Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1957-02-28
Plan Six
Services


On Friday, March 9th, church
women from all over Geauga
County will join with thousands
of women around the world in
the observance of the World
Day of Prayer. This will be
the first countrywide observance
of this great day, one of the
three sponsored each year by
the Dept Of United Church
Women of the National Council
Of the Churches of Christ.
Under the leadership of Mrs.
F.E. DoWner of Chesterland.
General Chairman, and her
committee, arrangements have
been completed for six services
to be held ie the county in the
hope that many women may
find it possible to attend some
one Of them and so share in
this world wide observance
Services will be held at 1:3O
pm. in the FoWler's Mills Com
munity Church, the Newbury
Community Church, The Thomp-
son Methodist Church and the
Claridon Congregational Church:
at 2 pm. in the Chardon AS
sembly Of God Church and at
8 pm. in the Middlefield Meth
odist Church
This will be the list observ-
ance of the World Day of
Prayer. On this day, Christian
women around the world ioin
in tbs same service of prayer
and praise Each year the SER
vice comes from a different
country. The 1857 service was
written by Mrs. Serena VaSsady,
formerly of Hungary, and comes
from her experiences behind
the iron curtain. The observance
Of the day begins as dawn
breaks over the Tonga Islands
in the far east Pacific and
ends as the closing strains or
the last hymn die away on st.
Lawrence Island in the Bering
Sea, the last outpost of the
west.
The day carries on through
the year through the offerings
presented, which are divided be-
tween the Foreign and Home
Missions of the National Coun-
Gil Of Churches to support inter-
denominational projects in var
ious parts of the world. Here
in the United States World
Day of Prayer offerings help
to train leaders and provide
srrviceS for our Indian-Ameri-
cans in schools and hospitals,
and make possible day care and
makeup schools for children,
and education, wholesome rec
reation and religious experience
for adults in low-income farm
ing communities and agricult-
ural migrants. Abroad, the Of
fering helps to support Christian
Colleges in Asia and Africa
provides scholarships for potent
ial leaders, leadership training
courses in Home and Family
Life, to mention just a few.
This year a special appeal is
made for funds for a pilot
project school for village child
rem in w. PakiStan ten are
needed where 80 per cent of
the population is illiterate, and
for medical equipment and sup
plies for a small hospital started
by two courageous Christian
women, the only hospital open
to poverty stricken people of
every class in Rangoon, Burma,
Every women in Geauga
County is invited to join in this
world wide observance and
through her offering to share
with Christian women all around
the world in helping to meet
the needs Of men, women and
children in various parts Of the
world. Any one who is unable
to attend any of these World
Day of Prayer services and
wishes to share in them, may
do so by sending her offering
to Mrs. F.E. Downer of Chester
land, or to any one of the six
district chairmen:
Mrs. John Lausin, Thompson,
Ohio; Mrs. AID. Price, Chardon,
Ohio; Mrs. Marshall Bigler,
HuntSburg, RID, Ohio: Mrs.
William Weber, Middlefield,
Ohio; Mrs. Leonard Miller,
Chardon, RID, Ohio; Mrs. C.
A. Ramsey, Newbury, Ohio.