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Claude Lewis retires from pulpit
Evans named Coach of the Year
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McCullough elected mayor
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North chosen for Hall of Fame
McCullough
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kfier a rupture, which was
set in concrete by 1906,
OKLAHOMA CITY
Stafford North, former vice
president and currently dis-
tinguised professor of Bible at
Oklahoma Christian University,
has been named to the
Oklahoma Education Hall of
Fame. He is an elder for the
Memorial Road church,
Oklahoma City.
UNIVERSITY. MISSISSIPPI
Ole* Miss head football
coach Rob Evans was named
1996-97 Southeastern Con-
ference Coach of the Year. He
has been inducted into the New
Mexico Hall of Fame, Lubbock
Christian Hall of Fame and
New Mexico State Hall of Fame.
tination Currents and
d in this issue explores
! of the effort being
Lansdale, Pa. Lynn
"City Lights: Proclaiming Christ in the
Contact Scott Lambert, Pappordine
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(501)279-4660.
possibly the largest gathering of
members of the church. I do not
agree with what some fellow Chris-
tians say and write, either to the left
or the right. But if they do some-
thing newsworthy, a Rubel Shelly or
a Buster Dobbs will be reported on.
Remember, we're first and foremost
a newspaper
rcity is today’s challenge
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Restoration
West
Virginia,
western
bna, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Id Ohio. It didn’t fare as
ge cities.
our ancestors in the
(came to distrust cities,
was the urban churches
y led in such innovations as far-ranging topics. We want the
paper to be informative and help-
ful to our readers
The same question keeps com-
of Chnst gained control ing up — Why do you promote this
program or that? And the reverse —
Why don’t you promote this prog-
ram or that?
In the first place, we do our best
to maintain both balance and lines
of communication in our more and
more diversified brotherhtxxl.
In the second place, reporting on a
frontier
phenomenon,
flourishing in
such areas as and soundly from Nepal I he trip
was quite an experience, some
times fascinating, sometimes a hit
dismaying and definitely tiring
We plan to run a page on the work
there in the November issue
In coming months we hope to
run features on Barton W Stone,
Cordell Christian College, church
architecture, baptism and other
NORTH LITTLE ROCK. ARKANSAS
Claude Lewis, for 53 years a
minister in Alabama, Tennessee,
Idaho, arkansas and Missis-
sippi, has retired from regular
preaching. During his career, he
directed churches at three
Christian schools and taught
Bible at one. He is a former
elder, member of the board of a number of schools
and a children’s home, and foreign campaigner.
TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI
Glenn L. McCullough Jr.
took office July 7 as the 23rd
mayor of Tupelo. Elected in his
first campaign, he received 70
percent of the votes. A member
of the Gloster Street church in
Tupelo, McCullough is also ac-
tive in a number of local and
state programs and has served
as president of Kiwanis. He is also a member of the
Board of Directors for Excellence in Education, and
of the advisory board of Trustmark Natl. Bank.
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advertirenwnu nor are the views expressed
in them necesiahly those of the Chromclt
0/ Oklahoma Chriman. We reserve the nghi
to discontinue or decline any Advertisement
Send inquiries to Dale Jones, Advertising
Manager (405) 425-5073 The staff reserves
the right to edit all tnalenal, submitted for
publication in accordance with Christian
ethics, journalism standards and libel laws
to 36 pages. This will help take off
some of the pressure for advertising
space, now scarce, says ad manager
Dale Jones. It will also permit a
was largely a youth section, long proposed by
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features.
I am back more or less safely
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k 14 Pan Amsrtesn Lectureship, 35th
^annual. Thstob: *Missianwy Prophets (Acts
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6-8 Gulf Coast Spiritual Workshop.
Thoma: "The Compelling Christ’ Location:
Uteswood church. Baytown, Tteiss. For detoite.
c.<(2«1)«*-8500.
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Office Manager, OWEN ANTWINI
MnnagiMEditor. GLOVER SHIPP
AssL Mm Editor. UNDY SCOBEY ADAMS
^E^R SCOTT-LAMASCUS
Advertising Manager. DALE I. JONK
Editorial, Reaaarch A*M-EON HRISbrr
Office Asst.
Cartoonist. SCOTT HORTON
ority of the city churches,
; small-town and country
ons largely in the hands of
f churches of Christ,
d frontier oriented, we
large cities then and still
totional block today about
the inner city. Some,
re showing the way in such program or project docs’t mean to
in centers as Dalias, Journalists endorsing it. If so, news-
lontgomcry, Memphis and paper writers and editors could be
accused of endorsing an embez-
zlement, a case of family abuse or
even a robbery or a murder.
I personally do not endorse
b the inner city by Christian Jubilee, but it is news because it is
Read it carefully and pray
challenge before us.
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■nicies, we continue our
pnury of Christian coDege
for the past school year,
k printers moving to more
waners and a larger press,
table to expand as needed
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