TOE CHATTANOpGA TIMES: CHATTANOOGA, FEBRUARY 4, 1956, SESSION OF WSCS SET ONFEB. 10-11 CHURCH TO HOLD 'RDTHBRIENDAY KENNEDY TO LEAD IN YOUTH REVIVAL 1 1 i i North Georgia Conference Evangelist at Eastdale Methodist Church PACK IS PREACHER AT 1STCHRISTIAH Former Pastor Has Church inlSeattle To Be Guest at Morning Service First Annual Meeting of Central Baptist Organist Is METHODISTS PLAN TRAINING SCHOOL District Event Scheduled March 4-8 Children's Phase in September Si i The annual training: school sponsored by a Methodist churches in the Chattanooga District will be held this year March The Rev. Joseph Brown Ken Dr. John Paul Pack, one of Chattanooga's former ministers i MRS. PEYTON BRIEN' nedy, recent graduate of Candler School of Theology and evangelist in the North Georgia Conference, is conducting a youth-sponsored revival at the Eastdale Methodist Church through Feb.
i Born in Memphis, the clergy man la a graduate of Phillips High School in Birmingham, the University of Alabama, Blrming ham-Southern College with a B.A. degree in psychology, and Emory university with a B.D. degree. The Rev. Mr.
Kennedy has nem many offices that concern youth; was pastor of the Airport Hills Chapel in Birmingham lor 3i vears: president of the North Alabama Conference of Meth odist Youth for three years; president of the Alabama Council of Christian Youth for three years, and president of the Birmingham Bessemer District Evangelistic Rally Organisation for two yeara He is chairman of the Southeastern Region, United Christian Youth Move ment and founder and editor of The Crusader, North Alabama Conference Youth newspaper. He was religious emphasis speaker at Ohio University in 1952, and was organizing secretary of the second general assembly of the World Assembly of Youth. The evangelist is founder and present president of the Inter national Christian Student Foun datlon which sponsors foreign students for special study In the United 'States, as well as U.S. students in foreign countries. He was invited by the youth of Ma laya to speak to the All-Malayan Methodist Youth Conference in Singapore in April 1952.
After this he addressed 5,000 people for four days in the first city-wide (International) Interdenom inational evangelistic- crusade in the history of the church in Ma laya, and has been invited to return this April to Malaya. Fifty countries sent represent atives to Singapore in 1954 for a world youth conference. These young people represented the organizations affiliated with the United Nations. This group, called WAY," la the youth sec tlon of the United Nations, it was stated, and is suported by the Western powers, in contrast to the World Federation of Dem ocratlc Youth, which is a commu nistic organization. The Rev.
Mr. Kennedy, who Is at present doing evangelistic work in the United States, has traveled through 47 countries on his two trips around the world and beyond the iron curtain. He has received encouragement from the Rev. Billy Graham. He is raising money for his return to the East, and to support the foundation which he has begun, information from this organiza tion stated.
ALLIANCE SUNDAY SET BY BAPTISTS Mora Than 60 Nations Will Join in Observance The First Baptist Church will join with other Baptist churches tomorrow throughout the world in observing Baptist World Al liance Sunday which will be recognized in more than 60 na tions of the world. The purpose of this annual oc casion, which is always held on the first Sunday in February, is stated in the preamble of the constitution when the Alliance was organised in London in 1905. It says: "To show the essential oneness of Baptist people In the Lra jesus Christ, to Impart In spiration to the Brotherhood, and to promote the spirit of fellow ship, service and cooperation among its members." Dr. Duke K. president or southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, will be the speaker at both the 10:55 a.m.
and 7:30 p.m. services in the absence of the pastor, Dr. Carl J. Giers, who with Mrs. Glers, is on an extended visit to Hawaii, tne orient, and the Philippines.
uoy scout Troop and the boys' parents and families will be guests of honor at the evening service. George- W. Bales is the scoutmaster, and those associated with him on the scout committee are J. Byron Taylor, Alfred F. Pedlgo, Dr.
