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MANATEE TIMES SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1977 3 Spiritual Life Crusade slated at West Bradenton Baptist Manete Time Suraau Born of missionary parents, hi in i mi a imiifujmna i. lih i I spent his boyhood days in Angola, West Africa where he witnessed the powers of the gospel among the A-Chokwe people. Later, as a result of a spiritual crisis, he yielded his life to God for the ministry. Following his theological training in England, he served as Army scripture reader in World War II and then as an itinerant evangelist on both sides of the Atlantic In 1953, he became minister of Duke Street Baptist Church in London where he stayed until he joined Calvary Baptist Church in New' York. He has written 18 booklets and nine books.

Crusade services will also be held at 7 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday. The church nursery will be open for all services. BRADENTON A four-day Spiritual Life Crusade will begin at 11 a.m. Sunday at the West Bradenton Baptist Church, 1304 43rd St W.

The crusade will be led by Dr. Stephen Olford, president of Encounter Ministries, a Christian organization committed to reaching the world and preaching the Word through radio, television, literature and lecture appearances. Olford was pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in New York City for 14 years. During this time his voice was heard over radio around the world on Calvary Church Hour and on the television program Encounter. In 1973 he relinquished the pastorate for a wider ministry in mass communication, leadership training.

Christian Life conventions and evangelistic crusades. STEPHEN OLFORD to lead crusade. Notestine with one of his watercolors. Art center schedules reception sermon Manatee TUttea Staff VVrher By REV. ROGER DUNNAVAN WeatmlnetT Unttad PreabyteraMi Church J.

Marcel Monteiro, Mrs. Edward S. Reid, Miss Evelyn M. Schwaretrauber and Ms. Jane Snow.

Opening the same afternoon in the member's gallery will be a one-man exhibit of paintings by Sarah Wilkinson. Both shows will run through April 8. The schedule for art demonstrations at the center is: Today Leona Sherwood, painting in acrylic and watercolor, "Flowers But Not an 'Arrangement' March 30 Elaine Hartley, painting in oil, "Posing the Model for the Best Likeness." April 2 Art center's fair, demonstrations at 10:30 a.m., ceramics; noon, bronze forging; 2 p.m., watercolor. April 6 Leona Sherwood, acrylic demonstration, "New Life for a Tired Painting." All demonstrations, except for those presented at the fair, start at 2 p.m. and are open to the public for a small charge.

For more information call 383-2345. LONGBOAT KEY A tea and reception open to the public will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Longboat Key Art Center to open a show of watercolors sponsored and circulated by the Hill Country Arts Foundation of Ingram, Texas. This collection has been acquired by Sid Ayles, exhibition chairman, from the open hill country of Central Texas. The foundation is a cultural and educational non-profit organization including arts and crafts, drama, music and dance.

This exhibit represents a cross-section of abstract and realistic watercolors produced under the sponsorship of the foundation. Works by the following painters will be included: Jean Baker Sandidge, Lavinia Schlabach, Marilynn Branham, Norbert Czarnowski and Tom Notestine. Mrs. C. B.

House heads the hostess committee and will be assisted by Mrs. R. W. Halbach, Mrs. Arthur Hess, Mrs.

News analyst to speak Manatee Times Corraa pondnt light, and a voice speaking, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" It was the Lord Jesus Christ confronting him. Later Saul was converted and became Paul. Saul the destroyer o( the Church, had become Paul, builder of the Church. PAUL COULD NEVER forget the wondrous forgiveness he had come to know through Christ in spite of the terrible things he had done to Christians in earlier days. It was the experience of forgiveness that motivated Martin Luther to begin his great movement in the church which led him to the Reformation.

And so it has been and continues to be that we are always in debt to God for his redeeming love in Jesus Christ our Savior. IN THE SECOND PLACE you and I are indebted to our heritage. For that we are always to be grateful. The time was when a genealogy was considered to be dull and uninteresting. People used to ask, "Why does the Gospel of Matthew have that long genealogy at its beginning? Of what possible interest is that?" The interest the author of Matthew had was to establish a lineage between Abraham, the Father of the Jewish nation, and Jesus Christ.

That he does in that genealogy. BUT TODAY there is a renewed interest in ancestry, or one's past, or "roots." The series called "Roots" based on the work of Alex Haley was tremendously popular in terms of number of people watching. The black people are intensely interested in knowing their heritage and are growing increasingly proud of it. Others in our rootless and mobile society are striving to know about their past. And that is good.

