Evening star., 1942-06-13
Church Council Hears
Address by Pastor
From Richmond
DR.. CorrolI c. Roberts,
President, Announces
Committee Lists

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Committee Lists
An address by the Rev DR.. F. w.
Burnham of Richmond, Va, and a
short business session last night
marked a mass meeting of the
Christian Church Council of the
Metropolitan Washington Area in
the Vermont Avenue Social Hall of
the National City Christian Church.
The council, organized in July,
l94l, is composed of five representa-
tives from each of l9 Disciples of
Christ churches in the Metropolitan
Area A feature Of the meeting was
announcement of important coun-
Gil committees by the Rev. Dr. Car
roll c. Roberts, pastor of the Ninth
Street Christian Church and coun-
Gil president.
DR.. Burnham. pastor OF the
Seventh Street Christian Church in
Richmond, stressed the need of per-
sons taking an active part in church
work and asserted that the United
States. after victory, must play an
important part in establishment OF
freedom and justice for the people
of the world.
Rev. j. Lloyd Black Gives Report.
The Rev. j. Lloyd Black. director
of the council, made a general re-
port on the councils work.
During a pause in the council
session. the Disciples Missionary
Union held short business meet
ing at which it voted to dissolve and
consolidate its work with that OF
the council. The union meeting was
presided over by the Rev. j. Virgil
Lilly. vice president.
The program of the council meet
Ing included singing by the Mount
Rainier Girls Double Trio and by
the Ninth Street Christian Church
Vesper Choir. A motion picture of
council activities was shown by
Robert Middleton. The Rev. DR..
w. H. Pinkerton said the opening
PRAYER.
Committee appointments. an
nounced by the Rev. Roberts re-
Gently. were made by the councils
Executive Committee. The depart
ments, committee members and
churches they represent are as fol-
lows:
Department of the ministry-The
Rev Carroll c. Roberts, Ninth Street
Christian Church, chairman, the
Rev George NJ. Anderson. Park View
Christian Church; the Rev. Ira P.
Harbaugh, Wilson Boulevard; Simon
McKimmie, Park View. and Arthur
Ridgeway, Columbia Heights.
Department of local church life
Elton H. Brown, Mount Rainier
Christian Church, chairman; A. l..
Williams. Wilson Boulevard; Mrs.
Jean Graves, Fifteenth Street: the
Rev. Ralph Frame. Alexandria; Mrs.
Myrtle Williams, Columbia Heights:
Mai. Guy Withers, National City.
and Miss Gladys Thrift, Third
Church.
EFangeHSm Unlt Nameu.
Department of vangelism-The
Rev. Leslie L. Bowers, Fifteenth
Street Christian Church. chairman;
James M. Pickens. National City;
w w. Kirby, Ninth Street; DR.. Ken
meth Hunter, Columbia Heights;
Carl Nordeen. Mount Rainier; the
Rev. j. Warren Hastings. National
City. and the Rev. Allen Doyle,
Landover.
Department of Missions-Mrs. H.
B. Douglas, Ninth Street, chairman;
Mrs. Fannie Foster, National City;
J. F. Sidell. Takoma Park; the Rev.
J. Virgil Lilly, Rockville; Mrs. Alice
Kirk. Cheverly; Miss Sylvia Arnold,
Suitland, and w. E. Coils, Park
View.
Department of Christian Educa-
tion-The Rev. Ivan H. Dugan. Ma
tional City chairman: the Rev. Err
nest R. Bryan, Takoma Park; Ben
Barger, National City; Mrs Ronald
Magee, Columbia Heights; S. F.
Schrout, jr., Wilson Boulevard: w.
H. Hill. Columbia Heights; the Rev.
Berwyn Jones, Pershing Drive: Mrs.
Fred Norris. Ninth Street. and Miss
Lois Ballard, Takoma Park.
Department of Promotion-George
Targett, Mount Rainier. chairman;
Kenneth Buker, Cheverly: Guy L.
Carter, Rockville; Robert Middleton,
Ninth Street: j. L. Harrison. Straus,
and o. F. Sherwood. Antioch.
Department of Finance-A. G.
Bishop, Ninth Street, chairman;
James Gongwer, National City; o. L.
Beardsley. Park View; r. T. Roberts.
Straus; Maynard Eicher. Columbia
Heights: L..C. Scates, Third. and
Eric Lanaecke, Fifteenth Street.
Department of Service-Mrs. w.
w. SWEET, Takoma Park, chairman;
c. H. Frick, Mount Rainier: Mrs.
Roberta Gravatt, Ninth Street; Mrs.
o. B. Atwood, National City; r. L.
Whittenberg, Straus: William G.
Dram. Bethesda, and Wayne Bobst,
Columbia Heights Church.