Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-09-14
CHURCH WORKERS
TO HAVE MEETING
DAVIS COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION PROGRAM IS
OUT; MEETS NEXT WEEK.

The Davis county Sunday school
convention, which opens in Bloom.
filed Thursday, September Fl, continu'
ing for two days, will attract number
of church workers from various parts
of the state. Ottumwa will be repre-.
scented on the program, DR.. w. B. La
Force being one of the speakers. The
| Bloomfield convention takes place the
day following the close of the Wapel.
| 10 county meeting here. The sessions
will be held in the Baptist church ex-
cept on Friday evening when the
Christian church will be used. The
program follows:
First Afternoon, September 81.
2:OO-Registration All persons are
requested to register.
2:20-Scripture reading and conven-
ton prayer, Rev. H, G. Duckett, Bloom
field.
2:3o-The Standard School, w. D..
Stem Des Moines. T.
3:O0-The Superintendent Elk
change, r. w. Anderson, Pulaski.
3:30-The Pastors Place in the
Modern Sunday School, Rev. G. E.
Won Hagen, Bloomfield.
(a) Recommendation. (b) Nomina.
ton. (c) Business. (d) Press. An.
nouncements. Assignment of dele
gates. Meeting of committee with
state worker, w. D. Stem.
First Evening Session.
7:30-Song service, led by Miss
Mary Barickman, Bloomfield.
:0O-Address, The Call to Ser
vice, w. D. Stem, Des Moines. Offer
ing for county and state work.
8:3O--Address, Holding the Older
Boys, Rev. Harold E. Ford, Des Moines.
Second Morning Session.
-. Special Session.
9:0O-(a) Meeting of all committees
with Mr.. Stem. 90 Workers prayer
service, led by district officer.
Regular Session.
$3.50 Cradle roll (a) Organiza.
ton. (b) Equipment. (c) Manage
ment. Mrs. A. j. Hartzler, Pulaski.
1000 Home department. (a) Or.
ganization. (b) Equipment. (c) Man.
agement, Mrs Ed Cox, Bloomfield.
1920 -(a) Organizing and grading
the school, (b) Introduction and use
of graded lessons, E. z. Morrow,
Bloomfield.
HOO Association hour conducted
by W. D. Stem, Des Moines. (a) Pur.
pose, scope and needs of the county
90 minutes) by county
president (b) l minute written re-
ports by division superintendents (c)
secretary-treasurer's report, using the
ports of committees: (a) recommended
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The standard county, Mr. Stem.
Second Afternoon Session.
LAS Scripture reading, st. Luke
24-49. Acts 1853. Rev. A. c.. Niblack.
Floris, Iowa.
200 - Future leadership in the !
church and Sunday school. (a) re-
quirements., (b) How and where |
trained, Rev. Geo. E. Purdy, Bloom
field.
2:3O - The Workers conference
When? For whom? by Elmer P.
SCHNEIDER, Pulaski.
300 - Missionary instruction and
systematic giving, Rev. G. R. Young.
$3.50 - Address and conference, w.
D. Stem, general secretary.
400 Meeting Of the newly elected
officers with Mr.. Stem.
Second Evening Session.
1870 Song service, led by Miss
Blanche Noble, Bloomfield. Prayer
for special fitness for the work.
500 - Address: "The Importance
of Sunday School work." DR.. w. B.
LaForce, Ottumwa Offering for the
county and state work. Address: 1.-THE
Business of the Sunday school,"sW. D.
Stem, Des Moines.
"The End Of the convention is the
Of effort"
The fifty-second annual state con-
vention at Council Bluffs, June, 1917.