Christian Chronicle (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 63, Ed. 1 Monday, December 23, 1968 Page: 3 of 23
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Cards for Gls
Daytona Beach plans
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Hillview Acre* Children's Home,
Chino, Calif., needs a couple to serve
Semantics Are
All-Important’
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Rusty Blood-
worth will never again shrug his
shoulders and say, “It’s all a matter
of semantics”—as if nothing could
IFAen some 150.000 students con-
verge on Daytona Beach, Fla., during
the spring vacation period, they are
going to find a new "S’ added to
their traditional pursuits of sun, sand,
sex, anfl suds. The "S’ represents
salvation, and the impetus will come
from a program being put together by
the Beville Road church, Daytona,
with aid of Campus Advance, Gaines-
ville, Fla., and Campus Evangelism,
Lubbock, Tex. About 100 Christian
students will be brought to Daytona
to canvass, survey, interview, distrib-
ute Bibles and literature, and share
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Christ with the thousands of students.
A 5,000-seat band shell on the beach
will be used Friday and Saturday
evenings for entertainment, speakers,
and question-answer sessions.
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various inner-city and other related
works, among other purposes . . .
Summer programs are of special in-
terest ... Gary D. Cope asks backers
of inner-city projects to provide him
with a resume of both summer and
permanent programs . . .. Address is
Box 1084, Harding College, Searcy,
Arkansas 72143.
Houston’s Bering Drive church was
to launch its "Apartment Ministry’
campaign with a Dec. 22presentation
to students and recent graduatesfrom
campuses across the country. The
plan is to recruit students to move to
Houston to pursue careers and to par-
ticipate in evangelism aimed at the
city’s swelling population of young
people. The Bering Drive church will
aid with housing and employment and
in the direction and funding of the
program. /’
McMillan reports • Approximately 250
youngsters attended the Youth Forum
at Tulare, California, late last month
. . . Largest groups outside of Tulare
came from Fresno and Bakersfield, with
m22 each , . Recordings were made of
the Youth Chorus and Will be made
available at production costs.
For a week students at David Lip-
scomb College, Nashville, signed Christ-
mas cards posted on bulletin boards
and destined for Gls Qverseas . . . The
West End church, Nashville • Harding
College has a new organization, the
Friend Corps . . Purpose: to serve
as a recruiting base on the campus for
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Something new: the Ayers Street
church in Corpus Christi, Tex., asked
its families to join in a “sit-together”
day at its Dec. 22 morning worship . ♦.
“There are many family groups wor- den Oaks church, Houston, and the
shiping here and we would like to see 1
them all sitting together as families for (
one period of worship," the Ayer Street ]
Exhorter said. “It is felt that many in i
the congregation will put families to-
gether for the first time by doing this.”
• Ken Hargesheimer in Guatemala,
Central America, has issued the first
edition of what he calls the BCC
Evangelbm Quarterly ... He says ■
its purpose “will be to explore more
fully the use of Bible correspondence
courses in taking the Gospel to the
untaught of this world.” . . . Wants
to use the small offset paper to ex-
change ideas and programs by those in
correspondence work . . . But says the
first issue will be the only issue if
response is not encouraging . . . His
address: Apartado 702, Guatemala,
C.A. • The Springtown Road church,
Weatherford, Tex., sponsors its second
I annual Watch Night service at 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 31 . . . Speakers will
include Tommy Clay, minister, Western
Hills church, Fort Worth; Fink Cald-
well, director, Church of Christ Bible
Chafer,' Stephenville; and James Hance,
minister, South Main Church of Christ,
Weatherford . . . “While others are
reveling, Christians from many sur-
rounding churches will be praising God
and edifying one another,” says minis-
ter Mac le Doux . . . Overnight
accommodations are available through
the Springtown Road church, 1302
N. Main St.
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INDIAN STUDENTS—These students attended the first semester of the Asmas
Bible College, Shillong, India.
issue of the Louisville Courier in a
section titled: “Today’s Minister’s Wife
Has a Life of Her Own." • From
Mexico City comes word that at least
six participants in the October Olympic
Games were members of churches of |
Christ. One was from Zambia, Africa;
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A youth meeting is planned at the
Sherwood church, Odessa, Tex., Dec.
28 through 31. An annual event, the
meeting will present Wyatt Sawyer of
the Southside church, Fort Worth,
on Monday and Tuesday nights. The
first two nights, Sherwood minister project was the idea of the Zeta Phi
Jack McCall will be the speaker. The
final evening, a social hour will follow
^fhe’ service, lasting until midnight.
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The wife of Morgan R. Medlin, min-
ister for the Taylor Boulevard church,
Louisville, Ky., was pictured in a recent
International Seminar in Dallas...
las, has extended summer training ses-
sions, and publishes “Go,” a monthly
newsletter mailed currently to about
25,000 persons, mostly college students.
