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Local Camp Hosts Oregon Gideons Convention And International Head Tlie Klamath Falls Camp of the Gideons International is host for more than 200 Oregon State Gideons at the organization's an nual three-day convention which opened today at the Winema Ho tel. One of the largest individual purchasers of Bibles and the old est interdenominational laymen's evangelistic association in t h e world, Gideons was founded on July 1, 1899, in Janesville, Wis., by three Christian traveling sales men. The original purpose was Christian fellowship and evange listic effort in behalf of other traveling men. At the Gideons national con vention in Nashville, Tenn., in 1908, the members decided to place the Holy Bible in hotel guest rooms throughout the coun try. This action was generally met with ridicule, and many peo ple questioned the length of time the Bibles would remain in the rooms. In November of that year, the Gideons of Montana placed Bi bles in a hotel in Iron Mountain mow Superior), and the work was later extended to include mo tels, prisons, and hospitals. The organization has found that the average life of a Bible in one room is about eight years. In 1941, during national prep arations for defense, the Gideons were permitted through the Unit ed States Army and Navy chap lains to supply the armed forces with service testaments. Testa ments have been presented to school children, with written per' mission from parents, since 1937. Membership in Gideons is open to any business or professional man who is an active member of a New Testament church. Pro spective members must also have a recommendation from their min ister. The Bible work of the Gideons is supported through the free will offerings of members, inter ested individuals, and churches, with the primary source of In come from merrlbers and church es. All money received is used for Bibles and testaments, as the members must pay their own expenses in connection with Gide on activities, including the trav-i el expenses of the international cabinet and local officers. Gideon work has spread throughout the world, and the membership has grown to approx imately 20,000 men in 62 nations. An affiliated women's auxiliary, composed of the wives of Gideon members, supports the men's or ganization and presents while tes taments to nurses. More than 60 million copies of the Bible have been distributed by the Gideons since the practice was initiatel. Bibles placed in public facilities remain the prop erty of the Gideons, but those distributed to servicemen, nurs es, and school children are con sidered as gifts. Individual mem bers may also purchase gift Bi bles for ministers. The local Gideon Camp has eight members who meet every Saturday morning for a prayer breakfast. Two business meetings are held each month, one for the cabinet officers and the sec- ond for the oamp and auxiliary. The recently elected officers, who will be installed following the convention, are Maynard Ellis, president; Eddie Steele, vice pres ident; E. V. Sell, secretary; Bud Page, treasurer; J. P. Sexton, Bible secretary; and C. R. Lar son, chaplain. As t h e retiring president, Larson is acting as chairman of arrangements for the convention. The convention kicked off with a luncheon at '12 noon today and will continue in session through Saturday to discuss the work in this state. A luncheon for the wom-j en's auxiliary will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday. International President Jacob Stamm, an attorney from Pat erson, N.J., will be the featured sneaker at the banquet slated! Saturday evening at 6:30 in the hole! ballroom. Bibles for a num ber of hotels and testaments for servicemen will be dedicated, and testaments will be presented to the Kingsley iField chaplain dur ing the program. A special exhib- t of flags from each country: where the Gideons have worked will also be on display. On Sunday morning the Gideons will speak in many of the church es in this area, returning to the hotel for the final luncheon ses sion at 1 p.m. The public is. invited to attend any of the convention meetings, Ellis said. Further information or reservations for the luncheon or banquet may be obtained by call-l ing TU 4-6083. (0t $u!ikkek HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Friday, September 20, 1963 PAGE 5A Missionary Launches 'New' Ministry Texas Pastor Fills First Baptist Post The rrst Baptist Church will welcome its new minister, Rev. Nolan M. Kennedy, and Mrs. Ken nedy on Sunday, Sept. 22. Active in the ministry for 29 years, he comes to Klamath Falls from Amarilln, Tex., where he was pastor of the San Jacinto Baptist Church for 12 years. Open House Dated An "open house" will be spon sored by the Catholic Daughters of America for all Catholic wom en in the Klamath Basin on Mon day. Sept. 23, at B p.m. in the Sacred Heart parish hall. A 1 1 members are asked to invite new comers in their parish and other non-members of the organization. IMF! ft UIUEUN BIBLES Displaying three three styles of Gideon Bibles are two members of the Klamath Falls Camp, from left, Maynard cms, president-elect, and C R. Larson, re tiring president. The local camp, which is host for the Oregon State Gideons convention Sept. 20-22, has a stock of more than 200 Bibles to distribute in this area. The older black bibles at the Winema Hotel will soon be replaced with 100 new Bibles in a grey binding, Ellis said. After spending more than 30 years as missionaries to India, Hev. and Mrs. Harlan Brooks re turned to the United States to begin a new career with a home pastorate. Their ministry here was offi cially opened on Aug. 18 when he was installed as pastor of the! local Church of the Brethren by Rev. William Wash of Med- ford, chairman of the District Mm