Frank Graham, M. Clay Gupton and Dr. E. Gartrell. Retiring After 38 Years' Continuous Service Sunday, Feb.
12, has been set aside as "Ruth Brlen Day" by the Central Baptist Church, 800 McCains in honor of Mrs. B. Peyton Brien who has re tired as church organist after 38 years of continuous service. The music committee of the church is In charge of arrangements for the occasion. Members of the Sunday School will honor Mrs.
Brien at 9:43 a.m., when all departments from, the primary through the adult will (rather in the main auditorium of the church for a special recognition service. After the evening worship the church will compliment Mrs. Brien with a reception in tne recreation room. Mrs. J.
H. Boyd is in charge of decorations and Mrs. V. A. Hen- nessee of refreshments.
Primary Superintendent Mrs. Brien has taken an active part In church leadership fn addi tion to her service as church or ganist She has been superintend ent of the primary department for more than 55 years and is active In the missionarjr-program of the church. Many of her former pupils now fill places of leadership in the church. Her family has been associated with Central Baptist Church from its Her mother, Mrs Gus A. Wood who died in 1952, was one of the charter mem bers of the church.
Her sister, Mrs. P. H. Sweet, has long been an active member and her hus band is a member of the board off deacons. In addition to her church work Mrs.
Brien has been a public school teacher most of the time since her graduation from Chattanooga High School, taking time out to marry and raise a family. She has taught in many or tne city schools and is at present a member of the faculty of Hemlock School. i and Mr. Brien have two sons, Peyton who works for WDEF-TV, and John, an Army lieutenant who recently received his orders for duty in Germany. Both are married and Peyton has three children, Peyton HI, John and Amy Ruth.
Mrs. Brien has been organist during the ministry of five min isters, the late Dr. W. L. Pick ard and Dr.
T. Allen, Dr. Ralph Moore, Dr. Russell Brad ley Jones and the present pastor, the Rev. Ansell T.
Baker. jACKSON STUDENT HEADS COUNCIL Jack Ratliff, Jackson, senior, has been elected president of the Student YMCA Council at McCallie School. He succeeds Ralph Clark of Gadsden. The YMCA is the religious leadership organisation on the McCallie It sponsors nightly prayer meetings in the dormitories, school prayer serv ices on Thursday nights and vesper programs on Sunday eve nings. The council, aside from the three officers, is composed of representatives from each floor in the dormitories, 13 in all.
Clark, retiring president, was named vice president for the second semester, and Claude Wood of Knoxvllle, was elected secretary. Ratliff, a third-year student at McCallie, is also vice president of the Student Council and is on the Student Senate, the honor council of the school. He Is also active In athletics and, social affairs at the school. The dormitory representatives for the second semester are: North Hutchinson, Harry Moodle of Salem, Harton Dick of Morris town; John Solo-man of Coral Gables; South Hutchinson, Roy Collins of Jack son, Joe McCutcheon of Dalton; and George Sullivan of Paducah, Founders' Home, Robert Moore of Madisonville, and Whitley Perry of Holly wood, Maclellan, Lewis Carter of Memphis and Tommy oakley of Stateaville, N.C.; Douglas, Zander Ayers, Tommy Deane, and Bill Sullivan, all of Knoxvllle. Unity Center of ChrUtiajilrv The Rev.
Whipple Bishop, minuter: The minister will dlacuss how "Evolution Means Progress" at the a.m. service Sunday at the center, 617 McCallie Ave. Study classes vAll meet Tuesday at the center at 1:30 m. anil at Phillls Wheatley YWCA at 6:30 p.m., to consider "Lessons in Truth." There is a healing service at 8 pm. Thursday.
pointed out that often at a Cost to himself in prestige and finances, Emerson departed from accepted customs in order to find more basic religious feeling, it was stated. Mr, zwenisr is a research-engi neer with TVA and a long-time student of the poet and essayist. itUl-AUMi Of Bm-etmpon. OrMavUl. SC.
