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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Church News Rallies Scheduled For Youth Week The First Church of God ; sts., in Central Point from 2 Youth fellowship will be hosts ! until 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, for 100 young Bill Miller of Gold Hill and people from the Churches of j Dean Pense of Phoenix will God in southern Oregon for a i speak. A panel discussion will Youth rally in connection with j also be held on "A Place for national observance of Youth j Youth in the Church." week. I Approximately 125 young peo- The Rev. Wendell Wallace, a : pie from the five participating Tvegro evangelist from Portland, churches are expected to attend, will be the featured speaker and All youth in the area are invited. a -Negro Calvary quintet also I from Portland will provide the ' music for the rally. i The services will begin at 2i p m. at the First Church of God, ' Haven and Holly sts., and con tinue until 7:30 p.m. when an evangelistic service will be held. Interchurch Youth The second annual Medford Interchurch Youth rally will be held at the First Methodist church Sunday, Feb. 3, at 5 p.m. More than 150 young people are expected to attend from the ten participating churches. . The rally, which will climax Youth week, will use as its theme "Consider Your Call." Greg Milncss will be moderator and speakers will include Tim Hillerman. Zion Lutheran; Kay Nicodemus, Phoenix Presbyter ian; a id Larry Smith,' Friends. They will speak cn "All Are Called to be Christians," "Some Are Called to Christian Voca tions," and "All Are Called." Churches assisting are Assem bly of God who will furnish a trumpet trio and youth choir; Episcopal; First Christian and Kazarene, refreshments that will be served after the rally at the YMCA; First Methodist, usher ing; Friends; Presbyterian, Med ford and Phoenix, registration; First Baptist, scripture; and Zion Lutheran. A radio play on radio station KMED will be given Wednesday, Jan. 30 during the afternoon. The program will be sponsored by the Interchurch Youth coun cil and members of the council will take part in promoting the rally. A similar program will ap pear on KBES-TV .Thursday, Jan. 31. at 5:50 p.m. Churches of Christ Saturday, Feb. 2. the Churches of Christ and Christian churches In the Central Point area will sponsor a Youth rally at the Church of Christ, Third" and Oak Seminarian to Preach AfSf. Mark's Sunday Francis Lee Winder, a senior Classman of the Church Divinity ; School of the Pacific at Berke ley, Calif., will be the guest preacher at St. Mark's Episcopal church at 11 a.m. Sunday. His visit will be in concert with the nationwide observance by the Episcopal church of ""theological education Sunday" when the attention of the whole church is focussed upon the work and needs of the 12 Episcopal seminaries in the U.S.A. The Church Divinity school at Berkeley is the only west coast seminary and is the main source of clergy supply for the western dioceses and missionary districts. A special offering will be taken and devoted to the support of the Berkeley school. The ffev. George Bolster, rector cf St. Mark's; the Rev. John Bright, a graduate, of the Church Divinity School; and Jerome Mc- Dougall. lay reader, and super intendent of St. Mark s Church school will also participate . in the service. Phoenix Presbyterian Church Elects Officers Officers for the Phoenix First Presbyterian church- were elect ed recently at the annual con gregational meeting. Elder-trustees elected for one year terms were Mrs. Jim Gardner. Mrs. Al Morin. Mrs. Ray Claflin and Mrs. Art Thompson. For two year terms Ed Cald well. John Stewart. Charles J. Marrs. and William Johnston were elected elder-trustees and for three year term, J. O. N. oling. Claude Hutton. C. Stolh ers. and Fred Pramann. At the meeting the Board of Trustees and the Board of Ses sion were united as one board to act for the church. Church officers were instal led by the Rev. Ernest Volkman pastor, following the morning service Jan. 13. BUILDER'S CLASS DINNER The first annual Builder's Class Men's dinner will be held on Jan. 26 at 6:30 p.m.. in Wes ley hall of the First Methodist church. Walter Higgins will be the featured speaker who will speak on "Taking Your Religion To Work." A movie on the Rogue River will be shown Gordon Morris is the Builder's class teacher; Cleo Epps w ill be the master of ceremonies. JACKSONVILLE SERVICE The Chancel choir of the First Presbyterian church, Medford, will sing at the 11 a.m. worship service at the First Presbyter ian church, Jacksonville. The Rev. John O. Reynolds will preach and communion will be served. ' , iv7.;'-- 'Ill- "r : 'P- ' '. ... ..'at- ?' YOUTH WEEK BEGINS Young people at Eastwood Baptist church check details with the Rev. Richard M. Jones, pastor, after being assigned duties for the Sunday morning services Jan. 27. Pictured are Carol Anderson (left), who will give the call to worship: Mike Miller, invocation: Mr. Jones; and Gary Fields, who will lead in the responsive reading. In the fore ground are Suzann Pierce, who will read the scripture portion, and Julia Parrish, who will lead the singing. Young people will also usher during the morning worship hour. Mr. Jones will speak on "The Finger of God" and the choir will sing, "Accept Our Thanks." Another group of youths will assist in the service Feb. 3. 