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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1957
Page
2
Melvin Bender leads a Sunday evening service at 7:30 p m at Ebenezer Reformed Church. Pastor Melvin B. extends an invitation to join in the Lord's Day activities, emphasizing spiritual adoption as heirs of eternal life through God’s work and Christ’s redemption.
The Church of Christ presents a morning sermon titled The Christian's Joy about blessings in this life and the life to come. Evening topic is Saying Of A Wise Man from Ecclesiastes. J C Choate oversees all services with a cordial invitation to attend.
Seventh-day Adventists announce a special offering this Saturday to fund a New Delhi hospital project. The group, operating four hospitals and two dispensaries in India and other facilities in Pakistan and Burma, plans a future adaptable architecture. Pastor C. C. Kellar and wife are linked to Adventist medical and educational work in Calcutta area.
Sincere appreciation to all who were kind to us at the passing of our dear father Mildred Davis Lorain Gaede Glenn Sanderson.
The service theme cites walking in the Spirit and restoring the fallen. Confirmation classes for children run Saturdays 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Beginning October 2 adults may attend weekly studies of fundamental doctrines. All are invited to services, Bible classes, and children’s schools.
Sunday lesson-sermon centers on Reality with Psalms as golden text. It highlights the wisdom and understanding of God, asserting Mind as All-in-all and truth as divine reality. The piece notes Mary Baker Eddy and the Christian Science view of Mind and idea as ultimate truths.
Union Congregational church will honor teachers and officers of the Sunday school next Sunday at 11:00. Rev. Paul Edward Babbitt will preach on The Task of the Teacher. The choir led by Richard Southwick will sing My God and I. John H. Turner Jr. leads the Sunday school at 9:30 with classes for all ages.
St. Mark's at 135 Shafter Avenue announces a weeklong program led by Women of St. Mark's with eye cards and planned events. Regular service Sunday at 9 30 a m features lay reader Reg Hammond and Sunday school for children.
A pre Broadway showing of The Rivalry is slated for October 3 at Harvey Auditorium Bakersfield. The drama follows format of prior Gregory productions and stars Raymond Massey Agnes Moorehead and Brian Donlevy in a high profile stage event expected to shatter box office records.
A Fresno guest quartet will perform at the Kern County Singing convention next Sunday at Free Will Baptist Church Smiths Corners. Sessions run Saturday 7 30 p m and Sunday 1 30 p m with public invitation. The producer features progressive staging and Nor man Corwich directed a Lincoln and Douglas drama influencing history.
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