Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1977 Page: 4 of 18
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4A--Burleson Star, Thursday, September 8, 1977
Calvary Names Joe Roy Simmons
The
New Music And Youth Director
Preacher
FAITH WILL PREPARE YOUR CHILDREN
FOR 1
TOMORROW *
CWF Members Host
Ice Cream Social
9:45 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
10:55 a.m.
6:00 p.m.
315 N. Burleson Blvd. 1-35
[attfjeto
Bar-B-Q Dinner Is
6:00p.m.
Festival Feature
7:30p.m.
8:15p.m.
Death Notices
1101 SW Wilshire Blvd.
the Equitable life assurance society of the united states
Nursery Provided for
ALL Worship Services
ENROLLMENTS NO
BEING ACCEPTED
♦GREAT MUSIC AND
YOUTH PROGRAM
9:45
10:45
7:00
7:00
5:00p.m.
6:00p.m.
Games of forty two and
dominoes were played and a
short business meeting was
conducted during the morn-
10:00
11:00
6:00
7:30
-OI0
Sunday School
Worship
Youth
Worship
Other survivors are his
wife, Mrs. Irene Viard; a son
Dr. W.S. Viard, Jr. of Lind-
en; two daughters, Mrs.
Marylee Hay of Van and Ann
Barboza of Hurst; a brother,
Charlie D. Viard of Fort
Worth; three sisters, Mrs.
Eva Smith and Mrs. Laura
Adams, both of Linden, and
Mrs. Lena Ford Wall of
Louisiana; 12 grandchildren
and eight great grandchild-
ren.
R.A.’s & G.A.’s.
Adult Choir
Contact church office for
times and dates of the
United Methodist Men’s
Meetings and the United
Methodist Women’s meet-
ings. J
He has previously served
as summer youth director at
Fellowship Baptist Church in
High Ridge, Mo., and as
music and youth director at
First Southern Baptist
Church in Emporia.
His father was a graduate
of Southern Seminary and
died recently while serving
as educational director of
fellowship Baptist Church in
BY REV. GERALD EDWARDS
Pastor Cana Baptist Church
Rev. Bill Shirley and Dr.
G. Alfred Brown officiated
for final rites. Interment was
in Laurel Land Memorial
Park under direction of
Shannon’s North.
♦Burleson’s Largest
Bus Ministry
♦Boulevard Baptist
Schools lst-12th
FIRST UNITED
PENTECOSTAL
CHURCH
220 N. DOBSON
9:45a.m.
10:30a.m.
JOE ROY SIMMONS
--Music, Youth Director
D.E. NEWSOME
PASTOR
WILLIAM RAY RUSHING
Funeral services for Wil-
liam Ray Rushing, Rt. 4, Box
719, Cleburne, were held at
10 a.m. Wednesday in Jones
Funeral Home Chapel.
A full military service will
precede interment Friday
afternoon at Fort Sam Hous-
ton National Cemetery in
San Antonio.
Rushing, 49, died Sunday.
A retired first sergeant in
the U.S. Army, he had lived
in this area for the past four
years. He was a native of
Prescott, Ark., and formerly
lived in Fort Benning, Ga.
He was a member of the
Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife,
Mrs. Hilda Rushing of Cle-
burne; three sons, Raymond,
Steven and Ralph Rushing,
all of Cleburne; one daught-
er, Mrs. Charlotte Wallace of
Hartsville, S.C.; two broth-
ers, Dow and Johnny Rush-
ing both of Broussard, La.,
and one grandchild.
Officiating at the chapel
service was Rev. J.L. Elston,
pastor of Calvary Baptist
Church.
Jones Funeral Home was
in charge of arrangements.
6:00p.m.
7:00p.m.
3rd Wed.
CHARLES LAING
Burleson, Texas
117 S. Dobson
295-1166
South of Bethesda Rd. on
I-35W North of Road Side
Rest Area on East Service
Road.
9:45a.m.
11:00a.m.
6:00p.m.
7:00p.m.
Charity
Lutheran
Church
J M CHANDLER
Minister
?95-KQdO
First United
Methodist
Church
ing hours.
Rev. J.L. Elston, pastor of
Calvary Baptist Church, of-
fered prayer before the cov-
ered-dish luncheon was ser-
ved.
Mrs. Valda Pendergraft
showed slides of points of
interest she encountered
while on an extensive tour of
the Far East.
Next meeting for the club
will be Sept. 15 at First
Baptist Church.
Other upcoming events
include a program by the
“Golden Owls Band” from
Covington, Tex. on Oct. 6.
