Robert Hamblin Southern Baptist starts Monday Mississippi Baptist Convention (who operates the convention ad interim). Music throughout the convention will be led by Clint Nichols, music department chairman at New Orleans Seminary. Organist will be Becky Payne and pianist will be Eva Hart. Each session will be led in congregational praise by a different person. They include Marc Beaver, First Baptist Church, Pascagoula; Wilson Henderson, First Baptist, Columbus; Jim Watson, First Baptist, Picayune; Neill Harris, First Baptist, McComb; Lloyd Mims, Collins Baptist Church, Collins; and George McFadin, First Baptist, Oxford.
Special music will be brought by the choir of Harrisburg Baptist church, Tupelo; Churchmen Bells; Brass Ensemble; Blue Mountain' College Singers; Susan Lamkin; and the Mississippi College Concert Choir. Short devotional messages will be led by a number of lay and ordained leaders. The convention will have six sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday, with one Bible Treasure message in each. Bible Treasure speakers are Bill Baker, pastor, First Baptist Church, Clinton; George Thornton, a lawyer from Kosciusko; Paul Brooks, pastor, Woodlawn Baptist Church, Vicksburg; James Travis, director of pastoral ser- Joe McKeever vices, University Medical Center; Paul Vandercook, director, language ministries, Jackson and Gulfcoast Baptist Association; and Penrose St. Amant, retired president, Baptist Theological Seminary, Ruschlikon, Switzerland.
A special session Tuesday afternoon will deal with the issues of the separation of church and state. It will be led by Clark Hensley, executive director of the Mississippi Christian Action Commission, and John Baker, on the staff of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs in Washington, D.C. The Tuesday evening session will be devoted to a special program on the state convention board, followed by a reception at the Baptist Building honoring missionaries and chaplains. Milton Ferguson, president of Midwestern Seminary in Kansas City, will offer a report on the Southern Baptist seminaries. And Ron Tonks, of the Southern Baptist Historical Commission staff, will make his commission's report.
The order of business committee which puts this convention together consists of Jim Keith, chairman, Gulfport; Graham Smith, vice Hattiesburg; Louis Smith, Canton; Glenn Sullivan, Clarksdale; Charles Stubblefield, Ecru; and Macklyn Hubbell, Cleveland. Methodist Children's Home begins holiday gift drive JACKSON Homeless and troubled children at the United Methodist Children's Home will Il benefit by a special drive to raise holiday gifts during the Thanksgiving-Christmas season. The Rev. J.H. Morrow executive director of the Home, was joined by several United Methodist leaders throughout the state in calling for financial gifts during this holiday season.
Morrow said the gifts are needed if the Home is to meet the day-to-day needs of the boys and girls and provide for special holiday gifts for the children. "Special cash gifts are a major source of income for the Home, and the November-December holiday season is a crucial time for us," Morrow said. The Rev. Allen Bailey, minister of the First United Methodist Church in Starkville and vice- of board of directors and trustees the Home called upon ministers and laypersons of state to lead the in supporting the holiday offering. Bailey said, "This is going to be one of the finest years of support for our United Methodist Home." Dr.
William C. Warner, an orthopedic surgeon from Jackson who is now serving as president of the Home's board of directors, spoke of the unique opportunity which this season's offering brings. "To merely exchange gifts may give a moment of pleasure, but a gift that cannot be repaid is exciting, and you will experience great satisfaction," the physician said in appealing for gifts. Mrs. Jim Buck Ross, secretarytreasurer of the board of directors a and Sunday school is conference set Friday in Tupelo Joe Haynes of Nashville will be conference leader for a Young Adult Sunday School Leadership Conference at Harrisburg Baptist Church in Tupelo Friday.
The leadership conference is for all who lead, direct or teach Baptist young adults marrieds, singles, college in Sunday school. The conference begins with a banquet at 6 p.m. Reservations for the banquet are being made through the Mississippi Baptist Sunday School Department, Box 530, Jackson, Miss. 39205. Following the meal, Haynes will begin the conference around the tables.
