SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Church News
Plans Approved by
Methodists For
Student Center
Ashland The First Methodist
church, Ashland, has announced
plans to construct a Wesley
house, Methodist Student Cent
er, this summer on property they
have recently purchased near
the Southern Oregon college
campus.
Total cost of the building will
be $10,000 according to church
officials. All but approximately
$4,000 of the total cost has been
raised.
Plans by the architect, Robert
Fisher of Grants Pass, have been
approved by the church. A min
isterial student who wilf grad
uate in June from Boston Uni
versity School of Theology will
serve as associate pastor and pas
tor of student work, according to
the Rev. Ross Knotts, pastor of
the church.
At the present time the college
students- attended the W e s ley
Foundation meetings in the
church building which is more
than two miles from the campus.
The proposed building will in
clude offices, a kitchen, chapel,
fellowship hall with stage, and
a memorial chancel. '
Minister Attends
Conference-Retreat
The Rev. Richard M. Jones,
1404 Saling ave., pastor of East
wood Baptist church, was among
some 50 Oregon Baptist minis
ters and their wives who atten
ded the annual Oregon Baptist
Minieiefg council retreat and
conference at Linfield college,
McMinnville, Monday through
Wednesday.
Dr. Ivan Bell, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Phoenix,
Ariz., was guest speaker. Also
present lor the meetings was the
Rev. Charles Carmen, executive
secretary of the Ministers coun
cil of the American Baptist con
vention. Dr. and" Mrs. Harry L. Dillin
gave a tea in honor of the min
isters and their wives. Dr. Dil
lin Is president of Linfield col
lege and the American Baptist
convention.
Senor MYF Elects
Wenton Worth Leader
Wanton Worth, sophmore stu
dents at Eagles Point, has been
elected president of the Senior
High Methodist Youth Fellow
ship of the First Methodist
church. He came to the Medford
area from Reseda, Calif., where
ha had served - as treasurer of
the Junior High MYF. -
Other officers elected were:
Glenn Kaye, vice-p r e s i d e nt;
Leora " Myers, secretary; De
Wanda Winchell, treasurer; Joan
Laurili, publicity; Rosemary Do
olen. pianist, Karen Paschke,
Christian witness chairman;
Marcia Minshall, Christian faith
chairman; RonMcKemie, Chris
tian citizenship chairman; Jill
Filatrau, Christian outreach
chairman; and Craig Walstead,
Christian fellowship chairman.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Igo are the
counselors.
Unitarian Fellowship
Jo Meet in Ashland
The Rogue Valley Unitarian
Fellowship will meet Sunday,
May 5 at 8 p.m. in the home of
Mrs. Karl Peterson, on Crow
son rd. south of Ashland.
The program will be a contin
uation of the series "Religious
Liberals Examine the Bible."
Sunday night is the first of a
two-meeting study of the Old
Testament Prophets, presented
by Mrs. Allen Hatch. Mrs. Hatch
will use modern Bibical scholars
for authority, and will empha
size religious ideas which are
still valid today.
For directions to find the
meeting place telephone MUr
dock 2-7927.
Young People to Join
Congregational Church
A small group of young peo
ple will be received into mem
bership at the 11 a.m. service of
the Congregational church Sun
day. The Rev. Thomas McCam
ant will preach at both the
9;45 and 11 a.m. services on
"The World Around Us."
The Pilgrim Fellowship for
high school youth have planned
an outdoor meeting for Sunday
evening. They will meet at the
church at 5:30 and go to Tou
velle Park for their discussion,
worship and a wiener roast.
FILM AND SPEAKER
The .local group associated
with the Laymen"s Home Mis
sionary movement is showing a
film at the Roge River Civic
club, Rogue River, Thursday,
May 9, at 7:45 p.m. Pastor Fred
Blaine of Chicago will speak on
"Gods Plan of Salvation Hidden
in the Tabernacle." Public is
invited to attend.
RELIGIOUS TELECAST
The "Religion in the News"
telecast reported by the Rev.
G. A. Trobough, associate mini
ster of the First Methodist
church, will be seen at 5 p. m.
Wednesdays. .
