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Church News
Protestant Leaders Urged
To Provide Church Programs
Suitable For Handicapped
O By LOUIS CASSELS
Washington (W iesus Chriit
in his earthly ministry dis
played a special concern for han
dicapped people the blind,
deaf, crippled and mentally dis
turbed. 0
Protestant churches through
out oAmerica re no being
urged to follow their Lord s ex
ample in this regard.
There are several million peo
ple in this country who "suffer
from flaental or ghytical handi
caps which mate it difficult or
Impossible for thm to partici
pate in regular church programs.
Oregon Churches
Included in 1959
Centennial Events
Development of the church in
Oregon during the past 100
years will be commemorated in
several special events to be plan
ned for Oregon's centennial
years in 1959, It is announced
by Dr. A. Talney, executive dir
ector of the Oregon council of
churches.
Mrs. Monroe Sweetland, mem
ber of the XJregon centennial
commission Serving as liaison
between churches and the cen
tennial, appeared before the
board of the council of churches
recently and received wixlclal
approval of centennial partici
pation by that group.
Dr. Talney said that a 10
member committee will be ap
pointed in the near future to
work out VtaiJ of church par
ticipation in the centennial.
Among suggestions which the
committee will consider is the
possibility of an exhibt at the
Oregon Centennial Exposition
and International Trade Fair de
picting the influence and im
portance of the church in the
early development of the state.
A Viistnriral survey of the
church moverftnt in Oregon
might be undertaken in connec
tion with the proposed display.
Statewide observance of the cen
tennial through special services
during a pre-designated week in
1959 is also a possibility, Dr.
Talney said.
Mrs. Sweetland indicated that
efforts to bring all church
groups into centennal activities
would be made during th next
lew months.
The Oregon council of church
es represents a number of ma
jor denominations o in Oregon
with moft than 900- member
church.. The council is also af
filiatecPwith 13 local and area
church councils.
; The motion passed by the
council board pledged full co
operation not only with the cen
tennial commiftion and staff but
"with other organized church
.groups which may participate.
Valley Prosbyferims
Announce Speakers
. Central Point "How Much
is Enough?" taken from the
"Presbyterian Life article will L3
:the sermon topic for Steward
ship Sunday at Central Point
O First Presbyterian church. Dr.
W Gorman K. Tully will preach at
the Sunday 9:45 a.m. worship
sere.
Ashland The Rev. B. J. Hol
land, pastor First Presbyterian
Ichurch, Ashland, will preach on
A Look at Loyalty," at both
the 9:45 and 11 a.m. worship
'services Sunday.
Phoenix Sam Harbison,
"member of the Presbyterian
Men's club, Medford, will speak
;at the Presbyterian church,
'Phoenix, Sunday at 11 a.m.
. Monday, Nov. 11, the regular
monthly meeting of the session
will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the
'. church.
. Jacksonville The Rev. Rob
ert T. Bridge will speak on "The
Escaping Fragrance" at the 11
'a.m. Sunday service at First
Presbyterian church, Jacksonville.
Ministerial Association
Announces Speaker For
Tuesday Morning Meet
Mrs. Vera Thompson, Port
land, field representative for
the state of Oregon Commission
for the Blind, will speak at the
monthly meeting of the Med
ford Ministerial association
Tuesday, November 12, at
11 a.m.
Mrs. Thompson will speak
about the work of the commis
sion in providing services for
the blind in the state, including
adjustment and training prob
lems for them.
Prior to the talk a business
meeting will be held at 10 ajn.
at the First Presbyterian church
in the Fireplace room. The asso
ciation is open to ministers of
all denominations and churches
in the area. -
A comparatively few churches
already provide special worship
services and religious education
classes for them.
Rut Prntpstant IpaHprs have
Inno Kofin auroro that mrct Irw I
cal churches are neglecting the
spiritual needs of the handi
capped. The first important step to
ward remedying this situation
was taken last montn. Kepre-
sentatives of major denomina
tions met at Green Lake, Wis.,
under the auspices of the Na
tional Council of Churches, and
agreed to work together "to
arouse churches to their respon
sibility" to provide suitable
Christian education programs
for all types of handicapped per
sons.
ihe conferees recommended a
long-range, cooperative program
of training special teachers, pre
paring special Sunday school
curriculum materials, and ad
vising local churches and pastors
on specific ways in which they
can minister more effectively to
the handicapped. They asked
that a new unit be set up within
the Christian Education Division
of the National Council to over
see the effort.