The conference will later divide into two groups one for teachers led by Haynes; and the other for directors and outreach leaders led by Mose Dangerfield, young adult consultant in the state Baptist Sunday School Department. Haynes is a former consultant in the state Department. He is now in the program promotion section of the Sunday School Department in Nashville. THE PERFECT GIFT $12 SET Gift World, Ltd. WESTGATE SHOPPING CENTER Saturday Sunday, November 11-12, 1978 The Clarksdale Press Register Page Rabbi Schlager to be installed Friday at Temple Milton 1 I.
Schlager will be installed as rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in 8 a.m. ceremonies at the synagogue Friday. Attending the installation services as guests of Rabbi Schlager will be Bishop Joseph Brunini of the Jackson Diocese of the Catholic Church and Bishop Duncan Gray of the Mississippi Diocese of the Episcopal Church. Meridian Mayor I.A. Rosenbaum will also attend the installation.
All three men are personal friends of the new rabbi. A native of Boston, Schlager has been at Beth Israel since late August. Immediately before coming to Clarksdale, he was rabbi at a Martinsville, congregation and had been rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in Meridian. He succeeds the late Rabbi Benjamin Schultz at Clarksdale's Beth Israel. State Baptist Brotherhood Rally opens Monday The annual Mississippi Baptist Brotherhood Rally opens with a banquet at Daniel Memorial Baptist Church in Jackson Monday at 5:30 p.m.
The banquet features light entertainment by William E. Thorn, president of Dallas Baptist College in Dallas, and the Hometown Reunion Barbershop Quartet from Jackson. Following the banquet will be an evening session of inspiration and mission information. The program opens with Clint Nichols, New Orleans Seminary music department chariman, who will lead in music. Paul Harrell, director of the Brotherhood Department of the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board, will interpret the program.
Then a slight change from previous years of rallies will be a 15 minute session of the Mississippi Baptist Convention, during which the convention will be called to order and the committee on constitution and by-laws will make its report. This short session fulfills constitutional requirements for operation of the Mississippi Baptist Convention, according to Jim Keith, chairman of the order of business committee. The rally continues with a view of missions from the perspective of a family unit, a church group, an associational group and a statesponsored group. Harrell reports that statistically, more than 600 Baptists in Mississippi have participated in mission trips in 1978. He says he learns of others with regularity.
Following these reports, a number of projects for 1979 will be presented to the group. Closing message for the evening will be by Jim Henry, pastor of First Baptist Church, Orlando, Fla. He will speak on the motivation of men to be on mission for Christ. Tickets must be purchased for the banquet which has limited seating, Gulfside Assembly receives grant JACKSON Gulfside Assembly at Waveland is one of five institutions in Mississippi to receive a grant from the United Methodist Church's Board of Global Ministries which met last month in Detroit, Mich. The grant to Gulfside of $10,000 was made from the Harry R.
Kendall Trust Fund administered by the Health and Welfare Ministries Division of the Board New Centennial plans Women Day trustees, said, "'The United Methodist Children's Home is very dependent upon special giving, over and above the payments by local churches." She especially urged women throughout state to take on this project during the holiday season. Gifts can be mailed to The United Methodist Children's Home, P.O. Box 36, Jackson, Miss. 39205. The New Centennial Missionary Baptist Church at 60 17th St.
has set Women Day services for Sunday at 9:30 a.m. church school and 11 a.m. morning worship, as well as a special afternoon program at 2:30. The theme for the program is "To Serve this Present Age" and the Scripture theme is from Acts 9:36: "Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas; this woman was full of good works and alms deeds which she did." Highlighting the afternoon program will be an address by guest speaker Mrs. Lurel Smith.
Other participants in the special program are Mrs. Willie M. Riley, who will serve as mistress of ceremonies; Mrs. Jimmie Nichols, who will give the welcome; Mrs. Sadie Guy, who will make the acceptance; Mrs.
Lela H. Jones, who will also say a few words; Mrs. Emma Burnett, who will introduce the guest speaker; and Mrs. Annie M. Green who is in charge of the meditation offering.
Others serving on the program or helping with the planning are Mrs. Wil Ella Flag, Mrs. Dorothy Mile, Mrs. Clotel Hardmon, Mrs. Katie Wallace and Mrs.