THE REV. JOE B. KENNEDY ST. AMDREWS SETS LENTENSERVICES Week of Dedication Plans Include Race Relations Day on Feb. 12 St.
Andrews Methodist Church and Church School is preparing for the observance of the Week of Dedication at the beginning of Lent. The Week of Dedication Is essentially a spiritual observance and World Methodism, It is stated, has come to regard it as a call to personal consecration and sacrificial sharing. The theme this year is "We Have An Altar." The week includes Race Relations Day, Feb. 12; Ash Wednesday, Feb. 15, and Meth odism's Day of Dedication, on Feb, 19.
The sacrificial offering of ma terial resources durinsr the Week of Dedication will be used for critical missionary needs in the United States, the pastor, the Rev. W. M. 8eymour, said, and for overseas giving which can not be met wtihout such offer ings. The approved projects this year are: the Crusade Scholarship Fund, the Division of world Missions, 50 per cent the Division of National Mis sions, SO per cent, and the Methodist Committee for Overseas Relief, 20 per cent.
The World Missions money is for the support of social centers and colleges all over the world, Fifteen thousand dollars of the National Missions money goes to the support of the East Vine Street Church in Knoxvllle. The other projects are found all over the United States, Alaska and Puerto Rico. Disaster relief, ref ugee resettlement, the anti-tuber- cuioaia program in India and Arab refugees In Palestine re ceive the 20 per cent allotted to the Methodist Committee for Overseas Relief. The minister will preach at both services Sunday, his topic in the morning being1 "God and You." In the current Church School attendance campaign a point system has been worked out In order to encourage rood attend ance ana increased enrollment The Russell Tate Class, Edgar Collins, president, is far ahead at this point In the campaign, It was sinnounced. Other groups having: 300 points or more are the senior and Junior departments, the kindergarten and the Mosely Wesleyan Class, YOUNG PEOPLE TO LEAD PROGRAM IN BRA1NERD -Lest We Forget" will be the toplo of the pastor, Dr.
J. Harper Brady, at the Sunday morning worsnip ac urainerd tTesbyte-rlan Church and the voun peo ple will present their Assembly's youth program under the direc tion of French Tripp at 7:30 He Is president of the Senior Igh Fellowship. Assembly's Youth Sunday Is an opportunity for the young people to present to the church their program, so the congregation may be better Informed as to the work of the youth. The program is designed to show the progress made during- the past year and to present plana for the coming- year. There will be a question and answer period which the young people will conduct.
Each group in the church will be introduced, as well as its adult advisors, After the program there will be an open house in Fellowship nau. BISHOP TO SPEAK AT CENTENARY National Leader of Family Life Group to Conduct 2-Day Conference Bishop Hazen O. Werner of Co lumbus, Ohio, chairman of the National Committee on Family Life for the Methodist Church, will be the leader of the first Conference on Christian Family Life which will be held at Cen tenary Methodist Church Sunday and Monday, and will be the guest preacher at morning worship Sunday, his topic being "The Family lives Its Chairmen have been announced for the various sessions of the conference, according to Coyel Rlcketts, chairman of the church's family life committee. sponsor of the conference. Mr.
and Mrs. Marshall Spietn will preside at 4 p.m. Sunday In Fellowship Hall at a session planned especially for parents of children under iz years, "farenta First Teachers of Religion' will be the topic of Bishop Wer ner's lecture with discussion to follow. That evening at o'clock, Miss Ann Corbitt, president of Centenary's youth division, will be chairman of a meeting of sen ior high and college youth at which the bishop will talk on "Getting Ready for Marriage." Discussion Planned Mr. and Mrs.