The Rev. Randolph Thornton,
administration director of the
Christian Education division,
told the United Press that it is
now up to local churches and to
denominational headquarters to
decide how swiftly these recom
mendations are carried out.
The big problem, as usual, is
money. One hope is that some
wealthy philanthropist, or foun
dation, may see fit to under
write the cost about $20,000 a
year of setting up the proposed
new council unit, or the consid
erably larger costs of establish
ing a national workshop to train
teachers for the handicapped.
Meanwhile, Thornton said,
there is plenty that local
churches can do on their own
to begin serving neglected
groups.
They can pool their resources
on a community basis, as church
es in Evanston, 111., are doing to
provide Christian education
classes for the mentally retard
ed; as churches in Pittsburgh
and several Connecticut towns
have done for the blind; and as
churches in Syracuse, N.Y., have
done for youths in a detention
school.
Medford Presbyterians
Approve $113,104 Budget
At a congregational meeting
of the First Presbyterian church
held Wednesday evening, the
budget for 1958 was presented
and approved. The church has
set a total budget of $113,104,
dividing it evenly on an equal
basis between home base needs
and the world Christian mission.
This budget is $13,104 over the
budget of 1957.
It was pointed out during the
meeting that the local church
has been instrumental in start
ing new churches at Brookings
and Tri-city during the past five
years. Several other Presbyter
ian Churches in the Synod of
Oregon have also been aided by
the local congregation. Other
amounts of the world mission
budget are designated for the
denomination's program of
Christian education, theological
education, and interdenomina
tional Christian agencies.
The Every Member Canvass is
being directed this year by Fred
Gatter and Ray Mencke. Dedi
cation of pledges to the church
will be made on Sunday morn
ing, Nov. 17 at both services
and teams of callers will contact
those who do not pledge at that
time. Mr. Gatter has said that
"We pledge to the church be
cause all we own belongs to
God" and this is the basis of
Christian stewardship.
Sunday morning at both serv
ices, Dr. D. Kirkland West, pas
tor, will preach on the theme
"What Christ Expects From His
Church." The Westminster choir
will sing the anthem "Savior,
My Dying Love," at the first
service and at the second service
the chancel choir will sing
"Praise, Lord, For Thee in Zion
Waits." Mrs. B. Melvin Hoover
will sing the solo "Consider the
Lillies."
Classes for prospective mem
bers of the church will begin
Sunday at 5 p.m. Dr. West will
lead the class for adults and the
Rev. John Reynolds, assistant
pastor, the class for young
people of junior and senior high
school age. These classes are
open to anyone interested in
knowing more about basic Chris
tian faith and the Presbyterian
church. This Sunday young
people's class will be instructed
by a member of the Session.
Westminister fellowship for
high school young people will
meet at 7 p jn. in the church
and the Junior High fellowship
for seventh and eighth grade
students will meet at 6:30 p.m.
Youth Synod
The annual meetings of the
Westminister Fellowship Youth
Friday, November 8. 1957
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MAJOR. LEONARD ADAMS
To Speak Here
(Kennell Ellis photo)
Salvation Army
Officer Here
Sunday-Monday
Senior Major Leonard Adams,
divisional young people's secre
tary of Oregon and southern
Idaho for The Salvation Army,
will visit Medford, Sunday and
Monday. He will conduct the
semi-annual program review and
inspection of the youth program.
This includes a conference
with Captain William . Ricken,
commanding officer, and youth
leader, Sunday school teachers
and the local Corps. The 1957
summer camp program, daily
vacation Bible school program
and the other phases of youth
work will be reviewed.
Sunday evening a meeting
with the junior soldiers, 6
through 14 years of age, will be
held at 5 p.m., and with the
young people's legion at 6 p.m.,
ages 15 through 30 years. He
will speak at the second group
meeting.
