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Newspaper

Southern Illinoisan

Location

Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jun 02, 1951

Page

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Carbondale Church Plans Preparation Day and Bible School

The University Baptist church in Carbondale will host Preparation Day for Vacation Bible School on June 9 with enrollment of boys and girls, followed by a parade. Bible school starts June 11. Pastor Dr. Robert Hastings will deliver morning lessons on WCIL from June 9 to 13, under the theme This is Jesus. Breadth of activities includes visitation and a Brotherhood meeting, while Memorial Day volunteers helped build the new church at Oakland and Mill. Nursery care is available during services.

University Baptist Church Carbondale Bible Robert Hastings WCIL Ministerial Association Jesus Oakland and Mill Streets Illinois

Sharp Begins Sixth Year at Grace Methodist

Dr. Glenn F. Sharp is reappointed to Grace Methodist Church Carbondale for a sixth year after the Southern Illinois Annual Conference closed its 100th session in East St. Louis. He asks Grace church members to attend Sunday worship with the theme The Majestic Christ and notes evangelistic evening services with choir selections If Thou Shalt Confess and Looking Into The Face Of Jesus. Vacation Bible School starts Monday morning June 11.

Southern Illinois Annual Conference East St. Louis Glenn F. Sharp Grace Methodist Church Carbondale Sharp Effie Hogenmiller Marsh Ackley Jesus A.C.E. League First Methodist Church West Main Street H. Hilton Longberry Am I East Hester Majestic Christ Christian Compassion Jonesboro First Methodist W. H. Lively Youth Fellowship Murphysboro Centenary Methodist Earl W. Dickey 15Th and Pine Clyde Funkhouser

Daily Vacation Bible School Opens At First Apostolic Church

The annual program begins Monday at 9 o'clock with enrollment at the first session. Classes for 3 to 16 year olds run 9 to 11:30 a.m. Monday to Friday June 4 15. Activities include hand work singing Bible stories prizes and a picnic. Rev Calvin L Rigdon leads with teachers listed and plans to enroll 100 previously. Call 1012 L for information or transportation.

First Apostolic Church Calvin L. Rigdon Ivah Lence Avis Taylor Norma Mitchell Lois Taylor Virginia Jackson Virginia Rigdon Betty Price Charlene Kiefer Sue Taylor

Nineteen Graduates Honored at Steeleville Lutheran School

Nineteen students graduated from St. Mark's Lutheran school in Steeleville on Sunday May 27. Lela Hartman was valedictorian and Donald Schaack salutatorian. Hartman and Martin Oliver received American Legion awards from Commander Roy Koeneman. Graduates include Ackroyd Doeding Hapke Hartmann Koch Lattina Schaack Walternate Werre Kothe Bruggeman Fedderke Hartmann Joost Kranz Weaver and Wolters.

St. Mark’s Lutheran School Steeleville Lela Hartman Donald Schaack Miss Hartman Martin Oliver American Legion Roy Koeneman Wallace Ackroyd Wilbert Doeding Lou Ann Hapke Orville Hartmann Norma Koch Fred Lattina Eileen Walternate Don Paul Werre Loren Kothe

First Baptist Anna Closes Bible School

Vacation Bible School at First Baptist Church of Anna ends this week. Principal Joe Burress led a team of teachers across departments as classes closed Friday.

First Baptist Anna Ends First Baptist Church

Local church schedules fill weekend service times

The list catalogs Sunday schools morning worship trainings unions and evening services across many Carbondale Murphysboro Herrin Anna Cobden and surrounding towns. Pastors include Moore Sanderson Reppenhagen Randle and Hastings with events from youth fellowships to confirmation and evangelistic services.

To Be Ordained Wednesday Warren Day Carbondale

Warren J. Day of Carbondale will be ordained to the Christian ministry by the Cairo Presbytery on Wednesday June 6 at 8 00 p m in the First Presbyterian church. The service will feature Rev Morton Merrell and sermons by Rev William Baker and Rev James R Hine. A reception follows. Day plans mission work in India after earning a divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary.

