Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 193, Decatur, Adams County, 16 August 1963 — Page 6

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Divides Big Parish Into Small ‘Zones’

By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International The Rev. Louis H. Fracher is a tough-minded pastor with a rare capacity for viewing his own parish with detachment.' His parish is St. John’s Episcopal Church in Waynesboro, Va. To an outsider, it looks extremely successful. It has 550 baptized members and 400 communicants on its rools. Attendance at worship is so heavy that three services have to be scheduled each Sunday morning. The Sunday School is overflowing with children. Parish organizations are bustling with activity. But the Rev. Mr. Fracher looked beneath the surface of institutional success. He saw a parish which had grown so large that many of the members didn’t even know one another. People could get sick or die without their neighbors hearing about it in time to show their concern. It was a far cry from the New Testament concept of the church

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as a close - knit fellowship in which each member gave and received love, acceptance and understanding. — , Problem Is Common Thousands of other American parishes have the same problem. Some of them have tried to overcome it by holding “coffee hours” after services, or by including social functions in the parish program, or by setting up organizations to promote fellowship. The Rev. Mr. Fracher decided that his parish already had plenty of organizations, and that what it really needed was a little “disorganization” or decentralization. He told this idea to his vestry, and last May the parish was divided into 12 “zones,” each containing from 20 to 25 families. Each zone is headed by a member of the vestry, who serves as a lay minister, watching over the material and spiritual wellbeing of the families in his zone. Every few weeks, the families in a particular zone meet at someone’s home to worship together, get better acquainted and talk pver the affairs of the parish. Members Enthusiastic The members of the parish are enthusiastic about the zone system. They no longer feel like strangers to one another. They find that communication in the parish is not a one-way affair. Through the zone meetings, every back-bencher has a chance to speak his piece about parish policies, instead of waiting to be told what, the rector and vestry have decided. But the most important result of the zone system, in the eyes of the pastor, is that it has made S. John’s parishioners aware that “the church is not bricks and stained glass windows r- the church is people.” “It is in small groups that men and women can truly learn to be the Body of Christ at work,” says the Rev. Mr. Fracher. “We are confident that the zone meeting will prove to be an effective way to demonstrate what the ‘ministry of the laity’ is all about. One of the tasks which each zone takes on is to ‘seek out the unchurched children and adults in your neighborhood.’ Another is to look up nominal church members, the ‘strayed sheep,’ and try to bring them back to the fold.” State Cold Record Broken Third Time By United Press International Temperatures broke cold records in Indiana today for the third morning in a row as the mercury shriveled to autumn levels in the August “dog days.” A low of 51 at Indianapolis broke the old mark for Aug. 16 by one degree. The previous record of 52 was established in 1885. It was the 15th new temperature record to go down in the books in the capital city this year. Evansville’s 49 was the coolest reading reported. Lafayette had 50 and South Bend 55. The latest five-day outlook indicated no hot spell lies ahead in the near future. Forecasts called for temperatures averaging 5 to 10 degrees below normal through next I Wednesday with a current warming trend being reversed about Sunday and a slow warming again about Tuesday or Wednesday. Highs Thursday ranged from 73 at Indianapolis to 80 at Evansville. Highs today will range from 80 to 85, lows tonight from 60 to 66, and highs Saturday from the low to mid 80s. Forecasts called for widely scattered thundershowers tonight and Saturday, ending by Sunday. For the five days, precipitation will total around an inch north, mostly tonight and Saturday, and onefourth inch central and less south during the same period.

EE 1 international Uniform Sunday School Lnsaona w////////A Test of Faith Lesson for August 18, 1963 Bible MMerlal: Genesis 21 through 25. Devotisnal Reading: Lamentations 3:55-58.

<ANE of the strangest stories is the story of Abraham preparing to kill his only son Isaac and offer the dead body as a burnt offering to God. The deeper question is one which we shall not pursue here: Can we believe

that the God whom Christ revealed to us would for any reason command murder of this sort? Or if He did not really mean it, what kind of God would perpetrate such a cruel joke? Many Christians, when

