Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1963-04-11

cooperative church groups.
Among major Easter Sunrise
rites will be those of the Prot
estant churches of the Greater
Wheaton area on the lawn of
the Parklawn Cemetery Man.
sion at 6 am; the National
Naval Medical Center in COOP
Grafton with the Bethesda Coun-
Gil of Churches in the Stone
Lake recreation area of the
medical center at $50 am. and
the East Montgomery County
Council of Churches at Green
wood, near Brookeville, at 5:35
am.
Speaker for the Parklawn
service will be Col. Wallace M.
Hale, Second Army chaplain at
Fort Meade. Sponsored by II
congregations and their minis
tiers as a community endeavof,
the rites also will feature music
by the Newport Junior High
School choir.
DR.. Russell Cartwright Stroup,
pastor of the Georgetown Pres
byterian Church, will deliver
the message at the Naval Medi-
cal Center. Music will be pro-
vided by the US. Navy Band,
the Protestant choir of the
Medical Center and a choral
ensemble from the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School a
capella choir.
The Greenwood site of the East
Montgomery Council observance
is an open air religious tract
owned by the Council and sit
uated about two miles north OF
Olney. Services there will be
conducted as interdenomina.
tional and interracial rites.
Many Montgomery County
residents will participate in the
sunrise service to be provided
by the Walter Reed Army Medi-
cal Center in its Formal Gar
dens at 6:45 am. Guest speaker
will be Maj. Gen. Charles E.
Brown Jr., Army Chief of
Chaplains.
Among participants in the
program will be 1t. Col. Charles
A. Goss, Silver Spring chaplain
who will read the Easter Gospel
and Prayer, and Maj. Richard
E. Hager, a chaplain also resid-
ing in Silver Spring, who will
offer the benediction.
In Rockville, bible classes OF
several local churches will spon-
sor sunrise service at Z am.
at the city's Civic Center, where
the speaker will be Gilman L.
Graves Jr., lay leader of the
Rockville Methodist Church.
Sunrise rites also have been
scheduled by Congressional
Heights Baptist Church on the
hillside adjacent to the church
building at $50 am. The serv-
ice will be led by the Rev. Ken
meth J. joiner, pastor.
Easter Sunday will mark the
first communion service to be
held by the new Epiphany
Lutheran Church of Burtons-
vile, which has been meeting
in the Falkland Elementary
School since its formation in
January. The communion will
feature the regular II am. pro-
gram, at which the sermon will
be delivered by the pastor, the
Rev. Eugene r. Alexander.
An early worship service will
be held at $50 am. at Faith
United Church in Rockville, to
be followed by an Easter break
fast for the congregation. Holy
communion will be held at $3.50,
followed by the regular II am.
service, at which a reception will
be featured for new members.
At the Georgia Ave. Baptist
Church in Silver Spring, the
regular IL am. service on Easter
Sunday will bring to a weekly
revival program which started
Monday night under the direc-
ton of Charles Howard, nation
ally prominent revivalist.
The First Baptist Church in
Rockville has scheduled four
Easter services, one more than
usual due to the large number
of members who usually turn
out for the rites. The services
will be held at 8:45, IL am. and
1870 pm.
At Georgia Avenue Christian
Church in Wheaton, the II am;
Easter service will feature the
conclusion of the liturgical pres
entation, queen Queritis,"