Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1964 Page: 2 of 4
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1964 is averaging above 370 each
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Now that this milepost of financial attainment has
been reached, we are now ready to launch out on a
most challenging and great undertaking — the construc-
tion of our new house of worship which will seat 900
persons in one service. The architectural drawings are
magnificently beautiful, and we are eager to get the
I construction started We shall soon announce the date •
of our ground-breaking ceremony
There is only one way for this church to go, and
that is FORWARD to the glory of our God!”
Marshall Keeble, President Emeritus,
Plans are also in the making
to conduct a gospel meeting
next year. The church here has
a part in the support of a daily
radio program at W. D. N. T.
Radio in Dayton.
Solomon is the speaker on
this program one week each
month. was erected In seven months.
j getting the Madisonville con total contribution Sunday was $3.604 89.
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Donelson Central in
Cleveland, and West Side in
Sparta, have also been regu
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WONDER FU L " ADMIRABLE’" STU 1 >EN I )Ol ’S’!
''We just cannot find sufficient adjectives to express our
■evaluation of the faith, love and liberality of those
in this congregation This only demonstrates the poten-
tial which this church has for the expansion of its
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been in the community for |
annrAHrimatnlv envon nnJ n-tn.
half years. It is one of the two 1 wald,
congregations- in the entire ’
county of Monroe; Sweetwater 1
i lar supporters of the
sonville work
M H. Tucker, now minister facilities, and for a marvelous growth in the future,
of the Clinton, Tennessee
church of Christ was the Mad
isonville minister during the
! was con
Dowell Flatt has
the congregation
as
Thursday, David East of East There is also a teenage class thejfield.
conducted twice each month.
--------------- Mac Dixson is teaching this church are T. B. Burnett, Mar
James Boyd of Red Bank will, class and using "Why I Am a ] tin Grizzard, Edgar Jones and
Monroe Stovall. J. Howard Car-;
ter is the regular minister at
Hixson and recently begun his
fourth years work there.
The Hixson building burned
completely, with the exception
of four rooms, when it was only
16 months old in1 March of 1962;
a new building with twice the
amount of class-room space
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For Mount Airy Brethren
Alabama; Pontotoc, Mississippi,
before moving to Durant.
Mrs Clayton is also a Freed-
Hardeman graduate and has
taught private piano in schools
and in her home. Jhe Claytons
have three children; Freddie,
eight years old; Debbie, seven
years old; and Kim who is three.
The Mount Airy congregation
is located near Dunlap, Tennes-
Ocx of4Umore-prominent
programs of work is its partici-
pation in the cooperative radio
program conducted by surround-
ing congregations over radio
WDNT in Dayton. Clayton will
be the speaker on this daily
program one week each month.
I
Great Commission." 1
chide a report on the work in
Waynesboro—a work the Hixson;
congregation has helped from
its origin.
At 6 p m. the same day John
Murphree, minister of the j
Ridgedale church in Chattanoo-
ga, will speak on "Forms of’
Unbelief."
Other Lectures
September 18, 1964
Valley News Briefs
By J. M. Powell
Dr. W. B. West, Jr. writes from Europe that he
expects to be in Chattanooga about the middle of Sep-
tember to plan Harding College Extension Courses for
the area. ______
Raleigh Wooten, minister of the Kingston (Tennes-
see) Church of Christ, closed a meeting in Hoxie, Ar-
kansas on August 26 with 38 responses, 26 of which
were baptisms. The Kingston Church now has two Bi-
ble School periods on Sunday mornings. On Septem-
ber 2, there were 229 present for prayer meeting.
The Central Church in Chattanooga has resumed
its Library Hour which meets for 25 minutes prior
to the evening worship The purpose of this program
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close out the series on Friday Member of the Church of Christ"
night with a lesson on "A Great by Leroy Brownlow
Hypocrisy in the Church."
This Hixson church continues
to grow; IttBDdince at all of the
services... .are. at all-time peaks.
During August, new records for
that month were aetat every
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MlssUn Work Grews
More mission work has been
tun time minister, greatly assist in the personal
Solomon, originally W()rk
vinyr u«cTvrv> irom I’lKeville, Tennessee. He
The remaining lectures will has had three years college
work at Freed Hardeman Col-
lege.
Solomon began his work with
HIXSON, Tenn —Seven out planned by the Hixson elders
standing area speakers will be for 1965. In addition to the I
featured on lectureship servlf- Waynesboro work and other
es of the Hixson Church of mission work already schedul-l
Christ September 20 25. ‘ icd, they are to send two men, | cent of this amount was given. I
Bill Howell, minister of the I Howard Carter and II a fold in addition to the regular eon-
church in Waynesboro, Ga , will I Johnson, from the Hixson con-1 tribution, the first three or four
open the series at 11 a m. Sep- { gregation to assist in the Cam- weeks.
tember 20 with a lesson on "The ; — ----- -- : «i.A . ... ..... t
Great Commission." He will in-} ^nlnmnn TflL PC 1 ized visitation has' been started ~
las of September 8, 1964. This |
I consists of four teams and each
I team is scheduled to visit one
I day or night each month There 4
are many contacts that need to I
be made in this area, and it is I
felt that this visitation will I
I Macon formerly preached for
Hixson this congregation. The first Sun
I day the Claytons were at Mount I
Airy was August 2.
