Milford chronicle., 1950-08-04
Methodists Join In
Evangelistic Advance
Ceontinued from arst pnes1


Special evangelistic services will
be held simultaneously in each
Methodist Church while the pro-
gram of special visitation is being
carried on. This intensive program
of visitation and nightly evangelis-
tic services will be held in the Sal
isbury and EastOn Districts of the
Conference the week of September
"a, while the week of October Is
will be the period of intensive ac-
tivity in the Dover and Wilmington
Districts.
Preceding this period of vista
tiOn evangelism, each church will
have a series of special prayer SER
vices which will be held in the
churches and, in many instances, in
private homes.
On Saturday, September %, a
youth rally will be held in Cam
bridge, Md, which will be attend
ed by several thousand young peO-
pie from the EastOn and Salisbury
Districts.
On October IA, the rally and in
stitute will be held, likewise, for
the young Methodist people of the
Dover and Wilmington Districts at
the Field House in Dover. In each
of these special young peoples
meetings, the afternoon will be
devoted to discussion groups under
the leadership of well-known and
popular youth leaders. A banquet
will be held at six O'Clock in the
evening and following the banquet
an inspiratiOnal rally service will
be held at eight o'clock.
The concluding service for the
EastOn and Salisbury Districts will
be in the nature of a mass meet.
ing and will be held at Salisbury
Sunday afternoon, October l. The
mass meeting which will conclude
the entire program of services il
the Dover and Wilmington Dis
! tricts will be held in the ball parl
in Wilmington on Sunday afternoon
October %. 1t is planned to have
choir of two thousand people il
: the ball park representing tn
: choirs of the Methodist Churches.
/ Sunday, November 10, has beer
designated as the day of "in-gath
=. ering" when every one of the NOR
than four hundred Methods
4 Churches in the Peninsula Confer
ence will receive people into tn
membership of the church on "cOn
fessiOn of faith" from prepare
!. tory classes and also by transfe
! from Otbar churches
: The following have been electe
r to serve as chairmen of the val
j. ious committees. Committee NEE
ings will be held from time to tim
and further information will /
found in this newspaper. Execl
tive offices have been establishe
] at Union Methodist Church, Wasl
ington at Fifth street, WilmingtO
All requests for information shOu
) be addressed there.
l. Executive Committee: BishC
n Charles w. Flint, general chai
1t men; DR.. Hamilton P. Fox, exec
n tive chairman; Rev. Arthur
d Jackson, Easton-Salisbury chai
man; Rev. Thomas c. Mulliga
Wilmington chairman; Re
- Essell P. Thomas, assignme
+ chairman; DR.. John c. Trader, co
ference chairman of evangelism
Rev. Brooks E. Reynolds, eXecuti
secretary; Rev. Richard Greer
board of education; Rev. HOwa
Ellis, director of advance; Re
Harry L. Williams and Rev. Da'
son Bryan, visitation director
Rev. C. l.. Daugherty and Rev. +
nest Thomas, pulpit directors.
Conference Functional Commit
Chairmen: Prayer, Rev. A. B. Fry
local church, Rev. Joseph B. Die
ersOn; mass meeting, Rev. JO
Link; youth, Rev. George W. Coo
ley; publicity, Rev. George H. p
ueron, Jr.; housing, Rev. Jacob
Handy; finances, Rev. H. Kir
Krams; transportation, Rev. W
liam KesmOdel; radio and TV, r
Leslie E. Werner; assignment, Il
Preston Spence.