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Newspaper

Southern Illinoisan

Location

Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Dec 23, 1950

Page

2

Carbondale Churches Plan Special Christmas Services

Carbondale churches announce a busy Christmas week with special services Dec 24. First Methodist hosts a 10 45 am morning service with the Chancel choir and guest soloists, while First Baptist screens a full length film and hosts a short postscript. Other churches plan midnight mass and candlelight services, with carols and programs for children.

Bethlehem Birth Narratives From Luke Chapter Two

The passage recounts Caesar Augustus ordering a world tax, Joseph and Mary traveling to Bethlehem, Jesus born and placed in a manger, shepherds in the fields receive angels, and the heavenly chorus proclaiming peace and joy. It ends with shepherds visiting the newborn in Bethlehem.

Cesar Augustus Cyrenius Syria Joseph Galilee Nazareth Judea David Bethlehem Mary

Embers Day Catholic Masses and Christmas Schedule

Catholic Anna St Marys in Fred Renschen parish lists Ember Day fast and abstinence. Instruction class as usual. Confessions 3 5 and 7 8 30 p m. December 24 Low Masses at 8 and 10 a m Confessions after Masses 3 4 p m Christmas Midnight Mass with carols at 11 45 p m All communicants urged to keep four hours fast 8 and 8 30 a m Low Masses.

Christmas program and midweek services at area churches

Assembly of God in Carbondale lists Sunday school at 10 and worship at 11 with a Christmas program titled Keeping Christ in Christmas at 7. Thursday midweek service is at 7 30. Jehovah's Witnesses in Carbondale meet at 301 North Washington Street with Field Service at 9 and Bible study at 2 under the topic Subjection to the Higher Powers.

City of David Christ the Lord Assembly of God Jehovah's Witnesses Carbondale Jehovah’s Witnesses Washington Street

Christmas church schedules across towns in Illinois region

The Rock Island area churches list Sunday schools and services with times for Lutheran and Presbyterian congregations in Anna Carbondale Herrin Murphysboro Carterville Cobden and Cobden First Apostolic. Christmas Eve and Day programs are noted along with hymn requests and sermons.

Murphysboro Churches Plan Christmas Observances

Murphysboro churches announce services and programs for Christmas including morning worships at 7:00 and 7:30 across First Lutheran First Christian and First Methodist. St Peter’s Evangelical will present a Christmas Eve program and candlelight service. Local choirs and junior groups will perform, with sermons on Christ’s birth and related themes in multiple parishes.

First Christian Church Vesper Dale Patricia Westerfield Betty Reid Steven Stroup Sunset Haven Bethlehem Land of Judah Robert Wright Eleanor Nelson Mimi Foley First Presbyterian William Mohlenbrock Forbes Alexander

Christmas Preparations Across Churches in Carbondale Murphysboro and Anna

Church notices list services for First Church of Christ Scientist in Carbondale and MurPHYSBORO with Sunday School at 9:30 and services at 10:45 including lessons titled Christ Jesus. Anna parish St Anns and Carbondale St Andrews Episcopal announce Holy Communion sermons and Christmas related programs including midnight Eucharist and children's party.

Yale Rock Hill Baptist Church Carbondale Nina Nichols General Missionary Society G. A Dorothy King Sunlight Band Obedias Armour Episcopal Anna St. Ann’s Episcopal W. John Harris St. Andrew’s Episcopal West Mill

Evangelical and Reformed Church Services Listed

ANNA Evangelical and Reformed Church pastor C H Green announces Sunday School 9 45 Morning worship 10 45 N Y P S 6 45 evening service 7 30 Murphysboro St Peter s Evangelical and Reformed 1512 Spruce K W Pheiffer pastor Sunday church school 9 15 service 10 30 topic Grey Friars and Black Friars The New World Christmas 7 00 Sunday church school program Sermon The First Christmas Monday Dec 25 6 30 worship God s Unspeakable Gift