At the 7:45 p.m. service Major
Adams will be the speaker. The
public is invited.
Monday the Major will meet
with about 15 members of the
Corps Cadets, group of youths,
12 years and older, taking a
six year course of study in Scrip
ture work. A meeting of the
teachers and youth works is also
to be held on Monday evening.
Major Adams has had varied
appointments in The Salvation
Army having served in China,
Burma and England before com
ing to the United States.
Synod for the state of Oregon
will be held this weekend, Nov.
9 through 11, at the Central
Presbyterian church, Eugene.
Young people from the state
will gather Saturday noon for
the opening session of the
Synod, meeting to consider the
theme "Take My Life". The
main speaker for the Synod will
be Miss Sara Perkins, former
missionary-nurse held prisoner
by the Chinese Communists for
four and one-half years, who
recently visited in Medford and
spoke at the local Presbyterian
church.
Twenty-two members of the
Westminister Fellowship group
of the First Presbyterian church
are planning to attend the Syflbd
meetings and will be accompa
nied by Mrs. George Flanagan
and the Rev. Mr. Reynolds.
Talent Friends Church
To Show Film Sunday
Talent "What Shall I Do
With Jesus?" will be the ques
tion asked by the Rev. A. Clark
Smith, pastor, at the 11 a.m.
morning service at the Talent
Friends church, Sunday.
Sunday at 7:30 p.m. the color
film "They Wait for Peace" will
be shown at the church. The pic
ture, filmed during the closing
days of the Korean conflict, pre
sents the signing of the truce
between the United Nations and
the Communists and gives an ac
curate account of the hardships
and needs of the Korean people.
Included in the film is the
service carried out by the
schools, churches, orphanages
and Christian missions in Korea.
The film is presented by the
Film department of the Bible
Institute of Los Angeles.
LAY SPEAKER
C. Elwood Hedberg will
preach at the 11 a.m. morning
prayer service Sunday at St.
Mark's Episcopal church.
j CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
United Church of Christ
Groveland Ave. and Oakwood Drive ,
Church Worship at 9:45 and 11 a.m.
Church School at 9:45 and 11 a.m.
Sermon: 'What Makes Us Do What We Do?"
Demand Increases For
Religious Christmas Cards
New York A nation-wide
program to encourage wider use
of religious Christmas cards is
being lanuched throughout
America by a network of state
and local Councils of Churches
and the Christmas card publish
ers. The National Council of
Churches made a formal request
to the Christmas card publish
ers in 1947 for greater varieties
of reverent and appropriate
Christmas greeting cards. Since
then, great progress has been
made through the cooperation of
church-goers and the publishers
to place more emphasis on the
true significance of Christmas
with cards that fully express the
spirit of the greatest of all holi
days. H. H. MvConnell, acting ex
ecutive director, department of
evangelism of the National Coun
cil of Churches recently said,
"The attention of our thirty
eight million constituents has
been called to the greater variety
of reverent designs and the in
creasing number of Christmas
cards available with specific
Christian content. We are also
pleased to note that more Christ
mas cards are being published
using Scripture references."
Association Cooperates
Expressing the viewpoint of
Sermon Series
Continues
"Speak the Truth in Love" is
the theme of the sermon to be
given during the morning wor
ship hour at the Eastwood Bap
tist church, North Keene Way
dr. at Ridgeway, at 11 a.m. Sun
day. The sermon given by the
pastor, the Rev. Richard M.
Jones, is the tenth in a series of
sermons on the Ten Command
ments for our day. A women's
trio will sing.
The fourth session of the Lay
Development program will be
held beginning at 7:30 Sunday
evening. The pastor will lead a
general workshop on the theme
"How American Baptist Church
es Work with One Another."
Following this workshop and a
brief worship period, the simul
taneous workshops will be held
on communications, community
witness, a pattern for a Baptist
church and the pastor and the
people. These workshops are
open to the public and all mem
bers and friends of the church
are invited to attend.
