These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were
announced in church services:-
The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
The sermon this morning: “Jesus Walks on the Water.” The sermon tonight: “Searching for Jesus.”
Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those
things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community.
Don’t let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
Miss Charlene Mason sang “I will not come this way again,” giving
obvious pleasure to many in the congregation.
For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
Next Thursday there will be try outs for the choir.They need all the help they can get.
Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the
church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall.
Music will follow.
At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be “What Is Hell?”
Come early and listen to our choir practice.
Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several
new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled.
Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.
The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment
and gracious hostility.
Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.
The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind.
They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across
from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would
lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM.
Please use the back door.
The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the
Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church.
Please use large double door at the side entrance.
Pastor Updyke unveiled the church’s new tithing campaign slogan
last Sunday with the slogan: “I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours
The rosebud on the alter this morning is to announce the birth of
David Alan Belzer, the sin of Rev. and Mrs. Julius Belzer.
This afternoon there will be a meeting in the South and North ends of
the church. Children will be baptized at both ends.
Tuesday at 4:00 pm there will be an ice cream social. All ladies
giving milk will please come early.
Wednesday the ladies liturgy will meet. Mrs. Johnson will sing “Put me
in my little bed accompanied by the pastor.”
Thursday at 5:00 pm there will be a meeting of the Little Mothers
Club. All ladies wishing to be “Little Mothers” will meet with the Pastor in his study.
This being Easter Sunday, we will ask Mrs. Lewis to come forward and
lay an egg on the altar.
The service will close with “Little Drops of Water.” One of the ladies
will start quietly and the rest of the congregation will join in.
Next Sunday a special collection will be taken to defray the cost of
the new carpet. All those wishing to do something on the new carpet will come forward and do so.
