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CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE / MAY 1999
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‘We Care’ campaigns include
preaching, canvassing, media
ARTESIA — The Cloudcroft church ded-
icated a new fellowship hall March 28. A spe-
cial ceremony and open house were conduct-
ed in the afternoon.
CLAREMORE — The Turley Children’s
Home has been renamed Hope Harbor. The
SIOUX FALLS — The church at Sioux
Falls has initiated programs ensuring that for
the next 12 months the congregation will be in
touch with every new family that moves into
the area. With help from her mother, member
Pattie Fitzpatrick has sent more than 2.000 let-
ters inviting new families to worship with the
church. Fitzpatrick also mails 50th anniver-
sary cards to local citizens.
ABILENE —The hoards of Christian
Homes of Abilene and Christian Services of
East Texas have agreed to merge the two agen-
cies. The East Texas agency, with offices
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Zwolle, La.
Homecoming/
Gospel Meeting
30- May 2
West University
Houston
60th Anniversary
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GATESVILLE, TEXAS
A ubrey Rodgers conducts the Re-
Z\ conciled Prison Ministry at Gates-
Jl JLville, Texas.
In a letter to a supporting congregation
he outlined his desire to build on present
interaction with inmates at the prison
through classroom experience, worship
opportunities, correspondence and volun-
teer involvement.
This means, he says, a work load greater
than last year’s in all areas of the Recon-
ciled Prison Ministry. It also means teach-
ing five classes in interaction with inmates
at the John Middleton Unit through two
Old Testament Survey courses (Genesis
through Esther), two New Testament
Survey courses (The Gospels and Acts
through Revelation) and a class on conver-
sion/baptism.
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60th Anniversary
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Sunset Ridge
San Antonio
50th Anniversary
29-30
Eastside
Duncan, Okla.
50th Anniversary
ST. PETERSBURG — Gulf Coast
Christian School, celebrating its 20th anniver-
sary this year, received accreditation from the
National Christian School Association March
5. The school includes preschool through
eighth grade students.
ESCANABA — Darryl O'Rourke, known
for his involvement with the Fishers of Men
evangelism ministry, reports that a church
now meets each Sunday in the Jim Engel
home at Wakefield in the Western Upper
Peninsula., 1315 Dewey Avenue. For informa-
tion e-mail fomdco@newnorth.net or call
(906) 224-7011.
SHERWOOD — The Sylvan Hills church
invites all former pulpit ministers to attend
and have a public role in its 50th Anniver-
sary/Homecoming June 12-13. Also former
song leaders and former staff members
areurged to attend and participate. The singing
group Free Indeed will sing in the afternoon;
most of them are former members of Sylvan
Hills.
The church asks that former members, staff
members or ministers who have not received
an invitation, or who have addresses for other
former members, to write the church at 117 W.
Maryland Avenue, Sherwood, AR 72120, call
(501)835-4141 or email sylvanhills@juno.com.
12-13
Winchester
Winchester, Ind
Homecoming
12-13
Sylvan Hills
Sherwood, Ark
50th Anniversary/
Homecoming
13
Central
Victoria, Texas
50th Annr
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Joyful fellowship marks ‘We
Care’ events.
SAND SPRINGS — A “Great Day” home-
coming at the Sand Springs church March 28
brought former members back to the congre-
gation for a mortgage retirement on the
church's building, which the congregation
moved into 15 years ago.
Flavil Yeakley Jr., church growth special-
ist. spoke at the event. A special service
included recognition of those instrumental in
the congregation’s growth over the years and
the presentation of a vision statement and pur-
pose for the new century.
It means conducting 32 worship ser-
vices at one of the prison's units and six at
a women’s unit in the prison at Gatesville.
With this increased interaction with the
prisoners, volunteers must increase their
participation and enlarge their involvement
in the correspondence-course program.
Initial plans call for this expanded effort to
occur this year.
What can happen within a year’s prison
ministry!
• While not engaged in prison ministry,
Rodgers attends Abilene Christian Univer-
sity, working on six hours of graduate
material in Biblical and Related Studies.
