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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1956
Page
12
The Seventh-day Adventists will hold an instruction session with pastors from Shafter and others for an Union Conference across four Western States and Hawaii. Harvey Retzer and Veda Pitts will attend, using special work books and films to teach news gathering church-press relations.
Shafter Seventh-day Adventist church marks Christian Home Week February 4 to 11 with daily programs at Kern Academy stressing family religion. Students enter a poster contest themed What I Can Do To Make My Home Happy. top poster to be sent to the general conference in Washington, D C. The week opens with a special Saturday program under Pastor Harvey Retzer.
Newly elected Shafter Seventh-day Adventist officers join about 250 lay leaders from 10 towns for a Saturday training institute in Bakersfield. The program includes orientation and a church officers clinic and workshop guiding 25 offices through church policy objectives and methods. Local representatives include Elder Harder, Dr. Rodney Wood, Harry Reile, Vernon Schneider, and others.
Riverside pastor Dennis J. Brown of Riverside Baptist temple will speak February 5 at South Shafter Mennonite Brethren Church near Smith's Corner. Topics include The Deadline, Left Alone, God Forsaken, The Great Cry, Thousands Missing, Awake, It's Later than You Think, A Revival or a Revolution, and Man's Two Appearances with God.
Crystals of Kunzite mined in Pala California show a vivid orange fluorescence under ultraviolet light. The finding highlights the gemstone’s striking color reaction and potential identification marker for collectors and scientists.
The Sunday Lesson focuses on Spirit with writings from St Paul in Corinthians and Mary Baker Eddy. Golden Text Psalm 143:10 asks to be taught to do God will and to follow Spirit into uprightness as California’s 1905 Motor Vehicle Act marks early state regulation. Family acknowledgments extend heartfelt thanks after a mother’s passing.
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