Revivals Continue
At Baptist Churches
Southern Baptist churches in
the Washington-Oregon conven
tion start on the second week of
the Simultaneous revival that
started April 28 and will contin
ue through Sunday, May 12.
At the Temple Baptist church,
Medford, the Rev. Claude Miller
has been conducting his own
meeting, assisted by Maynard
Hadley as choir director.
At the Myrtle Creek Baptist
church the Rev. E. W, Childers,
pastor, will be assisted by Mr.
and Mrs. John Mitchell of Med
ford. During the crusade 112 chur
ches in the two states will par
ticipate with 56 pastors from 14
different states.
Ministers and their wives of
the Siskiyou association of the
Baptist convention were hosts
for the evangelists . in the area
at Grants Pass this afternoon.
Confirmation at
St. Mark's Sunday
The Rt. Rev. Benjamin D. Dag
well, bishop of Oregon, will ad
minister the rite of confirma
tion to a class of 16 adults at the
11 a.m. service at St. Mark's
Episcopal Church Sunday.
The class which has been
under instruction from tke Rev.
George R. V. Bolster for the
past six months.
A corporate communion will
be held for the new class of con
firmees at 8 a.m. on Sunday,
May 12.
Music for the confirmation
service will be by St Mark's
choir under the direction of John
Drysdale.
A coffee hour, honoring the
class, and sponsored by the Altar
guild will be held in the Mark
ade immediately following the
service. Each candidate will
wear a red carnation, a gift
from the Vestry of St Mark's.
Methodist Youth
Groups to Meet
Sunday Evening
The Junior High Methodist
Youth Fellowship will leave the
First Methodist church for fire
side at the Home of Miss Becky
Gate, on Old Military rd., at
7 p.m., Sunday. Miss Mary Van
derberg is the counselor. Miss
Marian Pearsons, president, will
preside at the meeting.
The Senior High Methodist
Youth Fellowship will see the
film "Far from Alone," at their
meeting at 7 p.m., Sunday. This
is the first of a series- of three
meetings under the heading,
"Are we really - honest?," and
will be entitled, "Nobody Will
Ever Know."
Methodist Sermon
And Music Told
"The State of the Church" will
be the sermon by Dr. Raymond
E. Balcomb at the 9:30 and the
11 a.m. services Sunday at the
First Methodist church. Mrs.
Jack Harris, soloist, will sing
"Consider and Hear Me" at both
services, and the youth choir
will present the anthem, "Break
Forth Into Joy" at 9:30 p.m.
The chancel choir and Clyde
Wheaton, soloist, will sing "I
Gave My Life For Thee" at the
11 a.m. service.
In the evening, at 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Balcomb in the "Looks at
Books," will review the book,
"The Last Angry Man," by Ger
ald Green. "Looks at Books"
will be held in the Meeker Mem
orial chapel.
Sermon-Music Told
For First Christian
The subject that the Rev. Wil
liam C. Piper of the First Christ
ian church will use for his ser
mon Sunday it "What the Christ
ian Church Believes about Bap
tism." Mrs. Derold McDonald
will sing "My Altar" and the
chancel choir under the direc
tion of C. Warren Fairbanks
will present the anthem "Lord,
for Thy Tender Mercies' Sake."
There will be a coffee hour fol
lowing th morning service.
At the evening service Mr.
Piper will talk on "The Birth
of a New Man." The youth fire
side will be held at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hop
kins. Revival Continues in
Phoenix First Baptist
Evangelist J. Toxie Jar rell,
Herlong, Calif., will continue
revival services through May 12
in the First Baptist church,
Phoenix. The church is located
at the corner of First and Rose i
sts. Services begin at 7:30 p.m. !
each night except Saturday.!
Music is directed by Charles
Findley with Mrs. E. W. Kim
mons, accompanist, and the
orchestra under the direction of
Ralph Carroll. The revival is a
unit of the Southern Baptist sim
ultaneous revivals being con
ducted throughout the North-;
west at this time. Seven area ;
churches-are. participating. i
Friday. May 3, IS 37
Pathfinders
Leave on 3 Day
Camping Trip
Complete with pack racks,
sleeping bags, and survival kits,
40 Pathfinders from the Medford
and Valley View Seventh-Day
Adventist churches' left this
morning for the Deschutes Na
tional Forest where ' they will
join members of some 45 or 50
other Pathfinder clubs located
throughout Oregon . and South
western Washington.
