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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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