Warren Day Carbondale Christian Warren J. Day Cairo First Presbyterian Church Day Harry W. Day South Springer Morton Merrell Cairo Presbytery William Baker Anna James R. Hine Champaign W. A. Thulman Mary Day William Janssen Frank Mease Eldorado John Holladay Union Theological Seminary New York United States India Carbondale Community High School University of Illinois U.S. Naval Reserve

Morning sermons and church services listed for Murphysboro

Local church notices list morning and evening services across Murphysboro congregations including First Christian at 15th and Pine with Allen J. Collins and Jonah Walker ministries, Mt. Carbon Christian with Sunday school at 9:30 and evening worship, Nazarene at 7th and Walnut with Bible school at 9:30 and 10:45 service, plus Christian Science services at Carbondale and Carterville locations with topics Ancient and Modern Necromancy Denounced and Mesmerism Hypnotism.

Church of the Nazarene Murphysboro 7Th and Walnut James H. Campbell Young People’s Meeting Carbondale First Church of Christ, Scientist Corner Elm and University Carterville First Church of Christ Scientist East Illinos Avenue Apostolic Carbondale First Apostolic Church E. Jackson Calvin L. Rigden Children’s’ Church

Local church schedules and pastors in Carbondale and nearby towns

The notice lists Mass times at Anna Saint Mary and Carbondale St Francis Xavier with pastors Fred Renschen and Rev Robert Hutsch, plus services at Apostolic, Community church and Jehovahs Witnesses. Also covers Hickman Herrin Our Lady of Mt Carmel and Murphysboro St Peters Evangelical and Reformed and Church of God services with times and leaders.

Anna Cobden St. Joseph Charles Frankovich Herrin Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church Msgr Robert DeGasperi

Reappointed Pastor Leads Centenary Church in Murphysboro

Rev Dickey is re appointed pastor of Centenary Methodist Church Murphysboro at the Southern Illinois conference in East St Louis May 23 27 J H Davis is the conference delegate from Centenary Ashton Doody elected adult superintendent with Mr Davis continuing as general superintendent of the church school Promotion Day Sunday and Vacation Bible school activities planned next week including a joint school opening at Centenary May open 8 45 a m and closing June 15 A piano from the late Mrs Mina Henley donated by her daughters is placed in the Junior classroom.

Earl W. Dickey Centenary Methodist Church Murphysboro Southern Illinois Conference of the Methodist Church East St. Louis J. H. Davis Centenary Church Ashton Doody Mr. Davis Board of Education Women’s Society of Christian Service Wesleyan Service Guild Cecil Lipe McCord Street Edna Ingram Southern Illinois Methodist Conference Centenary Methodist Mina Henley Mary Tarkington Ruth Henley

Pastor transfers reshuffle at regional Methodist churches

Reverend William Henderson of the First Methodist Church of Anna is promoted to Vandalia. Reverend Raymond Sweitzer of Mt. Vernon will succeed him in Anna. Reverend W H Lively of Jonesboro is reassigned back to the Jonesboro parish.

William Henderson First Methodist Church Anna Vandalia Raymond Sweitzer Dix Kell Methodist Church Mt. Vernon Mr. Henderson W. H. Lively First Methodist Church of Jonesboro

Cambria Church School Set to Open Monday

The First Baptist Church of Cambria will start vacation church school Monday and run through June 15. It serves children aged 4 to 14 with classes 9 AM to noon, Monday to Friday, taught by teachers including Lois Vaughn, Margaret Ditterline, Betty Jane Sanderson, Hilda Elkins, Afton Gray, Evelyn McCluskey, Lena Ditterline, and Ruth Green.

First Baptist Church of

Loyalty Day Observed At First Methodist Carbondale

First Methodist Church Carbondale holds Loyalty Day service Sunday at 10 45 am with attendance registration and a sermon titled How Loyal am I Rev H Hilton Longberry notes the day resembles Master Day in the U S Army Youth groups meet in the evening Teen picnic and swim June 10 at Crab Orchard Lake under Couples Class sponsorship The WSCS June meeting is Tuesday at 2 directed by Mrs Longberry A Tour of the World via The Methodist Woman

First Methodist Church Carbondale H. Hilton Longberry U. S. Army Longberry Crab Orchard Lake WSCS

Revival Continues At Murphysboro Church

Revival services at the Assembly of God church in Murphysboro will continue through June 10 led by evangelist James Courtney of Baton Rouge Louisiana. Pastor J W Ellsworth says the open services begin each evening at 7 30.