Rex Corbitt will be chairmen at an Informal cof fee and discussion period for par ents of teen-asrers Monday from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. After this, Bishop Werner will he the speak er at an open meeting of the WSCS with Mrs. waiter Adams as chairman. Rlcketts will preside at a dinner meeting Monday for members of the official board, family life committee and com mission on education. Carter Par- ham, chairman of the official board, will be chairman for the final session of the conference scheduled for 8 o'clock -that eve ning in Fellowship Hall.
Bishop Werner's topic will be "The Marks of a Christian Home." Dr. Bachman G. Hodge, host minister, invites Chattanooga cit izens to, participate in this con ference, Lutheran Film Scheduled The film, "Martin Luther," will be shown Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at Concord Baptist Church, It is announced by the pastor, the Rev. M.
Dale Larew. The film lasts one hour and 45 minutes, Everyone Is welcome. A free will offering will be taken. Bishop Earth to Visit Good Shepherd Church Bishop Theodore N. Barth will pay his annual visit to the Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal, Lookout Mountain, Sunday.
At 9:30 a.m., at a special service of confirmation, he will welcome Into full communicant membership into the Episcopal Church, those who are now being prepared by the rector, the Rev. Harold 1. Barrett. The bishop will have the Institution of the rector, this service being held at 11 a.m., and at 3 p.m. he will lead a service of dedication for the new rectory.
The Rev. and Mrs, Barrett are planning to hold open house at the rectory from 3 to 5 Sunday afternoon to which members and. friends of the parish are invited. Central Jurisdiction at Wiley Memorial 1 The Central Jurisdiction Worn an's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church will hold its first annual meeting- in Chat tanooga Feb. 10 and 11 at Wiley Memorial Methodist Church, 504 Lookout St.
Mrs. G. W. Carter of New Orleans, president, will preside. The program of the WSCS for the next quadrennlum will be the focal point for discussion.
The Rev. S. T. Dixon, staff member of the division of the local church, Nashville, will address the meeting on the theme, "Women and Their Responsibili ty to the Local Church Miss L. F.
Arnold of Atlanta will explain the new organizational set up of the Wesleyan Service Guild. There also will be a panel discussion on "Christian Women and Youth." A preconference meeting will be held Thursday as well as a meeting- of the standing committee of the WSO during the annual meeting. Mrs. T. K.
Taylor, president of the WSCS in East Tennessee, and Mrs. B. Cox, conference president of the WSG, with district and local officers and members are striving to make this meet-ins; a success. The session will open at 9 a.m. each day with a devotional program led by Mrs.
E. L. McAllister of St Louis jurisdiction spiritual life secretary. Holy Communion will be administered by Bishop EJ. A Love, district superintendent, the Rev.
J. D. Kelley and the Rev. C. B.
Holloway, pastor of the host church, on Friday. M'FARLAND JOINS ATTENDANCE MOVE Methodist Drive Continue! Until Easter Sunday McFarland Memorial Mathnd. 1st Church is loinlnsr other churches in a church, attendance drive. The theme of this cam paign can be recognlxed on large billboards, signs, posters and stamps on every side. It is "The Answer Is God, Worship Him." The drive, which began on New Year's Day, will continue through Easter Sunday.
McFarland Church, the Rev, Roy Reese pastor, is participating in several ways. The church la sharing in the cost of the billboarda is placing "grace" cards In restau- rants and posters In store and of fice windows, Is sharing reports with other Methodist churches of the Chattanooga district, and la participating in an attendance visitation campaign from Feb, 19 to 28. The drive will culminate In evangelistic programs for older children, youth and adults during the pre-Kaster season. All organisations of the church will take part, the pastor said. R.
legal and Jack Henderson, chairmen of the commissions on education and membership and evangelism, are Trinity Methodist Trinity Methodist Church Is joining the multitudes of fellow Methodists in the worldwide church attendance movement. the motto of Which fa "Th in. swer Is God. Worship Him." This win be the topic of the sermon by the Rev. Cato Dick, host minister, at the morning worship.