Savior Lutheran Church Sunday School Fred Madonin Savior Lutheran R. C. Rist ANNA Moriah William Swarbrick Luther League Anna—Trinity L. M. Waechter Carbondale Pine Street Murphysboro Centenary Methodist Fourteenth South Streets Earl W. Dickey First Methodist Fifteenth and Pine Clyde Funkhouser Intermediate Methodist Youth Fellowship Anna—Francis Scheffler Herrin First Christian Church Delno Brown M. Hurst First Christian H. M. Cole Tommy Russell Jesus Christian Youth Fellowship Pine Streets Allen J. Collins C. H. Green St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Spruce Street

Church Notices Include Services At Two Local Churches

The Church of God at Wall and College lists Rev. Arthur Rendleman as pastor with Sunday school at 9 30 morning worship at 10 45 youth meeting at 10 45 evangelistic service at 7 30 and Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 30. The Church of Christ in Carterville at 317 East Illinois Avenue announces morning service at 10 30 with subject Christ Jesus and a Wednesday evening meeting at 7 30.

Apostolic Carbondale First Apostolic Church East Jackson Calvin L. Rigdon Baptist Anna First Baptist L. H. Moore Training Union Carbondale West Main Street W. L. Reppenhagen Guiding Star Graham Street Baptist Snyder and Graham Harry Steele Rock Hill Marion Monroe Streets Luke W. Mingo Baptist Training Union Carbondale—University Baptist North Illinois Robert Hastings Walnut Street Baptist Church Southern Walnut and University O. C. Cooper Jesus Herrin First Baptist Church Harrell Hall Jonesboro Ray Rhyne Murphysboro ElIm Street Baptist Nineteenth and Elm Arthur Farmer North Fifteenth Street H. T. Rafael First Church of God Wall and College Arthur Rendleman Church of Christ

Also Mentioned on This Page

Carbondale Churches First Methodist Church First Methodist Church of H. Hilton Longberry Chancel Alma Deane Smith Little Town of Bethlehem Redner Ritter Christiansen Cain Robert Hill Heyser Hunt Mitchell Lucy Parrish Carbondale First Baptist Church Henry Theister W. L. Reppend ST. Francis Xavier Catholic Church St. Francis Xavier Church Elizabeth Meehan Grace Methodist Church The South Marion Street Mona Rich ST. Andrew’s Episcopal Church E. Jackson University Baptist Church Cherub Jo Ann Smith Carol Gary Kaemper Stephen Beatty Linda Houghland Stephen Rendleman Caron Beverly Sullivan Stephen Whittenberg Jerry Virginia Brooks Marilyn Hadley Bethel A.M.E Carbondale Baptists WZEK Luke Lutheran William Baker Westminster University and Elm William Janssen Rome Carterville Erven C. Lee Westminster Fellowship Irene Watson Don Steverwald Cobden L. R. Gilliland Christ Robert Smith First Lutheran ST. Peter’s Evangelical and Reformed First Lutheran Church William J. Boatman Edward Har Ham Roberts John Brunkhorst Robert Crombar Roberts Frank Parrish Funkhouser Benson John Pieron Raymond Sikkel Jacobus Adams Dorothy Boucher Carrie Adams Kennedy Helen Newsome Lela Williams Handel Wilson Sweden Infant Jesus Phyllis Carter Laura Lovan Gomer Rafael Centenary Sunday School Intermedites Intermedite William Hardy Methodist Ama William Henderson Bethel A. M. E East Jackson Street Lewis Carter West Main St. Andrew’s Cathlic Church ELM Street Baptist Church of Sunbeams Christian Christian Science Church of Christ, Scientist Corner of Elm and University Walnut Street Evangelical and Reformed Herrin Second Baptist Church A. N. Sanders Carl D. Mitchell Herrin First Methodist Church Bryan Street Baptist Church Jack Murphy Glen Martin Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church Robert DeGasperi of the Nazarene Church Thomas Snider Vera Lee Karr Nell McSpadden Anita Crenshaw Juanita Burlison First Christian Church of Robert Stotlar William Schwegmann Delon W. Brown Presbyterian Church Forges Free Methodist Church Vernon Parson of the the First Apostolic Church Murphysboro, Ill Church of God Young People’s Group of Herrin, Illinois
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