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Friday March 14,1966
Church News
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Mrs. Feemater to the former
Dr. Ben H. Feemster
Child evangelist Michael Lord
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Revival begins Tuesday
at Church of Nazarene
Phone 965-3445
Ken Batea, Pastor
Box 3
Stephenville
MARCH 19, WEDNESDAY
5:45 p.m.-Holy Eucharist
Church at Brownwood, First
Church at Hurst, Westcliff in
Fort Worth and White Rock in
Dallas. He served as district
superintendent of the Fort
Worth East district in the
Central Texas Conference.
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Prayer service
Mission groups
9:15am.
10:30am.
Active in mission work
locally, he was tha^tatt
minister to serve as th?
president of the Metropolitan!
Board of Missions of Fort
Worth and worked In inner
city ministries and church
extension. In the North Texax
Conference he has served as
chairman of the Council on
Professional Ministries and a
member of the Division of
Church Extension.
The public Is invited to
attend the services and bear
Dr. Feemster apeak,
at Bryan Adams High School
in Dallas.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Utt Hartta Drive
•68-J774
Jeha H. Braaaea, Patter
9:45 a jn.-Church School
11: 00 a m.-Morning Worship
VISITORS WELCOME
WEEKLY CALENDAR
MONDAY
6:30 p.m.-Boy Scouts Troop IS
TUESDAY
9:45 a jn.-Men’s Fellowship
3:30 pjn.-Brownie Troop 129
7:00 pm.-Choir Practice
PRIMITIVE
BAPTIST CHURCH
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Services are held the flrot and
third Sundays of each month,
beginning at 10:30 am. You
are welcome to attend.
Brandon
Feed
Company
WEDNESDAY
7:30 pm.-Services
MARCH 16, SUNDAY
8:00 a.m.-Holy Eucharist
9:00 am.-Church School A
Adult Classes
10:00 am.-Holy Eucharist
6:304:00 pm. -A Study of
Prayer-Liturgical, Corporate,
Private
MARCH 17, MONDAY
4:00 pm.-College Bible Study
Buses for all ages, for all
services, call if you need
transportation.
100th Anniversary, June 20-21-
22,1900
MINISTERS: Ralph Starling,
Graham St.
Tom Slagle, Youth
Bruce Wooley, Bible Chair
SUNDAY
9:30 am.-KSTV Radio
9:45 am.-Bible Classes
10:30 am.-Morning Worship
6:00 p.m.-Children’s Bible
Hour
6:00 p.m.-Evening Worship
CHURCH or THE
^NAZARENE
Rev. Robert L. Glpta, Patter
9:45am. -Sunday School
10:45 am-Smday worship
6:15 pm * Teen and adult
Blbio study
7:00 pm - Evangelistic
services
WEDNESDAY
7:60pm. - Prayer service
CALVARY BAPTIST
CHURCH
UN N. Race 9064HI
We welcome you to car ser-
vices. It to our prayer that, if
you sorrow, you will find
comfort. If you stand in need
of spiritual strength, we trust
you will find it as you worship
with us.
SUNDAY
9:46 am-Sunday School
11:00 am. -Morning Worship
6:00 pm - Evening Worship
WEDNESDAY
7:00 pm - Prayer meeting
PLEASANTHILL
METHODIST CHURCH
Stxmhet aoath m US 281
Morning worship
Sunday School
The Rev. and Mrs. Vernon
E. Crandell of Vicksburg,
CHURCH OF JESU8CHRVT
OF THE LATTER DAY
SAINTS
112 Park Drive
Everyone to welcome
9:00 am • Priesthood and
Relief Society.
19:30 am-Sunday School
12 noon-Sacrament meeting
For other information contact
Brother Booker, 9664780, 199
Sharp Drive, Stephenville.
United Pentecostal Church
MOW. Oak St.
Stephenville, Texas
ST. LUKE’S
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
596 N. McDhaaey
Stephenville, TX.
70401
STEPHENVILLE
EMPIRE-TRIBUNE
119 South Columbia
CRAIG WOODSON, President
NORMAN FISHER, Publisher
. DENVER DOGGETT, Editor
BOB BRINC'EFIELD,
Orcalatton Manager
MEMBER OF THE
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well as the AP news dispat-
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Sometimes when the
body is held captive,
the spirit is set free.