Ora M. Laws. They invited other churches and members to serve on the program, worked on publicity and will serve as hostesses. The women participating are members of the courtesy and decoration committees of the church. Mrs.
Ruby Lee Cain is president of the women's organization, and the Rev. J.A. Sills is pastor of New Centennial Church. of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church headquartered in Evanston, IlI. letter trom Dr.
Charles P. Kellogg to Bishop Mack B. Stokes of Jackson lists the five institutions receiving Kendall Fund grants this year. They are Gulfside Children's Center in Lexington Independent YMCA of Mississippi in Jackson Methodist Senior Services in Tupelo ($8,000) and Wesley Foundation at Jackson State University Dr. Kellogg, who served as executive secretary of the Office of Minority Services of the board, explained that Harry R.
Kendall was an executive and cofounder of the Washington National Life Insurance Company in Evanston. At the time of his death, over 15 years ago, he left one-third of his estate to the then Board of Hospitals and Homes with clear directions as to who should receive services made possible by the proceeds of his investments. According to Dr. Kellogg, the Kendall will reads, "I direct my said Trustees to pay, not less ofen than semi-annually commencing upon the date of my death and thereafter for a period of forty years, thirty per cent of the net income of the residuary trust in convenient installments unto BOARD OF HOSPITALS AND HOMES OF THE METHODIST CHURCH (now called the Board of Global Ministries, Heath and Welfare Division), a not-for-profit corporation of Illinois to be used by it for the following purposes: "(1) To provide hospital service for the poor of the Negro race; "(2) To provide homes for needy Negro children and needy aged persons of both the white and Negro races; "(3) To provide for the training of leaders for charitable services in hospitals and homes caring for needy Negro children and aged persons of the Negro race." DIAL -A-DEVOTION 627-1154 Broadcast every Sunday morning at 11:00 A.M. 00 WKDL 1600 on your radio dial.
Bible School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. "LIVING IN Psalms 100; 3 Rev. Lucius Marion Evening Worship 7:00 p.m. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH MAN" "BEHOLD THE John 19:5 REV.
LUCIUS B. MARION, Pastor Rev. Lucius B. Marion "THE DOWNTOWN BAPTIST CHURCH" Church Training 6:00 p.m. Community-wide Thanksgiving service announced.
The annual community -wide Thanksgiving service has been scheduled this year for Wednesday, Nov. 22, the day before Thanksgiving, at 7 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church. Speaker for the service will be the Rev. Haddican, pastor of St.
Elizabeth, Catholic Church. The community service is sponsored by the Coahoma County Ministerial Fellowship. Presently serving as presto dent of the Fellowship is the Rev. W.R. Lott pastor of St.
Paul's United Methodist Church, who announced the 9 plans for the Thanksgiving service. 18 State's Jimmy Allen Convention The Mississippi Baptist Convention Monday throught Wednesday in Jackson to consider a $10 million budget, elect officers and hear speakers including Southern Baptist Convention president. Jimmy Allen. Scripture theme tying sessions together is "Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man." (Mark 1:41, NIV) The convention, official annual business meeting for messengers from the nearly 2,000 participating Southern Baptist churches in Mississippi, will begin with a short meeting Monday evening at Daniel Memorial Baptist Church in Jackson. This will be during the state Baptist Brotherhood Rally.
Then the sessions reconvene the next morning at Jackson's First Baptist Church, continuing there through Wednesday. The budget to be considered consists of voluntary gifts through the convention's unified Cooperative Program, where churches send funds to the central offices of the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board for disbursem*nt to the various boards, agencies and schools of the Mississippi Baptist Convention and the worldwide efforts of the Southern Baptist Convention. Robert Hamblin, pastor of Harrisburg Baptist Church in Tupelo, is president of the MBC and is completing his second term in that office. Traditionally, the convention will only elect a president to two one-year terms. Other convention officers are Truitt Roberts, first vice-president; B.B.
McGee, second vice-president; Joe Odle, recording secretary; and Paul Harwood, associate recording secretary. Jimmy Allen, SBC president, will head the list of convention speakers which includes several Mississippians. Hamblin will deliver the presi-. dent's address. And Joe McKeever, pastor of First Baptist Church, Columbus, will preach the annual sermon.