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they stop to think about this, find themselves in a terrible dilemma; and so they take refuge in calling the story a kind of parable rather than literal fact. A believing men’s conviction Let us come down to a more manageable, even if still difficult problem. Let us think about the state of Abraham’s mind. This good man had a conviction that the same God who had promised him a son was now commanding him to sacrifice that son just as (in those days) a bull or a cow would have been sacrificed, by knife and fire, a burnt offering in honor of God. The difficulty is now not theological but psychological. How could a good man believe such a thing? If a good man today were caught making an attack with a deadly weapon on his own son, and if he told the police to leave him alone, because “God ordered me to do this,” the police would turn him over to a psychiatrist. For today any man who would explain a killing he was about to commit, on the ground that this was God’s will, would be regarded as obviously insane. The answer to that is fairly easy if we imagine ourselves back in Abraham’s time and place. Childsacrifice, human sacrifice, was common, as the Bible and archaeology testify. Indeed. Abfaham’s , neighbors might easily have jeered at him for having a cheap religion because he had not sacrificed his son. Anyhow, Abraham lived at a time when such an idea as God’s commanding him to sacrifice Isaac ctgild not be brushed off (as it would by any sane man today) as a crazy notion. He really believed that was what his God wanted. A bslisvsr's conscience * Abraham lost no time doing what he firmly believed to be God’s command. Now a great many people have consciences they do' not use. “You ought” or “You ought not” are only little buzzing static in the mind, fainter and fainter as time goes on and the person pays less and less attention to what his conscience is trying to say. The good man listens to his conscience; his convictions appear in his actions. He is not fond of saying “I know I i ought to, but ...” If he knows or believes he ought to, he acts accordingly. We can call this conscientiousness, but we can call it also obedience. So far as the voice of conscience is the voice of God, following the conscience is obeying the voice of God. It is true, as history shows us, that a man may think an action is good which future centuries will mark down as evil. A bslisvsr's crown This strange story ends with God saying, “I will bless you . . . because you have obeyed my ‘voice.” The story brings out the point that sacrificing his only son was the last thing Abraham Wanted to do. It is easy enough to do what is right when that suits our convenience; but when what I want and what I ought to do are not the same thing, then it's another story. Abraham has been honored around the world ever since, because he was one man for whom the number one question always was: Is this the will of God? Does a believing man have any reward except a kind of satisfaction in having done the right thing? Yes, he may have the reward Abraham had. Every man has even in this life some particular rewards for at least some of the good he has done; and these rewards are not all the same. Abraham was given the promise of a nation descended from him, and of being a blessing to all mankind. This could not come to every one! But isn’t it likely that the best reward he could possibly have was that God approved of him? To be “approved unto God” is the brightest crown a servant and friend of God can wear. Trade in a good town — Decatur. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

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U. S. Pilots Report On Cuban Kidnaping MIAMI (UPI) — Two coast Guard pilots told Thursday how they circled a British island helplessly while two Castro torpedo boats and a helicopter rounded up part of a band of fleeing Cuban refugees. “The whole time we were circling the area, the gunboats trained their anti-aircraft on us and the crewmen aimed small arms at us,” said Lt. (j.g.) J.E. Mitts. The 30-year-old pilot from Denver, Colo., said his Albatross amphibian plane was well protected by six to eight Navy and Air Force fighters who “scrambled” Anguila Cay when the Coast Guard reported the incident. A spokesman for the State Department in Washington described the incident as a “kidnaping,” but said the U.S. military planes “were not in a position” to prevent the action. Mitts and his co-pilot, Lt. (j.g.) P.R. Lewis, 27, happened on the incident Tuesday while on routine patrol over the Florida Straits. Lewis, of Rochester, N.Y., said they spotted two 95-to-100-foot torpedo boats flying Cuban flags and a Cuban military helicopter on the beach at the northern tip of the remote British possession. "We counted 16 or 17 refugees, including one woman and one child, being taken aboard one of the torpedo boats that had landed,” Mitts said. Rural Churches PLEASANT MILLS METHODIST Joseph Gibson, pastor Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. Divine Worship at 10:30 with sermonette for the children. Miss Evangeline Gibson will speak at the 10:30 hour, having been asked by the Missions commission. SALEM METHODIST Joseph Gibson, pastor Homecoming Sunday Divine Worship Service at 9:30 A. M. Sunday School at 10:30. Evangeline Gibson will speak at 9:30. A basket dinner will be served at noon. Afternoon service at 2:00. The pastor will speak at this service. A full program will be held with Mrs. Merle Riley in charge. Prayer'fneeting and Bible Study Wednesday at 8 p.m. SALEM UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST H. E. Settlage, Minister 9:00 — Sunday School. Classes for all age groups. 10:00 — Worship Service. Sermon “Reverence in the House of God.” 7:30 —Churchmen’s Brotherhood meeting. The film “Above and Beyond” will be shown. Saturday 10 to 10:45 Children’s choir rehearsal. PLEASANT DALE CHURCH of the BRETHREN Dolar Ritchey, pastor Sunday School 9:00 Oscar Geisel, superintendent. Director of Children’s Work, Barbara Barger. Morning Worship 10:00. Sermon subject, “THE LABOR AND HIS HIRE.” Evening services 7:30. Sermon subject, “GRAPES GIANTS AND GRASSHOPPERS.” Prayer meeting Wednesday evening 7:30. MONROE METHODIST CHURCH Charles E. Elam, pastor 9:30 a.m. — Morning Worship. 10:30 a.m. — Church School. 6:30 pm. — Jr. High M.Y.F. No evening services. Monday 8:00 p.m. — Commission on Finance meeting. 8:00 p.m.—Boy Scout Committee meeting. Tuesday 8:00 p.m. — Quarterly Conference meeting with Dr. Donald Bailey. Wednesday 8:00 p.m. — Mid-week Service. Mrs. Harold Schwartz, leader. Subject, “The Woman at the Wall.” Thursday 8:00 p.m.—Senior M. Y. F. Council meeting with all officers and