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He also offers prayers to hea'
the lame and the sick.
“I pray for the sick, and
God heals them,” he asserts
Michael says that happened
for the first time with his
grandmother, who had been
confined to a wheelchair for
eight years and told by doc-
tors that she would not walk
again.
“I was 5, almost 6, when I
laid hands on my grandmoth-
er and she was healed,” he
says. “I can't explain how it
happened since at the time I
didn't even know about laying
on of the hands. I hadn’t read
about it in the scriptures yet.
“But I was led to put my
hands on her and prayed. She
got up and walked and she's
still walking today.”
to be treated just like any other “all-American, red-blood-
ed, peannt-butter-eating kid."
10 am.
11am.
9 pm
9:45 am
10:45 am
5:30 pm
9:30 pm.
Choirs for all agea
WEDNESDAY
9:30 pm.
7:30 pm.
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Every viiitor
an honored guest
at
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HILLCREST CHURCH
OF CHRIST
2535 Northwest Loop
Stephenville, Texas
9:45am. Bible claroes
10:30 am. Worship service
6:00 pm. Worship service
9:00 pm. Spanish service
Tuesday
9:45 am. Ladies Class
Wednesday
7:00pm. Bible Classes
Payne Haddox. Minister
Tel 968-6422 or 968-8167
Examples of international
projects which may receive
support include action-
reflection groups among
women and social service
programs for children In the
alums of Peru and Argentina;
agricultural assistance and
OLD LANDMARK CHURCH
Apostolic, Pentecostal
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Powell Sojourner, Pastor
Come hear the whole truth.
Servi es for all ages.
10:00 am.-Sunday Morning
Worship and Bible teaching.
7:00 pm.-Sunday evening
services
FAITH LUTHERAN
and Lutheran Student Center
10:30 am. -Sunday School
11:45 am. - Worship service
Rev Stuart Brassie, Vacancy
Pastor
FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD
U.8.67 At-the-Loop
ON Glen Rose Highway
Sunday
10:00am. Sunday School
11:00 am. Worship Service
6:30 pm. Evangelistic Service
Wednesday
7:30 p.m. Mid-week Service
Hurting? God cares and so do
we!
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Dr. Feemster baa served aa
district and conference
secretaries of evangelism and
participated in two
evangelistic missions over-
seas. In 1990 be preached in
South America and in 1999
preached in the Philippines,
India and made a trip around
the world.
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WEDNESDAY
10:00 a.m.-Classes for Women
7:00 pm.-Classes for all
7:45 pm.-Devotionals
RIVERSIDE SOUTHERN
BAPTIST CHURCH
991 GleaRooe Read 99K49N
Jerry Carley, Pastor
Jehu Geriach, Youth Paster
Sunday school
Morning worship
Church training
Evening worship
A revival win begin Sunday
at Dublin First United
Methodist Church with Dr.
Ben H. Feemster, director of
professional miniatriea,
Dallaa-Fort Worth area of the
United Methodist Church,
• Services will be at 11 am.
and 9 pm. Sunday and at 7
pm. Monday through Wed-
Dr. Feemater to a native of
Fort Worth and a graduate of
public schools there. He waa
licensed to preach daring his
freshman year at Texas
Wesleyan College and began
preaching at the age of 19 on
the Graham Circuit
A graduate of TWC, be
received hto M.Dtv. at Candler
School of Theology, Emory
University. Be has done
further graduate study at
Brite Divinity School, Texas
Christian University and was
awarded the D.D. degree from
TWC.
Following his seminary
training, Dr. Feemater was
pastor at Smithfield, Alder-
agate at Arlington (which he
organised in 1954), Flrot
MARCH 2L FRIDAY
9:30 pm.-Lenten Dinner
Hostess: Opal Smith
7:15pm.-Program
Nursery: 7:044:30 pm.
MARCH 22, SATURDAY
9:30 a.m.-Altsr Gull'd
Workshop
GRAHAM STREET
CHURCH OF CHRIST
312 N. Graham
Opportunities for Study and
Worship
But Michael says that is not
the most dramatic event that
he has witnessed during his
ministry
“The most dramatic
things." he says, “is to see
someone accept Jesus into
their life."