"Continuity in worship is essential for the blessing God is so anxious and able to bestow upon us. So make God in worship a weekly habit, and the holy privilege it la We Invite you to take the place which only you can fill. We ask you to coma every Sunday for a blessing and for a testimony," the minister. said. A membership training class for children preparing: to Join the church on Palm Sunday, March 25, will be conducted by the pastor, from Sunday to March 18.
A churchwlde course in missions, based on the book, "South of the Himalayas," will begin Wednesday at 73:0 p.m. and continue for six weeks. RIDGEDALE METHODIST WILL HOLD DEDICATION A silver Communion plate will be dedicated Sunday morning at the Ridgedale Methodist Church in. memory of Mr. and Mrs.
M. Whitten and their son, Milton, the gift of Mrs. W. E. Dillard and Mrs.
D. R. Woods, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Whitten.
The family, the pastor, the Rev. Charlie D. Mehaffey, said, was one of the most faithful of the Ridgedale congregation. A Communion made In the workshop of Hlwassee College at Madisonville, also will be dedicated. The 'dedicatory service will be conducted by the minister as part of the service of Holy Communion, beginning at 10:40 Sunday.
The meditation will be The minister's topic at p.m. will be "The Endless Search of God's Love." Associate of Graham To Be at Winchester gptclal to Tilt Chttttooga TW WINCHESTER, Feb. 3 The Rev. Grady Wilson, an aasocl. ate of evangelist Billy Graham, has been engaged to conduct the second countywide evangelistic crusade, scheduled for July 11-22 at Memorial Stadl-tun in Winchester.
A committee composed of ministers of several of the county's denominations was selected at an earlier meeting to secure an evangelist for the crusade. i The Rev. Mr. Wilson of Charlotte, N.C., has done ex. tensive evangelistic work throughout the nation.
A mu sical director and song: leader wiu be named at a future date, and outstanding clvio leaders, will return to the pulpit of the First Christian Church to preach at the 10:45 a.m. worship Sun day. Currently serving as minister of the University Christian Church in Seattle, one of the largest Protestant churches on the Pacific Coast, Dr. Pack was pastor of the First Christian Church here from 1940 to 1847. He had formerly served Christian churches in Missouri, Arizona and Indiana.
Dr. Pack was vice president of the International Convention of the Disciples of Christ in Portland, in 1953, and served as special preacher at the World Convention In Toronto, Canada, last summer. He has been a member of the board of trustees of the United Christian Missionary Society; the Com mittee on Fraternal Relations between Baptists and Disciples; Commission on Christian Unity; advisory board, Crusade for a Christian World; Committee for the Observance of Christian Literature Week, and in 1952 he was a member of the Sherwood Eddy American Seminar, touring the British Isles and Europe. The clergyman is on the board of the Family Society and Seattle General Hospital; president of Washington State Tempsrance Assik, and active in the Council of Churches. Elected president of the Executives' Club of Chattanooga just prior to his leaving the city, Dr.
Pack was a member of the Resources Utilization Board here, Kiwanla Club, president of the Chattanooga Pastors' first general chairman of the Chattanooga Round Table, National Conference of Christians and Jews; and past president of the advisory committee of Alcoholics Anonymous. The former First Christian minister is a graduate of Bethany where he received his A. B. degree, and of Yale Divinity School, where he received his B. D.
degree. Bethany College conferred the degree of doctor of divinity upon him in June, 1948. Mrs. Pack was Miss Adele White, third daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
Walter M. White, known and laved among Disciples, the denomination of which the First Christian Church is a part. They have two sons. Dr. Pack succeeded Dr.