Eastwood Baptist church is lo
cated north of Hedrick Junior
High school and is affiliated with
the American Baptist conven
tion. Investment Fair Set
For Saturday Evening
The Sabbath school members
of the Valley View Seventh-day
Adventist church will hold an
Investment Fair Saturday eve
ning at 7:30 in the gymnasium
at the Rogue River Junior Acad
emy on South Stage rd. Funds
received from the fair will go
to the Sabbath school invest
ment project. The denomination
uses the money to open new
mission work throughout the
world.
At Saturday night's fair the
juniors will sell "white ele
phants"; the primary division
will sell cookies, doughnuts, and
candy, and punch will be sold
by the kindergarten children.
The ladies of the Eagle Point
dorcas society will sell Christ
mas cards.
The Valley View Camera club
is to have a display. There will
be games and musical entertain
ment for the rest of the evening.
Sermons Announced;
Box Social Scheduled
The morning message of the
First Christian church Sunday
will be entitled "Heavenly Re
wards" and will be delivered by
the pastor, the Rev. William C.
Piper. Miss Marilyn Conner and
Miss Sara Hinkle will sing,
"Somehow" and the choir di
rected by C. Warren Fairbanks
will sing, "Judge Eternal."
The topic of the evening mes
sage will be "Two Roads With
Different Destinations."
An old fashioned box social
is being sponsored by the youth
Saturday, Nov. 16. All the par
ents of the youth, the Lamp
lighter class and young adult
class are invited to attend. All
proceeds will go to the Christian
World Friendship fund.
SERMON SUBJECT
"Adam and Fallen Man" will
be the subject of the First
Church of Christ, Scientist, ser
mon at 11 a.m. Sunday.
r America's leading greeting card
puDiisners, &. y. snannon, ex
ecutive director of The Greet
ing Card association, said that
members of his organization are
most appreciative of the con
tinued cooperation of the Na
tional Council and church lead
ers of many denominations in
directing the attention of the
American public to the rising
importance of the religious
Christmas card.
Each year the Association
makes a survey to determine
the popularity of the various re
ligious Christmas card designs.
For 1957 Madonnas are in first
place, followed by delineations
of the Holy Family, the Three
Wise Men, churches, cherubs,
the Christ Child, manger Scenes,
angels, shepherds, and in tenth
position, illustrations of choirs.
While invariably from year
to year the Madonna is by far
the most popular design, there
is considerable variation of the
other illustarations symbolic of
the holy season.
Indicative of the great pro
gress that has been made in re
cent years in the trend of public
demand for the sending of re
cerent Christmas greetings, the
association estimates that in 1957
over 25 per cent of all Christ
mas cards mailed will be religi
our in character in contrast to
only about a 5 per cent usage of
such cards ten or twelve years
ago.
Many of the cards reflect the
rich traditions of classical art,
along with modern conceptions
of all phases of the well loved
story of Christmas and all that
it means.
The rapid growth of the re
ligious Christmas card clearly
indicates that not only is Christ
mas a time for "ejoicing, but
a time for prayer too, and re
verent thoughts of Bethlehem
and the Babe in the manger.
Stewardship,
Saturday Topic
"Christian Stewardship" will
be the subject of study presented
by Pastor John D. Trude at the
11 a.m. worship hour Saturday
in the Medford Seventh-day Ad
ventist church.
Elder George Belleau, field
secretary of the Oregon confer
ence Sabbath school department,
from Portland will conduct a
workshop for Southern Oregon
Sabbath school leaders here Sat
urday night. The meeting will
begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Dorcas
building, corner of Edwards and
Beatty, and will be attended by
representatives , from Ashland,
Eagle Point, Medford, Klamath
Falls and Valley View churches.
Instruction will be given to
workers in all departments of
the Sabbath school, and Elder
Belleau will present a number
of books and visual aids avail
able to teachers.
" Both officers for the past year,
and newly elected officers for
the coming year will be present.
Anyone interested in learning
about Sabbath school work is in
vited to attend.
Medford Pathfinders will
meet in the Pathfinder club
house Monday at 7:30 p.m.
Unitarians to Hear
Methodist Minister
The first November meeting
of the Rogue Valley Unitarian
Fellowship will be held Wednes
day, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Girls Community club, 229
North Bartlett st., Medford.