Because to know of our past is to help understand and appreciate our present time. ALL THAT WE HAVE and' are in modern civilization is the result of discoveries made in earliest times, upon which succeeding generations build. In fact, someone has gone so far as to say, that "there is no such thing as a new idea," because each idea grows out of a succeeding one. The Apostle Paul was one who was deeply aware of his past, even though he had in part rejected it to become an advocate for Jesus Christ. He was a man who was well-educated and yet was a skilled tentmaker.

Thus he was able to make his own living wherever he went in his ministry, and did not have to live off the contributions of others. He had been educated in the Rabbinical School of Gamaliel, who is referred to in the Book of Acts as a Pharisee who was a member of the high council, and was highly honored by all. Although a devout Jew, Paul was also a citizen of the Roman Empire and so was able to travel throughout the Empire, thus increasing the spread of the Christian religion. He was able to converse with the educated and the illiterate, with Jew, Roman and Greek, and was able to debate the most intelligent minds wherever he went. He was indebted to his past, and drew upon its strength, as he sought to witness for Jesus Christ wherever he went.

In the same way you and I can draw upon our past to make witness for Christ today. We can use our education, our experience in life and in the church, and the knowledge that others have passed on us to help strengthen the mission of the church today. at New College, are co-chairmen of the meeting. Burns will speak from long experience reporting international crises in various parts of the globe, most recently during visits in the Middle East while covering the civil war in Lebanon. Over the past few years, he has reported from Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Formosa, Hong Kong, Thailand, Germany, Belgium and Nicaragua in Central America.

Since 1962, his assignments have included coverage of Republican and Democratic conventions, Watergate and the end of the Nixon presidency as well as on-the-spot reporting abroad. Burns' appearance in this area was arranged by Rose Walker, the new president of the Florida division of the association and a board member of the Sarasota-Manatee chapter. "Always in This sermon title sounds like a commentary on modern American life, doesn't it? This is the day of debt and deficit financing, easy monthly payment plans for everything from cameras to carports, easy credit; the day when credit cards are mailed to your home without your ever asking for them. LIVING IN DEBT has become a way of life for individuals, corporations and certainly the federal government, whose debt is so enormous it can never be paid off. Surely we as people would have a difficult time praying to God, "Forgive us our debts!" for they are so many! While debt financing is a necessity for most people, especially young people, we would all agree that it is really much better to be out of debt, or perhaps to have a small debt, mostly for our peace of mind.

BUT APOSTLE PAUL, writing to the church at Rome, lives in a deficit economy and is proud of it. He says, "I am under obligation, to all." The economy of Paul is a true Christian economy. He told the Christians at Rome that he was under obligation to the entire non-Jewish world to bring them the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ He hoped to eventually come to them. It was this kind of debt he was in, and the kind that you and I should consider. For in a fundamental way, we Christians are always in debt In the first place we are always in debt to God, for his saving loving in Jesus Christ Each one of us here today can be deeply grateful because we are God's children.

We have made mistakes in our lives and we continue to do and think wrong things day in and day out, but we have the assurance of God's forgiveness sealed for us through His Son Jesus Christ AS PAUL WRITES to the Romans, "AH have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23) We have fallen short of God's glory and therefore can only be acceptable in His sight through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ our Lord. This gratitude to God for Jesus Christ was the fundamental reason why Paul was a man obligated so tremendously to others. Do you remember the early work of Paul, then called Saul? Acts 8 tells us that Saul was one of the leading opponents Of the early church and was one who consented to and aided their persecution. It tells us in Acta that Saul "laid waste the Church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison." THE CHRISTIANS were scattered throughout the region of Judea and Samaria. Paul tells the Galatians in chapter one how in his former life in Judaism he persecuted the church because he was so zealous of the tradition of the fathers, and thought that Christianity was an heretical religion.

Then suddenly while on the road to Damascus, he had SARASOTA Eugene Bums, news analyst and commentator from Orlando, will give "An Overview of World Affairs," under the joint auspices of University of South Florida, Sarasota Campus, and the Sarasota-Manatee Chapter of United Nations Association, USA, at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Hamilton Hall on the college campus. The public is invited to join with students and professors of New College and Manatee Junior College, and association members in this discussion of America's role in today's world. Ambassador John M. McSweeney, president of the local association chapter and Dr.

Margaret Bates, vice president and professor of political science WL-L I EUGENE BURNS world affairs topic. Summer jobs are assured for 500 Manatee youth By THOMAS OLDT Manatee Timet Staff Writer of 465 residents will benefit Criteria for being hired under the program includes family size and total income. Children from a family of four with an annual income of $5,500 or less, for example, would be eligible under the program, which will be coordinated through the School Board. A second $50,000 program will be aimed at college students, Chapman said, and will be less restrictive as to family income. In both programs, jobs will be available both -with government and private industry.