McKeever is on the board of directors for the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. Other major speakers include Keith Parks of the Foreign Mission Board; Clyde Fant, pastor of First Baptist Church, Richardson, Texas; and Earl Kelly, executive secretary of the Tabernacle holding revival services The Independent Baptist Tabernacle, 435 Spruce, is holding revival services this weekend, according to the Rev. W.V. Tidwell, the church's pastor. Evangelist Tommy Tillman of New Orleans is speaking at the services, which were held at 7 Friday night, and will be held again at 7 tonight and Sunday night, and also at 10 Sunday morning.
A local singing group, the Bondsmen, were scheduled to sing last night and tonight. Nicky Abraham instituted as lector at St. Meinrad W. Nicholas Abraham, a first year theologian, was instituted in the Ministry of Lector in ceremonies at St. Meinrad Seminary in St.
Meinrad, Nov. 4. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Abraham of 1504 Holly Nicky is a member of St.
Elizabeth Parish and the Diocese of Jackson. Abraham was among 62 men who advanced toward the priesthood at the seminary's ceremonies last Saturday, and one of 40 who were instituted in the Ministry of Lector. The 22 others received the Ministry of Acolyte. The ceremonies were held in the Archabbey Church at the seminary, with Bishop Francis R. Shea of the Diocese of Evansville presiding.
The men who received the ministries are students in St. Meinrad School of Theology, a four year professional school which trains men for entry into the Roman Catholic priesthood. During those four years, the students receive the Ministry of Lector, declare their candidacy for priesthood, receive the Ministry of Acolyte and are ordained to the Holy Orders of Diaconate and Priesthood. 62 who received the ministries represent 34 different dioceses and archdioceses located throughout the nation. Those who, like Abraham, became Lectors, stated their submission to Christ and His teachings.
Their responsibilities include the reading of the Scripture during the Liturgy, the teaching of Christian doctrine and direction in the participation of liturgical singing. Airtemp the finest in air conditioning KREMSER'S 516 THIRD ST. Dr. C.L. Culpepper China missionary to speak Sunday at Walnut Baptist The public is invited to come and hear Dr.
C.L. Culpepper, a retired missionary to China and Taiwan, who will be speaking at the Walnut Baptist Church Sunday morning at 11. Dr. Culpepper is retired from 42 years of service on the mission field. He served in China during the Great Shantung Revival and is the author of two books: "The Great Shantung Revival" and "Total Abandonment to the Will of God." Dr.
Culpepper is presently serving as distinguished professor of missions and theology at the Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis. Alvin O'Neal Jackson First Christian Church revival starts Monday Elder Alvin O'Neal Jackson will be the evangelistic revival speaker the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) at services Monday through Friday at 6:30 each evening. The church is located at 600 azoo Ave. An associate pastor of the Second Christian Church in Indianapolis, Rev. Jackson is responsible for program development, staff supervision and preaching there.
Elder Jackson is originally from Indianola, and earned his B.S. degree from Butler University in Indianapolis. He received his master of divinity degree from the School of Divinity of Duke University in Durham, N.C. Some of his other involvements include membership with the General Governing Board of the Christian Church; with the Black Church Work Committee that administers national programs in the Black Church; with the of trustees of the National Convocation of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); and with the Indiana Interreligious Commission on Human Equality. In 1977 he was presented the Outstanding Young Men of America award.
He is married to the former Earnestine Eugenia Brown. Hosting the revival at the local church is its pastor, Elder E.L. Griffin. The public is cordially invited, according to the local minister. no8 Miss Nancy Moore 3 130 Clarksdale girl accepts position dos at Florida church 18 Miss Nancy Moore, daughter of and Mrs.
Floyd Moore, 1303 Park Lane; has recently accepted a position with the First Baptist Church in Wauchula, Fla, She is administrative assistant to the' Rev. Billy Souther and gives assistance in the areas of music and education in addition to serving as tise secretary. The pastor of the church is Rev. Herschel Creasmon. Miss Moore, a music major and 1977 graduate of Delta State University, served on the staff of the Ridgecrest Baptist Conference Center in North, a Carolina for two summers, and in the summer of 1976, she served as a summer missionary with the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board, when she was.
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