Guest speaker for the evening
will be the Rev. Louis Miles, as
sistant minister of First Method
ist church, Ashland. Mr. Miles'
special interest is the newly
dedicated Wesley Foundation
for students at Southern Oregon
college. He has chosen as his
topic, "Perfection and Progres
sion". Meetings of the Unitarian Fel
lowship are held on the second
and fourth Wednesday nights of
each month, and consist of both
a worship service and a discus
sion period. All interested per
sons are invited to attend.
GROUND FLOOR APPROACH
Ventura, Calif. OP! Ven
tura College today invited citi
zens to enroll in its first Sput
nik tracking course. The class
in the evening school has no pre
requisite, but graduates can par
ticipate in the government's
forthcoming Operation Moon
vatch, a spokesman said.
Grand Rapids, Mich. (IF)
Eleven is an important number
for Jimmy Willis of Grand
Rapids. Jimmy will be 11 years
old Monday at 11 p.m. on the
11th day of the 11th month.
William C. Piper
Minister
First Baptists
To Observe World
Day of Prayer
The First Baptist church will
cooperate Wednesday in a
World Day of Prayer for Con
servative Baptist missions all
over the earth. Churches
throughout the United States
will pray for the missionaries on
the home and foreign fields, and
the missionaries on the field
will also unite in prayer for the
churches in the homeland.
The program at the Medford
church is directed by Mrs.
Gladys Peters. The morning ses
sion of prayer which will begin
at 10 a.m. will center on the, re
quests of the foreign mission
board. During the morning hour,
those meeting for prayer will
hear a message from Dr. Donald
Nelson who is a medical mis
sionary in the Belgian Congo.
A sack lunch will be served at
noon, and many of the men of
the church will gather during
their lunch hour to participate
in the prayer service.
During the afternoon hours,
the congregation will pray for
the requests of the home mission
board. Pastor James Neely will
open the session with a brief
talk on the place of prayer.
After a period of prayer, the
Rev. James Haley, a Conserva
tive Baptist missionary in Ar
gentina, will present a challenge
for prayer and praise for what
God has done.
The day of prayer will con
clude with a service on Wednes
day evening devoted to missions.
After a time of prayer, Mr. Ha
ley will show slides on his work
in Argentina.
Ministers Attend
Pastor's Conclave
Next week Nazarene minis
ters of Oregon will gather at
the Dorchester house in Ocean
lake for the annual minister's
conference.
Those attending from Med
ford are the ministers and their
wives from First Church of the
Nazarene, the Rev. and Mrs. R.
W. Hum and the Rev. and Mrs.
W. Lee Mansveld, The Rev. and
Mrs. Dwayne E. Bachelor of the
Mt. Pitt Avenue church of the
Nazarene will also attend.
The three day retreat will
consist of conferences for the
pastors and their wives in the
morning sessions, with the after
noons for recreation and rest. A
banquet on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings will feature
Dr. H. C. Powers, one of the
five general superintendents of
the church. He will also address
the pastors in their morning
conference on Thursday and
Friday.
Over 70 pastors and their
wives will attend the three-day
meeting from western Oregon.
Dr. W. D. McGraw Jr. of Port
land, district superintendent,
will be in charge of the sessions.
Topics Announced For
Central Point Church
Central Point "Ye Therefore
shall be Perfect" will be the
10:45 a.m. Sunday worship serv
ice topic of the Rev. Mr. Jean
M. Shelley, pastor of Church of
Christ, Central Point.
Each family is asked to take
a waterbottle to church for 7:30
p.m. evangelistic service when
the pastor will preach on "Is
Your Water Bottle Empty?"
At the Sunday evening service
"fill a pew night" will be ob
served with each familv asked
to fill one row of seats for the
worship period.
STAKE CONFERENCE
The Stake conferen
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints will continue through
Sunday evenine in Klamath
Falls. Saturday at 8 p.m. a priest
hood meeting will be held and
Sunday meetings will be held
at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. with a
6:30 p.m. youth meeting. The
Sunday night service will be at
7 p.m.