Lin D. Cartwright, now editor of the Christian-Evangelist. He is coming to Chattanooga in connection with the 10th anniversary or tne rounaing of the SERVICES AT THEATER Westside Baptist Center to Sponsor Night Meetings The WeataM RnMf -arts. slonary Community Center of ox yy. juain su is inaugurating1 a program of gospel preaching encn ounaay rrom 9 to 10 p.m.
at the Harlem Theater with ti Rev. Julius Caesar Bonner bring ing- uio messages. The Rev. Mr. Bonner is pastor of the Westsida Rantfut Church end has been active in the service of humanity.
Hm in a member of the City Commission for Better Housing, vice president of the Baptist Ministers' Alliance and hntda an rt. fice in the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance. Preceding the serman there will be aineingr bv th fmmn. tlon and by singing groups from cnurcn. -me Kev.
Iouis Brooks, pastor of the New Zlon Baptist Church, will Introduce the Rev. Mr. Bonner. The Rev. Nathaniel Garth, associate pastor Of the church, la intaMnir with the program.
sponsors are the Franklin-Strickland Funeral Home; A. J. Jackson Service Station? Tin. chanan Funeral Home; T. T.
lwis earner Shop; Morris Chapman Dry Cleaners and J. T. Thomas Brake Repair. EMERSON THE SUBJECT OF UNITARIAN LECTURE "The Times and Ideas of Raich Waldo Emerson" will be the subject of the lecture before the Uni tarian Fellowship Sunday at the service at a.m. at the county courthouse.
Eugene A. Zwenlr will discuss the religious philosophy of Emerson and will analyze the impact of this New Englander upon his generation and his contribution to America's heritage of religion and pnnosopny. Emerson's poetry will also be examined with regard to the ef fort to separate humanity from su-perstltion and mystery. It will be Bishop Short to Of New Burks Bishop Roy H. Short of Nash ville will dedicate the new Burks Chapel Methodist Church sanctuary Sunday at 11 a.m.
The church is part of the Burks-Fairview charge, Cleveland district. Bishop Short -will preach the dedicatory sermon and will lead the congregation In the 'service of dedication. The Rev. Clyde F. Watklns, superintendent of the Cleveland District, will have a prominent part on the program.
Work on hs new building was begun about two years ago, during the pastorate of the Kev. David Warner, who served the charge for four years. The Rev. C. H.
Wright is the present pastor, being appointed in June 1955. Burks Chapel Church is situated in the midst of a thriving, rural through 8. Adult classes will be held at Centenary Methodist Church and the youth section of training school at First Methodist Church. There will be 26 courses offered for youth, workers with youth, and adults. The children workers section usually held at this time has keen planned for September of this year.
This will give the adults working with children the opportunity to take a wider range of courses. Adult courses will be offered on the Bible, the churoh, psychology, and methods in church work, missionary education, the adult division, administration of the Church School, and general courses on Christian beliefs and personal Christian living. A wide range of youth courses will be offered including: Christian Beliefs, Choosing a Vocation, Dramatics and Christian Education, Preparation for Marriage and others. Within the 26 courses offered, plana were made for the courses to meet the needs of every youth and adult within the church. The school this year will be under the direction of the Rev.
Roy Reese, dean; and the Rev, Amos Rogers, associate dean. The Rev. Harper Sasser will be dean of the youth section and the Rev. R. D.
(Buddy) McGee, director of the Methodist Student Center at the University of Chat tanooga, his associate. Additional Information may be obtained from Methodist ministers in the local churches and through the district superintendent, Dr. E. D. Worley.
The Chattanooga District Lead' ershln School Is one 1 of the largest held In the Methodise Church, Last year more than 1,400 were enrolled. BRAIN ERD CHORUS WILL SING SUNDAY Men' i Group to Be Heard at Methodist Church The recently organized Bral- nerd Men's Chorus will make its debut Sunday at the 7:30 p.m. service In the sanctury of Brai- nerd Methodist Church. Members of the chorus, which is directed by E. Harold Waddell, include bod Davis, c.
r. hoi combe, George Lerch, Paul Kin aer, W. Wallace, W. H. Cooper, W.