WALTER VIARD
Funeral services for Walt-
er Sloan Viard Sr., father of
Mrs. Doris Hickman and
brother of Mrs. Estele New-
by, both of Burleson, were
held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in
Shannon’s North Chapel in
Fort Worth.
A Fort Worth resident,
Viard was 83. He was a
native of Linden, Tex., and
was a retired driver for Gulf
Oil.
Joe Roy Simmons has
assumed the duties of direct-
or of music and youth at
Calvary Baptist Church.
A student at Southwest-
ern Baptist Theological Sem-
inary in Fort Worth, Sim-
mons was called by the
church Aug. 28.
He graduated from Em-
poria State University in
Emporia, Kans., with a B.S.
And it came to pass after these things, that Nabath the
Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel, hard by the
palace of Ahab King of Samaria. And Ahab spoke unto
Nabath, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for
a garden of herbs.”
Covetousness is the unlawful desire of the property and
possessions of another. It was and still is deplorable in the
eyes of God. This was one of the Ten Commandments given
to Moses by God on Mt. Sinai.
It deals primarily in the ethical, that which is right or
wrong, concerning man’s responsibility to man and those
things which have been entrusted unto him.
Covetousness is a sneaky, sly way of damaging and
polluting the heart. The wanting and desiring of the things
of others can easily create a channel of thinking apart from
God.
We are constantly warned against the entanglements of
the world, its gagets, its appeals and lures.
“No man that warneth entangleth himself with the affairs
of this life.”
The danger of the breaking of this commandment hinges
on the breaking of the first Commandment, that of “having
no other gods before me.” Our God is a jealous God. God
wants us to serve pnly Him. When we become a slave to
other things or persons or ideas God detests such.
I can not but help visualize the petty, immature actions of
King Ahab in our text as compared to those of countless
thousands of restless, searching people today.
Ahab, like most Americans, had plenty. In fact, he had
much more than most folks. Yet, he wanted more. He was
king over Israel, yet the triffles of life drew him into its
clutches.
Sometimes you can become so accustom to getting
everything you want that you make a drive to get what you
want one too many times. This happened to Ahab. He
coveted Nabath’s vineyard to the point that he would exert
force and fraud to have it.
We must be ever so careful to realize God is the giver of
every good gift of life. To forget this causes selfishness,
greed and looseness in ones behavior in regard to another.
Nabath feared God. He was conscious of inheritance and
ownership as entrustments of God which should be guarded
with the proper managements to the extent of giving his life.
What a difference would exist in Burleson today if young
couples would realize the seriousness of new-home mortgage
committments. Or what a difference it would make if we
were more conscious of debt incured concerning the effect of
pay-back on coming generations. Today’s attitude seems to
be, “So what! I will get what I want regardless of who has to
pay for it.”
We can want too much! To be given things means to
properly manage things. God requires this of man. To have
more than one can properly handle is to squander or waste.
Both are displeasing to God.
King Ahab had no legal or spiritual right to Nabath’^
vineyard. He pouted like a child when he was refused the
vineyard. Like so many of our day, spoiled to our own way,
he listened to encouragements of corruption to further his
gains. He went to the extent to trample the life of another
just to have an exiotic garden or “side show.”
New homes by the score, Honda’s boots, houses, cars,
T.V.’s for every room, demanding weekly hair styles, bigger
and better churches or wandering eyes on someone else’s
wife could be most dangerous.
Could it be that we are being lifted up with a thrist for
things at such a degree we are loosing the capacity to exist
unless we are given them? I know of days passed where the
belief was, “You deserve what you work for and what God
endows you with.”
Things are not bad. Things can be a blessing. But, drive
and push for things is wrong. It’s wrong to the extent, that
like Ahab, it can bring downfall, death, and defeat.
May God be our helper to control our thirst and grant
contentment in our gains.
“And having food and rainment let us be therewith
content.”
Christian
Church
degree in education and is
presently working on a
master of religious education
degree.
While at Emporia State,
he represented the univer-
sity at the national Student
Leadership Conference in
Stillwater, Okla., and was
president of the Fellowship
of Christian Athletes during
his junior and senior years.
Doa
JERRELLL. ELSTON
295-5934
A SOUTHERN BAPTIST
CHURCH
maxshumake
CLU
LEAON N. JOHNSTON
Pastor - 292-2113
295-8331
P.O. BOX 291
Burleson
Kings wood
United
Methodist
Church
335 S.W. THOMAS
[across the street from
Middle School]
Boulevard
Baptist
Church
Southwest
Assembly
Of God
WEDNESDAY'
Prayer Service 7:30pan.