Murphysboro Assembly of God Church J. W. Ellsworth James Courtney Baton Rouge Louisiana

Hold Songfest At Anna Tonight

A Negro quartet United Harmony Four from Cairo will sing on a program at the American Legion Community center in Anna. The event is part of the Singing Roundup held on the first and third Saturdays each month with gospel singers from several Southern Illinois counties. The conventions have run for a year and a half. Public invited. no admission.

United Harmony Four Cairo American Legion Anna Illinois

Students attend Billy Graham crusade in Memphis

Six students from the Baptist Foundation in Carbondale attended a Billy Graham crusade in Memphis Tennessee last Thursday night. The students sang in the choir at the meeting.

The Baptist Foundation Carbondale Memphis Tenn

First Christian To Honor Its Graduates

First Christian church in Murphysboro holds special services Sunday at 10 30 am to honor its 1951 graduates. Forty graduates from high school college and elementary levels are invited. carnations will be given to attendees and the sermon is titled The Four Dimensions of Life.

First Christian Church Murphysboro

Two Churches Unite for Vacation Bible School

First Presbyterian church and St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed of Murphysboro join to run a two week Vacation Bible School for children ages four to 12. Registration starts at 9:00 a.m. Monday with a parade alongside other churches. The Altruist class meets Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the church parlors with hosts Mrs. Jennie Ozburn and Mrs. W E Sullivan. Warren Day of Carbondale, a Union Theological Seminary graduate, is to be examined for licensure and ordination by the Cairo Presbytery in Carbon­ dale Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. The Cairo Presbytery Young Adults banquet is at First Presbyterian in Harrisburg Friday at 6:30 p.m. Choir practice is Saturday at 5:00 p.m.

First Presbyterian Church St. Peter’s Evangelical and Reformed Church of Murphysboro First Presbyterian Jennie Ozburn W.E. Sullivan Presbytery of Cairo Carbondale Warren Day Day Union Theological Seminary of New York City Harrisburg

Herrin Youth to Lead Worship at First Christian

The high school youth group from First Christian church in Herrin plans to lead Sunday evening services this summer. They also did so in 1950. Officers Joe Stutsman Drury Benton Dianne Barnes and Sara Beth Hodges will participate in the service titled In the Beginning God. The Girls choir will sing and the minister will give a brief message. Afterward the group will meet at the parsonage for a party.

First Christian Church Joe Stutsman Drury Benton Dianne Barnes Sara Beth Hodges

Special Service Sunday Dedication at Carbondale First Christian

Dedication services for the new sanctuary and educational building of the First Christian church in Carbondale start with a 10 30 a m worship. Mrs. Helen Baughman plays the preludes and the choir led by W Wakeland performs. The Rev Mr William T Pearcy will deliver the message with the theme A Day of Victory. An afternoon service at 3 00 p m features the choir and soloists and the sermon We Shall Build On by Pearcy. Community greetings are offered and tours and tea follow. Public invited. Board meeting Monday at 7 30 p m and choir rehearsal Wednesday at 7 00 p m. Vacation Bible school June 11 22 begins daily at 9 00 a m.

