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CHURCH MILESTONES
BUENA VISTA — On Dec. 6, the Buena
Vista church celebrated both its 25th year of
work in the community and the fact that it is
now fully self-supporting. This major mile-
stone enables the church to rely on its own
resources instead of outside assistance from
congregations in Texas, New Mexico and its
home state of Colorado. The donated money
not only helped the congregation to pay its
local evangelist, but also supported a full-time
prison ministry, a work sponsored by the
Mountain View church from 1982-96.
CLOVIS — The loth and Pile congrega-
tion celebrated its 90th anniversary Dec. 6-9,
The theme for the event was “Hope for Times
Like These,” featuring J.J. Turner of Denver,
Colo., for a series of six lessons.
The church in Clovis began in 1908, meet-
ing in the home of C.C. Burgess until 1937,
when it moved into a facility on 9th and
Connelly. In 1963, the congregation complet-
ed construction of a new auditorium, adding
on to the facility purchased in 1950 on 19th
and Pile, where the congregation currently
meets.
EDMOND — The Kid’s Place, a free sup-
port center for grieving children and their fam-
ilies, opened a new facility with a dedication
ceremony Oct. 25. A playhouse — named
Anna’s Playhouse in honor of Anna Mock, a
16-year old who died in a car accident — was
built on the property by her maternal grandfa-
ther, Roy Shumate. Anna loved The Kid's
Place and looked forward to donating some of
her stuffed animals to the children and offer-
ing her services as a “Caring Clown" to cheer
and women were baptized through the mm
istry and 55 1 indicated a desire to be restored
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Yorba Linda
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Raleigh
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Homecoming
NEWTON COUNTY — The Duffee
church met for the first time in its newly com-
pleted building Sept. 20. Three years previ-
ously, Lacy Taylor, the preacher, challenged
members of the congregation with the mes-
sage, “Let Us Rise Up in Fear.” They did,
resolving to begin saving for the additional
space for needed classrooms. Now the church
meets in an auditorium that is debt-free, with
January
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Eastside
Duncan, Okla.
50th
Anniversary*
Yorba Linda,
Calif.
33rd
Anniversary,
Homecoming
exception of carpeting. Members made this
possible by working on the construction, and
Taylor helped the project by filling the pulpit
without compensation.
On this day of celebration, Taylor also
announced that doctors have begun talking
about a positive ending to his long battle with
cancer, following a kidney transplant.
JACKSON — Sunnybrook Children's
Home accepted its first higher-risk child into a
newly-licensed emergency shelter facility.
Jimmy Martin, Director at Sunnybrook,
expressed public thanks to the Board of
Directors for allowing the creation of this
expanded service to needy children. At pre-
sent, the facility cares for 11 children in the
emergency shelter. These children, placed in
the shelter for a maximum of 45 days, must
then be transferred elsewhere. An extension
may be requested in situations of extreme
hardship. If a child placed in the shelter is
oberved to be a good candidate for the resi-
dential program, an application may be made
near the end of the emergency care period.
Young, a medical student who would later
become a church leader in Dallas. Le-
Moine Lewis and Harold Thomas led the
congregation to rapid growth during and
after World War II. Half a dozen congrega-
tions trace their origins to Brookline.
Across the nation and abroad graduates
of the school and former members of the
Brookline congregation teach at universi-
ties and colleges and fill pulpits. Brookline
reaches students from prestigious schools
nearby, including Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and Harvard. The congrega-
tion’s complexion changes as members
come from Korea, China, Nigeria, Ghana
and the Ukraine, Robert M. Randolph and
Shaun Casey have led Brookline for more
than a decade. Mark Hamilton has worked
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WARREN — Those present at the men’s
business meeting Oct. 3 unanimously decided
to begin preparations for building a new audi-
torium that will seat more than 400 people.
The new structure will permit use of the pre-
sent facility to meet the congregation’s grow-
ing needs for both fellowship and worship
space.
MIDLAND — The Wheeler Road church
more than doubled its attendance on one
Sunday through its Friend’s Day Wrap-Up
The highest number in attendance during the
90s, the 262 assembled made the second-
largest crowd in the church’s history. James E.
Chilton, preacher, said the church was short on
committees but long on volunteers to accom-
plish this goal.
8ROOKUNE, MASSACHUSETTS
FTIhe Brookline church welcomed new
members from across the world and
JL across lines of the Restoration
Movement as students of various colleges
and universities arrived in the Boston area
to begin the fall semester.
