Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-02-27
RELIGIOUS Affairs
observance
OF Lent Is
Under Way
BY Kol5o Wittcnburg
Church Editor

Nnurch t0itOr
Lenten services are being held
in area churches and are SEIZED.
uied to continue through Holy
Week in early April.
Jesus Commands Us To Love"
viii be the theme Of the service
at Crusader Lutheran Church,
Rockville. at 8 Pm. next Wed.
nesday. The Rev. Howard A.
Wilson is conducting the series Of
Crusaders informal Lenten pro
grams held in the form of dis.
cussions. On March II Jesus
Stands Trial will be discussed
and will be followed by Jesus
Chooses Death" and Jesus Suf-
fers and Dies On Maundy
Thursday, April 8, Holy Com
munion will be administered, with
a sermon based on Jesus Gives
His Body and His Blood"
The Episcopal Ascension Chap.
ell Of Gaithersburg Is celebrating
Holy Communion every Wednes-
day morning at 1920 during the
Lenten season and on Wednesday
evenings at 8.
st. Bartholomew Episcopal
Church in Laytonsville is hold
ing special services on Fridays
at s PM. The Rev. Harry Dali.
zelle Of Gaithersburg is minister
of the Ascension Chapel and st.
Bartholomew.
Informal Lenten services are
being held on Wednesdays at 8
Pm. at the Grace Methodist
Church in Gaithersburg. Special
music is rendered by the choir
each week. On Holy Week the
members of Grace will hold a
service with Epworth Methodist
Church, with the Rev. Henry J.
Muller of Grace delivering the
message.
Lenten services at Rockville
Christian Church, 100 S. Adams.
win begin March 9, with ser.
mon by a guest speaker.
The Rev. Carroll Boyer of Fred
erick is scheduled to speak at
the annual Easter Sunrise Serv-
ice on Easter at Sugar Loaf
Mountain on April 6. at 6 O'clock.
Approximately 1000 persons OF
all denominations attended the
1857 service.
The second anniversary of the
TwinbroOlx Baptist Chapel, Rock.
vile, will be observed at this
Sundays worship service at IL
AM The minister, the Rev. John
w. Laney, will speak on -Four
Dreams for Our Church." con-
GLIDING the service with the OBJ
servance of the Lords Supper.
Everett Brown of the Bethesda
First Baptist Church viii be the
guest soloist. The church group
is meeting temporarily in the
Edwin Broome Junior High
School at Twinbrook Parkway at
Marshall Avenue.
The Rev. James p. Kerr OF
B0yds Presbyterian Church and
the Rev. and Mrs. Albert LEM
of NeeIsyille Church win return
tomorrow from a conference for
Presbyterian ministers in VIII
mington, Del. While at the con.
ference. the three are guests of
the Rev. and Mrs. John Wells,
former minister of the barnes.
town Presbyterian Church. now
minister in Claremont.
A program of sacred music will
be presented Sunday evening at
8 by the choir of Christ Episcopal
Church at 100 S. Washington
Street, Rockville. The choir will
be assisted by string orchestra
and four soloists. Jane Sheppard,
soprano, Of West Chester, Pa;
Ruth Pitts. alto, and Earle
Thompson, bass, of Washington,
and John Allnutt, tenor, Of Rock.
vile. The program, directed by
John E.. Preston. organist and
choirmaster of Christ Church,
is being given In memory of the
late Madeleine Davis of Christ
Church.
The Rockville Christian Church
will hold its first Family Night
program tonight at 8 with
Japan" as its theme. Youngest
Brother" a color sound movie,
will be shown Mrs. Jean Cooper
of Bethesda is program chair.
man.