Vermillion says about 400 campuses
now have students who have been
trained in campus evangelism.
Campus Evangelism does not work
through Bible Chairs or other organ-
izations already in existence, although
it frequently cooperates with these
groups. “We envision our mission as
one to the 2,900 campuses of the world
where there are no Bible Chairs or or-
ganized student activities.” Vermillion
says.
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invited to spend New Year’s Eve in a
four-hpur worship service with the
McKellar Avenue church, Memphis,
Tenn. . . . Several preachers and song
leaders will direct the service, scheduled
to begin at 8 p.m. . . . After the serv-
ice, ladies of the congregation will
serve a midnight dinner • David Hallett
has left Shillong, India, after five years
. . . The past two years he has worked
with correspondence courses at the
church there ... He plans to begin
studies in February at the Sunset School
of Preaching, Lubbock Tex. . * . Also
in Shillong, the first semester of the
Assam Bible College has closed ... A
new semester opens Feb. 21 . . . At
least 35 are expected to enroll, Ray be less important.
To the Memphian now studyingin
Stockholm or. an architectural schol-
arship, the % ds chosen to represent
objects were very important recently.
Rusty was on a trip to East Ger-
agreed to take New Testaments with
him for distribution behind the Iron
Curtain. Could he get them into
Poland, where others would take
over the distribution?
Four times, he was searched by
customs officials. Once, they asked
him in German what the 120 books
were.
He answered, “New Testaments.”
He got through without incident,
but Rusty has no doubt that the
books would have been confiscated
in East Germany if he had answered:
“Bibles."
Women’s social club . . Members,
invited all students to submit names of
any relatives or friends in Vietnam or
other foreign areas . . . Additional
sheets had to be attached jo some
cards, because of the response • Chris-
tians from the Mid-South have been
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another from near Tokyo, Japan; and
four from the U.S. ... While attend-
ing the Olympics, Houston’s mayor
Louie Welch and friends brought a
large quantity of clothing for distribu-
tion by Harris L. Goodwin and other
mission workers in Mexico City . . .
Kenneth Hahn, Los Angeles, made
$200 worth of Olympic tickets avail-
able to students at the Leta Baxter
Training School, supported by the Gar-
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Campus Evangelism is an organiza-
tion sponsored by the Broadway church,
Lubbock. It officially began on July 1,
1967, and now has a three-man staff
at 1807 13th St., Lubbock.
Staff member Vermillion says the
organization’s goal is to identify the
80,000 to 100,000 college students who
are members of churches of Christ,
train them in evangelistic methods, and
involve them in such activities both on
and off the campus.
To do this, the organization holds
regional seminars and special meetings
such as the International affair in Dal-
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CHRISTIAN
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Ministers’ Moves
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Gary Montgomery from West Erwin,
Tyler, Tex., to Corinth Road in
Jacksonville, Tex.
Don Hicks, from Second and Washing-
ton, McAlester, Okla., to Wynne-
wood Hills, Dallas, Tex.
Winston Atkinson, from White Rock,
Dallas, Tex., to West Illinois, Dallas,
Tex.
Ralph Wilson III, to New York Ave-
nue, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Jim Hance, from. Bellaire, San Antonio,
Tex., to South Main, Weatherford,
Tex.
Rubel Shelly, from New Albany, Miss,
to Knoxville Broadway, Knoxville,
Tenn.
Ron Beard, to West Erwin, Tyler,Tex.
John Gipson, from Meadowbrook,
Fort Worth, Tex., toSixthand Izard,
Little Rock, Ark.
Robert Wingiield, from Fox and Lake,
Carlsbad, N.M., to Sylvan Hills,
North Little Rock, Ark.
John Belasco, to West Dearborn,
Michigan. 4
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as houseparents . . . The address:
3683 Chino Ave., Chino, Calif. 91710
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• Harding College has added two new J
major fields leading to the bachelor’s
degree ... A major in physics will be
offered in addition to a co-operative
physics major with the University of
Arkansas . . . Also a fourth home
economics major in dietary technology
• At ACC, Eugene W. Clevenger,
associate professor of Bible and Greek,
received the doctor of theology degree
at mid-winter commencement, South-
western Baptist Theological Seminary
Dec. 20 • An adult chorus is now ac-
tive at Boles Home, Quinlan, Tex. . . .
Includes about 20 men and. women
who are staff members, teachers, or
housewives in the Boies Home com-
munity • Dates for showing
to Eternity" films in Golden
Area of Texas and Louisiana a
31-April 4 ... A contra*
signed with a television st
one hour program nightly .
more than one hundred pi
senting 24 congregations
Ridgewood church, Beaur
and 21 committed themselve
this program . .. , Funds
thus far: $22,000.
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