Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-06-23
Count 5 unday
s lool Convention
Count.
Will Be at Stony Fork Baptist
Chur aturday and Sunday,
July and 3


School Association, all indications !,
point to record breaking attendance
at the annual convention which is to
be held on Saturday and Sunday,
July 8 and 3. The convention will be
held with the Baptist church on Stony
Fork. The opening session will be |
held at o'clock Saturday night.
The officers in charge of the plans
and program for the convention have
announced that the program has been
prepared with the idea of having "a
convention for the discussion of prac-
tical Sunday School plans and prob
lems,' the plan being to have some
thing in the convention that will
help workers in all departments of
the Sunday school.
Among the prominent speakers on
the program will be Mr.. D. w. Sims,
Raleigh, general superintendent of
the North Carolina Sunday School
Association, and Mr.. w. j. Vaughan,
of Ashland, KY, former field secre-
tary of the Kentucky Sunday School
Association. During the convention
these workers will discuss various
phases of Sunday school work.
As has been previously announced,
a pennant will be presented to the
Sunday school having in the conven-
tion the largest number of represen-
tatives, sixteen years of age and
over, according to the number of
miles travelled from particular
church to the church with which the
convention is held. The contest is
open to all Sunday schools in the
county, except the Sunday school at
which the convention is held, and 9TH
ers within one mile. The pennant
will be presented at the close of the
session on Sunday afternoon.
The full program for the conven-
tion is as follows:
Sunday Night, July
S:00-Devotional, E. n. Hahn.
0:15-Suggestions to Sunday
School Workers, D. w. Sims.
5:45-Song.
Record of attendance.
S:55-The Sunday School That
+ Measures Up, W. J. Vaughan.
9:25-Announcements.
O.0O Adio,,r,, ..
Sunday Morning, July 3
10:30-Devotional, E. n. Hahn.
10:45-The Organized Adult Glass
Movement, W. j. Vaughan.
11:15-Business session.: Reports
of county and township officers; ap-
pointment of committees; record of
attendance.
:35-Our Expanding Program,
D. w. Sims.
12:10-Offering for support of
county and state Sunday school asso-
Citations.
II 12:25-Announcements.
12:30-Adjourn.
Dinner at the church. Everybody
come and bring basket
Sunday Afternoon
2:00-Devotional, j. B. Steele.
2:10-The Home and the Sunday
School Working Together, Prof. j. D.
Rankin.
2:3O-The Little Sunday School in
the Country, W. j. Vaughan.
3:00-Song.
3:O5-The Workers Council at
Work, D. w. Sims.
3:35-Discussion and questions.
Opportunity for the presentation and
discussion of special Sunday school
problems.
3:50-Business session: Reports of
committees and election of officers;
place of next meeting; presentation
Of attendance pennant.
4:00-Adjourn.
Sunday Night
S:00-Devotional. E. n. Hahn.
S::15-Plans for Increasing At
tendance, D. W. Sims
S:45-Song.
S:55-The Invested Life, w. J.
Vaughan.
9:30-Adjourn
At the close of the session on Sun
day afternoon a felt pennant, Is by
SO inches, will be presented to the
Sunday school which has had in the
convention the largest number of
representatives, 16 years of age and
over, according to the number of
miles travelled.
History of State Organization
Delow are given some interesting
facts relative to the growth and work
of the North Carolina Sunday School
association as given out by the state
organization, of which j. B. Ivey, of
Charlotte, is president:
A county convention with an aver
600 o++ondopoa Of 011 waS hold in