ANNUAL PRAYER WEEK

Press, Volume C, Issue 29500, 29 April 1961, Page 13

ANNUAL PRAYER WEEK

With the theme of aiding the Church’s mission work abroad, the Baptist Church will hold its annual week of prayer and self-denial during the first week of May. beginning with special services tomorrow. Throughout New Zealand special church meetings and combined gatherings will be held. In Christchurch the arrival of two women missionaries from India will contribute to the meaning of the week’s activities. The women. Miss Esther Denham and Miss Melva Taylor. will address several gatherings during this period. Also during the week the Church is hoping to receive three young volunteers wishing to go out into the missionary field and carry on the work of the Church in Asia. As a result of the denial appeal being conducted this year it is hoped that the target of £25.000 will be reached from Baptist churches throughout the Dominion.

Events during the coming week will include a combined meeting of the Baptist Women's Missionary Union to be held on Tuesday at the Oxford terrace Baptist Church, a combined church rally to be held the following evening at the same church. and a further rally on the Saturday evening. At both these rallies the two missionaries will address the gatherings. Other meetings for prayer will be held at individual churches > throughout the week. On both Sundays special missionary services will be held. The annual self-denial offering will be taken on the last Sunday. Two-thirds will be devoted to the missionary Geld and one-third to the extension of the church's work in New Zealand.