Aubrey Rodgers’ work at the Texas
prison reveals what can happen within a
relatively short time through prison min-
istry or a sacrificial outreach program —-
changed lives and communities. — lt
We Care,’ outreach ministry of CrossView
Ministries, took its efforts to Newport, Ark.,
recently where 21 people were baptized.
We Care,’ staff, based in West Monroe, La.,
travel throughout the United States conducting
crusades marked by nightly preaching by Larry
West, media coverage and door-to-door can-
vassing.
In Newport, the local mayor Ifeclared the
campaign week as “Bible Week.”
Television and radio spots, newspa-
per ads, posters and yard signs
throughout the town announced the
event. For information on We Care,
call West at ((318) 396-1001 or
email wecare@wfr.org.
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located in Tyler, has been providing services
for 22 years. Christian Homes will continue to
operate the agency under
the name, Christian Ser-
vices of East Texas. CSET
is licensed as both a child
placing agency and a resi
dential group home.
DALLAS — Dr. Jack
Boyd, longtime music pro-
fessor at Abilene Christian
University, will speak on
"Permanence and Change in Congregational
Singing in Churches of Christ,” at the Preston
Road church. Dallas. May 16.
The address is the third annual lecture of the
Lita Witt Music Foundation. Dallas. The foun-
dation was established by Lita Witt, longtime
church member.
The previous two lectures have been.
"Worthy of Praise: lilht S. Teddlie and the
Heritage of Congregational Singing" by Ro
bert Johnson. Stephen F. Austin University.
1997; and “The Contribution of I..O. Sanderson
to Congregational Singing in the Church ol
Christ" by Murray Sanderson, music and wot
ship minister, Preston Road, 1998.
For additional information call Russel Jay
Carver, president of the foundation, at (2I4)
331-8442.
home’s purpose of giving children new hope
in life remains the same, officials say.
For additional information on Hope Harbor
see www.turleychildrenshome.org.
EDMOND — The Edmond church and
Oklahoma Christian Academy announced
expansion plans on March 7. After months of
negotiations, OCA officials agreed to buy the
Edmond church's facilities at I I0I East Ninth.
The announced expansion will involve $6
to $7 million in new construction. The
Edmond church plans to construct a 55,000-
6(),(MX) square-foot building at the northeast
comer of 9th and Bryant on property it cur-
rently owns.
The public worship area will seat between
1,500 and 1,6(M) people. Construction will
begin early next year, with completion sched-
uled for the spring of 2001.
Also on this site OCA, in partnership with
the church, will build a 15,000-square-foot
gymnasium, with completion expected by Au-
gust 2000. The facility will be used for school
and church functions.
A 5,800 square-foot office building for the
“In SEARCH of the Lord’s Way” television
ministry, sponsored by the Edmond church,
will also be on the site. Completion of this
structure is expected by year’s end. For the
first time SEARCH will have its own home.
NORMAN — Jerome Henderson, a mem-
ber of the Westside church, Norman, baptized
David Ray Alexander in March, according to
a report in The Daily Oklahoman. Alexander,
a 20-year-old man at the Cleveland County
Detention Center, stands accused of murder-
ing his mother and half-sister. He has been
ordered to face trial for the 1997 slayings after
being found mentally competent by a Cleve-
land County jury in January.
Captain Lawrence W. McKiddy Jr. of the
Cleveland County sheriff’s department, who
witnessed the baptism, said it was the first he
knew of in that particular jail.
Henderson, who had worked in prison min-
istry earlier, said that prison minister Curtis
Booth brought a portable baptistry to the jail
NORMAN — The Westside church hosted
a Statewide Singles Seminar in mid-April
dealing with life's challenges. Seminar speak-
ers discussed positive elements of Christian
growth to help "Singles Face Life Challenges
with God as Our Guide.” Speakers included
Doug Wheeler. Mark Taylor. Paul Coffman
and Dwaine Rhodes.
CRAIG — The Downtown church will
host its seventh annual lectureship June 4-6 in
the Moffat County School District Board of
Education Offices and Community Center.
Within a 15-lesson framework, Calvinism's
view of salvation will be discussed.
For information, call Melvin Elliott at
(970) 824-7040.
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