They will attend the first Ore
gon Conference Pathfinder Cam
poree, to be conducted May 3, 4,
and . 5 under the leadership of
Elder John Hancock, missionary
volunteer secretary of the North
Pacific Union conference, and
Elder : Walter . Blehm, Oregon
conference MV secretary.
Camp headquarters will be
set up a few hundred feet irom
the Fall river near Bend.
, Medford Pathfinders who have
not yet qualified for campcraft
honors will learn to pitch tents,
cook over open fire, and bake
bread 'on. a stick. 1
The first organized event af
ter the setting up of a camp and
supper will be sundown worship
followed by a campire conse
cration service.
Saturday morning will start
with the reading of a Bible verse
folowed by prayer, unit inspec
tion, and outdoor Sabbath school
and church services.
Sunday morning will feature
various campcraft events, includ
and the Pathfinders will be. on
their way home, by noon:
Perfect Attendance
Awards to Students
Awards were given those
having perfect attendance in
Sunday School at the First
Church of the Nazarene, 520
North Holly st., last Sunday
morning. Eight years attendance
awards were given Laura Phil
lips, Ruth Phillips, Myrtle Sco
ville and Denise Stevens, and
seven year " perfect attendance
awards were given to Pete
Beard, Patsy Branch, Lois Tomp
kins, Clarence Starkey, Floyd
Carothers and Miriam Carothers
Seventeen other students re
ceived awards ranging from six
years down to one year of per
fect attendance.
Adventists Give 20
Of Income to Church
Br LOUIS CASSELS
United Press Correspondent
Washington j(U.R The aver
age Seventh Day Adventist
gives about 20 per cent of his
income to the church.
This , custom of "double-tithing"
has made it possible for
Adventists to support more
schools, hospitals and foreign
missions than any church of
comparable size. And it has
prompted other Protestants to
take a respectful new look at
this dedicated body of believers
who long bore the label of "pe
culiar sect." :
Adventists still are holding
fast to the two doctrines which
set them apart from other fun
damentalist Protestant denomin
ations. They believe that the
second coming advent of Christ
is .near. And they observe the
Sabbath on the seventh day of
the week Saturday instead ol
Sunday. '
They Are "Different"
In recent years, however, Ad
ventists have demonstrated that
there are other ways in which
they are "different." For ex
ample: Their zeal for missionary ef
fort has made the General Con
ference of Seventh Day Adven
tists the fastest-growing major
denomination in the world. In
the past 10 years, membership
of the church has approximately
doubled and it now has about
1,100,000 members in 184 coun
tries. In the United States, still
the main center of strength, Ad
ventists constitute less than one
per cent of the total church
membership. But they send out
nearly 18 per cent of the foreign
missionaries.
' Adventists give more liberally
to the church than members of
any other major denomination
Contributions in 1956 averaged
$202 per member for every man,
woman and teen-age child on
the church rolls. Per capita giv
ing by all Protestants was less
than $50. '-
The Rev. W. B. Ochs vice pres
ident of the general conference
and head of the North Ameri
can Division of the church, sees
a direct link between Adventist
Looking For Something New?
TRY .
"SEARCH"
A Dynamic new
Christian Education
9:45
First Baptist
SPEAKERS HERE Sr. Major Charles Cox, divisional secre
tary of the Salvation Army from Portland, and Sr. Major
Mrs. Cox, will be in Medford this weekend. They will hold
meetings Saturday and Sunday at the Salvation Army church,
and will conduct a senior inspection -of the corps activities
here. The Coxes are former officers with the Medford Corps,
being stationed here from June, 1940, through August, 1943.
Mrs.-Cox is a daughter-of Mrs. George Towndrow of 1035
West Tents st., Medford. '
Operation Search
Enlarged at Church
"Operation Search" a new pro
gram of adult Christian educa
tion at the First Baptist church
has been enlarged to include
weekday sessions along with its
regular Sunday morning classes.
