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lO-A cCbsi! ----woM3 Saturday, Dec. 14, '68 DETROIT FREE PRESS Ecumenical Group Hires New Head What Would (ill rrrminmrnw-rnmarnvmrnniumm rirmrifrii-irir 'l mn- ary Be Like If She Were Here Today? QUESTION: If Mary were here today and attended your school, what would she be like as a teen in 1968? This question of the week was asked of a group of Roman Catholic and American Baptist girls. Catholic girls are from the St. James elementary school and high school, Ferndale. The Baptist girls are the three from Covenant Baptist who play the role of Mary in a living nativity scene (see last Monday's weekend in religion feature on the three Mary's and their troublesome member of the cast, the Lolich donkey).

'Perfect in Every Way New director of the Churches on the East Side for Social Action is the Robert Baldwin, who resigned from the Salvation Army after dif-rences with his superiors a year ago. He is also a former officer of CESSA. Mr. Baldwin, a former Captain in the Army and in charge of the Harding Corps, 3735 Harding, will direct a network of programs representing 35 Catholic and Protestant churches. Mr.

Baldwin, who has been in Chicago, will take helm of an organization that is growing in importance while at the same undergoing internal reorganizing. CESSA spawned the East Side Voice of Independent Detroit, has a full-time community organizer, frank Ditto. girls from St. Said James aMTTtt1 TpffrimM-n1f-a iM 'ililri 'V 1 Teetotaler Night Minister Paul Bailey, right: He drinks enough orange juice and Vitamin he could race all the way home! SERVANTS OF THE SUNSET Dark ew congregations Peggy CESSA now has a plan before it to re-organize CESSA into "ecumenical parish areas by clustering member churches" in a certain sub-area Into one ecumenical parish. While maintaining their Individual congregations, the member churches would contribute to maintain a joint ministry in social areas.

Newest member of CESSA is Assumption Grotto Roman Catholic parish which joins 12 other Roman Catholic churches and 22 Protestant churches. Mr. Baldwin began his career with the Harlem Temple Corps, and has directed the Salvation army North End center in Hartford, Conn. ft Be. v.

ZsT a fmmryi iw ism rr secretary being hauled in and "he certainly was on the right spot at the right An answering service takes calls from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. and can route the night clergy "If Virgin Mary came down to earth as a child, she would be perfect in every way. I believe Mary would like religion better than any other subject. "In religion you learn about your religious ancestors, Jesus Christ, Mary the Mother of God, the prophets, and more.

Mary would learn her work and keep it in her heart forever. Surely Mary is beautiful in more ways than one." Sharon Scritnger (elementary school). "Mary would probably be a poor woman in a lower class neighborhood, where people looked down upon her. She'd maintain courage and understanding concerning pre- judice against her religion and race." Camille Morneau 9 "If the Blessed Mother was living today, ehe would be very active in church, social and world affairs and the world would know her name because of the great things she accomplished. I wish she was living here now.

Maybe the world wouldn't be such a mess." Michele Shelntc "If the Mother of God was of this age, she would be one of the crowd. She would be driving in the rush hour, and watching television into the wee hours of the dawn. Her personality would be pleasant and easy to get along with." Peggy Gardner the Blessed Mother were living on earth in our time, I think it would he hard for her. She wouldn't know what to do in the big cities. She would be terribly frightened by the cars and buses also.

But if she went to the poor section of town or in Vietnam, her kindness would show. She would try to help anyone in anyway she could." Camille BY III LEY II. WARD Free Press Religion Writer The frilly haired blond got off of the bar stool and pulled at the hand of the straight-backed, clean-cut, if not a bit egg-head looking fellow on the bar stool next to her. "C'mon, let's dance." i "But I don't dance. She looked at him like he was some nut, and went off danced with another.

And, the scene switches to an all night restaurant, and the waitress comes over and wipes off the table. The young fellow spoke approvingly, "Cleanliness is next to godliness." "Are you some kind of a preacher or something?" THE YOUNG MAX in this case was the Rev. Jack H. C. Clark, pastor of the North Oakland Christian Church, Pontiac and executive director of the Pontiac Council of Churches.

