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14 tofe.lt, Double Miracle Dallas Cowboy offensive coordinator Dan Reeves and Dallas businesswoman Mary C. Crowley will speak March 6 as a part of Double Miracle Day activities at the First Baptist Church, 207 Church St. Reeves was a Cowboy running back for seven seasons (1965-71) and, despite a series of knee injuries, rose to the fifth spot among all-time Dallas rushing leaders. He signed with the Cowboys as a free agent in 1965, and recently turned down the head coaching job for the Atlanta Falcons to remain with the Cowboys, where he is the new offensive coordinator. He is also an assistant coach, along with Paris native Gene Stallings.

Reeves, a native of Rome, quarterbacked the University of South Carolina for three years and was recently inducted into the Gamecocks Hall of Fame. Mary C. Crowley is president of Home Interiors and Gifts, a dollar-a-year corporation. During 25 years with this business, Mrs. Crowley has counseled and trained thousands of women across the nation.

As her own company enters its twentieth year of business, she supervises over 15,000 women throughout the United States. In May, 1975, she became the first woman to be named to the Direct Selling Association Hall of Fame, the industry's highest honor reserved for those executives who have significantly advanced the personal selling system of retailing. She is also the first woman to serve on the Board of Directors of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and for 20 years she has taught an adult Sunday School class at the First Baptist Church in Dallas. Mrs. Crowley is the author of three books, her latest entitled "Think Mink." Every year during the Christmas season, she allows her Dallas employes to go on a supermarket shopping spree, and she picks up the tab.

This year she has given $750,000 to the First Baptist Church in Dallas for the construction of a new complex to be called the Mary C. Building. Double Miracle Day is an annual event at First Baptist Church in Paris, with as many as 2400 persons in attendance. This year, a men's rally will be conducted under a large tent erected on a church parking lot; the women's rally will be held in the main auditorium; and World Yo-Yo Champion, "Bunny" Martin, will lead the children's rally in the fellowship hall. A special youth rally will begin at 9:45 a.m.

in the old high school gym indowntown Paris and will feature Miss Teenage America, Becky Reid, and Dan Reeves, high school gym in downtown Paris and will feature Miss Teen-age America, is March 6 Becky Reid, Reeves. and Dan special music for the occasion. The 150-member Howard The pastor, Dr. James Payne University Marching Semple, welcomes everyone Band and Choir will furnish to attend. Church Church reorganizations: more efficient, or not? NEW YORK (AP) Massive reorganizations of the national bureaucracies of major Protestant denominations during the last decade have done little to improve economy or efficiency, a new study concludes.

It says the vast overhauling jobs have changed the operational style but haven't necessarily made it better. "The desire for par- Study begins Sunday at Calvary Methodist DANHEEVES Dallas Cowboys MARY C. CROWLEY businesswoman Lenten services for the community begin Feb. 23 Church events Community Lenten services will begin at First United Methodist Church, 322 Lamar, on Feb. 23, Ash Wednesday, p.m., and continue on each Wednesday until Easter.

The Lamar County Ministerial Association will sponsor the event in the sanctuary, with the time planned so working people may attend. Different ministers will give the devotion or meditation each week, using "The Last Words of Christ." The brief service will include special music, hymns, prayer and meditation. To call attention to the community-wide services, three ministers will speak on the morning program "Inside Paris," over KPLT radio station, at 9:10 a.m. Wednesday. Jeff Methven and Sarah Smith will moderate the panel which will include the Rev.

Tom Pantle, rector of Holy Cross Episcopal Church; the Rev. Sam Metzgar, of Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church; and the Rev. Gary Regan, minister of First United Methodist Church. Mr. Regan is president of the ministerial association.

Beginning at 6 p.m. Sunday, members of Calvary United Methodist Church, 3105 Lamar, will begin a seven-lesson study, "The Light Overcomes Darkness." These lessons are meant to give new insight into the sacrifice and renewed faith of the Lenten season. Evening worship will follow the lesson at 7 p.m. Other regular Sunday activities include Sunday School at 9:45 a.m.; morning worship at 10:55 a.m.; Youth and Children's choirs at 4:30 p.m.; and United Methodist Youth meetings at 6 p.m. following a snack supper The regular monthly worship service at Pleasant Grove Nursing Home will be conducted by the Joy Class of Calvary at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 22. Thirty minute Lenten devotions will be held in the chapel of the church beginning Thursday, Feb. 24, at 9:30 a.m. and continuing each Thursday through April 7.

The devotionals will also be held at 5:30 p.m. on the same dates. The half-hour period will consist of a Lenten reading for the group as well as suggested Bible reading. There will also be a time for individual reading, prayer and meditation. Mrs.