Beginning in Cambridge in 1921, the
congregation welcomes new members
from all around the world. Graduates of
Faulkner, Freed-Hardeman, Harding, Okla-
homa Christian, Abilene Christian, Pepper-
dine and Lipscomb Universities, as well as
from Milligan College and Emmanuel
School of Religion, pursue graduate
degrees at Harvard and minister to one
another and to the broader community
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ulty member at Harding, who went
ABILENE — Lydia Clarke Heston, pho
tographer and adoptive parent, exhibited her
work and spoke about children around the
world at the Christian Homes Annual
Celebration Dinner on Oct. 22 Nancy Millei.
president of Christian Homes, expressed
delight that Heston could schedule the dinner
into her agenda.
Lydia Clarke Heston’s photographs of clul
dren were on display at the Center lor
Contemporary Arts in Abilene from Oct. 8-31
She has photographed people in 54 countries,
including Italy, Spain, Egypt, Afghanistan.
Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Her work was
recently displayed in the Louvre in Paris,
France.
AUSTIN — The Westover Hills church has
accepted the responsibility of sponsoring the
Baxter Institute, James Moody Adams Health
care Clinic and Li Voz Eterna Publications
ministries. All of these are headquartered in
Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Beginning Jan. I, all contributions to
Baxter, .IMA and LaVoz should be sent to:
Spanish Gospel Outreach, Westover Hills
Church, 8332 Mesa Drive, Austin,TX 78759
8118. Make all checks payable to Westover
Hills Church of Christ, clearly identifying the
ministry to which they should be applied Foi
further details, call (512) 345-6486.
COPPELL — Members of the Riverside
church recently contributed more than
$93,000 toward the church’s annual missions
budget. The contribution marks a new record
for the yearly event. The day was highlighted
by a “Prayer for the Nations,” offered in six
different languages. The church’s goal is to
“share Christ across the streets and around the
world,” by supporting mission work in Russia.
Ghana and Mexico.
PARIS — Supporters of World Bible
Translation Center at the Westwood church
have spent tpore than $330,000 at Kroger
Food Stores within the past year, qualifying
the Center for a rebate of more than $8,000.
The Kroger Cares program applies a por-
tion of Kroger purchases toward WBTC
through the use of a special scan card A
spokesman reported that the Center was tem-
porarily out of scan cards but would have a
new supply within days.
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hurting kids. She died just two days after the
first grief support groups started meeting.
Anna’s Playhouse, on the property of the
Edmond church, gives grieving children a set-
ting where they can be kids, play, and act out
thoughts and feelings they cannot express in
any other way.
“The playhouse provides an excellent set-
ting for role play, story times, tea parties and
other growth opportunities which promote
healing," said Danny Mize, executive director.
“Play is therapy for children.”
Anna was good at pretending and helping
kids act out reality on their level, said her
mother; she would have been on the floor with
them drawing, singing and talking.
Also to assist parents involved with griev-
ing children, adult support groups meet at
intervals in the Edmond church's annex.
Construction of Anna’s Playhouse marks
her grandfather's second project for The Kids’
Place. Using donated lumber, Shumate con
structed the wheelchair ramp on the east side
of the main house.
JACKSONVILLE — Taylor Residences
opened a new cluster of 30 apartments at its
Chester Avenue campus in July. Taylor Villas
II, a gated community with 24-hour security,
appeals to seniors who wish to move from a
large house into a more care-free living
arrangement without maintenance or lanscap-
ing responsiblities.
Jim Rice, CEO of Taylor Residences, said
that every rental agreement had been signed
before construction was completed.
MADISON — Keith Lancaster began his
new position as minister of worship for the
Madison church Nov. 22. He led worship for
assemblies and for the “Amazing Grace" tele-
vision broacasts, aired on the Odessey televi-
sion network.
Lancaster’s 21 years of ministry have
included singing and traveling with Acap-
pella, which he founded. He also composes
Christian songs, manages and produces Acap-
pella and other groups, and appears at semi-
nars and workshops. He and his family will
relocate to the Nashville area while Acappella
maintains its base in Paris, Tenn., w here it has
been located for 21 years.
NASHVILLE — Ron Goodman, director
of prison ministry at the Granny White church,
reported that the ministry had visited every
adult jail and prison facility in the area this
year through 22 Bible classes and worship ser-
vices. The ministry reaches approximately 600
men and women each week. With the current
turnover, this translates into several thousand
individuals participating in the programs
throughout the year. At Alderson, W.V., the
ministry conducted two seminars — one in
English and one in Spanish. In 1998, 284 men
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