Youth Bible Study 7:30p.m.
BUS TR ANPORTAION
AND NURSERY
PROVIDED
□°a
.o <i
“THOU SHALT NOT COVET’
1 Kings 21:1
Church
Of Christ
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
REV. MICHAEL WILLS
MINISTER
601 S.W. Johnson Ave
Burleson, Texas
295-4123
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship 11:00a.m.
Wed-Body & Soul Night
Dinner
Bible Study
CWF & CMF
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 61
Sunday Worship Services
Regular Services 8:30 a.m.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Special Education Sunday
School 9:30 a.m.
Ben Rathgeber, Pastor
Cleburne 645-9452
Burleson 295-8621
Crestmont
Baptist
Church
The Man
from Equitable
makes these
benefits
available
to you
around the piano was enjoy-
ed by residents and guests.
Families of residents
brought cakes and CWF
members made homemade
ice cream.
Taking part in the event
from the Christian Church
were Dorothy Nash, Juanice
Wichterich, Pat and Carol
Finley, Mary Bryan, Mary
Burleson, Mike and Marla
Wills and Faye McLaren.
Members of the Christian
Women’s Fellowship of First
Christian Church honored
residents of Silver Haven
Care Center with an old
fashioned ice cream social at
7:30 p.m. Aug. 30 at the
center.
Receiving special recogni-
tion were residents of the
center who had birthdays
during the month of August.
A time of singing hymns
Episcopal
CHURCH OF THE
HOLY CROSS
518 S.W. Johnson Ave.
Burleson
295-4497
St. Mark Methodist Church, 6250 South Freeway in Fort
Worth will sponsor a Fall Festival on Saturday, Sept. 10.
Visitors will be able to eat a Bar-B-Q dinner, satisfy their
sweet tooth, green up their gardener’s thumb, and brouse
through thousands of items up for sale.
Items for sale will include antiques, a coin collection,
piano, organ, paintings, macrame, bicycles, wrought iron
and others from Mexico, furniture, an antique pistol, and
many, many others.
Bar-B-Q dinner will be served from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.,
featuring Bar-B-Q, beans, potato salad, cole slaw, drink and
dessert, for $2 per person, with children under 6 free.
The Country Store will open at 8:30 a.m. and will feature
many items to be sold for the price marked.
At 1 p.m., the pastor, Rev. Arthur Anderson, will put
scores of items up for auction. Items to be auctioned to the
highest bidder all are either new, very unusual, or antique.
In addition to the Country store, there’ll be a Sweet Shop
featuring all kinds of pies, cakes, and candy to satisfy the
most insistent sweet-tooth, and a Plant Shop containing all
kinds of exotic and domestic plants, including hanging
plants.
Rev. Anderson emphasized that members of St. Mark
Methodist Church are only the sponsors of the Fall Festival
which is open to everyone wanting a good dinner, a good
bargain on a variety of items or both.
A slide presentation de-
picting eleven countries in
the Far East and Australia
comprised the program at
the Sept. 1 meeting of Burle-
son Senior Citizens Fun
Club.
Forty four persons includ-
itor from- Silver
Haven Care Center, Mrs.
Erma Boortz, were on hand
for the meeting at First
United Methodist Church.
Sunday School 10:00a.m.
Morning Worshipll :00a.m.
Training Time 6:00p.m.
Wednesday Prayer7:30p.m
Jolly 60’s Friday 9:30a.m.
295-5471 295-4342
Sunday School 9:15a.m.
Morning Worshipl0:30a.m.
Youth Choir
[7-CCJ
Church Training
Youth Bible
Study [7-CC]
Evening Worship 7:00p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Worker’s Meeting 6:30p.m.
Mid-Week Service 7:30p.m.
“That W'ednesday
Thing” [7-12]
Adult Choir
Rehearsal ___
Ellison at Johnson Avenue
Dr. Ed Schmeltekopf,
Pastor
Calvary
Baptist
Church
116 N. CLARK ST.
295-1540
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service 11:00a.m.
Church Training 6:00p.m.,
Worship Service 7:00p.m.
Mid Week Service
Wednesday 7:30p.m.
Old Alvarado Hwy. Rt. 2
GERALD EDWARDS,
Pastor
295-8430
Children’s Worship9:45a.m
Youth, Adult Sunday
School
Children’s
Sunday School
Young, Adult
Worship
All-Church
Training
Evening Worship 7:10p.m.
