Pecos Valley Baptist Association Holds Fifty-Eighth Annual Meet
The fifty-eighth annual Pecos Valley Baptist Association meeting will be hosted by First Baptist Church on Tuesday October 19. Rev Ken Andress will moderate afternoon sessions with Rev Homer Nowell delivering the sermon. Evening program features Rev L D Green Cecil Ray and missionary Grayson Tennyson with reports on Buckner Children’s Home and Sul Ross Baptist Student Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos Valley Baptist Association
First Baptist Church
Southern Baptist
Leslie Smith
L.A. Pattillo
West Park Baptist Church
John Rushing
Ronnie Skaggs
Gene Jorgenson
Woodrow McHugh
LD. Green
Paul Tatum
Baptist Student Union
Sul Ross
Dan Boling
A.L. Gatewood
Lubbock
Buckner
Paris Barton
Nixon's aid push for parochial schools stirs protests
President Nixon pledges support to bolster parochial schools at a Knights of Columbus banquet, drawing protests from Jewish groups who warn of constitutional issues. Catholic schools face rising costs, teacher salary increases, and funding debates across states as lawmakers consider aid and subsidies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claire Cox
Copley
New York
Nixon
Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus
Terence Cardinal Cooke
American Jewish Congress
Will Maslow
Maslow
Seventhday Adventists
Supreme Court
Nelson Rockefeller
Gallup
Philadelphia
Officials Dominate SBC Poll In St. Louis
A tally of 7,310 registered representatives at the Southern Baptist convention in St. Louis last June shows 84.4 percent were members of a church staff, the spouse of staff, or a denominational worker.
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Nashville, Tenn
Southern Baptist Convention
St. Louis
Rural minister Jim Ford named Texas Rural Minister of the Year
Jim Ford pastor of Wolfe City Church of Christ in Hunt County has been chosen as Texas Rural Minister of the Year. He will be honored Oct 14 15 at Texas A M University during the Town and Country Church Conference with an engraved silver tray from The Progressive Farmer. Ford is praised for leadership beyond the church and for uplifting rural community life in Wolfe City and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Ford
Wolfe City
Ford
Church Briefs October events and bus from First United Methodist
The month features a Church of Christ singing in Jal New Mexico October 17 at 2 30 p m and a gospel meeting October 18 24 led by Bro Gary Beauchamp of Houston Also noted are visiting members from multiple towns and the Pecos Valley Baptist Association 98th meeting October 19 at 4 00 p m The Hazel church bus runs Sundays October 17 9 15 9 45 a m and returns by 12 30 p m Activities include a Fellowship Circle meeting October 19 andSemana de Mision Cristiana October 17 24 with services in English Spanish and Mexican clergy Rev Gaston Valencia leading prayers for the ill and needy.
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Church of Christ
Jal
New Mexico
Gary Beauchamp
Houston
The
Pecos Valley Baptist Association
First Baptist Church
Hazel
First United Methodist Church
Gems from Church of Christ Bulletin
Don Weinacht hosts 9:30 a.m. gathering at 2027 Jefferson. The Golden Rule Circle meets Oct 19 at 9:30 a.m. at 1705 Adams with Mrs. Ronny Bowles in charge. Wesleyan Service Guild plans a covered dish dinner next Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the church parsonage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Weinacht
Jefferson
The
First United Methodist Church
Nathan Waldrop
Adams
Ronny Bowles
Wesleyan Service Guild
Christian Mission Week at San Pedro United Methodist Church
The San Pedro United Methodist Church invites everyone to Christian Mission Week starting this Sunday and continuing through next Sunday. Special guest Rev. Gaston Valencia from Ciudad Juarez will speak on The Multiple Aspects of our Salvation Through Jesus. Services are 11:00 A.M. and 7:30 P.M. at E 6th St and Walnut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Pedro United Methodist Church
Ciudad Juarez
Chihuahua
Olmos
San Pedro
Protestant groups praise Nixon China outreach
American Protestant denominations with over 31 million members applaud President Nixon's plan to normalize relations with the People's Republic of China. Liberal and conservative church leaders welcome the move, hoping it aids peace in Vietnam and broadens the mission field's prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claire Cox Copley
New York
Nixon
Peking
Paul Harvey
Harold Lindsell
Christianity Today
Bill Bright
Campus Crusade For Christ
Jim Jefferies
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Stan Mooneyham
World Vision
China
National Council of Churches
Cynthia C. Wedell
White House
U.S
People’s Republic of China
John Conventry Smith
World Council of Churches
World Christian Community
United States
America
L. Ladany
Hong Kong
China News Analysis
Father Ladany
Vietnam
Asia
United Church of Christ
Robert W. Moss
Congregational Christian Churches
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Spiritual healer Sister Sophia offers faith healing in Mona hans Texas
A local advertisement touts Sister Sophia a spiritual healer who claims she can heal by touch and identify friends and enemies by name. It promotes a God given power to solve troubles and invites all who suffer to visit her home on Ft Stockton highway open daily with free lucky charm and holy water.
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Sister Sophia
Monahans
Tex
Ft. Stockton Highway
Heifer Project Moves Headquarters to Arkansas Ranch
The interdenominational charity Heifer Project Inc. transfers its headquarters from St Louis to a 1100 acre ranch near Little Rock. The facility will quarantine and prep breeding stock for shipment and houses a 700 head foundation herd of registered beef cattle for producing offspring.
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Heifer Group
Little Rock
Ark
AP Heifer Project, Inc
St Louisl
Here
The Eye Defense and Aging Vision
The piece explains how eyes are protected by blinking eyelids shielding the eyeball from harm. Tears continuously cleanse and antiseptically protect the eye, while aging reduces focusing ability. It urges prompt eye examinations if vision is not perfect.
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Ken Andress
Bob Porterfield
Green
Cecil Ray
Baptist General Convention of Texas
Tennyson
Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board
Lisbon
European Baptist Federation
Portuguese Baptist Theological Seminary
Portugal
Tennysons
Brazil
Plainview
Brownwood
Desdemona
Crosbyton
Wichita Falls
Howard Payne College
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Howard Payne
Betty Waters
Fort Worth
Gene
Laura
James
Rev. Tennyson
Iredell
Fairy
Post
Foreign Mission Board
Gray
Grayson C
Cecil A, Ray
East Berlin
Europe
Ralph Abernathy
East Germany
Jim
God
Texas
Brown
Mer
Gaston Valencia
Church Briefs
Fourth St. Church of Christ
Cynthia Landry
Wink
J.P. Stroud
Stanton
Johnny Davis
Big Spring
Cheri Neel
L.C. Holley
Odessa
Leon Gillespie
Kermit
T.A. McNeill
Ft. Worth
John Thomason
Fellowship Circle
Mision Christiana
Church of Christ Bulletin
Methodist Church
Sonora
Mexico
Valencia
Baja
Calif
Red
Red China
Indochina
H.G. Bradley
S. Eddy
Sophia
Charles Gann
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