'Changing America' Makes Problems for The rapidly changing "face" of America is making costly and almost insurmountable problems for the churches of nation. Di rectors Robert A. McKibben, city church work authority and Glenn F. Sanford, rural special ists reported to the Board of Missions. Methodist church. The changes of the American scene include the rapid growth of population, the shifting cf population from rual and village areas to city and suburban resi dence, the "turnover" in popula tion with millions moving from state to state yearly, the new millions in schools or needing schools, and the greater numbers of "senior citizens" because of increasing life expectancy. Smaller Rural Churches These changes mean fewer people in rural churches, and therefore the closing 8f many mall churches, the need for new and enlarged churches' in many old and new urban' residence areas, and the falling off of membership in many "down town churches" in the larger cities because people no longer live in the vicinity of these churches. The costs of building new churches, in both old and new communities, is far in ex cess of funds available, these Methodist leaders said. Within the next three years, they esti mated the Methodist church should erect 1.500 new churches. or complete more than one a day. These would cost $219,- 000,000. The directors note also that there are 1.300 "abandon ed" Methodist churches, mostly in rural areas, and that a large percentage of them should be reopened if possible. The Board's department of city work is planning to hold a " Convocation on Urban Life" in February. 1958, when city church leaders from -all over the nation will study this prob lem and plan "a Methodist ad vance in the cities." Meanwhile survey teams will be at work in each state and conference to map general plans for meeting : "the challenge of the city to the church Small Parishes Dr. Sanford noted that a rec ent survey shows that 57.5 per cent of Methodists live in rural areas, and are served by more than 12.000 open country and village churches that "the Methodist church is composed largely of small parishes and is generally rural in nature and interests." "But the fastest growing group . pf people in America are the ! non-farmers who live -in the ; rural areas," he said. "They may 1 CHURCH for Sale Large corner lot with park ing area located in Medford. Ph. 3-3585 or NO-4-2829 Friday. January 25. 1957 Attendance Awards To Be Given Sunday Attendance awards will be; given at First Church of the Xazarene Sunday school to 160 persons for having perfect Sun day school attendance. A special assembly session will be held at the close of Sunday school Sunday in the church at 520 North Holly St. An eight-year perfect attend ance pin will be awarded Arnold Kornstad. with Ruth Goble, Marvin Smith. Gerry and Janet Bohl. Orpha Leschensky, Mary Foster, Gladys and Cheryl Stew art receiving special recognition for having eight and one-half years of perfect attendance. Churches be engaged in industries and trades in the villages or travel to the towns for work. Where the nonfarming rural residents iive in the same communities as the farmers, there is created a difficult problem for the local rural church: there is a clash of interests, of schedules, some times of cultural patterns. In many places it becomes neces sary to relocate and often to consolidate existing rural church es to meet some of the situations that arise. "In many other places the urban trend has caused many of the small rural churches to become smaller and has even resulted in the closing or aband onment of some. "The urban trend, together with the growth of a Bon-farm-ing and very mobile population in the village communities, have confronted the Methodist church with what is perhaps its greatest problem in this century: the training and providing of ade quate leadership and the estab lishment of an effective pro gram for the smal churches. If there is any basis for the oft repeated statistic that it takes abou 500 church members to give adequate-support to a pas tor and his family (under cur rent American economic condi tions), then it is evident that the one-church or "station" parish is not feasible in much of rural and village America. The general spread of educa- j tional advantages throughout the nation has created a new de mand upon the church. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 9,3 353.000 young people are en rolled in schools this academic year an all-time high enroll ment. This is a blessing to Amer ica and it speaks well for the future of the nation. But it places a demand upon the Methodist church and others to provide adequate and trained religious leadership for these young peo ple. If their leaders in all other walks of life are college-trained specialists, they wili require similar training in their min i5ters or they will drift away from the church's influence. FAMILY NlGHT Family night will be held at the First Presbyterian church, Phoenix, this evening starting at 6:30 p.m. - William C. Pipff Minister I II li. jonnsione Transferred to Spokane, Wash. Lieutenant and Mrs. George Johnstone, commanding officers for the last three years of the Medford Salvation Army, will leave Wednesday, Jan. 30, for Spokane, Wash., where he will assume command of the Salva tion Army work there. Captain William Ricken of Portland will report January 31 to assume duties here. Capt. Ricken. who has completed 12 years of Salvation Army service, has served at Tacoma, Wash.; Denver, Colo.; San Francisco, and several Corps in Oregon prior to being assigned to the divisional staff with headquart ers in Portland. He will be accompanied to Medford by Mrs. Ricken and their four children. Lt. Johnstone has been sta tioned in Los Angeles and Cen tralia, Wash, prior to reporting to Medford. His last offical act here will be to receive, on be half of the Salvation Army in Jackson county, the Jackson county disaster bus unit in a ceremony to be conducted Tues day, Jan. 29. Friends Pastor Attends Meeting Clynton Crisman, pastor of the Friends church, and Dr. Alvin Roberts flew to Portland Tuesday for two-day meetings cf the Board of Evangelism of Oregon Yearly Meeting of Friends churches. The board supervises the starting of new mission churches in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Sunday the pastor will speak at the three worship services, 9:45 and 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Music will be furnished by solw isl, Mrs. P. K. Nelson, in the morning and ladies trio in the evening. Sunday School for jun ior high through college age young people is held at 11 a.m., with all other ages meeting at 9:45 a.m. Bayard Stone will lead the senior Christian Endeavorers in the "Science and Religion." at 6:30 p.m.. with junior and inter mediate C. E. groups also meet ing at that time. Newly appoint ed sponsors for the intermediates are Mr. and Mrs. Deane Roberts. Church Officials Elected at Annual Corporation Meeting Church officers were elected by the First Presbyterian church at the annual congregational and corporation meeting held last week at the churclv Elder-trustees elected for three year terms were Lloyd Evans, Mrs. George Flanagan, Fred Fry, Dr. William. Holt, Albert James, Robert Rukovina, Otis Swisher, and George Witter. Deacons elected for the same period were Ross Gilkison, A. J. Johannson, Richard Marsh. Kenneth New land, Fred Purdin, James Jem pie, and Mrs. Marie Ulrich. Three deacons elected to one year terms were George Brown ell, Carrol Hays, and Mrs. Gro ver Corum. Two Plays To Be Discussed Sunday A discussion of the two. "The Dark is Light Enough," and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'., will be led by the Rev. Jack Taylor al the School of Christian Living interest group, Religion and the the Arts. Miss June Wheaton's guests at the interest group, "Missions, U.S.A." will be Ever ett Faber and Mrs. C. R. Adam son discussing "Missions through' Mass Communications.' "Role Playing" will be presented un der the leadership of Miss Gro ver Corum. "Creative Activities in the Church School." interest ! group. "Doctrines and Beliefs of the Methodist Church" will be presented in the Membership class led by Mrs. Anne Gorby, minister of membership. Senior High M.Y.F. will serve the snack supper at 6:30 p.m., and w-ill continue their assist ance in the Inspiration Time, led by the Rev. . G. A. Trobough, "The Measure of a Man." Junior High M.Y.F. at 5:30 p.m. with Fireside at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Heather ington. ARTICLES FILED Salem (U.R) Articles of in corporation were filed Wednes day for St. Luke's Methodist church, Medford. They were signed by G. A. Dierdorff. Wal ter M. Higgins, Norman T. Cap sey. D. L. Gressett and Clifford A. Platz. First Christian Church "The Friendly Church Welcomes You ' ' TO ALL SERVICES Bible School 9:45 a.m. Morning Service 10:50 a.m. Youth Meeting 6:30 p.m. Evening Service 7.30 p.m. 9th and Oakdale Medford, Ore. js v 'i i. ":X 4r - ss." J VOCATIONAL CONFERENCE Young peo ple at First