Search includes a variety of
courses for its members. The
student is allowed to choose his
own course of study according
to his interest and background.
The courses are in the fields of
doctrine, church history, Bible
study methods, and Christian
education. Each of the classes is
taught by men who have made
special studies in the field.
The classes ere held during the
Sunday school hour, and it is
planned so the anyone attending
the sessions can aquire a Bible
school background in about ten
years.
Several of these classes are
now reoffered during the week.
"Methods of Bible Study" is
taught on, Tuesday at 3 p.m.;"
"Hermaneutics" and "Prophecy"
are offered on Thursday even
ings. This enables some of the
members to take two courses of
study during the week, and it
provides a training program for
the teachers involved in the Sun
day school program.
The church hat a n u r ery
under the supervision of a reg
istered nurse for those enrolled
in its new program.
beliefs and the church's record
in missions and giving.
Ochs said in an interview at
Adventist World Headquarters
in the Washington suburb of
Takoma Park, Md. f ' .
"Adventists take very serious
ly Christ's command that the
gospel must be preached . to all
nations. The urgency with which
we approach ' this task reflects
our conviction that our saviour
will come again, bringing peace
and healing to the Earth, when
we have accomplished the task
he assigned to his. followers.
Know The Cost V "
"Our people know' that it
costs money to support a world
wide missionary effort. That is
one reason they give as they
do." "
Ochs pointed out that tithing
in the Old Testament meant re
turning one-tenth of your -income
to God not as a gift, but
as a straightforward payment
which reflected God's "rightful
share" of the wealth produced
under his bounty.
"The Bible teaches us that
you don't begin to give until
you have paid your tithe," Ochs
said. "We are called upon to
make free-will offerings above
and beyond our tithes, but the
amount of these offerings is en
tirely up to the individual."
H. W. Klaser, statistical sec
retary of tle general conference,
said his records indicate that 95
per cent of all Adventists are
"faithful" in payment of tithes.
About 70 per cent contribute
"offerings" which amount to a
second tithe.
Do Adventist ministers find
it necessary to preach a lot of
sermons about giving?
"No," Ochs replied with a
smile. "We don't accept anyone
into membership in our church
until he has completed a course
of study in which he learns that
becoming an Adventist means
committing yourself to a way of
life that includes tithing. Once
a person understands and ac
cepts that way of life, you don't
have to keep harping on the
subject of, giving."
program of adult
on Sunday Morning
A.M. -
Church
North Central
at 5th
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Lutheran World
Action at Zion
Zion Lutheran church, corner
of 4th and Oakdale, is joining
the other congregations associat
ed with the National Lutheran
Council in an endeavor known
as Lutheran World Actio. The
11 a. m. worship service Sunday
will be dedicated to his purpose.
The need and desire for co
operative work among the var
ious national Lutheran bodies
appeared many years ago, and
increased during World II when
many special needs became ap
parent. The Lutheran World
Federation and Lutheran World
Action were the result.
In 1956 there was shipped and
distributed abroad a total of
more than 67,515,600 pounds of
U. S. Government surplus foods
valued at $10,030,341 and 3,985,
200 pounds of clothing valued at
$3,784,495. Two hundred pounds
of flood may be shipped and dis
tributed for every dollar given.
In the local church, the Rev.
G. H. Hillerman will preach on
"Grasp It Firmly". Music will be
by the choir.
Friends Youth fo
Visit College
A delegation of young people
from the Friends church drove
to Newberg today to attend May
Day at George Fox college re
turning Sunday. High school
seniors will receive: free admis
sion to all events, which include
a parade, coronation of Queen
Charlotte Passolt, a member of
the Medford Friends church,
May Pole winding, tea, baseball
game with Reed college, and
musical program.
Local young people who will
attend -are Pat Leek,- Janice
Hight, Roma Gilbert, Helen de
Carlo, Kay and Janet Johnson,
Sonja Hansen, Jack Hamilton,
Georgia Ramsey, Don Chitwood,
Bayard Stone, Dan Nolta, Ken
Kumasawa, Ralph Waldo, and
Inez Viers.
