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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1939
Page
3
The article outlines Immanuel Church activities including 11 am worship with the message Show Me, I Beg Thee, My Glory, and mid week Lenten services. Catechetical instruction Wednesdays and Saturdays, council meeting Monday, Young Peoples League Tuesday, and choir activities Thursday. The church invites all to join its ministry.
Frank T. Palm pastor lists Sunday worship at 9 15 including The Illuminating Christ sermon followed by 10 30 Sunday school Harold Waterman superintendent 8 00 pm union service at Immanuel Evangelical and Reformed. Week events March 8 catechism Home Guards prayer meeting 730 pm Epworth rally at Central Methodist Blue Island and a March 12 mass meeting for Methodist officials at Stevens Hotel. Lent sermons titled The Exposing Christ The Healing Christ The Giving Christ The Triumphing Christ and The Living Christ.
St Marys Church at 310 East 187th Street notes Mass times on Sunday at 7:00 9:00 and 11:00 a m with pastors Rev John N Weiler and Rev George Alexander. The notice urges faithful attendance as service to God and weekly observance.
St Pauls Lutheran Church announces Divine services on Sunday March 5 with German at 9 30 a m and English at 10 45 a m The Lord s Supper will be celebrated in English The sermon text is Rom 3 20 The Divine Law the Mirror We Sinners Need Mid week Lenten services March 1 German 7 15 English 8 15 p m Sermon Luke 22 54 71 Truth Scorned Come and hear The church promises a true Biblical message as heard on the Lutheran hour Sundays at 3 30 over WCEL
Dr. Walter D. Kallenbach, totally blind after a hunting accident, will give sermons at Bethany Reformed Church 111th Place and Perry Avenue. Evening services run 7 45 from March 6 to 12 with morning service 10 and closing vesper at 7 30 on Sunday. He is noted for earning two doctorates and memorizing the New Testament.
Enbach will play solos and lead the singing at every service with his trumpet and recite Scripture from memory. He departs the sawdust trail style, offering a dignified gospel message. The opening service on Monday targets youth with Dr. Kallenbach addressing their problems in Bethany Church’s spacious auditorium open to all.
The church lists events for Lent with a 10 45 a m worship service on the second Sunday and 9 30 a m Sunday school. March activities include midweek Lenten service on March 8 and a Luther League birthday meeting and officer election on Friday March 3. Visitors welcomed.
Enrollment for the Citizens Military Training Camps opens with sessions from July 11 to August 9, 1939. Camps in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota offer infantry cavalry field artillery and related training with free transport meals uniforms and medical care. Applicants aged 17 to 25 of good character and physique may enroll, with first come first served quotas and county-by-county processing.
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