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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1957
Page
3
In Elyria churches volunteer leaders staff daily vacation Bible schools offering two to three weeks of intensive religious instruction plus songs crafts and games. Mothers older students and occasionally fathers organize supervise and teach while buses and refreshments rely on volunteer drivers and donors. About 3,000 children participated and over 250 volunteers contributed.
The First Methodist Church Chancel Choir will present portions of Mendelssohn Elijah during the regular service tomorrow morning. Daniel Harris directs with Nancy Caballero on organ. Soloists include Mrs James Johnson soprano and Robert Luecke baritone. Mrs Johnson sings What Have I To Do With Thee Turn Unto Her Lord. The choir also performs He’s Watching over Israel Cast Thy Burder upon the Lord and Blessed Are the Men Who Fear Him. Dr Barle R Henderson will preach a brief sermon after returning from Northeast Ohio Conference sessions.
Lorain Area Youth for Christ plans an afternoon program at Lakeview Park starting at 3:80 with games and a 615 picnic. The group will attend a 7:45 rally at Lorain West Side Baptist Church Leavitt Rd where Ralph Joyce will assist. They will watch the Billy Graham Crusade on TV at Madison Square Garden. Bal Starbuck and Miss Carol Deiner will represent Lorain YFC during the first week of the Youth for Christ International Convention from June 30 to July 1.
The Elyria Senior Catholic Youth Organization lists a series of events including a breakfast following a Holy Communion Mass at Sacred Heart Center, a fundraiser roast, a day trip to Akron for sports at St. Paul Parish, and a July 1 meeting at St Marys Church with Roberta Lescher and Insure Carlin as co chairs. The group plans to write Mayor J. Grant Kers and promote wholesome literature.
Mrs David Noble former assistant in religious education will speak to the Senior Methodist Youth Fellowship tomorrow at the First Methodist Church. Her topic The Road Ahead Ed Hollis will lead the meeting. Five Advanced Lutheran Serv Thursday June 27. ice Volunteer Schools offer training in Christ life youth readership to 5 10 p.m. Precedes the visit. Participants will include Lutherans 175 young people of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod this summer. Each school limited to 35 students. Five day sessions focus on worship life Understanding People group work Walther League program and congregational life.
The daily vacation church school at Magyar Evangelical and Reformed Church under Pastor Louis G. Novak ends with a Friday program supervised by teachers including Mrs No and Miss Wyszyn. Students Judy Wyszyn Esther Punkle and Jimmy Pappas help in nursery and kindergarten. Classes will demonstrate folk dancing and early American themes at the church festival on Sunday June 20.
Ridgville Altar and Rosary Society of St. Peter’s Catholic Church held its final meeting of the year. Mrs. Oliver Ziegman presided after Rosary prayers. Reports were given, sunshine list updated, and an annual picnic at Lucille Eberling’s home July 18 was announced. The group resumes in September on the church lawn.
The Methodist Publishing House in Sao Paulo Brazil named its new building the Ellis Building to honor Rev James E Ellis of Allendale South Carolina a longtime missionary and executive secretary for Latin American missions A silver plaque replica was presented at Washington Square Methodist Church New York City during the unveiling service.
The Tennessee Council of Churches unanimously adopted a resolution urging the governor, board of education, and state legislature to desegregate public schools. It calls for bringing the system into harmony with the 1954 Supreme Court desegregation ruling.
Children at Sacred Brae school will enjoy a Thursday picnic at Howes Grange with games and a hayride, following Bible stories about Jesus life. Mrs Water Wack directs with help from St Mary Parish volunteers Carl Mary Hayes and Kathleen, plus Mrs Marlin Grain and Mrs Steve Pastor assisting handicrafts and activities.
Brownhelm’s Evangelical United Brethren Church hosted Children’s Day with a kindergarten mini service titled I Love the Church. Participants included Sue Eliinth, Beth Miller, Timmy Huffman, Sandra Joppeck, Douglas Stevens, and others, featuring piano and clarinet solos and Bible verses led by John Washburn and Mary Ann More.
Elder Joseph J Parker Jr a Cleveland evangelist will lead a week long revival at the Church of Cod on Fuller Bed beginning tomorrow and ending Sunday June 60. He has preached since age 1 and is described as the Wonder preacher. Music will be provided each night by visiting and local groups. Germans aid refugees raise 1 200 000 for Hungarian relief.
Calvary Baptist Church hosts a Sunday night program planned by its vacation Bible school. The first year saw capacity attendance with overflow by a Fellowship Chapel trailer on the church grounds. Rev Dane W Turner leads the service at 7 30. Parents and relatives invited.
Sixteen graduates of the daily vacation Bible school at the Church of the Open Door received certificates at closing exercises led by Rev. Ralph Neighbour. The program featured flag and Bible salutes, assembly singing, memory work, and class projects. Offerings over 100 dollars from the children will aid missionary work. The graduates were Phyllis Fikes Ernest Fuller Lenore Hawkins Patricia Hildebrandt Glenda Jones Jim Kettle Kenneth Lehman Michael Leininger Walter Leininger Donna Morris Carol Neighbour Stanley Price Donald Schriner Carol Smith Leora Sotsin Linda Tarry.
The largest daily vacation bible school at Grace Lutheran Church concluded with a children’s program. About 150 attendees daily, 28 staff, and classroom staff across primary to eighth grade from Mrs W W Walker to Miss Caral Bowman. Activities included songs, pledges, recitations, prayers, Bible texts, and handicraft displays for parents.
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