Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 34, No. 24, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 27, 1977 Page: 4 of 12
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Page 4 CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE December 27, 1977
The Church in Utah Must Have Help
Needs
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Orem
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Tooele
Vernal
Roosevelt
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tunities here in Tooele or other
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Information On Churches In Utah
Preacher
Preacher
Preacher
Bill Hearn Ast.Preacher
None
None
None
None
Don Coles
None
Waggner
None
Jack Finley
None
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Dr. Henry Farrar, Bessie Whitaker, Martha Trosclair and Mike
Fonenot.
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tional information will be mailed
to every family in America who
has registered at any soulwin-
ning workshop in the last two
years. Third, a nationwide tele-
phone committee is presently
of the finest facilities in being set up to help spread the
news and enlist support. Fourth,
a speaker’s bureau based at St.
Louis will send out representa-
tives to any congregation in the
nation who desires to learn more
about this Workshop.
The Gateway Soulwinning
Workshop Planning Committee
earnestly covets your prayers
and participation. Please write
us today for more information
about this great upcoming na-
tionwide event.
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Each year Dr. Farrar schedules
his “vacation” for a month in
the fall for a trip to Nigeria to
perform surgical operations
which are awaiting his skilled
hand. Last November, he
performed 118 surgeries in
twenty-one days, besides
preaching and teaching classes
each Sunday. The hospital staff
has a devotional each morning
for all who can attend, and Dr.
Farrar has prayer at the start of
each surgical procedure. The
patients are given Christian
study material, and many
conversions have resulted from
their stay in the hospital in such
a Christian atmosphere.
The hospital is the only one in
an area of over 60 thousand
people, and the Nigerians are
treated without any regard for
their religious background.
Because of the lack of medical
facilities and the tropical cli-
mate, many unusual conditions
are treated there which are not
seen in the other cultural areas,
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Help Needed In Guaya-
quil, Ecuador
by Evert Pickartz
OZARK, Ark.:—Bolivar Soled-
ispa is the gospel preacher who
works with the Lorenzo de
Garaicoa 3424 congregation in
Guayaquil, Ecuador. This
congregation began in March of
1975. The current meeting place
is a store building which is
rented for almost $100 a month.
This work is supported by
contributions made to the South
American Fund, Box 402, Ozark,
Arkansas 72949.
There is presently a need for
$200 a month support for this
work. Besides the $100 a month
rent, this amount would cover
the various activities to help the
church grow. Anyone interested
in this work contact the above
address.
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BATON ROUGE, La.:—On
October 9th 1977, Dr. Henry
Farrar of Searcy, Ark., spoke to
the South Baton Rouge congre-
A. . gation on behalf of the Nigerian
Christian Hospital Foundation,
and over eleven hundred dollars
was contributed to be used for
the hospital expenses. The hospi-
tal was established around 1964
and the Henry Farrar family
spent several years there before
they were forced to evacuate
due to the Biafran War, which
was fought in that very vicinity.
During the war the hospital was
vandalized, and after the war
was over, Dr. Farrar operated a
government hospital in Port
Harcourt for a year while he
gradually repaired and re-
supplied the hospital so that it
could be functioning again.
When the hospital was finally
reopened, various doctors have
come for varying intervals of
time, some staying for one or
two years, while others have
come for one to three months.
[Continued from Page J] Dr. & Mrs. Rex A. Turner, Sr.
the cause of Christian education
in the Southeast.
The lectures, which were well
attended and enthusiastically
received, developed the theme:
“The Church Forty Years Ago
and Now—Things Both Good and
Bad.” The speakers, most of
whom have been preaching for
40 or more years, included such
outstanding men as Leslie G.
Thomas, J. M. Powell, Hugo
McCord, D. Ellis Walker, Frank-
lin Camp, F. W. Mattox, W. B.
West, J. Roy Vaughn, Winford
Claiborne, Cleon Lyles, Rex A.
Turner, Sr., Pervie Nichols,
Malcolm Hill, Wendell Winkler,
H. A. Fincher, and Garland
Elkins. Panel discussions follow-
ed many of the lectures to allow
for fuller development and prac-
tical application of their themes.