First Baptist
Church
C hurch School 9:30a.m.
Morning Worshipl0:30a.m.
Burleson
Church Of
The
Nazarenei
CUMBERLAND
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
308 N.W. Tarrant
THOMAS D. CAMPBELL
Pastor
Sunday School 9:45a.m.
Morning Worshipll :00a.m.
Youth Groups 6:30p.m.
Church Phone 295-5832
Pastor Home 295-8913
Funds for retirement or for emergencies.
Money for your children’s education.
Repayment of your mortgage if you die.
Protection for your business and for your
family. Call The Man from Equitable. He’ll
be glad to show you a Living Insurance
plan that meets your special needs.
MAX SHUMAKEU CLU
PHONE: 295-5333
283-1576
267-2688
NOW FORMING
Hilltop
Church Of
Christ
Temporarily Meeting At
Burleson High chool
WORSHIP SERVICES
Sunday School
Worship
Sunday Evening
Wed. Evening
WEDNESDAY
vh Study 8:15p.m.
Cana Baptist
Church
60 Tarrant
Burleson
MELTON MILES Pastor
295-4452
Sunday Morning 10a.m.
Sunday evening7:30p.m
Wednesday Evening
7:30 p.m.
Friday Youth
7:00 p.m.
’Train up a child in the
way he should go: and when
he is old, he will not de-
part from it.’’
— Proverbs 22:6
Saint Ann’s
Catholic
Church
Saturday Mass 6:00p.m.
Sunday Mass8:30-10:30a.m
'SOrfewR^nfrcr'-—
Father Leon Flusche
Church 295-5621
Rectory 295-5887
127 S.W. THOMAS
295-1977
5 inday School
Morning Worship
Sunday Evening
Wed. Evening
PASTOR
Bill Hodges
295-5443
Youth Chorus
Wednesday Classes
7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY
Ladies’ Bible 9:15 a.m.
R.G. PARKINSON
DON KUHN
ROBERT KIRTLEY
Ministers
Office 295-2233
P.O. BOX 304
HIGHWAY 174
BURLESON
SUNDAY
Bible Classes
Worship
'Tis education forms the common mind:
Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.
— Alexander Pope
Wednesday Activities
[All at 7:30 p.m.]
Royal Rangers, Missionettes
and Worship Service.
SUNDAY
Morning Worship 8:30a.m.
11:00a.m.
Church School 9:45a.m.
Middle & Sr. High
UMY 5:45.m
Evening Worship 6:30p.m.
MONDAY
Men’s Prayer
Breakfast 6:30a.m.
WEDNESDAY
Choir Rehearsal 7:00p.m.
Rev. Bill Fulgium
295-8450
295-8669
“The Church T1
Love’s Your Family’
First
Asssembly Of
God
601 S.W. Thomas
295-9763
DOYLE ADAMS, PASTOR
295-9198
SUNDAY
Sunday School
Worship ______
Evening Worship 7:00p.m.
TUESDAY
Youth 7:30p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Evening Worship 7:30p.m.
Royal Rangers 7:30p.m.
VISITORS WELCOME
SUNDAY
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worshi 11:00a.m.
Church Traininl- 6:00p.m.
Evening Worship 7:00p.m.
TUESDAY
1st and 3rd Tuesdays
W.M.S. 10:00a.m.
Vistation 7:30p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Prayer Meeting 7:00p.m.
” 8:00p.m.
8:30p.m.
The Rev. David W. Erskine
Vicar
Sunday
Church School 9:45 a.m.
Holy Communion 11:00a.m.
EYC 5:30p.m.
Wednesday
Prayer & Praise &
Healing Services 7:00p.m.
High Ridge, Mo. His.mother,
a graduate of Southwestern
Seminary where she studied
music and education, teaches
music in High Ridge, M<
Joe’s wife, Tomi, d
public school teacher Wd
plans to teach in the Fort
Worth-Burleson area, j
Rev. Jerrell Elston pas-
tor of Calvary Baptist
Bethesda
Baptist
Church
Corner Of
Bethesda Road & 135
41/2 Mile South Of
Burleson 295-4632
JAMES STEELEY
PASTOR
SUNDAY
Sunday School 9:45a.m.
Morning Worshipll:00a.m.
Youth Church
Training 6:00p.m.
Evening Worship 7:00p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Prayer Service 7:30p.m.
Adult Choir 8:15p.m.
NURSERY PROVIDED
A Southern Baptist
CHURCH
9:00 a.m.
8:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
and 6:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
Mrs. Pendergraft
Presents Slides
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