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RIVARKE U. B. CIRCUIT Stanley Neuenschwander, pastor I MT. VICTORY / Sunday School S«ipt. Chalmer Brodbeck. Sunday School 9:00. Class Meeting 10:00. Prayer Meeting, Wed. 8:00. Mt. Victory will have a Barbeque at Ivan Roth’s honae on August 24 at 6:00. Each family is to bring hamburger or wejners and buns along with one cohered dish. MT. SHON Jim Bebout, Sunday School Supt. Sunday School 9:30. Class Meeting 19:30. Prayer Meeting, and C. E. is cancelled because of the Bobo Camp meeting. The annual conference of the church is continuing at Rockford, Ohio Camp ground through Sunday, Aug. 18. PLEASANT MILLS BAPTIST 9:30 a.m. — Sunday School. Lowell NoU, S. S. Supt. This is the vacation attendance slump. Let’s be faithful. Read I and II Thessalalonians. ST. PAUL MISSIONARY (2 miles east and 2 miles North of Monroe) Robert R. Welch, pastor 9:15 — Morning Worship. 10:15 — Sunday School. Wednesday 7:30 — Prayer and Bible Study. 7:30 M.Y.F. and Children’s Bible Hour. UNION CHAPEL EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN Kenneth P. Angle, pastor Tom Gaunt, S. S. Supt. Devotions for children and adults 9:00 a.m. Bible study for all — 9:10 a.m. Lesson Theme — “The Test of Faith” Divine Worship — 10:00 a.m. Special — “Men’s Chorus.” Sermon — By Dr. Walter King of Fort Wayne. Family Worship Hour — 1:30 p.m. Sermon — By Walter King. Bring the family to all of these services. Let us all come and hear this man of God. Monday Service Camp begins at Lakewood. Wednesday Mid-week Services at the church — 7:30 p.m. There will be no Children’s services. f Future Events • Saturday, Aug. 31 — O. Y. A. Retreat begins. Labor Day Sunday, September Ist. Pastor and youth will go to Lakewood for a planning Retreat. They wood for a planning Retreat. They Tuesday, September 3 — is the local Concerence. Thursday, September 5, is the! Training Session at our Church in Craigville. Monday, September 9, is the Minister’s Seminar at Richmond State Hospital. September 17, 18, is the Minister’s Wives retreat at Oakwood. Thought for the week — “Those who stand for nothing easily fall for anything.” WREN CIRCUIT E.U.B. A. N. Straley, pastor BETHEL 9:30 a.m. — Sunday School. 10:30 a.m. — Prayer Service. 8:00 pm — Evening Worship Sermon:—“The Word of Christ.” WOOD CHAPEL 9:30 a.m. — Sunday School. 10:30 a.m. — Morning Worship. Sermon: “The Word of Christ” Thursday Bethel — 8:00 p.m. Prayer meeting. Wood Chapel — 8:30 p.m. Prayer meeting and youth fellowship I St. Paul Lutheran Preble * Norman H. ‘Kuck, pastor Early service 8:15 a.m. Sunday school, Bible class 9:15 a.m. Late Service 10 a.m. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

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THE BOOK FOR THIS HOUR Rev. James R. Meadows No crisis has ever yet appeared when the Bible was not ready with a message of light to show the way out. One of the greatest proofs of the divine inspiration of the Bible is its remarkable fitness to the varied conditions, in which man finds himself. The Bible is equal to every occasion. It brings to man the help and light he needs when the way is dark. We would expect this, of course, from the divine Author of the Book. Within this deathless Book shines the eternal light of hope to cheer and guide the soul of man. “The Bible,” writes the able editor of “Everyland,” “shines with a fresh radiance when the hour is dark. It comes to its own when the need is greatest; and we are turning to it with a new eagerness in these days of confusion. If we have always loved and treasurede the Bible, we now love and treasure it more than ever. It bids us be of good cheer in a world of conflict and destruction. In the blackness of the night it declares, ‘The morning cometh’.” It is the Book of comfort. The Bible is the Book for this hour because it is the supreme source of comfort. Time may mitigate a sorrow, the distractions of the world may help us forget, friends may cheer and support, but only God can comfort the hidden agony. And “the God of all comfort” speaks best to the. heart through the comforting messages of the Bible. It has ever been so, and millions today would gladly testify to the

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preciousness of the comfort found in the Book of books. How strange it is that so many millions of men and women in these serious days are neglecting the Book that contains not only the very help they daily need for their individual souls, but also the problems of interest to us all. If men would turn to the Bible in this hour, open its pages and read them with a desire to learn and practice the true “way of life”, as given by the Lord in His wonderful teachings, there would quickly come the revival of moral vigor and spiritual vitality that is so greatly needed in these days of doubt and uncertainty. Blessed are they who seek light and comfort and hope in the Bible, for they shall find it. THIS WEEK’S BIBLE VERSE “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee.”—Psalms 119:11.

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