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Johnson,
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sharp, and
pastor Clynton Crisman will
chaperone the group.
Bible Society Gives
Bible to the World
The American Bible society is
the authorized agency of the
major. Protestant denominations
for giving the Bible to the world.
The Society makes vailable
translations in all the languages
and dialects required by mis
sionaries and native workers in
national and foreign . .mission
fields.
In behalf of the church it has
played a part in providing the
Scriptures in more than 1,084
languages and dialects. It has
also shared in the achievement
of seeing that some part of the
Scriptures has been produced in
one new language on the aver
age of every month during the
current century.
It distributes several million
volumes every year, and in the
past 140, years it has circulated
more than 466,000,000 volumes
of the Holy Scriptures.
CONFERENCE . BANQUET
The annual Church confer
ence banquet of the First Meth
odist church is scheduled for
6:30 p.m., May 31. Reports will
be' received from the boards,
commissions and committees, as
well as proposed budgets; nomi
nation of officers for the church,
and -other business matters that
will be of interest to! all mem
bers of the church. The Rev.
Meredith Groves, district super
intendent, will be present.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Thomas McCamant, Minister
Groveland Ave. and Oakwood Drive
Church Worship at 9:45 and 1 1 a.m.
Church School at 9:45 '
Sermon
"The World Around Us"
Protestant
Try New Approach to
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press Correspondent
Washington OJ.R) A revo
lution is taking place in "Amer
ica's most cherished institution,"
the Protestant Sunday school.
Several major denominations
have already scrapped their tra
ditional Sunday school lessons
in favor of an entirely new ap
proach to religious education.
Others are in the process of
making what Dr. A. L. Roberts,
director of the Commission on
General Christian Education,
calls "rather radical revisions of
curriculum materials and meth
ods." These sweeping changes re
flect the conviction of many
church leaders that the "old-fashioned
Sunday school," with its
emphasis on memorizing names,
events and verses from the Bible
has been greatly over-rated as a
builder of Christian character.
' Children may learn to parrot
a lot of facts about the Chris
tian religion under the time-honored
teaching system, critics say,
but they often fail to see any
relation between these facts and
real life. As a result, millions
of children quit going to Sunday
school as soon as they are old
enough to resist successfully par
ental authority.
The new approach aims at giv
ing each child a personal exper
ience of the love, acceptance and
forgiveness held forth by the
Christian faith. It treats Chris
tianity not as a series of doc
trines to be memorized as a child
and understood as an adult, but
as a life to bj lived now.
Seabury Series
How this concept is translated
into Sunday school teaching is
illustrated by the "Seabury Ser
ies" of course materials recently
adopted by the Episcopal church,
The first-grade course is di
rected at helping a child form
a "deep conviction that the
church is his home," that here
he is accepted and valued as a
person, whether he is good or
bad, cooperative or contrary.
The instructor's manual tells
first-grade teachers
"Your acceptance of the child
will prove to him, more convin
cingly than anything you can
say, the reality of love. A child
is prepared to know God's love
through the love of adults who
matter to him."
The course for each succeeding
grade in the Seabury Series is
simularly tailored to meet the
"real needs" of the child at the
age level to present him" with
those Christian doctrines and ex
periences which he is then best
able to understand and apply to
his own life. -
. Thus the strong sense of right
and wrong characteristic of the
nine-year-old is recognized in a
fourth grade course that empha
sizes the ethical teachings' of the
Christian gospel along with
the grace and forgiveness which
are supposed to enable the child
to live with these moral de
mands. At the eighth grade level,
where young teen-agers are com
ing under heavy pressure toward
non-Christian standards in their
social lives, the Seabury course
stresses Christian courage. The
embattled 13-year-old learns that
the church recognizes how diffi
cult it is to be good when "the
rest of the -. gang", is straying,
that his temptations are not re
garded as childish or trifling,
and that even when he slips, he
can find in the services and sac
raments of worship the strength
to try again.