The Claytons are native Mis-
I sissippians and come to Mount
Airy from Durant, Mississippi.
He was a three-vear ministerial
student at Freed-Hardeman Col-
lege in Henderson, Tennessee
He graduated in 1»55<
His first local work was in
Akron, Michigan. Later, he
worked with churches at New
,fope, Mississippi; Red Bay
At the recent business meet-
ings some plans of work have —. —- -
been discussed and decided up proximaely 335 per Sunday At-
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?"F(?t^.Vr W?rId.l.to..Con .,own; Also a Personal work class 1 Wednesday night MOUNT AIRY Tenn -Rub<d
Also if the present plans ma ( layton and his family recently
year, moved to Mount Airy, Tennes-
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.Put,a full time missionary in gregation as minister. E s t e n
The elders of the Hixson
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is to focus attention on the Church Ubrary. Usually,
some brother gives a review of a book in the Li-
brary. Sometimes filpi^slrms are shown. At other
times, there are pandudiscussions. The program is de-
signed for adults. L
The young people at the Cential Church have begun
a study of world missions. They will make contacts
with missionaries on the field who will send slides
and reports to be studied in the (lass. The class will
use a map of the world and study the countries in-
v o I ved. ______________________
Melvin Wise, minister of the Brainerd Church in
Chattanooga, writes: "We cannot be too high in our
praise of the congregation here at Brainerd for its
wonderful liberality, which has been evidenced during
| the past year, and especially last Lord’s Day. In our
special financial drive to pay off the remaining four
i payments of our building indebtedness of $2,718.22, the
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ligious census to be taken of the | iff ,’s about 250 or more each
9ufr Other Wars to Win." has been started I Also if the present plans ma
Wednesday, Dan Spann of Tif | in this class the teacher is I tcrialize, in less than a year.
tonia will speak on the "Twenty- using “You Can Do Personal' the Hixson congregation plans
~ „ Work", by Otis Gatewood. to put a full-time missionary in
Ridge will preach on
Declare Unto You."
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pport from the outside in its minister
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The Rubel Cltiyton Family
Rubel Clayton Preaching
be on successive nights at 7:30.
Monday night, J. M. Powell
of the Central congregation in
Chattanooga will preach on the Church here July first.
"Th* ; Place of the Gospel in a i
World of Turmoil."
Tuesday, Raymond Crumb
liss, minister of the East side
church in Cleveland, Tenn , will
BURNING A MEMORY—Leaders of the Madisonville, Tenn., Church of Christ I
put a match to the mortgage which those brethren recently paid off. The mort-
gage-burning marked a high point intia^grofaing history of the Madisonville work.
Madisonville Congregation
Conducts Mortgage Burning
MADISONVILLE, Tenn -
Following the morning servic-
es on July 19 the Madison-
ville, Tennessee, church of
Christ held a mortgage burn I county of Monroe;
ing to celebrate the comple- is the other congregation,
tion of all debts on the church
building.
Both local newspapers were i
represented, taking pictures j
of the event These were
used, along with a news
story, in their weekly issues.
Both papers carried the story
as a front page item
The Madisonville (nmvii.
composed of 25 members, has
He wiii in Solomon Takes
New Position
In Spring City
j SPRING CITY, Tenn -
I Church here has recently em-
1 ployed a full time minister,
Owen G. !’
from Pikeville, Tennessee.
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Th<- present building, built
by Paden Construction com- I
pany, is three years old. Its '
location is 3376 College Street. |
The congregation formerly ,
i ’ sm“" blMk b"il<lin8 ' time the building
ontn.^ structed D—
The Maryville church of i been with
Christ has been the main during the past two years
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Hixson Church Lectures
M ■ C g C ( hr,stian Institute is seeking to raise $2,500 to equip
lire ■ ia Bible room at the school in memory of the late
■WreB w* J. W. Brents. Gifts for this worthy project may be
mailed to 801 Twenty-fourth Avenue, N., Nashville, Ten-.
paign in Christchurch, N e w nessee.
Zealand in March of 1965. j
This will cost approximately i-------------
$3,000 extra and over 10 per
in addition to the regular
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Nichols, James W. & Powell, J. Marvin. Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1964, newspaper, September 18, 1964; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1313145/m1/2/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.