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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1963
Page
5
Wesley Morgan of Carbondale will be the organist for the festival sponsored by the Southern Illinois Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
The Newman Foundation of Southern Illinois University presents a Living Rosary at SIU McAndrew Stadium Sunday evening. Sixty five Newman members portray Rosary beads in colored gowns with candles for grandstand illumination during Benediction led by Rt. Rev. Robert DeCaspari with a host of clergy assisting. SIU Trumpeters and Newman Charaleers provide music as 65 Newmantles perform the decades. Admission charged. ample parking available. public invited.
Miss Theressa Hoover, of the New York Department of Christian Social Concerns, leads a weekend Wesley Foundation retreat for Southern Minor University students. Talks cover morality, culture, Christian orders, and church future, with films on prejudice and an inclusive church.
The Rev. Henry Brayfield of Marion will speak at the Herrin Mying Squadron gathering at 1301 St 16th St at 2 p.m. Sunday. Special music is planned and the public is invited.
Interdenominational Youth For Christ hosts a 7 30 pm rally at Back Springs Baptist Church with Rev Lee Vernell Willard as guest speaker. The text also mentions a culinary note about fresh picnic shoulder prepared on a range.
Two Carbondale women were reelected as division leaders of the Woman's Society of Christian Service in the Southern Minor Conference of the Methodist Church at Olney for its 23rd annual session. Mrs John Parrish was chosen secretary of student work and Mrs C E Fehrenbaker as secretary of supply work. Richard H Bauer of the Methodist Church in Nashville urged the 500 women to witness their faith and warned of a leadership shortage in churches, stressing support for youths entering church vocations.
Reporter Marie Volkert details a Murphysboro Nazarene Church rally where Paul Skiles, international Nazarene Young People’s Society secretary, urged youths to attend church camps. He recalled a 76 yard run amid praise and recounted inviting Lee Darvel to church. The Illinois district plans two youth institutes at Nazarene Acres. Delegations from Carrier Mills, Carterville, Anna, Herrin, Marion, Murphysboro, Omaha and more attended.
The Hurst Christian Church schedules a revival starting Monday through May 10 at 7:90 each day. Evangelist is Rev. Matthew Tose da of Crown Point Indiana assisted by song evangelist Larry Bratton of Carbon dale. The Rev. Mr Ikeda, born in Tokyo and arriving in 1958, studied at Cincinnati Bible Seminary and Lincoln Bible Institute, and has pastored four years at Marinville Church of Christ in Crown Point Indiana.
The South Illinois Synod of the United Church of Christ meets Monday to Wednesday at St Pauls Church Lebanon with ministers and lay delegates from 92 churches. The Rev W Everell Lynch serves on multiple committees while Ben M Herbster will speak and seminary graduates are recognized. Carterville Revival, First Apostolic Church hosts a two week 7:30 pm revival beginning Sunday with Rev Dan Gallagher and Rev HM O Cook inviting the public.
The Herrin Ministerial Association donated 91 leather bound red letter New Testament and Psalms Bibles to Herrin Hospital in a dedication ceremony. Administrator Bertha Goodrich received them from Rev. Dennis Lyerla and others. Two Bibles per room, one in the waiting room, plus 24 more for local motels and five each for Hampton's Nursing Home and Ridley's Best Haven Nursing Home, funded by Thanksgiving and Good Friday offerings.
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