isterial Board. Both Reverend and Mrs. Brooks worked in churches and schools during India's struggle for inde pendence and in the years since the country became a republic. Serving primarily in Bombay State, they were able to observe the movement toward Christian ity and the progress made in the field of education over a 30-year period. When he first began working with the mission boarding schools, Reverend Brooks said the chil dren were accepted without charge in an effort to stimulate an interest in education and encour age attendance. But in the last 20 years, he noted that parents have become increasingly aware of the need for education and often go into debt to send their children to the church schools. The current practice is for stu dents of poor families to pay one-third of their expenses, with the balance paid through the church mission program, and those who are financially able pay the lu.'t costs of boarding schools, he added. Many of his students came from Society's 'Use' Of Church Pulpit For Promotion Attructs Criticism By ROBERT M. ANDREWS United Press1 International Boy Scouts in the basement, fund-raising notices in the church bulletin, sermons on highway safety from the pulpit. Is the church becoming the cap tive of the society it set out to free? More and more people are ask ing that nagging question today, and the answer is difficult to find. One who tried is Ross Coggins, associate secretary of the South- era Baptist contention's Christian Life Commission. CoEEins found that churches are clearly "useful" to many forces in society. He said the Texas state AKL- CIO, for example, recently mailed a Labor Day message to Baptist pastors with the request that it be "read in the churches." The National Association ot Manufacturers, through a "cler gy-industry relations department" publishes a monthly newsletter Post Parade Coffee Set All ministers in the Klamath Basin are invited to auenc coffee at the Winema Hotel on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 2:30 p.m to discuss plans for the 1963 Her ald and News Christmas parade. Open to every church group in the area, the parade is an annual! event which was initiated two years ago. It is designed to em-; phasize the real significance of the Christmas sceson with rcli- cious-themed floats. Olher church representatives may attend the meeting in the absence of the minister. Hope Plans For Hunters With the approach of the hunt ing season, Hope uilneran Church has planned a special Hunters' Service" on the Thurs day preceding the general open- in? of the season. Rev. Warren W. Pechman, pastor, invites all who are inter ested in hunting to attend the service at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 28. He will speak on the subject of "Hitting the Mark." featuring what Coggins calls "news from the religious world subtly interspersed with conser vative economic philosophy." Pastors hear pleas to permit the use of church buildings as fallout shelters. "Sou conserva tion Sunday" appears on the cal endar, and there is a ready-made sermon from the U.S. Soil Con servation Service. "During the heat of the 1960 campaign, a visitor in some churches might have thought he was witnessing a gathering of one of the political parties for prayer," says Coggins. Coggins is all for Boy Scouts. He does not believe a church can or should divorce itself from the worldly life around it. But he would like to see a return to the early disciples' "tension with the world." The disciples transformed the world, he says, not because they were simply "an unpopular irri tant in society" but because they stubbornly refused to conform to it. "The goal of the church is the will of God on earth as it is in heaven," the Baptist leader says. "To allow the church of the liv ing God to be used for anything less is to be guilty ot blasphemy." In one pastor's view, t h e answer to the problem Coggins cites may be to abolish the pro fessional ministry and get rid of the church's real estate. Dr. N. Gordon Cosby, pastor of the Church of the Savious in Washington, D.C., told readers of the Christian Advocate, a Metho dist magazine, that ministers might do a better job working alongside others than making a living preaching from the pulpit once a week. As for real estate, Cosby said the church had none in ancient Rome when it was most vibrant. The money saved on real estate could be used for mission proj ects, he added. Jews throughout the world have s ' - Tip - f f ; , ; uTI MEMORIES OF INDIA The recently installed pastor of the Church of the Brethren, Rev. Harlan Brooks, and his wife have many souvenirs to remind them of their former work in India. The sari which Mrs. Brooks occasion ally wore, the water birds made of milk buffalo horns, the ivory inlaid handkerchief box, and the Kashmir table are only a few of the articles collected in the 30 years they spent as missionaries in the Bombay State area. begun 10 days of prayer and self- evaluation called (he High Holy Days. It is the most solemn per iod in the Jewish calendar and it began Wednesday with Rosh Has hanah, the Jewish New Year, American Jews were given a special matter to ponder this year by Rabbi Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress. "We Jews must act," he said, "where we live, where we work. where we send our children to school, to demand an end to seg regation and the beginning of a decent chance in life for our Ne gro fellow-Americans." The rabbi said Jews bring their own unique experience to the "ov erriding national issue of our time," themselves having sur vived slavery, segregation and death in pharoah's Egypt, in the middle ages and under Hitler. illiterate jungle hamlets to the mission boarding schools located near the central church in Vy ara, near Surat, the minister said, and