts after the death of Noley Burton. First Presbyterian reports a new youth club starting well with improved choir and invites junior high and high school students to join for study fellowship and service with a meal.
The Church of Christ on Fourth and Bois d Arc Street will hold a gospel meeting October 8 through 13 with William C. Hatcher of Palm Beach Lakes Church in West Palm Beach, Florida as guest evangelist. He has preached since age seventeen and served multiple churches in Detroit, Pensacola, Garland, Dallas, Lubbock, and helped establish churches and schools in Juneau Alaska and in Italy and India.
The Trinity Lutheran Women's Missionary League met on Wednesday September 27 with Evelyn Adickes presiding. Emilie Waltisperger led a devotion titled Need A Lift. minutes approved. year projects reviewed. committees named for altar flowers and yearbook. District SWLM meeting to be in Midland on October 8. meeting closed with the Lord's Prayer. Attendees included Mines. Melvin Adickes DR Bowman Herbert Eben James Joiner II Harold Meyer Jackson Moody Roy Sharrock Wendell Taylor Gilbert Waltisperger and guest Louise Smith.
A young adult program on learning through motivated activities is presented in the church library Monday at 7 30 p m The speaker frames the topic with a biblical verse Matthew 24 35 affirming lasting words Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away.
Six Pecos youngsters enrolled in the Texas Reading Club were awarded completion certificates at a County Library ceremony on October 3. Names include Douglas Cassidy eight Mark Matthew fourteen Mace Williamson seven Gloria ten and Martha nine Teal.
The Women’s Society of Christian Service met in the church parlor on Tuesday October 3 with fifteen ladies present. The main order of business was to elect officers for the coming year. Mrs Charles Manuel led the pledge service and presented the program The Bread is Rising. Refreshments were served afterward.
Rev R M Montgomery questioned who is on the Lord's side during a Sunday service at St James Baptist Church. The event featured a youth choir, memory-based singing, and an invitation to dedicate one's life to Christ. After church, Montgomery and deacons attended the Key 73 meeting, electing leaders and planning forthcoming study with materials ordered for Oct 22 at First Methodist.
A reader asks how to handle telling her child about her father amid unresolved child support and resentment. Ann Landers urges facing the truth, suggests counseling, and notes bottled anger harms mother and child. Additional letters discuss serving alcohol at home, celebrity social norms, and a math complaint about misreported 700-year figures.
Mrs. Marie B Ward area director of West Texas El Paso Area Delta Kappa Gamma will speak at the Delta Kappa meeting tomorrow. Gamma Mu hosts eight chapters at the regional gathering with Ward presenting A Formula 3 Ls plus 30s equals 38s. Coffee and registration 9 15 to 9 45 a m in the Community Public Service Reddy Room.
Beta Sigma Phi members gathered at the home of Mrs. Linda Foster for a model meeting with a guest speaker Mrs. Mary Farnum set to speak at the next gathering. The group discussed a cake walk for the Fall Fair October 13 to 15 and sold tickets for a Zenith TV prize, while acknowledging gifts to the West Texas Children's Home and reporting on a City Federation meeting. Guests included Cindy Frakes Georgia Stroud Jerrie Osborne Sandra Morgan and Velda White.
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