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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1967
Page
5
Formal dedication services were held Tuesday afternoon in the Baptist Student Center Chapel at Southern Illinois University. Speakers included Rev. Robert Fuson Jr. and leaders from the Illinois and Southern Baptist associations and SIU administration.
The Baptist State Association of Illinois votes to move statewide offices from Carbondale and authorizes further study to pick a site and timing. Rev W T Branon of Du Quoin is elected president. the foundation is chartered. H C Troslin honored. missions goal set at 150000. Southern Baptist Convention invited to Chicago in 1973 with Zion hosting next year.
The Rev. Boyd Wagner is appointed by Bishop Lance Webb to Wood River Methodist Church, replacing at Anna after three and a half years. The Rev. Frank Pierce will take Anna Church ministry. The convention adopts a record 1 million dollar budget, plans a second encampment in Northern Illinois, and votes to send the Illinois Baptist weekly paper to every Baptist home funded by the state budget.
Senior Highs at Marion First Presbyterian present The Color of a Star at 7 p.m. Sunday on South Carbon Street directed by Mrs. Noel Patton of Carterville with Kay Throgmorton and others in the cast. The First Christian Church marks Advent with sermons and an advent wreath. The First Methodist Church hosts Advent services at 10:30 a.m. with Rev. Dr. Loyd as guest speaker and special choir music.
T R Thompson new supervisor of Illinois circuit No 7 visits Herrin Kingdom Hall this week. Presiding minister J D Cooksey announces a congregational meeting at 8 p m Saturday and a public talk at 3 p m Sunday on Science The Bible and Your Faith. Thompson formerly led California Circuit 29 and succeeds Therlo H West who moves to Pennsylvania. The Herrin Hall sits at 521 N 18th St.
Congregational meeting of Herrin First Christian Church is called for December 10 after morning worship to elect church officers. A list of nominees has been posted on the bulletin boards.
The Week of Prayer for the Foreign Missions will be observed Monday through Friday next week at Marion First Baptist Church. The Women's Missionary Union leads daily 1 30 to 2 30 p m sessions with one or two circles each providing a program. A different world area is featured daily Latin America Orient Africa Europe and the Middle East an overview closes the week Friday. Carterville Methodist Youth Fellowship sponsors a bake sale Saturday at Carterville Teen Town.
Murphysboro High School will present its first season concert at 2 p.m. in the gym. A 71 member choir will perform A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten with St. Louis harpist Maria Pinckney, who has played with the NBC and St. Louis symphonies and the Canadian Ballet Company. Chamber Choir opens the program with 17 members. soloists include Mary Annette Idle Pat Morgan Debby Brown Beverly Eldridge Rebecca Kittrell and Geraldine Higgens. The Marion Ministerial Alliance meets at 8:15 a.m. Monday at the Little Egypt Smorgasbord with Bill Brown new executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce.
The Rev. Glenn Bourne president of St Louis Christian College will speak at a weeklong revival at First Christian Church Hurst beginning Sunday at 7 p m nightly. Harvey Ayers a college student and Cave-in-Rock minister will lead music. Mrs Ayers will run youth meetings titled The Booster Club for grades 1 through 6 after school each day. Mrs Kenneth Hammond and Mrs Joe Emerson will be pianist and organist.
A student panel at the Unitarian Fellowship Sunday will discuss Student Power. Rev. John Meyer from Canterbury House Episcopal Student Center at Southern Illinois University will moderate. The Unitarian meeting house sits at University Avenue and Elm Street in Carbondale. A note advises mending leather gloves with cotton thread as silk damages leather.
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