A. Fundlnger, E. T. Schaerer, Owen Hammer, Walter Cox, X. Hill, Ray Watts, Mose Payne, -w.
F. Laubscher, "Jack Berry, Dale Stiers, Harold Hull, John Wall, Elder Jones, Paul McCay, J. B. Lea, David Hopkins, Dr. George Slvila and Lawrence Westcott.
pianist. The minister, the Rev. Herschel B. Abshlre, will have a service of Holy Communion at the 10:45 a.m. worship Sunday.
The Rev. R. D. (Buddy)' Mc Gee, director of the Methodist Student Center of the University of Chattanooga, will be the guest speaker before the intermediate department at 6:30 p.m., telling stories from "Hans Christian Anderson," The chorus' selections at the evening service will Include "We March to Victory," "Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," and "Rock of Ages," with D. L.
H1U as soloist. SCOUT OBSERVANCE SET AT EAST LAKE OrfUBOH The 46th birthday of the Boy Scouts of America will be observed at the East Lake Methodist Church Sunday at 11 a.m. with the Rev. J. Paul Williams speaking on "To Be Men of Faith The East Lake Methodist Church sponsors two units of Boy Scouts, Cub Pack 8019 and Boy Scout Troop 146.
The scout committee is composed of Joseph 8. Turner, chairman; Alvis M. Culber, James L. Butler, Jack E. Meadows, Robert O.
Qulnn, Ernest Thomas and the -minister. The Cub Pack has Meadows as its cubmaster with Alvis M. Culver as assistant master. Den mothers are Mesdames R. L.
Green, Paul Howe, Jack E. Meadows, Ernest Mosley and John Lumpkin. The Boy Scout "master Is John Lumpkin and Harley L. Moseley Jr. Is assistant master.
Both units are operated asv community projects. Members of the Cub Pack and Boy Scout Troop, their parents and leaders, are Invited to the service. They will be seated as a group and special recognition will be given them during the WOr-'MP- McCallie Avenue Church of Christ (opposite the University), E. H. Hoover, minister: The minister's 11 a.m.
toplo is taken from the First Epistle of Peter, first and second chapters; the 7 p.m. service will be conducted by Howard O'Neal and Walter Barron. Woodmore Methodist Will Sponsor Tithing Following a meeting of the official board, Woodmore Methodist Church has decided to sponsor tithing during the Lenten season. It Is hoped that a tithing box can be placed in the home of every church family, the pastor, the Rev. W.
M. Grier said. L. T. (Fay) Prlgmore, Chattanooga district lay leader 6f the Methodist Church, will speak to the congregation which holds services in the Woodmore School building, at 11 a.m.
tomorrow, on "My Tithing Experience." The Rev. Hager Wrinkle will preach Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Harrfiy Kelson Photo, Batttl. DR. JOHN PAUL PACK DR.
STOKES OPENS METHODIST RALLY Youth Event Scheduled to Begin Tbrtight Centenary Will Be Host Church The District Methodist Youth Rally opening tonight at 7 at Centenary Methodist Church will have as its guest speaker, Dr. Mack Stokes, associate dean of Chandler School of Theology, Emory University, Georgia. Born in Kora, Dr. Stokes at tended both elementary and high school there and received his higher educatloa at Asbury Col lege, Duke University and Boston university. Since that time he has taught at Illinois Wesleyan, Garrett Biblical Institute, and has been on the faculty of Emory university since 181.
coming- by "motor cavalcade" will be a visiting delegation from Cleveland. The cavalcade will originate at Kiota, starting at p.m. The Methodist youth of Marion County have chartered several school buses for the trip. included in the rally activities will be a conference on church vocations at 4 p.m., under the direction of the Rev. Ernest Du- gan, pastor of Eastdale Method ist Church; a fellowship sing at o'clock, led by the Rev.