Glynn Vickers, chairperson of Christian Personhood of the United Methodist Women, is organizing the devotions. The pastor, the Rev. Glynn Vickers, invites the public to attend all services and activities of the church. ticipatory and collegia! style has resulted in some agencies placing a disproportionate emphasis on the manner of doing the work rather than on what actually is accomplished," the analysis says. The study, financed by a' research grant from the United Methodist General Council on Ministries, focused on five denominations, including: The American Baptist Churches, the Episcopal Church, the United Presbyterian Church, the Presbyterian Church U.S.

(Southern) and the United Methodist Church. They are among 12 major religious organizations that have undergone extensive "restructuring" since 1968 involving dismantling their national machinery and reassembling it in different ways. Generally in the process, multiplicities of various, separate agencies were consolidated into umbrella departments, seeking more closely linked controls and coordination with regional units. Staffs were cut and budgets pared in the face of a declining share of church income relayed by local- regional bodies to national offices. However, the book-length study, called, "What New Creation?" published by the Methodist Abingdon press, says that the effort for broader distribution of power threatens competition for funds between national and regional units.

"Power in; the bureaucracy is related to money," the study says, predicting that "conflicts between agencies will be intense in a period of declining income." The authors are two faculty members of Duke University Divinity School, the Rev. Dr. Paul A. Mickey, associate professor of pastoral theology, and the Rev. Dr.

Robert L. Wilson, research professor of church and society. They say that one result of restructuring has been the combination of agencies into fewer and larger departments, creating "super- boards" that make internal communications difficult and lines of accountability unclear. The study is sharply critical of the use of "quotas" to obtain a better balance of minorities and women in the national church agencies. "Priority has been given to having the desired representation," the authors write.

"Competence was to become at least temporarily a secondary requirement. Thus, the goal has been to find a person who first would fill the desired quota, not the most competent one." The Bob Binion Family of McKinney will present a "Gospel In Song" concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23, at the Bonham Street Church of God, 1400 Bonham St. The pastor, the Rev.

George Broome, invites the public to attend. The Born Again Gospel Singers of Dallas will be at the Blossom Church of the Nazarene for the Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. and the morning church service at 10:45 a.m. this Sunday. The pastor, the Rev.

Holloway, invites everyone to attend. The North Lamar Larger United Methodist Parish has announced the schedule for this week. The Rev. D. Presley Hutchens will be at Mt.

Tabor-Sumner at 9:45 a.m. and at Belk at 11 a.m. The Rev. Kenneth Summy will be at Chicota at 9:45 a.m. and at First United Methodist in Powderly at 11 a.m.

A theatre party has been set for Saturday afternoon for the elementary school age children of the parish. The Chicota church will have its family night dinner and fellowship at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at thechurch. At 3 p.m. Sunday at Belk, the Committee on Aging of the Belk and Mt.

Tabor- Sumner churches will meet. There will be a Local Church Conference at Chicota at 4 p.m. Sunday. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb.

23, the United Methodist Women will meet at the Belk church for the annual observance of The Call to Prayer and Self-Denial. About one and one-half million women in 35,000 local units in all 50 states join in this observance each year. The call, inspired by special mission needs, focuses on prayer, a deepened spiritual life, and a guided mission study. Last year's observance offerings of United Methodist Women totaled approximately $714,000, which was used for mission programs in the United States and overseas. Mrs.

Joel B. Hughes will lead this observance. All women of the parish are invited to attend. Open Daily Thurs. Til 9 p.m.

All Levels FGBMF sets Saturday meet The Biblical story of Noah and the flood which covered the earth will be told by a Bible teacher, using theatrical makeup and sets, this Saturday at the meeting of the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship. A buffet will be served at 6:15 p.m. at the Paris Ramada Inn, followed by the meeting at? p.m. The public is invited to attend-. MEW'S DEPT Jeans, Reg.

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Gary Regan, minister, has announced that the Rev. Robert Young, pastor of First United Methodist Church in Grand Prairie, will speak at the revival services, which will be at 7 p.m. each evening, and morning breakfast services beginning at 7 a.m. daily in fellowship hall of the church. Jack Banner, chairman of the commission on evangelism, says special committees are being formed to help with the annual revival services which will be open to the people of the community.

Spiritual emphasis must underlie education NASHVILLE, Term. (AP) A spiritual emphasis must underlie education at church-related colleges, says United Methodist Bishop Earl G. Hunt Jr. of Nashville. He told higher education leaders at a meeting here that Christian colleges can survive only by "unashamed involvement with the Christian message and its capacity to bring into the total educational experience a priceless additional ingredient not to be found anywhere else." Final Clearance BOYS LONG SLEEVE KNIT SHIRTS Solids, stripes and fancies.

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