CHURCH SERVICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1938, Page 6

CHURCH SERVICES

Special evangelistic services will be conducted at the Salvation Army on Sunday by Colonel Burton, from Wellington. The Colonel is the field secre-

tary for the Dominion and is well known as a fluent and powerful exponent of the Gospel Message. The Colonel will be the speaker at each service. At the evening service the Colonel will conduct the commissioning of the new local afficers, and an enrolment service. Accompanying the Colonel will be the Misses Kirk and Jiawker, well known as the “Sweet Gospel Singers,” who have been singing over the air from 2YA within recent months. They will be heard in trio singing tomorrow at each of the services. All are heartily invited. On Sunday, November 27th. Major Hayes (Uncle will conduct the young people’s and anniversary services. A special church campaign is being launched by the Church of England tomorrow. At 11 a.m. the vicar will preach on “Clearing the Decks,” and at 7 p.m. on “Pulling Your Weight.” At Kuripuni the Rev T. V. Pearson will preach at 7 p.m. on “Asleep at Sunrise,” and at Upper Plain at the same hour, Mr V. W. Joblin will preach on “Onwards and Upwards.” Services will be held at Taueru, Rangitumau and Kopuaranga. At all services special prayers will be offered for the distressed and persecuted, and for world leaders.

Many requests have been made to repeat the excellent singing items connected with their Knox Church anniversary services. Tomorrow at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. the. congregation will have an opportunity of hearing the children in a full choral service. To enable the children to assemble in time, there will be no Sunday School tomorrow.

Interesting subjects will be dealt with in the Methodist Church on Sunday, when the Rev Frederick J. Parker will be the preacher both in the morning and evening. At the morning service, Mr Parker will speak on “Visions of God Through a Rent Garment,” and at night on “What is This Spirit-filled Life?”

The Te Ore Ore Maori Methodist Sunday School anniversary will be celebrated on Sunday afternoon at the pah, when the Maori scholars will sing and addresses will be given by Sister Atawhia, a Deaconess to the Maoris, and by the Rev Fred. J. Parker. An invitation is given to any interested to attend this unusually interesting service. In the Lansdowne Presbyterian Church at 7 o’clock on Sunday evening a service for nurses will be conducted by the Rev David McNeur. The nursing staff of the Public Hospital, Lansdowne, have made arrangements to attend the service, and all members of the profession will be made cordially welcome.

The usual gospel service will be held at the Ruhamah Gospel Hall tomorrow evening.