Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, April 2, 1965 Page: 1 of 4
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IN SPRING MEETINGS
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Wilburn C. Hill
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meetings in Missouri and
Oklahoma.
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★ CHANDLER PLANS LECTURES
CHANDLER, Okla.—The First and Cleveland con-
gregation in Chandler has scheduled a Bible lecture-
Hill’s second meeting will be
in Antlers, Oklahoma, April 12-
18. Conley preaches there. Hill
spoke at one of their lectures
several years ago.
Three daily services are
scheduled: morning services,
young people’s services and
evening evangelistic services.
Wilburn C. Hill was educated
at the old ‘Oklahoma Christian
College at Cordell; Southwestern
College at Weatherford. Okla.
He attended Abilene Christian
College for his first degree. He
served as principal and Super-
intendent of grade school and
high school. He earned his
Master's degree at OSU in Still-
water where he worked with
the church for eight years.
While there he more strongly
organized the Bible Chair.
Hill spent four years each in
Brownwood and Sweetwater, 10
years with Cleveland Ayenue
in Wichita, Kan., and the past
thre^j years with Oklahoma
Christian College and the
church there. However, during
the last year and a half he has
been working full time with the
college congregation.
Missouri, Oklahoma Targets for Wilburn Hill
OKLAHOMA City — Wilburn
C. HUI, who preaches for the
College congregation in Okla-
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home City, has two meetings
scheduled. for March and April.
His first meeting was March
29-April 4 with the South Nation-
al congregation in Springfield,
Missouri, where John Alley
preaches
In addition to daily morning
and evening services, devotion-
als were held for high school
and college students. The
devotionals centered around
“Challenges of Christ for Young
People in this Age.” ,
In 1963 Hill went on short
notice emergency call to Spring-
field when th? congregations
were having a Training for
Service series. L. R. Wilson,
who was supposed to be the
principal speaker — became ill
•nd HUI substituted. HUI was
more than pleased with their
kind reception. He wus asked
to return for a gospel meeting
•s soon as he had an opening
that would fit in with the South
National schedule. At the same
time he agreed to hold a gospel
meeting in 1966 for the Broad-
way and Madison congregation
where Walter Billingsley
preaches.
ship May 3-7. Services will be daily at 7:30 p.m.
According to Billy D. James, Chandler preacher,
the lecture program “is designed primarily for the
members of the church in this area.”
The theme to be developed is “Total Commit-
ment.”
The lectureship schedule is:
“Totally Committed Homes”—Dale Foster, Stam-
ford, Texas. May
“In Leadership”—S.
homo. May 4
“In Study and Worship”—Hugo McCord, Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma. May 5
“Total Commitment and You”—Darrell Denney,
Ponca City, Oklahoma. May 6
“In Converting Others”—Joe Schubert, Stillwater,
Oklahoma. May 7
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ABILENE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1965
Number 26
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MOORE, Okla. — The elders
of the Central Church^of Christ,
Moore assumed in January the
oversight of Bill WUliams in
Dauphin. Manitoba, Canada
The College Church in
Abilene. John Himmel of Cros-
byton, Tex and the Wood St.
Church in Sherman, Tex. are
also contributing to the support
Of WUliams.
WUliams and his wife Joan
were converted in September
of 1964, climaxing .several
months* teaching by Glen Dodd,
preacher for the church in
Dauphin. Prior to his con-
version, Williams had preached
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for the Presbyterian church.
The Central church had plan-
ned for additional mission work
by setting up a special fund
and allocating portions of the
budget for that fund. They in-
tended to begin supporting a
man full-time in 1966.
Williams spoke to the church
in November of last year. The
congregation was so enthusiastic
that the elders decided to con-
tribute substantially to his sup
port and to take the oversight
of his work.
“This is only the beginning,"
the elders said upon assuming
this responsibility. The Central
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Willard Callim
Pensacola, Fla., Tupelo, Miss ,
and Corpus Christi, Fort Worth,
Brownfield, and Waco, Tex.
Several of these meetings
have been “firsts", such as the
opening of a new municipal
auditorium in Nashville, and in
St. Louin, one of the first Cam-
paigns for Christ to be televised
live
In 1960 he attended the Far
East Fellowship, Tokyo, Japan,
and. in 1961, accompanied by
Mrs. Collins, he spoke in meet-
ings, services and workshops
in Korea, Hong Kong. Formosa
and Hawaii.
Collins has published four
books, Daily Living for Christ,
A Plea for Christ, Collins-Craig
Auditorium Mooting Sermons
and Vol. VI in Great Preachers
of Today Series.
He writes a weekly column
for the Nashville Banner, and
ts on the editorial staffs of
Gospel Advocate, 29th Century
Christian, Minister's Monthly.
NORMAN, Okla. — Willard
Collins, vice-president of David
Lipscomb College, will conduct
an eight day gospel meeting,
April 11-18, at the University
Church of Christ in Norman.
Collins comes to Norman with
a long history of service to
churches of Christ throughout
the nation and in the Far East.
Collins is past president of
the David Lipscomb College
Alumni Association: former di-
rector, District V, American
College Public Relations As-
sociation; first president. Know
Your Bible, Inc., a weekly tele-
vision program on WSIX-TV;
and a Colonel on the Governor’s
Staff since 1960.
Directs Chapel
He serves as director of
chapel services, student affairs,
public relations, publications,
student recruiting, athletics,
January and August Lectures,
and the Lipscomb Artist Series.
An associate director of the
*David Lipscomb College Ex-
pansion Program he was in-
strumental in the college being
given full accreditation by the
Southern Association . of Col-
leges and Schools in 1964.
. Collins attended David Lips-
comb Junior College and re-
ceived his BA and MA degrees
from Vanderbilt University.
Nashville, Tenn.
He started preaching in 1934
and has seryed as minister for
churches in Old Hickory and
Nashville,
Many Meetings
Since 1955 he has preached-
by appointment in 13 meetings
each year, including special
meetings such as an area-wide
endeavor in Wichita Falls, Tex.,
in 1960 where the term “Cam-
paign for Christ" originated.
Other area-wide meetings in-
clude: Gadsden, Ala., Ardmore,
Okla., Shreveport, La., San
Francisco, Calif., St. Louis, Mo..
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church is already supporting
one man full-time in the Philip-
pines, and contributing to the
support of Ira Y. Rice Jr. in
the Far East. Definite plans
are being made to take the
full support of Williams in 1966
and. to add at least one full-
time missionary each year
thereafter, , fully supported by
the church at Moore. The in-
creased responsibility and en-
thusiasm has be?n evident at
least in part, for other events
in the last few weeks. Twenty-
one persons have been baptised
into Christ, and three have been
restored
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Nichols, James W. & Stewart, John R. Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, April 2, 1965, newspaper, April 2, 1965; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1313212/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.