Smyth to lead revival at First Baptist Church
Southern Baptist missionary Jerry Smyth in Bahia Brazil will evangelize at First Baptist Church Fifth and Hickory streets starting Sunday, with morning and evening services through Oct 7. Music director George Young plans a large choir and guests including Tami Jo Whitmire and handbell and youth concerts.
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Baehia
Brazil
First Baptist Church
Fifth
Hickeory Streets
Leslie Smith
George Young
Young
Tami Jo Whitmire
Crane
Tami
Lamesa
Bill Hardage
David Sublett
Monahans
Davis
Joiner speaks on drug culture at LWML meeting
Margie Joiner led a Trinity Lutheran Women’s Missionary League session reviewing dependence on drugs and Christian resources. She urged faith, prayer, Bible study, family and community support to combat the issue amid a year’s project recap and plans for a church sanctuary carpet.
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Margie Joiner
Trinity Lutheran Women’s Missionary League
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Baptist Group Meets in Louis Wood Home
West Park Baptist women’s group met at Louis Wood’s home with Mrs. Louis Wood as chair reading scripture and devotional from John 2 12 17. A calendar of prayer named foreign missionaries with birthdays that date and a devotional on willingness to work followed by prayer. C V Young taught Mark and Clyde Chasteen led closing prayer. refreshments served. Present were No Yah Barmore, Don Morton, Clyde Chasteen, L A Pattillo, C V Young, Selma Carrell, G R Brummett, L G Worsham, and Louis Wood.
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West Park Baptist Women’s
Louis Wood
Wood
Don Morton
C.V. Young
Clyde Chasteen
Jehovahs Witnesses hold two day assembly in Lamesa
Preparations are under way for a two day assembly of Spanish speaking Jehovahs Witnesses in Lamesa on Oct 13 and 14 at La Mesa High School. The event, sponsored by The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, aims to teach Bible principles for everyday life. The Sunday public discourse Act Wisely as the End Draws Near will be given by D G Van Ike, with over 900 attendees expected. R G McCorker, supervisor of 22 congregations, will also attend.
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Lamesa
Esteban de la Rosa
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of
New York
Lamesa High School
de la Rosa
D.G. van Ike
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
Shutins to Participate in Communion Sunday
At a Methodist council retreat a ministry for the elderly and shut-ins was formed. Harold Meyer chairs the elderly outreach committee planning home Holy Communion on Oct. 7 with two-person teams. Rev. Strother hosts a radio program during the service. World Communion Sunday observes the Lord's Supper in remembrance with the 1973 theme More Than Bread.
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Harold Meyer
Strother
Thought for the week by Elders The Faith of Edison
The piece presents Thomas A. Edison's devout view that God guides the world with Infinite Intelligence. Emerson is quoted affirming trust in the Creator for unseen things, framing faith as a guiding force in science and life.
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Thomas A. Edison
God
Seeds From The Sower Sermon Spirit
A devotional reflection on trust. The author cites Psalm 18 8 and asserts that trusting in the Lord is superior to trust in man self or friends. It contrasts human reliability with divine constancy and recalls Thomas Wentworth signing his own death warrant after fragile allegiance to a king.
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Thomas Wentworth
Charles I
World Conference of Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City
The 143rd semi annual World Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints will convene October 5 to 7 at the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City Utah. thousands are expected to attend in person while millions will access the sessions via radio television and satellite broadcasts nationwide and abroad. President Harold B Lee will lead the proceedings and deliver the keynote address with other church general authorities.
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Moreman Tabernacle
Salt Lake City
Utah
John Swanson
R.D. Copeland
Temple Square
United States
Canada
Mexico
Harold B. Lee
San Marcos Baptist Academy Sees Enrollment Rise
San Marcos Baptist Academy, the state’s largest coed boarding school, reports a 10 percent enrollment increase for girls and boys. Fall enrollment stands at 445 with late registration through September. For 1973, students’ parents hail from 17 foreign countries, 12 states, and 96 Texas cities. growth is strongest among girls in grades three through twelve. The academy, founded in 1907 and owned by Texas Baptists, accepts all faiths.
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San Marcos Baptist Academy
The
Texas
Texas Baptists
Methodist Women Form New Local United Methodist Group
Five members of United Methodist Women attended the Carlsbad District New Mexico Conference meeting in Hobbs on September 22 for a Day for Celebration. The assembly marked the first meeting of United Methodist Women, uniting Women’s Society for Christian Service and Wesleyan Service Guild. Mrs. A A Martin elected local unit chair, with Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Nathan Waldrop, Mrs. Lawson Goodrich, Mrs. Frank Sounds, and Jane Ross in attendance. about 206 people attended.
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United Methodist Women
Carlsbad District
New Mexico
Hobbs
United Methodist Church
Women’s Society For Christian Sere
Ice and Wesleyan Service Guild
A.A. Martin
Martin
Nathan Waldrop
Lawson Goodrich
Frank Sounds
Jane Ross
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