BIBLE STUDY TOPICS
Bible study topics has been
announced by the Kingdom Hall
of Jehovah's Witnesses for the
week. Sunday at 6 n.m. the
Watchtower study topic will be
"Endurance Like Job's in the
Time of the End," with the Tues
day and Wednesday 7:30 n.m.
topic "This Means Everlasting
Life."
KIWANIS FOUNDER DIES
Detroit (IP) Services will
be held Saturday for Donald A.
Johnston, 83, one of the four
founders of the International Ki
wanis Club, who died Wednes
day at his home in suburban
Birmingham.
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.
Former Chicago Police
Officer Guest Speaker
George Marshall, former mem
ber of the Chicago police depart
ment, and now a student at
Southern Oregon college, Ash
land, will be the guest youth
speaker at the Youth Fellowship
hour at the First Church of God
Sunday evening at 6:30 p.m.
Miss Joanne Galloway will be
chairman of the service.
Temple Baptist
Schedules Dinner
Thursday Night
Invitations have gone out to
all members of Temple Baptist
church, the Sunday school, and
their families to attend a church
family and loyalty dinner Nov.
14 at 7 p.m. The dinner is being
held in the Pioneer room, Jack
son hotel, because of limited fa
cilities at the church.
The dinner is a feature of a
four weeks stewardship cam
paign now being conducted by
the church. The Claude Miller,
pastor of the church reported
that the dinner is for the pur
pose of fellowship and informa
tion. He added that is is an op
portunity to inform everyone
connected with the church of
the $14,618.32 budget which the
church adopted last Sunday.
Children eight years and un
der will be entertained at the
church at a party under the di
rection of women from Calvary
Baptist church, Ashland. Infants
and children to three years will
be cared for in the church
nursery.
At the evening worship serv
i c e Sunday Temple Baptist
church will show the film "All
for Him" which was originally
scheduled for last Wednesday
evening. The film is being
shown in connection with the
four weeks stewardship cam
paign, and all members are in
vited to take their friends.
At the Sunday school hour the
junior, intermediate, young peo
ple, and adult departments will
study stewardship lessons look
ing toward pledge day, Nov. 17.
when the church will subscribe
the largest budget in its history.
The budget for 1958 is a $6,000
increase over last year.
Documentary Film Set
For Sunday Evening
"They Wait for Peace," a 30
minute documentary color-sound
film on Korea, v. ill be shown at
6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Friends
church. Sponsored by the Sen
ior Christian Endeavor, this will
be the first in a series of mis
sionary films produced by the
Bible Institute of Los Angeles
to be shown once each month
during the winter at the local
church.
For the worship hours at 9:45
and 11 a.m. the pastor will speak
and the adult and youth choirs
will sing. Sunday school is held
at 9:45 for children and adults
and at 11 a.m. for junior high
through college age young peo
ple. For the 7:30 p.m. worship
hour Deane Roberts will be
soloist and the pastor will bring
a message. "Quaker Hour" is
broadcast over KMED at
9:30 p.m.
Hon Lutheran Church
To Commission Workers
Following weeks of prepara
tion, zion .Lutheran church, cor
ner of Fourth and Oakdale, will
enter the week of active solicita
tion of support of the work of
the church through the steward
ship program by the commis
sioning of the lay visitors at the
11 ajn. worship service Sunday.
For this occasion the title of
the sermon to be preached by
Pastor H. H. Hillerman will be,
"The Drive Of True Livine"
The choir under the direction of
Oscar Bjorlie will sing "Praise
Ye the Lord".
PHOENIX SERMONS
Phoenix "Day in Court"
and "The Search for Assurance"
will be the sermon topics of the
Rev. Perry M. Johnson, Sunday
at First Baptist church, Phoenix.
The services will be held at 11
a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
THE NEED IS GREAT
Chicago Iff) Neighbor
hood children are looking for
someone to take the place of re
tiring Sister Hilda A. Lee, a
Lutheran deaconess. The form
er nurse setup a doll hospital
30 years ago and mended thou
sands of dolls, sometimes draw
ing from a doll "bone bank."
