The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-23
WORLD DAY OF
 PRAYER SET FOR
 FRIDAY, MARCH 1

i lenlallNe pldilo lOA tAAS OpoS- vance of World Day of Prayer in Juneau on Friday, March 1, were made by various women represent i ing. the Protestant churches on
 February Is, when they were en- tertained by Mrs. c. E. Warfield
 at a dessert luncheon at the so-
 oial rooms of the Northern Light
 Presbyterian Church This annual
 observance is held the first Fri day in Lent and is worldwide in scope. Juneau churches have par ticirated since 1941. Local officers fer the United Council of Church Wcmen are Mrs. c. '. Warfield, president; Mrs. Edward P. Dick, vice president, and Mrs. Henry Lcege ss secretary treasurer, with Mrs. Madeline Sturm, assisting. It was decided that the events 1 include an organ concert, at noon, with a program at 2.30 followed by the business meeting and an [ evening worship service at 8 o'clock. Mrs Harvey Startling, pres { ident of the Martha Society of the Presbyterian Church, extends to all women an invitation to a tea to be held following the business
 meeting given by that organiza- ton.
 Mrs. Ralph Baker and Mrs. H. [ LoI enzen were appointed to make
 arrangements for the noon organ i concert. The exact place will be announced later. Mrs. Robert Wag-
 ner and Mrs. R. J. Sommers are | to date the posters and see that ] they are placed in the various churches.
 Publicity will be secured by a
 committee consisting of Mrs. M. O. ! Johnson, chairman, assisted by
 Mrs. c. H. Hillerman, Mrs. Willis
 Booth, and Mrs. Edward P. Dick.
 Mrs. John w. Griffin is chairman
 of the nominating committee with
 Mrs. F. J. Telecky and Mrs. Walter , Sobcleff as cc-workers. Mrs. H. l E. Beyer, chairman, Mrs. J. A. AL
 ter, Mrs. Robert Wagner, and Mrs.
 Anna May Anderson are planning
 the afternoon program. Mrs. Ralph
 Baker is in charge of music for
 the afternoon session.
 { The evening worship service will
 be planned by various committees : as follows: Mrs. Robert Treat, Mrs.
 Samuel McPhetres, Mrs. s. Johan-
 son, and Mrs F. J. TelCcky are to ! secure Junior Choir members to
 r5nGer a choir selection. All Jun
 icr Choir members of all churches l are extended an invitation to par | ticipate.
 : Mrs. Walter Soboleff volunteered i to secure members Of the Juneau
 Ministerial Association or other
 men willing to form a Ministers
 quartet to render special music for
 the evening. Mrs. Willis Booth, / Mrs. R. J. Sommers and Mrs. Har-
 vey Startling are in charge of
 slide lecture which will be used.
 Mrs. Edward P. Dick is chairman
 of the evening program, and Mrs. Harvey Starling, Mrs. Frank Maier
 and Mrs. Jake Cropley are her CO.,
 workers.
 1 It was decided to use the mater
 ial furnished by the United Coun- cil of Church Women, New York City, N. Y, which was prepared by Welthy Honsinger Fisher, chairman
 of the World Day of Prayer Com mittee. While she was in turbul- ent China during 1948 she sat down with numbers of groups of Chinese Christian women in diff ferent cities and talked with them of various things done by Christ an churches there, and especially of the growing strength of the World Day Of Prayer Chinese Christians have long been loath to accentuate their denominational differences; they are merely
 Christian Believers Contributions for the 194S program to be given
 by Dr. Doris Hsu, acting president of the Hwa Nan College of Foc- chow China; Mrs c. c. Chen, Dean of Women, Shanghai Univer- sity, and Mrs. Henry H. Lin, presi- dent of the National Y.W.C.A. in China, The final arrangement Of the material was prepared by the World Day of Prayer Committee, which is international, inter-de- |nominational and interracial.