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Shafter Press

Location

Shafter, California, United States of America

Date

Jun 23, 1955

Page

8

Mennonite Bible School Holds Record Attendance

The Mennonite Brethren church closed its Vacation Bible School on June 17 drawing nearly 300 children from 27 churches. A teacher staff guided activities, crafts and songs while 1,673 cookies and 735 milk servings fueled a day that saw 274 attend in one day and 73 decisions for Christ.

The Mennonite Brethren Church Claerooms and Splendid Coopera Waldo Wiebe Brethren Apel Shafter

Weekend Guests From Idaho Falls Visit George Starrh Family

Mrs Starrh hosts weekend visitors including Mrs Ian Justad and Mrs May Rands of Idaho Falls. The gathering centers on family companionship and shared time at the Starrh residence.

George Starrh

Does Christianity Produce

Sunday morning at Union church features Rev. Paulitt preaching Does Christianity Produce. Service begins 9 30 am with worship and 10 20 am Sunday school. Nursery is available for small children and a unified service allows families to worship together. Rev. Babbitt leaves June 27 for Pilgrim Pines camp in San Bernardino County. Attending with him are Pudge Green Chris Senn and Lynn Horne. Some camp reservations remain and requires contact with Rev. Babbitt.

Paulitt Union Church Babbitt Pilgrim Pines Pudge Green Chris Senn Lynn Horne Rev. Babbitt San Bernardino County Southern California Congregational Council of Churches

Graduation at Southern Baptist Daily Bible School

Commencement exercises will be held Friday night at 7 30 pm for the Bible school program. Students complete two weeks of Bible study with area culmination exercises this week. All parents and friends are welcome.

Southern Baptist Daily Bible School

Instrument of Thy Peace Prayer Framing

A devotional prose fragment urging actions of peace and healing. It repeats contrasts between hatred and love, injury and kindness, doubt and faith, despair and hope, darkness and light, sadness and joy. It reads like a meditation on sowing positive virtue.

Baptists and the Bible Topic of Gospel Hour

Rev. Mel Krug of the First Baptist church teaches that the Bible is the complete inerrant revelation and sole guide for faith and practice. The 11 00 a m worship will focus on Baptism the Scriptural Basis as the central topic and interpretation standard.

Mel ‘Krug First Baptist Church Rev Krug Rev. Krug

Science Lesson Sermon Sunday

A church notice describes a Sunday sermon on Christian Science in all Churches of Christ Scientist. It cites Isaiah 40 5 and Matthew 9 2 6 7 as basis for divine authority over disease and healing through sister Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health and explains healing as the effect of divine principle dissolving sin and disease.

God Churches of Christ Scientist Mary Baker Eddy

Boy Scouts Return From Coast Trip Adventure

Members of Troop 903 completed a four day coastal trip with camping at Carpinteria and Pismo State Beach parks. Activities included ocean swimming fishing clamming and a Santa Barbara movie visit This Island Earth. Supervising scoutmaster is Fred Mason.

Boy Scout Troop 903 Ocean Carpinteria State Beach Park Santa Barbara This Island Earth Pismo State Beach Park Jerry Hamlin Bill Ford Wayne Davis Dickie Straube Lewis George Robert George Corky McGuire Warren Thompson Bobby Thompson Donald Ogle Dormont Eckert Johnny Thomas James Sherrill Fred Mason Lions Club Sanderson

Woman Missionary to Speak Before Church Meeting

The Women's Fellowship of Union Congregational Church will meet June 27 at 2:30 PM in the church parlor. Mrs. Bernice Hath, a Navaho Indian missionary in Arizona, will speak. Mrs. Hath is mother of Collins Hath who works at Carolina Farms. All interested are welcome.

St. Francis Women's Fellowship Group Union Congregational Church Bernice Hath Arizona Mrs. Hath Collins Hath

The Bill Song Family Return From West Coast Vacation

The Bill Song family of Tulare returned Sunday from a weeklong vacation in Pismo Beach and Los Angeles with their children Robert and Lynette. They visited relatives and friends during the stay.

Bill Song Tulare Pismo Beach Los Angeles Robert Lynette Wile

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