Baptist Anna—First Baptist L. H. Moore Training Union Cambria—First Baptist Church Ralph Sanderson Unified Baptist Youth Fellowship B.T.U Ing Christian Standard of Conscience Carbondale First Baptist Church West Main W. L. Reppenhagen W. L. Randle F. G. Warren Graham Street Baptist Church Snyder and Graham Harry Steele New Zion Baptist Church W. H. Clark Lord Elijah Ella B. Williams Rockhill Baptist Church Monroe Marion L. W. Mingo Walnut Street Southern) Baptist Church Walnut and University O. C. Cooper Cobden First Baptist H. C. Croslin DeSoto Baptist Church DeSoto Ill Louis Blaise Eugene Baggett Herrin W. A. Shoopman Jonesboro Ray Rhyne Murphysboro Elm Street Baptist 19Th and Elm Arthur Farmer North 15Th Hutchel T. Rafael Morning Star Baptist E. Street P. J. Rodgers Percy Charlie Simonds Jesus ANNA Moriah William Swarbrick Luther League Anna—Trinity L. M. Weechter Trinity Lutheran Church North 16Th Street First Lutheran William J. Boatman D.D Immanuel Lutheran Pine W. T. Janzow Steeleville Peace Lutheran E. W. Belter First Christian L. Francis Scheffler First Christian Church University At Monroe Ronald B. Scriven William T. Pearcy Delno W. Brown Hurst—Christian Church H. M. Cole Christian Youth Fellowship First Christian Church In W. Wakeland Harker Robert Wright Glaroa Moroni Judy Gurley Board of Church Extension of the Disciples of Christ Indianapolis Indiana Pearcy Jesus Calls Macfarlene Bill Hall Gloria Moroni McDermott E. G. Lentz Thomas E. Morton Brotherhood of Disciples R. L. Thorp Centralia W. Janssen First Presbyterian Church Daily Vacation Bible School First Methodist Woman’s Society of Christian Service First Methodist Church

When Christ Disturbs Sunday Night Service Notice

Vacation Bible School runs June 11 to 22 at First Baptist Church. The ad promotes the Sunday night program titled When Christ Disturbs scheduled for 7:30 p m as part of the church’s outreach.

Murphysboro Pastor Reappointed for First Methodist Church

The Rev. Clyde Funkhouser was re appointed as pastor of First Methodist Church Murphysboro at the Southern Illinois Methodist conference in East St. Louis. The new church year begins June 3 with a shortened 45 minute service and 11 15 a m dismissal.

Clyde Funkhouser First Methodist Church Murphysboro Southern Illinois Methodist Conference East St. Louis

Bible School Clinic Held at Walnut Street Baptist Church

A Vacation Bible School Clinic was held on May 31 at Walnut Street Baptist Church for teachers and officers preparing for this year. Sessions ran 10:00 to noon and 1:00 for closing. Rev. Lester Teel led the program with department discussions on plans and procedures. The two week program begins June 11 with listed superintendents and officers.

Walnut Street Baptist Church Lester Teel Nine Mile Association Bill J. Smith O. C. Cooper Phylis Williams Gene Slicker A. J. Cook W. A. Ecker Paul Stephens Otho Williams

Bible School at DeSoto Baptist Opens June 4

DeSoto Baptist Church will host a two week Bible School starting Monday June 4. Classes run Monday to Friday from 8 30 a m to 11 30 a m for children ages four to sixteen.

Southern Baptist Convention Set for San Francisco Events

The Southern Baptist convention in San Francisco June 20-24 is expected to draw 25,000 messengers and visitors from 27,000 churches across the South Middle West and West.

Southern Baptist Convention San Francisco South Middle West West

Also Mentioned on This Page

Carbondale Church Dr. Sharp Grace Methodist Apostolic Bible School Steeleville School Methodist Ana Bethel A.M.E East Jackson Lewis Carter Lutheran William S. Baker Westminster Fellowship University At Elm Olivet and Galilee E. C. Lee L. R. Gilliland Grand Tower Lee Pope Ward Christian Science Marion and Chestnut Streets N. A Jehovah's Witnesses North Washington Evangelical and Reformed St. Peter’s Evangelical and Reformed Spruce K. W. Pheiffer Church of God Carbondale First Church of God Corner Wall and College Arthur Rendleman Herrin Christian Church South Park Avenue Bible School Christian Endeavor Dickey Anna Pastor Cambria Church School Christ Theran Utheran WIPF KWK Mutual Kfuo Church Tennessee Helen Baughman Hayden Williams Vacation Bible School Riverside Park Murphysboro Ministerial Association Earl Dickey Two Methodist Churches DeSoto Baptist Baptist Book Store W. Main St Carbendale, DD Holy Bible Herrin, Tl
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