HIGH STREET EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH VOLUME 2
AUGUST, 1953
CHURCH COUNCIL NEWS REVIVAL MEETING SEPTEMBER 6th Pastor’s Report to the Church TO SEPTEMBER 20th Council of Administration August 4, 1953 Averages for the month of July have been as follows: Sunday School 251; Morning Worship 272; Evening Service 61. Averages for July, 1952, were: Sunday School 231; Morning Worship 172; Evening Service 50. Even with the hot weather we are holding our own financially, and we are grateful to God for His goodness. During the month of July, I have made ninety-two pastoral calls, preached eleven times, and per formed one wedding. And yet the Pastor has taken no vacation period as such, but such arrangements are now being made for the first Sun day in September (6th). In recent days the Pastor has talked with Rev. and Mrs. A. E. Clark, Pastor and wife of the Mar ion Salem Church, and has made arrangements with them to assist in Revival meetings in September. They will conduct the music ser vices, and will have a special ministry to children. They will be a valuable assistance in the meet ings which are now being planned. The meeting date is set for Sep tember 20th through October 4th. Recent actions of The Council in the July meeting were as follows: 1. It was agreed to provide the sum of $35.00 to send Mr. George Bailey to the Second Quadrennial Student Conference of The Evan gelical United Brethren Church to be held at Indiana Central College at Indianapolis, Indiana, December 29th to January 1st. 2. It was agreed to provide the sum of $40.00 from our Miracle Mission Fund for Rev. James Welty of The Lima Rescue Home to send Mr. Welty to the Rescue Mis(Continued on page 2)
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PASTOR’S MESSAGE
The months of June, July and August are usually considered the period of low attendance or “sum mer slump” in most Churches, but we are happy that this sum mer is different from all the rest. At least the attendance figures are better than they have been in pre vious summers, for which we are deeply grateful to God. Many peo ple are asking if it is essential to hold two services on Sunday morn ing. The answer is simple arithme tic, for an average of about 100 more people are now at Church on Sunday morning than attended in the summer of 1952. Our Sunday School is also well ahead of last year, as is our evening service and mid-week prayer meeting. Surely this indicates that with the proper emphasis in the fall months High Street can surpass all previous at Our Revival meeting has now tendance records. been set for the two week period As these lines are prepared your beginning September 6, and the Pastor has selected to assist us in Pastor is very busy looking for the work Rev. and Mrs. A. E. ward to Annual Conference. Re Clark, pastor and wife of our ports have been completed, and Salem Church near Marion, Ohio. many letters have been written. Rev. and Mrs. Clark are known This will be your Pastor’s first ex to the boys and girls who attended perience serving as Secretary of an the children’s camp as “Uncle Gene Annual Conference, and it promi and Aunt Doyne.” They have been ses to be a most interesting ex active in evangelistic circles, and perience. Assisting the Pastor at have been a part of our children’s Annual Conference in the typing camp each summer at St. Marys. room will be Mrs. A. G. VandeRev. and Mrs. Clark will have mark and Miss Marjorie Sullivan. charge of the music each evening, These ladies will carry the respon and they will precede the evening sibility of typing all the Conference service with a children’s meeting reports and cutting stencils for at 7:00 p.m. Among the items that many which will be passed out to will be interesting to children will members of the Conference. By be Gospel magic, illustrated stories the time this paper arrives at your about real boys and girls, action home, Conference will be com songs and choruses, gospel souve pleted, and elsewhere in this num nirs, etc. We believe that Rev. and ber you will find the stationing Mrs. Clark will be used of the committee’s report which is the Lord to help many of our boys and most looked-for document of the Conference. girls as well as their parents. The July, August and September It was refreshing to your Pastor to hear many prayers offered for numbers of “The High Street Wit(Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 2)