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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1978
Page
7
The 1978 Bi Annual Diocesan Catholic Youth and Young Adult Convention was held in El Paso Ot 6 8 Attending were 1700 youths and young adults and adult sponsors from Midland Texas to Las Cruces New Mexico There was also a delegation from Juarez.
The column presents reader questions about faith conflict, domestic hostility, and longing for support. Norman Vincent Peale and Ruth Stafford Peale urge analysis of underlying issues, encourage maintaining faith, offer a Spirit Lifters booklet, and provide contact details for further guidance. The piece also describes a regional youth convention with participants from Pecos and Santa Rosa parish, highlighting awards for youth and adult sponsors and a panel on sin’s effects.
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Southwest plans a Oct 17–20 biennial assembly in El Paso with about 1,200 Deiscipies from Texas and New Mexico. Highlights include an ecumenical luncheon with speakers Dr. Kenneth L. Teegarden Dr. Louis Gunnemann Dr. Paul Crow and Dr. A M Pennybacker plus talks by Dr. Fred Craddock and R M Suggs and a dialogue with Dr. Craddock.
The Sunday School Division of the Baptist General Convention of Texas plans an Oct 29 event reaching 678000 involved in Bible study and worship across 4300 Texas churches and missions. Churches will report totals to Dallas. 1977 state total was 646777 with 518907 average attendance. The national goal for 1978 is five million.
First United Methodist Church hosts A Great Day of Singing with an 9:45 a.m. church school and 10:55 a.m. worship featuring former singers Deanna Holm Miller and Peggy Ater Drake and other musical talents. Activities follow Oct 15 to 19 with multiple church groups meeting and a bazaar planned for November 18.
The text discusses the term faster appearing in the New Testament and its probable link to Passover rather than the Christian feast. It notes Easter as the Teutonic goddess of spring and mentions the Anglo Saxon april name faster month, implying a shift to bring Peter to the people after Faster, referencing Acts 12:4.
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