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Ill tf'nrt I.Htiili-nliili' mill Siiii-Seiiliiu-I, SutiiriLiy, July 3, I'JTrt Channel 45 Expands Broadcast lime After Purchase By Indiana Evangelist UNITY CHURCH OF FT. LAUDERDALE Hie Friendly Church 1 1800 N.E. 6fh Court Phone 463-4359 R. James Heinecamp, Minister "THANK YOU GOD' Service! 9:30 1 11:00 HM. Sunday School Nursery 11:00 A.M.

DiaM-Prayer 467-3790 Drinkar'l Dial A Thought 462-3534 Radio Sunday 8:05 A.M. WFTL 14O0 son, 22-year-old Peter, is production manager of the Indianapolis TV station. A cardinal rule of programming will be that "anyone is as welcome as any other" on LeSea stations, Sumrall said, rather than favoring one denomination or theological slant. "But we won't let anyone fight on the air," he qualified. "Our stations won't become a platform for anyone to attack anyone else's church.

We threw two programs off the air in Indianapolis for that." Another rule is that churches and groups in the immediate area will be favored for program time. That still won't limit things much, since Channel 4S's signal reaches from West Palm Beach to the Florida Keys. memberships" similar to public broadcasting stations. The cash will go for equipment and expansion; fees from the programmers will pay only for the time they're actually on the air. The approach is similar to that of Trans World Radio, which used it to build a half-dozen superpowered transmitters around the globe but different in the effort to be entirely listener-supported, which didn't work for Channel 45's previous owners.

Sumrall said his own salary is paid out of the Christian Center Church of South Bend, another arm of LeSea. The church is pastored by Frank, 29, his oldest son. His "middle" son, Stephen, 25, will co-manage the new Channel 45 with himself, Sumrall said. The youngest OAKLAND PARK ASSEMBLY OF GOD PRESENTS THE HIGHER GROUND i. Lester SumralhPaid $400,000 Down.

CHuacH or ri uumsiuu til S.L 1 On. 14M-OMI mm i. num. misiu UNITARIAN 10 A.M. "INSIDE CUBA," rapael could Ml CHURCH SCHOOC SUMMER PROJECTS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF BOCA RATON 251 SW 4th Boca Raton Telephone: 395-6255 WORSHIP 10:00 A.M.

NURSERY PROVIDED REV. R. H. SIMONTON, MINISTER "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION?" By JIM DAVIS Religion Editor Chinne! 45, a Pembroke Park-j'lbusod religious television station, was purchased this week by an Indi-C, ana evangelist for $900,000. Taped programs of the Lester Sumrall Evangelistic Association began beaming from the station Thursday night, hours after Sumrall I handed a down payment to leaders of Florida Christian Broader casting Inc.

The station at 2.5 million watts the most powerful in South Florida I had limped along on six hours of j'daily air time since it opened April 0975, in what FCB President Tom Monroe called "We put everything into building j'the station itself," Monroe said this J' week, "and didn't have anything left over for expansion. Sumrall can start out supporting this station with pro-J'grams from his Indianapolis station. Under the umbrella of LeSea I-Sumrall's outfit operates WHMB-TV in Indianapolis and WHME-FM radio in South Bend, as well as produce 'films, videotapes and a magazine. also runs a Bible college, evan-gelistic crusades and childcare piomes. This is Sumrall's first broad-J-casting venture outside his home state, but he said he's looking at C'three or four others, including one pother in Florida.

He boasts that he fwill make Channel 45, renamed C'WHFT, "the finest station in Flori-fda." i Immediate plans call for gradu- ally lengthening daily air time to 3-12 using canned shows produced in Indianapolis. Sumrall, 63, also uses reruns of shows like "Leave It to and "Father Knows Best," II A.M. SERVICE IN TWO GREAT BICENTENNIAL SALUTES TO AMERICA 8:30 11:00 A.M. with PASTOR MILLER 7:00 P.M. PASTOR THOMAS YOUTH SAT eve FffOM llteoHw house donation Si Invitation to COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1331 Southwest 31st Avenue FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA 33312 Worship Services: 1 1 :00 A.M.

