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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1952
Page
4
A dense survey of local church notices listing Assembly of God, Baptist, and Methodist congregations with addresses such as 215 Pleasanton Rd, 139 Denver Blvd, and 417 Catalina St. Includes ministers, service times, Sunday schools, evening services, and special events across Northside, Southside, and Southeast districts.
Sunday services at Riverside Baye Hist church and Beacon Hill Church of Christ feature sermons on Making God Attractive and The Way to Fame and Immortality. Multiple area churches list morning worship, Bible school, and evening services with pastors including Rev Clyde Childers and Paul Stevens, plus events and midweek classes across the county.
A long sponsor list from churches and merchants in San Antonio highlights the city’s religious and commercial community. Firms include Aurora Apartment Hotel, Academy Army Surplus, Alamo Iron Works, J.C. Dielmann Company, Gunter Hotel, Schilo's Delicatessen, Napsh Drug Store, and many more. The notice underscores local business support for religious initiatives, spanning services from funeral directors to furniture stores and wine shops.
Dr Charles Hall, the nation’s youngest converted Jewish evangelist, will preach at the municipal auditorium Sunday at 3 p.m. His topic will be Will Russia and America Go To War He is sponsored by Friends of Israel and will be heard nightly on radio NELO S00 at 230 p.m.
Dr. Mark N. Richards will preach morning service on finding God at Alamo Heights Baptist Church 6301 I Broadway with Ave Maria prelude by organist Mrs. W. R. Webb The Marks of Vital Christian Experience is the evening sermon topic Observances include a family movie during Wednesday prayer service and a completed all church training union study course preparing for a church library to be set up soon The library manual was covered during the course week
Baby Day at Rev. Baptist Church 2157 Burheist. Pastor Rev. Pintl Morgan announces a new testament will be given to the youngest baby present and a certificate to each child 8 years old and younger. Rev. Gerald Cates will be guest preacher and lead the dedication prayer at the evening service.
The congregation at 217 Pershing Ave Will Sunday after morning service hold its annual dinner and meeting. Officers for the coming year will be elected, committees will report on their activities, and plans will be made.
Dr. John Daniel Brown pastor of the South San Antonio Baptist Church will preach Sunday morning on God Calling a Boy. Evening service topic chosen by Mr. I Brown is An Awakened Conscience.
Rev. W O C McBirnie of Trinity Baptist Mulberry and Shook selects Is Blood transfusion Against the Will of God as the evening topic built around law and grace. Ray Syrstad will sing Longing and a male quartet will perform.
Dr. William V. Gardner will be guest speaker at the 11 a m service of the First Presbyterian Church at N Alamo and Fourth streets, with a sermon titled Why Doesnt God Quit. He has pastored churches in Tuscumbia Farmville and Atlanta. Mrs. Gardner is formerly Marira Hoon of San Antonio. Also, City Manager C E Harrell will speak at the men’s dinner Tuesday at 6 15 p m on Problems Facing the City Government. Richard Owens of Trinity University will sing.
George W. Krueger service pastor of Lutheran Service lounge will be guest speaker at Grace Lutheran church Sunday. He will preach at 8:15 am with Holy Communion on the theme Daring to Act in Faith and at 10:45 am with the theme The Prospect of God's Children. A midweek Holy Communion is set for Wednesday at 8 pm. A Christian Service tea for girl and junior senior high graduates is at 3 pm today. The youth join the Spring Luther League Federation rally at Highland Park Lutheran church Sunday afternoon and evening.
The Lutheran Spring Rally of the San Antonio Federation of Lutheran Leagues meets Sunday afternoon at Highland Park Lutheran Church, 709 Hammond Ave. Registration starts at 1 30 p m with young Lutherans from the area attending. The theme is Read the Word and the morning service includes holy communion. Pastor Dr Carl J Scheidt will preach Under His Arms from the Old Testament Benediction.
The congregation at 201 Harriman Pl Will hear Minister Dr David F Tyndall preach at Sunday morning service on The Christian Ministry The evening service topic will be Satan's Method of Ruining Souls delivered by the same minister
Revival at Grace Church of the Nazarene on Denver Blvd and St Anthony Ave ends Sunday night with Rev Ponder Gilliland preaching Forty Days to Live. Morning service topic is Are These the Last Days.
Dr James W Laurie, president of Trinity University San Antonio, will preach at Travis Park Methodist Church at 10 45 Sunday. His sermon titled The Educated Heart will be broadcast on KTSA at 11 30. Rev Lane Fore will preach at the 7 30 service in the church sanctuary.
The Texas Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed church voted to join the Texas Council of Churches at a Trinity Church meeting in New Orleans. Delegates from San Antonio included Rev. Martin P. Kniker and Mrs. NH Haase, with Kniker appointed as one of five Texas Council representatives.
Bruce L. Medford associate minister at Laurel Heights Methodist church will preach both Sunday services at Laurel Heights. Morning topic Mirrors and Religion and evening Possessing Our Possessions. Dr J Chess Levern attends a general conference of Methodist churches in San Francisco and will return Wednesday.
At 8 a m the youth groups and confirmed members will attend a corporate communion at St Mark's Episcopal Church 315 E Pecan. After the service a breakfast for the youth and parents follows in the parish house. Rev Harold C Gosnell will preach at 9 30 and 11 a m after two weeks away for U S Navy disaster relief training.
Rev. K Wiederaenders of St Paul Lutheran Roseborough heads Texas district delegation leaving for New Orleans to join stewardship secretaries from six states. Meeting reviews Conquest for Christ fund now expected to exceed 15 million, to aid Missouri Synod schools, seminaries, and missions. Services at St Paul begin 9:30 a.m. with Bible classes, 10:30 a.m. sermon Pardoning Mercy Through Christ, vicar Howard Schuett. 5 p.m. choir rehearsal. 6 p.m. fellowship hour. Evening sermon God’s Gracious Providence.
Rev. Claud J. Bonam pastor of Huisache Avenue Baptist church Huisache and Warner Aves will preach Sunday evening on Should a Dying Young Man Refuse His Mothers Blood or Does the Bible Forbid Blood Transfusion He will also preach at the regular morning worship service.
Woodlawn Christian church Elmendorf at Gramercy will observe the tenth National Family Week May 4 through 11. Rev. Harry L. Owens will use The Christian Family as the theme for his sermon at morning worship. A Family Fellowship supper is planned in the social hall on Tuesday at 6 30 p.m. New church members will be honored guests.
Dr Francis M Davis will preach on The Meaning of Pentecost at the Crestholme Presbyterian Church morning service located at 347 Hermitage Ct. The evening service theme is The Immeasurable Love of Christ.
Rev A C Bates, missionary secretary for the Texas District of the Assemblies of God, will preach at the First Assembly of God church 215 Pleasanton Rd in two services. Bates is widely known as a convention and camp meeting speaker and has served as a denomination official for many years, according to Rev Kermit Reneau, the church pastor.
The 48 voice a cappella choir from Pexas Lutheran College Seguin directed by Prof Phillip F. Knautz will give a sacred music concert at St John s Lutheran Church in E Nueva at S Presa Sunday at 815 p m The group recently toured Texas singing in Lutheran churches and is noted for its interpretation and presentation.
The listing details multiple Lutheran and Nazarene services across San Antonio churches, noting pastors Rev J Edw Marshall and Rev John B Meyer among others, with early services, holy communion, sermons on topics like The Prospect of Gods Children and How A Christian Citizen Conducts Themselves, plus midweek Bible study and choir activities.
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