Presbyterian church, Phoenix, discuss with the Rev. Ernest R. Volkman, pastor, the vocational conference that is being held at their church Sunday evenings. Started Jan. 20, five speakers, representing as many vocations, will be heard by the group. Shown are (seated) Elizabeth Pramann, Virginia Mar tin and Marilyn Beeson; (standing) Henry Church Programs to Honor Christian Youth Many churches in the valley are observing Youth Week, spon sored by United Christian Youth Movement, this Saturday and Sunday besides the several scheduled youth rallies this weekend and next. At First Baptist chuch. North Central at Fifth, the Ambassa dorettes. a women's sextet com posed of students from the Mult nomah School of the Bible in Portland, will present a service of sacred song at a Youth for Christ meeting, Saturday, Jan. 26. at 8 p.m. Robert Meyer, a Multnomah student preparing for the min istry, will bring the message for the evening. First Christian In observance of National Youth Week, the entire evening service Sunday at the First Christian church will be con ducted by the Christian Youth fellowship. Miss Virginia Dan iels, Steve Parrish, Max John son, and Lynn Segar will give the sermon "The Whole Armor of God." Miss Oveta Valdon will lead the singing and a musical selection will be given by the youth quartette. Presbyterian Services Several of the young people will help in the 9:45 a.m. church worship " service at the First Presbyterian church, Central Point. At the First Presbyterian church, Medford, the young peo ple of the church will share in both morning services with Dr. D. Kirkland West in observance of Westminster Fellowship day. At the 9:45 a.m. service James Garris, and Carol McKeown will participate. Dick Corum, Caro lyn Hedrick, Nelda Jenkins, and David Frohnmayer will share in the second service. The Westminster choir will sing the anthem "Invocation," and Denise Bruning and Joyce Gregory will sing a duet "Speak 'JOHN WESLEY' FILM "John Wesley," a feature length film dealing with the life and ministry of the founder of the Methodist movement, will be shown at the First Baptist church Sunday at 6:15 p.m. This color motion picture deals with the events and incidents in Wesley's life that best portray his long, anxious struggle to find a satisfying experience of God. Following the film the church will hold its regular Sun day evening service. The sermon will be brought by the assistant pastor, the Rev. Hadden Robinson. Rogue Valley Youth for Christ 1' W6A(kan. Presenting , . . "THE AMBASSADORETTES" A woman's sextet of students from the Multnomah school of the Bible of Portland, Oregon, in a sacred concert of music, Saturday, January 26th, 8 p.m. at the Medford FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 5th and Central Mr. Robert Meyer, from the Multnomah School will bring the message of the evening. This is an outstanding group of singers and much tn demand all over the Pacific Northwest, where they have been bringing concerts Jo rallies and meetings in various churches. . to Mc." at both srvices. Dr. West will preach on "Con sider Your Call" which is the theme for youth week this year. Sunday evening the Westmin ster fellowship will have a meet ing on "Our "Neighboring Churches." Student representa tives from the Baptist, Episco palian, Friends, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches will form a panel presenting the basic be liefs and form of government of each church. Fireside will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Bruning on Old Stge rd. Saturday Sermon To Stress Missions In his sermon, "Tilings Jesus Taught", to be given at the Med ford Seventh-day Adventist church Saturday, Elder John Trude will remind the congre gation of the admonition, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature, ' Mark 16:15. Elder Trude will tell his au dience . that the supporting of foreign missions is- only a partial fulfillment of thia great gospel commission. The Medford church will make plans for special financial sup port of the denomination's tele vision program, "Faith for To day," which is seen locally over station KBES-TV at 5 p.m. on Saturdays. The format of the program is described by James E. Chase, associate director of the denom ination's Radio and Television department, as a telecast de signed to reveal Christianity its most practical concepts everyday life. of Sunday Services and Music Announced The sermon series, "Passages of Power," will continue this Sunday, with the second in the series, "Love Under the Apple Tree," which had been prev iously scheduled. The soloist will le Mrs. Jack Harris, singing, "This Holy Hour," the Youth choir will sing. "In Heaven Above," a Norweigian folk tune; and the anthem by the Chancel choir will be "They Found Him in the Temple". Two morning worship services are