boys who had never held a hammer or a needle learned to become skilled car- penters, tailors, or amateur gar deners. He recalled one instance when the boys used prize seed corn from America to produce ears that were the wonder of the nearby towns. Through mission school train ing, many boys are prepared to teach in their native villages and others are qualified for positions as policemen, forest officers, min isters, or government employes, Girls receive training in home- making, teaching, social welfare work, and nursing, according to Reverend Brooks. ful trade, carpentry and agricul ture are required subjects at the mission schools, m addition to required Bible study. The successl of the religious influence ot the church schools is reflected in the growing number of Christians who received their formal education from such institutions. Reverend Brooks points out that today an estimated 70 per cent of India's tlie constitution making com mittee for the Gujarat United School of Theology. Established around 18 years ago, the theology school is a co operative venture of the Irish Prosbvterians, American Metho dists, and Church of the Brethren. Its students are required to have completed high school and two years of college teacher training. Acquiring a fluent knowledge of the Gujarati language, Reverend Brooks spent a great deal of lime translating and writing booklets in that language. Tlie booklets carried a religious and! village betterment theme for both Christians and non - Christians. One of his writings was con cerned with the use of milk goats, as many of the villagers knew nothing about tlie value of milk to supplement their diets. Serving a church as a full-time pastor will not be a new expe rience for Reverend Brooks. Be fore accepting a call to the for eign mission field, he held pas torates in Chicago, III.; Chico, Calif.; and Sunnyslope, Wcnat- chce. Wash. He also was an in structor in Bible at LaVerne Col lege, LaVerne, Calif., and in his tory and sociology at Elizabeth- town College in Pennsylvania. A graduate of Manchester Col lege, North Manchester, Ind., Reverend Brooks has studied at Bethany Biblical Seminary in Chi cago and the University of Chica go. He holds an M.A. in religious education from Northwestern Uni versity and an M.Th. from tlie University of California. Mrs. Brooks was graduated from Bethany Biblical Seminary and received an M.A. in educa tion from Manchester College. She taught in the Normal Train ing Department at Manchester and also supervised a girls' board ing school in India. Reverend and Mrs. Brooks have Retired Pastor To Return To Former Parish Sunday Rev. Dr. J. Henry Thomas, rec tor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church from 1925 to 1930, will visit his former pastorate as the guest speaker this Sunday. Now in re tirement, he resides in San Mateo, Calif. Serving St. Paul's when the present church structure was built, Reverend Thomas also began the Episcopal missionary work in Langell Valley. He is returning to this area to officiate at the wed ding of his granddaughter in St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Lan gell Valley, on Saturday. Society Slates Opening Social The LDS First Ward Relief So ciety will hold its opening social for the 1963-64 season on Wednes- day, Sept. 25, at 10 a.m. in the church cultural hall. Entertainment, luncheon, and a brief preview of the theology, lit erature, and social science les sons is planned. Child care will be provided. Today and Saturday, the Relief Society is sponsoring a baked food sale and bazaar at the Safe way Store. Eighth and Pine, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. In addition to fa vorite delicacies from Mormon kitchens, handmade quilts and organza roses are featured items, Speaker Set For Services The entire Sunday will be turned over to Reverend Thomas, according to St. Paul's rector, Rev. Robert L. Greene. He wiH celebrate Holy Communion at 8 a.m., speak to the adult class at' 9:15 a.m., and deliver the ser--mon at the 11 a.m. worship serv- ice. lxr f 1 v nurses are Christian. Although he spent many years traveled nround the elnhe Ihriw working with Uie elementary and iirneSi recording their experiences! To insure each student a use-'and was high school programs, Reverend Brooks was also associated with education on a college level. For nearly three years he served as principal of the Breth ren's Teacher and Vocational Training College in Anklesvar, Bombay State, teaching Bible and social and with colored slides. They have two daughters, one of whom Is! currently serving hv missionary work with her family in India The second daughter and her husband spent four years in Tok- lyo, Japan, where he opened the Brethren Service Work, and they Rev. Fred Summers of Pine- vitle, La., will be the speaker at the combined evangelistic serv ices planned by the Lakeside Church of the Nazarene and the Weaver Memorial Pilgrim Holi ness Church Sept. 22-29. Lakeside Nazarene will be host for the services. A graduate of McNeese State College in Lake Charles, La., Rev. Summers has held pastor ates in both the Southern Metho dist and Pilgrim Holiness church es. For the last two years he has been engaged only in the evange listic field. The services will be conduct ed each evening at 7:30, with special music presented by local talent. DR. ROYCE A. COLLIER Revival Led By Methodist A second week of revival serv ices Is being conducted at the Faith Tabernacle, 2610 Shasta " Way, with Dr. Royce A. Collier of Texas as the guest speaker. The public is Invited to attend the two daily services at 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., and a special service at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Rev. Eddie J. 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