Following the closing lecture
on Friday night Dr. Curtis A.
Cates, academic dean of ACSR,
spoke briefly concerning the
sacrifices and contributions
made by the Turners and then
presented to them a plaque and
a silver vase to commemorate
by Alvin R. Shafer
TOOELE, Utah:—Utah is a
real mission field. It has close to
one and one-half million people
with about fifty percent of them
Mormon. Of the one-half million
souls, only about four hundred
are members of the body of
Christ. The Mormons claim to
have converted five hundred
thousand last year; while the
Lord’s church is actually losing
ground due to a lack of interest
by elders and preachers from
the occasion. The inscription on
the plaque read as follows: In
laudatory recognition and grate-
ful appreciation for 35 years of
outstanding- contributions to
Christian education this award
is presented to Dr. Rex
Turner, Sr. Co-founder and
President Alabama Christian
College 1942-73 Founder and
President Alabama Christian
School of Religion since 1967 and
to his loving companion faithful
supporter, and able colleague,
Mrs. Opal Shipp Turner by the
Board of Directors, Faculty,
•Staff, Students, Alumni, and
Friends of the Alabama Chris-
tian School of Religion Novem-
ber 11, 1977.
In addition to taking care of
the home, rearing their three
children, and assisting Dr. Turn-
er in innumberable ways, Sis.
Turner taught home economics
and served as head of that
department at ACC for 22 years.
Dr. Turner’s accomplishments
are well known to those who are
familiar with the two schools he
has headed.
We are looking for a preacher
between 35-50; who will not get
discouraged; who is faithful to
the truth of God’s word; who
will stay at least from 5-10 years
and one who is a personal
worker. Contact me, Alvin R,
Shafer, 165 South 1st. Street,
Tooele, Utah 84074, Ph. (801)
882-4293.
All of the Lord’s congregations
in Utah need help. The following
is information on churches of
Christ in Utah:
soulwinning
workshop
by Nick Young
ST. LOUIS, Mo.:—The Gate-
way Soulwinning Workshop
which takes place in St. Louis
July 20-22, 1978, will be a
national endeavor according to
co-director Lee Miller.
“This Workshop is not being
done only for the Mid-West,”
says Miller. “It is going to be a
national Workshop. The elders
want it to benefit the entire
country. It is because of the
magnitude of this effort that we
believe it will be a great
blessing to the whole nation. We
are very confident that thou-
sands of souls will be saved as a
direct result of the Gateway
Soulwinning Workshop.”
This decision was made, ac-
cording to Miller, because of (1)
America’s need to return to
God, (2) the ideal location of St.
Louis, (3) the marvelous facility
in the newly constructed Gate-
way Convention Center.
“The wickedness of America
necessitated that we do some-
thing to reverse the tide. St.
Louis is the best located city in
America to bring together the
whole nation. It really is the
crossroads of the world. The
fact that we have at our disposal
one
America in the Gateway Con-
vention Center also weighted
heavily in this decision.” With
this goal in mind, the elders at
the Maryland Heights church of
Christ, the overseeing congrega-
tion, have initiated a nationwide
promotional campaign in four
separate areas. First, news
releases and advertisements will
appear regularly in the brother-
hood’s finest and most reputable
publications. Secondly, promo-
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cancer and I have had some
light heart attacks and am sixty-
two years old. Our plea is that
some come here and help that
the doors of the church not be
closed.
We have our building and
property debt free and we have-
had Bible studies with about
forty families. Opportunities for
growth are here. We are in a
growing area. We have enough
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Dr. Farrar is a member of
American College of Surgeon •
and is well equipped to han
any necessary procedure. W
he makes his annual “vacatio
trip, he usually takes so
nursing students from the n
nursing department of &
College for some “on the
training,” and last ,
several nursing students w
at the hospital during
summer vacation.
stronger states.
The congregation here at
Tooele has about 20 members
and is without a preacher. We
have had two preachers; one
stayed a year and the other
fifteen months.
So far, we have not been
successful in even interesting
elders or preachers to come and
investigate the work and oppor-
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Beckloff, John W. Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 34, No. 24, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 27, 1977, newspaper, December 27, 1977; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1322210/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.