Sunday school materials simi
lar to the Seabury Series are in
use in the Northern Presbyterian
churches, and are being intro
duced by the Congregational
Christian and Evangelical and
Missionary Film to
Be Shown This Evening
The Rev. John Newman of
Vision inc., will show a mis
sionary film and speak at the
Community Bible church of Cen
tral Point, today at 7:45 p.m.
Mr. Newman has traveled
throughout the world. His
travels have taken his to Africa,
Formosa, Vietnam, the Holy
Land and other countries. The
public is invited to attend this
service.
PROGRAM SERiES ENDS
Central Point Sunday serv
ices at the Church of Christ,
Central Point, will conclude the
program series of "ten Sundays
in God's house." Two worship
services at 8:30 and 10:45 a.m.
are held each Sunday with an
evening evangelistical service at
7:30 p.m. The public is invited
to attend.
A new banner has been adopt
ed by the National Council of
Churches. It consists of a cross
on an outline of the United
States in green and gold with the
phrase: "J e s u s Christ, Divine
Lord and Savior.
Sunday Schools
reformed churches and several
Lutheran bodies. Other denomi
nations are moving in the same
general direction with less-drastic
revisions of their courses.
One thing which all of the
new courses have in common is
a recognition that no Sunday
school class, by itself, can do
an adequate job of Christian ed
ucation. Heavy emphasis is now
placed on the role of the home
and family in providing the at
mosphere in which the Sunday
school teaching can "take."
Family Worship
Churches using the new Sun
day school materials almost uni
versally have instituted "family
worship" services, which par
ents and children attend togeth
Toronto Divided for Fight
On Test of Lord's Day Act
Toronto (U.R) Battle lines
are being drawn throughout
Canada's second largest city over
the calm that settles here on
Sundays.
"Toronto the Good," as It of
ten is called, will be the scene
in coming months of the major
court test of the validity of a 51-year-old
law that forbids any
thing but "works of necessity or
mercy" on Sundays.
The issue was brought up by
the March 17 debut of the Sun
day Telegram, Toronto's first
Sunday newspaper in 32 years.
Ontario Attorney General
Kelso Roberts has launched pros
ecution proceedings against the
paper for allegedly violating, the
Lord's Day Act, a federal law
passed in 1906. The past half
century, the staunchest self-ap
pointed upholder of the act has
been the Lord's Day Alliance of
Canada which has its headquar
ters here.
Toronto has been trained for
its rigid enforcement of the Sun
day blue laws. New arrivals,
thousands of them post-war im
migrants from Europe or Amer
ican tourists, for years have been
irked at the lack of services on
Sunday.
"This city is as deserted on
Sunday as a Scottish city on a
tag day," one visitor sourly ob
served.
Sunday Sports ,
Opponents of the Alliance,
who claim to be in the majority
in this city of more than one
million population, point out,
that the Lord's Day Act already
is tumbling into ineffectiveness.
But shops remain shuttered,
and there is a rigid Saturday
midnight curfew on drinking
and entertainment, including
movies. Even open restaurants
are hard to find on Sunday.
The creeping tolerances to the
federal law, however,' have re
sulted in some odd situations.
Professional hockey and base
ball, is placed in the city on Sun
day, with the fans paying to get
in to these sports events. Yet
the ' law bans conmmercial ac
tivities on Sunday.
' The Toronto Symphony Orch
estra is permitted to give Sunday
afternoon concerts in Massey
Hall but is not allowed to charge
admission. The orchestra asks
the audience to make "contribu
tions," which fall far short of
the regular week night "gate."
A man-in-the-street poll show
ed a big proportion of Toronto
citizens strongly in favor of dras
tic overhaul of the federal law.
Because of a counter-com
plaint by the Telegram, the On
tario government also will pros
ecute the city i two other news
papers for alleged infractions of
the Lord s Day Act. One of them,
the Morning Globe and' Mail, has
its first Monday edition on the
streets at . 8 p.m. Sunday. Up
to now, the Alliance and the
government have ignored this
And TV
Also to be prosecuted are a
private radio station, CKEY, and
the Canadian Broadcasting Cor
poration, a publicly owned coast-to-coast
radio and television net
work.. According , to the law,
radio and television anywhere
breaks the Lord's Day Act by
engaging in news and advertis
ing activities on the Sabbath.