(John 16:33) Hear of the peace that passeth all understanding at our
Church this Sunday. '
9:45 Sunday School for all ages
n:00-"Sound Investigating" (Broadcast KBOY)
7:45 Evening Evangelistic Hour
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
North Central at 5th James W. Neely, Pastor
Where Visitors Are Always Welcome
Eastwood Baptists
To Participate
In Convention
The Oregon Baptist conven
tion will be in session Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday of this
week at the First Baptist churcn
in Grants Pass.
Women's day will be Tuesday
with the president of the state
organization, Mrs. J. M. Ham
merly, presiding. Mrs. Hammer-
ly is the mother of Mrs. Richard
M. Jones, wife of the pastor of
the Eastwood Baptist cnurch.
The convention session begins
on Tuesday evening with Dr.
Norman Paullin, professor of
homiletics at the Eastern Baptist
Theological seminary, Philadel
phia, Pa., the featured spelr.
Wednesday morning and ftet
noon will feature addreStes bS
Dr. Gordon Palmer, estrn
vice president of the American
Baptist convention; the Rev. Jd
ward Bollinger, missionary to
Japan and Okinawa; Dr. Harr$
Dillin. president of Linfield col
lege; Dr. Titus Frazee, president
of the Oregon Temperance
league; Dr. Mark Talney, execu
tive secretary of the Oregon
Council of Churches; and the
Rev. L. C. Lemons, director,
periodical circulation, American
Baptist Publication society. The
convention banquet will be held
on Wednesday evening. Thurs
day morning convention business
will be considered with adjourn
ment at noon.
A number of the members of
the Eastwood Baptist church will
be attending and participating.
The pastor, the Rev. Richard M.
Jones, is the convention soloist.
Dean S. Anderson will be lead
ing the devotions for the lay
men's banquet on Tuesday even
ing and a trio of women from
the church: Mrs. Stanley Par
rish, Mrs. John Yungen, and
Mrs. Richard M. Jones, will sing
for the Women's day program.
These meetings are open for
all in the Medford-Grants Pass
area.
Church Building
Nears Completion
The Ascension Lutheran con
gregation is scheduled to move
into the new church buSding
Dec. 1, according to the pastor,
the Rev. Elvin S. Tollefson.
They plan to use the Sunday
school room for worship serv
ices until the church auditorium
is completed prior to Christmas
Day, Mr. Tollefson said, Dedica
tion services was tentatively set
for early 1958.
At the Sunday 11 a.m. wor
ship service Mr. Tollefson will
speak on "Signs of the Times."
New members will be received
into membership at that time.
Services are held in the Pythian
building, Grape and Fifth sts.
Sunday at 2 p.m. the general
committee of the Every Member
Visitation will meet at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Melum,
832 Marshall ave. Norman Hok
enstad, Eugene, will attend the
meeting as an instructor in the
visitation program.
CANTATA PRACTICED
Three choirs of the First
Church of the Nazarene . have
been practicing for several weeks
preparing a Christmas cantata
to be given the evening of Dec.
15. The choirs, under the direc
tion of the minister of music, W.
Lee Mansveld, will sing, "The
First Christmas." O
LEADER
Ashland Dr. Wayne Wells
will lead the class session at the
Wednesday evening school of
missions at Ashland First Meth
odist church. The session will
follow the 6:15 a.m. potluck
supper at the church.
OUR HERITAGE
"Our Heritage" will be Dr.
George G. Roseberry's sermon
topic Sunday at both the 9:30
and 11 a.m. worship services at
the First Methodist church,
Medford.
UNITY CENTER
of Medford
Affiliated with Unity School of
Christianity, Lee's Summit. Mo.
Sunday Devotional Servica and
Sunday School. 11 a m.
Weekly Classes in "Lessons In
Truth" Thursday, 7:30 pjn.;
Friday, 11 a.m.
Center Open Daily 10 a.m. till 4
p.m Mondav thru Friday. Noonday
reading of daily word.
HOLLY BUILDING
Catherine Bosworth. Leader
Office SP 2-6902. Res. TA 6-2098
OUT OF WAR
comes chaos, suffering and more wars. The only
peace is found in Christ. "These things I have
spoken unto you, that in me ye might have
peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation:
but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."