The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 51, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1994 Page: 3 of 36
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WOMEN (Wives of Ministers Empathy
Network), a ministry headed by Cheryl
Ginnings to help minister’s wives help each
other, has a new address and phone number.
WOMEN can be reached at: 10154 Trail
Ridge Drive, Benbrook, TX 76126. Phone
(817)244*2028.
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SOUTH BURLINGTON — Stan Smithe,
Clinton, Ark., worked with 20 adults and
teens to assist in an evening vacation Bible
school. The Arkansas group, accompanied
by Burlington teens, sang in four Burlington
nursing homes during the VBS.
Nov. 16-20
Dal City, Okla, church
Homecoming
Pecos Wilderness Safari
Adventuresome residents of Botes Home, Quintan, Texas, team white water rafting and tte ad-
vantages of teamwork white on a yearly safari, this time to the Pacos WHdamass in the Carson
National Forest of New Mexico The group hiked to toe top of Jicarite Peak, whore they made
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Winning Workshop.
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121st anniversary of the Forestville Street church will oversee the South Texas maternity care program with a special Mile- has waited 10 years for a permanent meeting
School of Preaching and will provide its own stone Dinner Sept. 26. place. Begun in 1983, the church now aver-
At the dinner. Smithlawn board members, ages about 100 people. Construction should
advisory council members and other guests be completed in January on the building
heard from a panel of Smithlawn adoptive which will include a 300-seat auditorium, of-
FORT WORTH —’The Bndgewood parents and from a panel of birthmothers —
NR — An August tent campaign
fee 01a, Ark., church drew ap- TEXAS
■ely 600 people in attendance and
11 responses, including restorations
pins. Harvey M. Starling, Jasper
ist, spoke in the eight-night series.
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mnt elders, Ross Yeager and Noble spcak b<xh English and Spanish.
church met for the first time Sept 4 as the those who either had gone through the pro-
Brentwood and gram or who are currently enrolled,
Smithlawn has worked with crisis preg-
nancy situations since 1960. In addition to
the clients, the agency has also facilitated
more than 1,400 adoptions. Overseen by the
Smithlawn church, the home has accepted
clients from 49 states and six foreign
countries.
SAN ANTONIO — The Northern Oaks
church conducted a ground-breaking cer-
emony Sept. 11 for a Phase II structure to
RDA
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M l congregation near here. After
| in July with Haitian preacher
■ Renesca. the church has grown to
JO persons in attendance, seven of
recent converts.
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Carbondale church, Tuba, OMa
Homecoming. 66to Anniversary
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— Willow Brook Christian
recently added two staff post
result of merging the
Meadowbrook congregations. Bridgewood,
using the Brentwood meeting house meets ai
6516 Brentwood Stair Road al Loop 820.
Both groups come from the common root of
IRVING — Terry Rush recently received
the Alumnus of the Year award from the
Preston Road Center for Christian Education.
The award cited Rush’s work from coast to
coast, his 17-year work as a minister with the
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[WltyiLLE — The Family Chorus, a
'formed a capcila group of 88 members
W churches in the Washington, D.C.,
about 700 people to hear a concert
/be University Park church build-
J^He, Md. Jesse Robertson, with
•ynolds assisting, directs the chorus.
_ Eighteen persons were
r ® August during a two-week out-
by the 30-member P1MU-
F, church Several Sojourners, re-
organised for traveling to as-
7“°n area churches, helped in the
is broadcast by TV response. crarch.
J.iv, Explaining the origin of SEARCH,
South Mack Lyon said he learned that only one
out of 10 people in Ada attended church
and, "although we were the largest re-
ligious group in town, only about 1 per-
cent attended the church of Christ. Fifty
percent was at home watching TV.”
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MEMPHIS — Ground-breaking cere-
monies for a new building to house Truth for
the World operations were conducted Oct
13, Olive Branch, Miss.
A multi-media ministry, Truth for the
World relies on radio, television, literature
and foreign follow-up campaigns
MEMPHIS — The Memphis Area Co-
operative Services (MACS), a coalition of 30
churches of Christ, offers inner-city victims
willing to find employment a chance to
change their lives. A recent MACS summary
reports that within less than four years 84
adults chose, found and kept good jobs and
more than lO.(MX) families received basic
household items
NASHVILLE — The Woodmont Hills
church moved from its Ashwood building
Aug, 7 into temporary quarters at 4800
Franklin Road
SFARCH ranks eighth in TV ratings
eomond. Oklahoma gregation does.
—Minnma more than 14 years ago The current schedule includes multi-
now broadcasts from 162 outlets on local uons and three foreign ratio stations
m the United Stares. Moreov. from 13 states and two foreign
Europe, North America
clored-cepuoned
BEDFORD — The first day of school at _____________________________________
the Preacher’s Training School for 11 new
students from all over the world began Aug. Memorial Drive church, Tulsa, Okla., and
15. Students came from three states: his work with the Tulsa International Soul- church constructed Phase I, Feb. 1989, they
Michigan, Oregon and Texas, and four for- Winning Workshop. already had planned for the new structure,
eign nations: Korea, Russia Venezuela and LUBBOCK — The Smithlawn Maternity SAN ANTONIO — The Schertz church
South Africa. Home and Adoption Agency marked the gathered after morning services July 9 to
CORPUS CHRISTI — The Norton 2,000th client’s entrance into the Smithlawn break ground for a new building. The group
maternity care program with a special Mile-
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Norton, Howard W. & Shipp, Glover. The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 51, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1994, newspaper, December 1, 1994; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1320920/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.