7:00 P.M. DAVID A. CHAPMAN, Minister If in what he called a "family gospel" formula. Meanwhile, he' will also start building a quarter-million-dollar production studio on an acre at the WHFT transmitter site. Local churches and other religious groups will be able to get on the air at what Sumrall calls "bargain prices" starting at $150 an hour.

(Production costs will be separate.) The evangelist plans to make his bow-in to area ministers at an $8-a-plate dinner 7:30 p.m. July 19 at the duPont Plaza Hotel in Miami. The dinner will also include entertainment by two soloists. Sumrall said the dinner will not be a fund-raiser and that he won't make a general appeal for some months. But he added that "so many churches have already asked for air time, I don't think we'll ever go into the red." The appeal is expected to take the form of "subscriptions" or "club EVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCH 1900 6 E.

2ND Pompano Baach COMMUNION SERVICE, JULY 4th Gunt MifiOMr, REV. MALLARD L. MARS TELLER A.M. Sunday School 11:00 A.M. Worship SERMON: "CHBISTO CENTRIC" WEDNESDAY.

JULY 7th 7:30 P.M. MIDWEEK BIBLE STUDY Joseph Scnarer, Minister George Poleoak, Min. of Music Michael Fox, Dir. of Christian Ed. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH of PLANTATION SPECIAL JULY 4 BICENTENNIAL WORSHIP SERVICE "GOD WITH US" featuring combined choirs of the First Presbyterian Church of Coral Springs and The Fort Lauderdale Christian Reformed Church with the First Presbyterian Church orchestra.

Directed by: Mr. David Naylor Accompanists: Mr. Merlin Oehrke Mrs. Esther Tan is Reader: Mr. John Corrigan Minister: Dr.

Renze DeGroot TWO SERVICES 4:00 P.M. First Presbyterian Church of Coral Springs 2251 Riverside Drive, Coral Springs 6:00 P.M. Ft. Lauderdale Christian Reformed Church 6400 N.W. 31st Ft, Lauderdale if'" l.M.aia)irg7-j COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (Presbyterian Church in America) 512 N.E.

26th Ft. Lauderdale SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:40 A.M. SUNDAY 11 A.M. "RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS A NATION" 7:00 P.M. "THE POWER OF SIN" WED.

7:30 P.M. PRAYER MEETING SUNDAY 9:30 A.M. CHURCH SCHOOL 11:00 A.M. SERVICE "THE GLORIOUS FOURTH" PASTOR SCHARER 7:00 P.M. "THE TRANSFORMING TOUCH" PASTOR SCHARER Nursery at all services PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND.

Nursery Daniel D. Sulc, Pastor Air Condittoned mSnaKOBall 201 S.W. 38th W. BROWARD BLVD. AND ROUTE 441 A- I INTER-FAITH FORT LAUDEMALE 0)lntt if loe TIIdUVUd I REV.

C. V. FORD, PASTOR PINEY GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH WILL LEAD PRAYER OF DEDICATION FATHER TIMOTHY M0FFATT.T.0.R. CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN BROWARD GENERAL, WILL READ NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURE RABBI HAROLD RICHTER, CHAPLAIN JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF BROWARD COUNTY WILL READ OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURE REV. DOUGLAS SCOTT, MINISTER OF MUSIC, FIRST BAPTIST, FT.

LAUDERDALE WILL DIRECT CHOIR AND LEAD HYMNS OF FAITH AND PATRIOTISM DR. W. M. HINSON, SENIOR MINISTER FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, FORT LAUDERDALE WILL SPEAK ON I "DAWNING OFTIIETIIIRD CENTURY" nil vl W. MR.

LAWRENCE DESSLER FT. LAUDERDALE JAYCEE PRESIDENT WILL OPEN OUR INTER-FAITH SUNRISE SERVICE Sponsored by Fort Lauderdale Jaycees and Broward Minute men 1.