They rely on commercials to
make possible most of their pro
grams. If commercials were ban
ned there would be few pro
grams and a tremendous public
outcry would result.
Throughout southern Ontario
thousands of radio and TV sets
are tuned regularly to stations
in the United States. The On
tario government could not do
anything about these American
programs on Sunday.
The Lord's Day Alliance, com
posed mostly of churchmen,
maintains that the Lord's Day
Act has to be upheld or whole
sale commercialization will
creep in and church-going will
drop off. The Alliance says Sun
William C Piaer
Minister
j mm -f"l
Religion
er, to take the place of the old
division of Sunday morning into
a Sunday school hour for the
children and a "church service"
for grown-ups. .
They also have started a new
kind of adult Sunday school
class one aimed directly at
helping parents perform the
"homework" portion of Chris
tan education. In these classes,
parents are told what their chil
dren are being taught in Sunday
school; they are helped to fill
in the often considerable gaps
in their own religious knowl
edge; and they are shown how
they can reinforce and enlarge
on the one hour of instruction
which the child gets at church
on Sunday mornings.
day was earmarked in, the Bible
as the day of rest and. should
stay that way.
Opponents point to vast chang
es in social customs since 1906.
They say it is time the odd re
strictions were streamlined to fit
modern behavior patterns and
needs.
Adventist Youth Plan
For Rally in June
Rogue Valley Seventh-day
Adventist youth will be repre
sented at a Northwest youth
rally to be conducted in the new
Spokane Coliseum in June, ac
cording to an announcement this
week by' the local youth or
ganization. Miss Gladys Beddoe, 30 Rich
mond ave., has been appointed
as a delegate from the Medford
church, and Miss Marcella Wil
bur, South Stage rd, will rep
resent the young people of the
Valley View church. The Spo
kane rally will commemorate
the 50th anniversary of the Seventh-day
Adventist youth Mis
sionary Volunteer organization.
Representatives from 313
churches, with some 400 youth
groups will be present.
Delegates to the youth rally
will participate in workshop dis
cussions of youth evangelism and
church youth leadership, as well
as hearings the denomination's
youth leaders speak. Elder T. E.
Lucas, world youth director;
Elder H. M. S. Richards, interna
tional Voice of Prophecy radio
speaker; and Elder W. A. Seharf
fenberg, iirst Adventist world
leader to visit Moscow, Russia,
will be featured speakers to ad
dress the rally. ,
A 300-voice youth choir from
schools in the Northwest will
highlight the varied musical at
tractions. The Spokane meetings
will be held June 7-9, and plans
are being made in the local
churches for a number of young
people to attend.
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PROGRESSIVE DINNER
A "Progressive Dinner" Is
scheduled for May 17 by the
Senior Methodist Youth fellow
ship of the First Methodist
church, according to Miss Sallie
Greaser, Christian outreach
chairman. All profits from the
dinner will go to the MY fund,
which' is a missions fund. All
Junior High youth and Senior
High youth are invited.
PASTOR HOLDS MEETINGS
The Rev. R. W. Hum, pastor
of First Church of the Nazarene,
520 North Holly, will conduct
an evangelistic campaign in La
Habra, Calif., April 28 through
May 5. In his absence the pulpit
at First church will be supplied
by the Rev. W. Lee Maqsveld
and the Rev. LeRoy Harris.
"Ths Gospel Call"
HEAR ...
The Testimony of
MRS. RASMUSSEN
Wh n twice raised from
the dead.
Sunday, May 5th
Station KWIN
7:30 to 8 a.m.
UNITY
TRUTH CENTER
Sunday Devotional Service and
Sunday School for Children 1 1 a.m.
Regular Center Activities:
Thursday Midweek Service 7:30
p.m. Friday morning Study Class
1 i a.m.
All Classes, Activities and Sunday
Services now held at the
HOLLY BUILDING
Katherine Bosworth, Leader
First Christian Church
"The Friendly Church
Welcomes You
TO ALL SERVICES
Bible School 945 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.