The 40-hour a week positions will include such jobs as mowing grass with the highway department, serving food to hospital patients, planting shrubbery at the airport and tending animals at the South Florida Museum. BRADENTON Nearly 500 Manatee County young people will have jobs this summer planting trees, working in hospitals and tending museum displays through the federally financed Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). County commissioners voted Thursday to apply for a $347,000 Department of Labor grant which Will create jobs mostly clerical and labor for economically disadvantaged youth between 14 and 21. Department of Human Resources Director Regis Chapman said he has been assured that the CETA grant would be approved as it has been over the past two years. A total the experience where he was confronted with a blinding Shore wants schedule for budgets MANATEE TIMES ManatM Times Bureau give department heads "enough time to develop revenue and expenditure estimates but not enough time to procras CHURCH DIRECTORY 'M Song evangelists slated at IMazarene Minit Tlm Burn.

BRADENTON "Sunday School at Worship Sunday" will begin at 10 a.m. Sunday at the First Church of the Nazarene, 1300 17th Ave. W. The special morning service of music and evangelism will be held at 10:45 a.m. in the sanctuary.

Special guests will be Amos and Sue Dodge, song evangelists. Dodge, formerly an associate pastor at a large interdenominational church, and Sue Dodge, formerly a member of the singing Speer family, are a new husband and wife singing duo in Christian circles. Mrs. Dodge has recorded 15 albums and has received the Dove Award for best female gospel vocalist for four years in a row. Dodge is the 10th of 11 children born to missionary parents and conducted goi el meetings in the "bush" country at age 15.

BRADENTON Manatee County department heads will follow a tighter procedure in developing their budgets for next year if County Clerk Richard B. "Chips" Shore has his way. Shore asked county commissioners Thursday to develop both a specific calendar for preparing the budget and a set of guidelines in four areas for determining what each department needs. Commissioners attending the work session agreed to meet with Shore to develop a set of standards for salary requests, departmental operations, capital outlays and outside agency contributions. The budget calendar he suggested, Shore said, would tinate.

Shore's proposal calls for a dozen specific dates or time periods in which to complete a budget by Aug. 30. Shore, who was installed as clerk last January, said later the county had not previously had either guidelines or written procedures but relied on "conversation" between the clerk's office and the County Commission. "I've got to have it in writing," said the former Braden-ton city clerk. "I'm too stupid to remember it.

"This is the beginning of a total procedures manual so that everything will "be down in writing right now it's just total confusion," CATHOLIC SACKED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH. 12trlAve. Bradenton 748-2221 Saturday Vigil Mom P.M., Sunday tau 1,30 A.M., 10.00 A.M., 12 NOON Oct. thro May Delly Man 10:00 A.M. other Timothy Cronln I.C., Potior Father Jomet Nuoent I.C.

Atiec. Poitor Many mobile home tags have expired ManatM Timet Suraau NAZARENE "We are giving the residents two weeks to comply with the summons, then we'll go see them," he said. "We don't intend to fine them." Cornwell said that three years ago, his office issued 1,400 summonses and that only four had to go to court for final judgment, but they weren't fined. "It's a bad administrative situation," he said. "All the money goes into the coffers of the municipality or court in which the park is located, not to the state." Cornwell pointed out that the mobile home tag differs from an auto tag.

"If someone misses paying for a mobile home tag for a year, they have to pick it up, but you can park a car for a year and not have to buy a tag," he said. He said some who purchased tags last July, good for just six months, are under the mistaken impression they don't expire until July. The annual fee ranges from a low of $21.50 for a mobile home 35 feet in length, to a maximum of $81.50 for a home more than 65 feet in length. manatee tires Business and News office 1 220 )4lh St. Bradenton 33505 News, Retail Advertising and Hem Delivery Phone: 747-731 1 Classified Advertising Phone: 747-6931 BRADENTON Although mobile home owners in Manatee County were notified last July when they purchased their license tags that the due date was being changed from July 1 to Jan.

1, many were apparently confused. "I knew we would have problems when the law was initiated," said Sam Cornwell, Manatee County tax collector. He said last July mobile home owners were given the option of either purchasing tags good for six months, which expired this January, or for 18 months, which expire next January. "Mobile home owners should have realized that when they paid only say $15 for their tags instead of $30, that it was a six-month tag," Cornwell said. Cornwell said that so far 50 out of 98 parks in the county have been inspected, with 420 summonses issued.

He said date of renewal was changed to have it fall during the winter season when most of the mobile home owners are here. SUNDAY, MARCH 27 "Sunday School at Worship Sunday" with AMOS SUE DODGE, Song Evangelists FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 1300 17th Are. Brodenton, Fla. Pd I. Wright, Pastor Sunday School 10 A.M.

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