Michael is on the road all
year with the rest of the Sing-
ing Lord Family plus a tutor,
a cook and a pink poodle Fol-
lowing a schedule made up a
year in advance, the entou-
rage travels from revival to
revival in the family's metal-
lic-gray Lincoln Continental.
“With gas prices what they
are today and driving around
the country with five people,”
says Michael, "I don't think
I’ll ever look back on this as
one of the good o(jl days."
HARVEY BAPTIST CHURCH
Third ud Cage 99H3N
Gary W. I isilrnaD, Pastor
Who knows wbat the Eighttea
win be Mke? How wfll we face
political and economic
unrest? The answers to aO of
life’s problems are found in
Jesus Christ Learn more of
His truth with us each Sunday
at Harvey Baptist Church.
9:45 am. - Sunday School
11:00 am. - Morning Worship
4:30 pm.-Youth Choir
5:30 pm.-Church training
9:30pm. -Evening Worship
WEDNESDAY
7:00pm.-Prayer Meeting
7:00 pm.-Children’s choir
7 :N pm. - Preschool choir
7:45 pm-Adult Choir
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training for women in Tan-
zania; and leadership
development programs in
Angola and India. «
The service for the quiet
day, “The Life Divine”, was
written by Frances fcshelman
and Francis B. Hall. The
service ■ encourages
meditation upon the life divine
and provides guidance for
growth in daily experience of
God.
About 1.5 million women in
33,000 local units in all 50
states will join in the ob-
servance. Last year, the
national offering totaled
3915,161, an increase of 11
percent over the previous
year.
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Little Michael Lord is as good
at explaining his work as an
ordained minister as be is at
kicking the soccer ball with
the kids back home in Colum-
bus, Ga.
“I don't mean to brag, but I
can really kick that ball,"
says the blond-haired young-
ster in his clear Georgia
accent. “I like a good game of
soccer.”
Michael is the son of
Michael and Peggy Lord.
Together with Michael's
younger brother, Eddy, they
make up the Singing Lord
Family of evangelists.
The elder Lord became a
minister at the relatively
young age of 15, but his son
beat him out by taking to the
pulpit at age 5.
‘1 was two years old when I
first realized I was meant to
preach,” says Michael. *T
didn’t argue with the Lord.
But for three years my father
wouldn’t allow it
“So, during that time I
would preach to dogs and
cats, other little children or
the trees. Who or whatever
would listen.”
His father was finally per-
suaded to change his mind
eight years ago after a typo-
graphical error in a Kentucky
newspaper announced that
Michael Jr. instead of Michael
Sr. was to preach.
“The people came expect-
ing me to preach,” the boy
explains.
Michael is thought to be one
of the youngest ordained min-
isters in the country He says
vices March 19 through 23 at 7
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Mich., will lead revival ser- Stephenville Church of the
Nazarene, 1170 N.McCart.
The Crandells are
evangelists, singers and
“Sceneofeit” artiste.
The Rev. Bob Gilpin, pastor,
invites the public to attend the
services.
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PERSIAN PAINTINGS
WASHINGTON (AP) - An
exhibition of 16th-century Per-
sian paintings has opened at
the National Gallery of Art.
Described as “perhaps the
greatest assemblage of 16th-
century Persian painting seen
in the past 400 years," the ex-
. hibit will remain through
March 2.
The museum says the show-
ing includes some of the finest
Persian miniatures ever
created, “among them Sultan-
Muhammad’s ‘Hie Court of
Gay umars,’ which is considered
the supreme example of Per-
sian painting.”
offering will be used for
projects such as ministries
with women in prison which
offer educational and arte
courses and legal services to
women prisoners; ministries
with women in crisis which
work with battered women,
prostitutes and displaced
homemakers; peer support
groups for single parents and
teenage mothers; and
women’s health and em-
ploymentservices.
UMW observe call to prayer
NEW YORK - During the
week of March 17 women of
the United Methodist Church,
including circles of the United
Methodist Women's Society of
Stephenville’s First United
Methodist Church, will bold
one of their most important
annual observances, the call
to prayer and self-denial.
Major events of the ob-
servance include the quiet day
and descriptions of the
mission projects for which a
special offering is given.