Tony Dyess, pastor of Lupton City Methodist Church, and the rally proper at 7:30 p.m. with Miss Patsy Pemberton. district Meth. odlst youth fellowship president, as me presiding omcer. special musio will be furnished by an ensemble from the Chatta nooga High School band, under the direction of A.
Casavant, ana a massed youth choir direct ed by Emmett R. Hart, minister of music at the host church. The Rew Harper Sasser. dis trict youth director will intro duce a group of representative Methodist youth from the local high schools. AVON DALE METHODIST TO HEAR REV.
FISHER The Rev. C. M. Fisher will preach a series of Lenten sermons during this month at Avondale Methodist Church. The 10:45 a.m.
topics will be: Tomorrow, "Joseph of Arima- Feb. 12, "The Unknown Feb. 19, "The Mock Feb. 26, "The Two Thieves." The 7:30 p.m. subjects are: Tomorrow, "Amos, the Country Feb.
12, "Hosea, and His Bad Feb. 19, "Isaiah and Feb. 26, "Jeremiah," February has been designated as Youth Month. The different classes will have some part at each evening worship. The Young Adult Class, taught by W.
T. Bums, will participate Sunday evening. The young people will conduct a "fUl- the-pew program during wis month. Mrs. Erble KldweU will have charge of the Wednesday prayer service.
Church Briefs Primitive Baptist (Original) 2502 E. 12th Elder Paul Chil-ders will preach at 7:30 tonight, followed by the conference, and again at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. St. Marks Methodist-the Rev.
R. Lake Wright, pastor: The Rev. Horace V. Henry will preach at 10:45 a.m. and the Eugene Lovell of Cookevtlle, missionary for 20 years to the Belgian Congo, at 5 p.m.
Eriansrer Memorial Chapel The weekly vesper service at the chapel will be conducted oy tne Rev. Thach Shauf, pastor of the Second Cumberland Presbyterian Church, beginning at 3:15 p.m. The usual program of religious organ music will be presented by Mrs. Charles R. Wallace, Gray Lady, beginning at 2:45 p.m.
The public la invited. Lutheran Church of the Ascen sion East Eighth and Lindsay Lstreets, the Rev. James K. Cad- wallader, pastor: The pastor will preach Sunday at 11 a.m. on "Lt us Go Into the House of the Lord." This will be a commissioning service for "The King's Men" of the Brotherhood who will com duct a program of visitation in the interest of church attendance of men during the Lenten Season.
Forrest Avenue Methodist- the Rev. John A King, minister! A service of Holy Communion will be administered at 11 a.m. The pastor's toplo at the 5 p.m. vesper worship will be "A Fel lowship of Prayer." First Congregational Dr. T.
Burley, pastor: The Pilgrim Fellowship Group will observe Interdenominational Youth Day Sun day at the 11 a.m. worship. Participants on the program will include Mary Ann McCann, Eunice Read, Rosemerrt Blake and Sarah Reed, guest speaker. Eddie Mae Freeman is president of the fellowship. Lead Dedication Chapel Sanctuary community some three miles east of Hlxson on the Hlxson Pike.
The church is about 100 years old and has been remodeled several times. The old church which now stands behind the new sanctuary has been converted into Sunday School rooms and 1 will be known as. the educational building. There is a membership of 161 In the church. Enrollment In the Sunday School is 228, with an average attendance of 140 Mrs.
Melvln Harvey is president of the WSCS, with a membership of SO. Eugene Sharp Is Sunday School superintendent Mln Marie Rogers is the church organist and Leon Pendergrass is the pianist. Julius Potts is chairman of the board and Bill Webb Is charge lay leader. i- SANCTUARY TO BE DEDICATED The Burks Chapek Methodist Church will dedicate its new sanctuary Sunday at the 11 sum. worship.
Bishop Roy H. Short will officiate. The Bev. C. H.
Wright is host pastor, TimaasttarbotokrowrseBtKer..