"I gave her one of our cards which says 'Night Ministry' and its phone number," Mr. Clark said. "Anyone can print a card," she said. "Go look in the phone book," he said. night creates family problems of their own and "at the first sign of a family problem it is agreed that the minister will drop out of the program." BESIDES BARS and hospitals, the clergymen have lent their presence to other activities such as night football games.

Philip J. Wargelin, principal of the Pontiac Northern Senior High School, In a letter to Mr. Bailey, said: "We feel that the contribution made by you (Mr. Bailey) and your pastors' group, working as a team at the Pontiac Northern High School home football games, did much to assure Pontiac of the continuation of night football games and to the orderly manner in which crowd control was handled." Besides Bailey and Clark, the current team of night clergy includes Luther a Earle Beck, Ron Rein, and Gerald Switzer; Methodists Ron Tallman, Bob Secrist, CI eon Abbott; Disciples Larry Bobbitt; Roman Catholics James Wysocki, Charles Roo-ney, and William Jacobs (Layman, professor, St. Mary's, Orchard Lake) and Church of God pastor Ottis Burgher.

corps to where the action is. The Night Ministry team also has a police monitor-ing radio which gets to scenes of special need. One 1 yman Northeast Community Church (Methodist) Pontiac, and chairman of the Council's Committee on Mission. Bailey "and Clark say the people they talk to automatically say they will be in church next Sunday. One bedraggled old gal told Bailey: "I'd sing in your choir, if you'd let me." He told her she was welcome, but she never came.

"Our work amounts to a sort of counselling," he said. He remembers one guy who kept ordering drinks, and Bailey a teetotaler, who ordered orange juice along with him, had four orange juices left after the round of drinking. "I had enough Vitamin to race all the way home!" ONE DRUNK took a tray to take up a collection for the clergymen, but a waitress took it away from him. The clergymen find members of their own congregation whom they seldom see at church. "One man from my congregation whom I see at one of the bars at night," said one of the clergymen, "dances with every gal in the house." Bailey was invited to a motorcycle club at 3 a.m., couldn't get there, but said, "I kind of wish I had gone." "It's a pretty sad business," Mr.

Clark says of the bar rounds. "We minister to people who'd rather do anything but go home." In an evaluation session one minister said "you either get rapport right away, or you feel absolutely naked." The Night Ministry is a follow-up of similar programs launched successfully In Grand Rapids by the Rev. Kretzchmer, a Methodist, and in Saginaw, by the Rev. Russell Durler, now minister of the Highland Park (Mieh.) Presbyterian church. The clergymen are warned that being away from home til Mr.

Clark walked with a policeman into a family squabble the policeman was thrown out head first and his leg was broken. "There are two populations in the city," said Mr. Clark, "The day people, and the night people." "Some of them never see the daylight nor the front door of a church," said the Rev. Paul F. Bailey, pastor of the A-tft, ninwrarriffintift Michele IIiilpllllllM i Robert Baldwin Soloist Assembles Instrument Robert Branch, bass soloist at Central Methodist Church, Woodward and Adams, puts in a few more hours on the side working on the hardware of his profession.

When the chancel choir and three youth choirs (including two bell ringing choirs) put on their annual Christmas vespers concert at Central Church, 4:30 p.m. Sunday, they will be accompanied by a new harpsichord (a harp-string piano) made by Mr. Branch, a General Motors employe. He put 120 hours on assembling the new Therese Therese Murray (elementary school) 9 "I think if Blessed Mother was on earth today, she'd look like my mother. She is very beautiful and goes through some sort of suffering every day.

I think, too, she would have a big family, like ours, not just one Son." Alice Smith "I think that if Mary was living on earth right now, she would be a nun. Her job would be to teach the word of God, and to help people to understand the true meaning of God. "Not anyone would dislike her. She would be happy to help or teach any one who doesn't understand the true meaning of God. "She would go to church whenever she could, and she would encourage more people to go to mass and receive Holy Communion.

"Mary would be very obedient to her parents. She would try to help retarded children. Mary would be a very helpful person." Cindy Gysin (elementary school) i ilWlltlMWWMWWBW TVia nxAAmi'nqnt rvr- And she came back with a look of surprise, "I'll be, you are a preacher." Mr. Clark is one of 13 ministers and priests who currently make up the Night Ministry under the auspices of the Pontiac Area Council of Churches, Committee on Mission. These clergy volunteer to walk the streets, visit bars now familiar to them, and hospitals (one clergyman rushing to a hospital following an accident found his own church He Revives Old Welsh Congregation The Welsh Presbyterian Church of Detroit (which meets in the Outer Drive Presbyterian Church) is not exactly a young church, but its pastor is.