The women’s division of the
board of global ministries of
the United Methodist Church
sponsors the call to prayer and
self-denial. “Ministries by and
with Women” to the theme for
, giving this year.
In the United States, the
He has been in the pulpit since age 5
he is ordained by the inter-
denominational Around the
World for Christ Missionary
Fellowship Outreach.
Michael concedes that be
has no formal religious train-
ing.
“All it takes to preach is to
yield yourself to God,” he
says, adding that he would
like to attend Bible School or
college someday.
The young evangelist plans
to remain a minister when he
grows up.
“I want to keep preaching
until I die,” he declares.
Michael says that if God
had not led him into the minis-
try, he probably would have
plans more like those of other
boys his age.
rT’d probably be a school
kid in Columbus with hopes of
becoming a veterinarian or
baseball player someday,” he
says.
Sometimes Michael gets
tired of being thought of sole-
ly as a precocious preacher.
“When I’m in the pulpit, I
want to be considered a
preacher," he explains. "But
at other times, I’m just an all-
American, red-blooded,
peanut-butter-eating kid.
“I ddn’t like people to treat
me special because I preach.”
Michael reports that he
attracts an assortment of peo-
ple to his crusades across the
country.
“Some come out of curiosi-
ty,” he says, “others to see a
show or to get a blessing. And
there are skeptics in the audi-
ence.
“People will often approach
me intent on arguing about
my being a preacher or the -
things I preach. I don’t like to
argue; that’s not right.”
When confronted, Michael
says he usually backs off with
a friendly, Well, brother, I
love you anyway.”
Michael's claim to fame
includes more than preaching.
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Revival set at Dublin First Methodist
Patoy Green of Fort Worth
and the Feemsters have two
children, David, a graduate
student at the University of
Denver, and Martha, a junior
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UOlN.RaeeSL f
EDensr Deets, Pastor
SUNDAY
Sunday school
Morning worship
Fronlns wnrtidp
WEDNESDAY
Prayer service
SATURDAY
Prayer Service
FIRST CHRBTIAN CHURCH
TarieteaandRaee
RsadaB A. Sawyer, Mtoister
9:39 am. Church School
10:M am. Worship service
5:69 pm Handbell Choir
Practice
5:69 pm. Youth to Crystal’s,
Fort Worth
6:Npm Youth Snack Sqiper
6:30 pm Youth Meetings
7:30 pm. Chancel Choir
Practice
SUNDAY’S SERMON TITLE
A Hearty Welcome
Luke 6:37-40
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
EatflV.Becker
Pastor
Box 124
Stephenville, Texas 76461
PbsM81746M197
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
PROVIDES FOR EVERY
MEMRER OF THE FAMILY
We invite each member of the
family to participate in the
opportunities which are of-
fered at First Baptist Oiurch.
9:45 am. Sunday School
10:15 am Sunday School
Lesson on KSTV Radio
10:55 am Morning Worship
(Broadcast over KSTV Radio
and Channel 6 TV)
3:30 pm. Bells of Celebration
4:30 pm. Senior High-College
Choir Rehearsal
5:00 pm. Junior High Church
Training*
5:45 p.m. Senior High-College
Choir Snack Supper
6:00 pm. Junior High Bells
6:00pm. Church Training
7:00 pm. Evening Worship
(Televised on Channel 6 TV)
SERMON SUBJECTS
Morning - THE IN-
VOLVEMENT
OFSURRENDER
(Romans 6 J3)
Evening - PEACE WITH GOD
(Romans 5:1-11)
Sunday School 10:a.m.
Morning worshiplLOOa.m.
Evangelistic
Service
Wednesday
Service 7:30p.m,
Don’t give up on religion
until you have tried Pente-
cost.
You are welcome at
The Friendliest Church
In Town
Rev. J. Knighten,
pastor
Phone NM5W
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BAPTIST CHURCH
Don't Just Sit and
Watch Us Grow...
Come and Grow
WMiUs! —
....2655 Overhill Drive....
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
Sunday School Evening Service
9:45 a.m. 6:00 p.m.
Morning Worship Tuesday Service
10:45 a.m. 7:00 p.m.
Hebrew 13:8
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