scheduled each Sunday at the First Methodist church, Med ford, with the Rev. Dr. Raymond E. Balcomb, preaching at both the 9:30 and 11 a.m. services. m ft 3 V 5 Scott, Charles Swingle, Douglas James, Jim James and Mr. Volkman. Peggy Chisum is at the blackboard. The topic Sunday will be den tistry. All meetings are held in the fireside room at the church and start at 7:30 p.m. This is the second year for the vocational conference. Five different vocations were dis cussed last year. IS Mr. Nicholas Kovalak Jr. 700 Expected at Meeting Tonight ' Seven hundred delegates are expected to attend the opening session of the three-day circuit convention of Jehovah's Wit nesses which begins tonight at 6:45 p.m. at the Ashland armory. Theme for the Bible convention will be sounded with the? key note address, ""Happy ' People Serving The Happy God", de livered bv Nicholas Kovalak Jr., district minister of Jehovah's Witnesses. Ministry training will be stressed at this initial session with a model ministry training class being featured. Commenting on the baptism that will be held tomorrow after noon at 1:30,, Mr. Kovalak said, "The proper course for a Chris tian is to study God's Word the Bible daily, learn what his will is, ; then dedicate one's life to doing it." He slated that the new motion pieture in technicolor, "The Happiness of the New World Society" shows the missionary work of Jehovah's Witnesses . world wide and how assemblies : are an integral part of their worship. The movie will be , shown at the Ashland armory j tomorrow evening at 7:30. ! Climax of the three-day min- j isterial conference will come al j 3 p.m. Sunday with" the Bible j talik, "What Will Armagdeddon Mean For You?" given by Mr. Kovalak. The public is invited to attend. 1 You and Your Family Are Invited to Sunday School and Church at the . . . CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Thomas McCamanf, Minister Groveiand Ave. and Oakwood Drive - Church Worship at 9:45 and 11 A.M. Church School at 9:45 ' Build a stronger, richer life r mm 4 ?c.eSs-, WORSHIP TOGETHER EVERY WEEK7 Medford Mail Synod President To Install ' Zion's Council Zion Lutheran chucrh, corner of Fourth and Oakdale. will have the special order of the installation of a church council at its worship service Sunday, a 1 1 a.m. The president of the Pacific Synod of the United Lutheran church, the Rev. L. H. Steinhoff,." will be present to conduct the. installation and to preach the sermon for the day. At its anrtual congregational meeting on Jan. 14, the church elected three men. Ryder Berg., Dan Kadin and Walter Nunley to the council for three years each, and Otto Ewaldscn to a two year term. Other men being installed from former elections' are: Bruce Braaten, William Gates, Robert Glathar, Bernard Niehaus and Ross Turman. Officers for the coming year art: president. Pastor Hillerman; vice-president. Otto Ewaldsen; secretary, Ryder Berg: treasurer. Bruce Braaten, and financial secretary, Hugo Guenther. Reports at the annual meetintr showed steady advances in the work of tne cnurcn ana me development of the building program. Advance in the build-; ing include a substantial increase i'i the funds available for con struction, completion of a study of the programming of the church, and the application of this information by three archi tects to preliminary plans for the proposed parish-education building, and the selection of Ben Cave of Salem as the arcnJr lect to do the work. Persons interested in Ziori Lutheran church are invited trf attend the service. Rev. Hillerman to Install Pastor The Pacific Synod of the United Lutheran Church has appointed Rev. G. H. Hillermah; pastor of the local Zion Lutheran' church, to install the Rev. H. Edward Hamme as pastor of the" Hope Lutheran church of KlanV ath Falls. ' : The installation service will tnke place at the worship ser vice Sunday, Jan. 27 in Klam ath Falls. , Mr. Hame cromes to Klamath Falls from Boise, Ida., where he had served a mission congrega tion. :"..-; Mr. Hillerman will go to Klamath Falls Sunday to con duct the installation. Following the services the two pastors will leave for Portland to attend the pie-lenten retreat of the Pacific ! Synod. Mr. Hillerman will rer turn to Medford Thursday even ing. METHODIST MEN The Meyiodist Men of the First Methodist church will hold a noon luncheon on Thursday, Jan. 31, at the church. Walter Higgins, will, preside, and the minister. Dr. Raymond E: Bal comb, will bring the brief mes sage. The dismissal will be promptly, at 12:50 p.m. UNITY TRUTH CENTER Sunday Devotional Service and Sunday School tor Children 1 1 a.m. Regular Center Activities: Thursday Midweek Service 7:30 p.m., Friday morning Study Class 1 1 a.m. All Classes, Activities and Sunday Services now held at the HOLLY BUILDING Katherine Bosworth, Leader Tribune