The Rev. Meurwyn Williams, 28, is pastor of the 120-member congregation which has sold its church formerly at 2504 Monterey. Only three Welsh congregations remain in the United States, Mr. Williams said. He has come to the congregation on a two year arrangement from Brynaman, South Wales.

The youngest member, he said, in the Detroit Welsh congregation is 43, the oldest is 85. Mr. Williams holds an English service at 11 a.m. in a chapel at Outer Drive church and a Welsh service at 1 p.m. Many of his congregation "feel more at home in the Welsh church," he said, and "they must be admired for keeping the congregation going.

The fact they meet regularly as a community in the church gives them a certain purpose," he said. IJ i tit At new site: Randy Slomovitz, Douglas Ellman, Barton Charlip, Jeremy Benstein, Lisa Pernick. Sunday includes Overture for organ and harpsi GROUNDBREAKING LAUNCHES NEW SCHOOL chord, with sok9 by Mr. Branch and Robert Angus, tenor, and a living nativity tableaux. anuka to Feature Dedication Witnesses Name Leader New supervisor of the Michigan District of the Jehovah's school will keep spiritual life of the Torah available to help increase the illumination that comes with Sharon Kf 4 1 Witnesses is Angelo A.

Ca-tanzaro, 41, a former district supervis-i minister for 14 years of the Jehovah's Witnesses Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico territory. Honor 18 Synagogs For Israel Fund Role An Israel Hanuka dinner will feature 18 Detroit Area congregations 7 p.m. Thursday in the Grand Ballroom of Cobo Hall. The congregations will Said the girls from Covenant Baptist, who were asked what Mary would be like if she were high-school age today: "Mary would dress in modern clothes, jusf as she did in the clothes of her time years ago. I think she would act as a normal teenager, just like the rest of US." Dorcas Ball (Southfleld High) "She would probably be like a normal girl.

I don't think she'd be a hippy or anything of the kind. She would probably dress moderately and not be a loud person. Probably quiet and very pretty. She w-ould be a likeable person." Loretta Hall (Winship Junior High) "She would be like any average teenager. She would not be old fashion or plain.

She'd just be a Mary that God intended her to be in this time." Nancy Gillespie (Southfield High) "Dedication" is the theme and the literal meaning of Hanuka. And that's the way the joyous Jewish festival is going to be celebrated in the Detroit area Dec. 15-22. Besides personal re-dedication, the Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit is planning to hold a Hanuka ground-breaking dedication ceremony 11 a.m. Sunday, the start of Hanuka, for its new school, according to Eugene Sloan and Saul Waldman, co-chairmen of the Hillel building fund.

THE 10-YEAE-OLD school has been meeting in rented quarters at Congregation B'nai Moshe and the Jewish Community Center, Oak Park. The kindergarten through ninth grade school, which began with 29 pupils, now numbers 300. The $1 million new school which will include 20 classrooms and a gym with what will be called "a progressive traditional drawing the best of tradition and modern educational techniques, is expected to be ready by fall. Youths will light the traditional eight-candle men-orahs in a former little 120-year-old brick school house on the 11 acre site at 32240 Middlebelt, between Northwestern and Fourteen Mile. The little school house will be kept as a reminder of HANUKA commemorates the victory of the Jewish freedom fighter, Judas Maccabees, over the tyrant Antiochus Epiphanes, 2131 years ago.

A cruise of oil burned miraculously in the Temple in Jerusalem for eight days on only one day's supply of oil after the victorious Maccabeans retook Jerusalem and re-dedicated the temple. Said Rabbi Jacob Segal of Adas Shalom Synagog, one of the founders of the Hillel Day School: "Like the oil burning at the first Hanuka, the new He will be Mr. Catanzaro "overseer" for 17,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in 150 Michigan congregations. Delta Pastor Speaks at Shrine The Rev. Henry L.

Parker, of Greenville, director of the Delta ministry of the receive lower of David plaques, with the image of the Tower of David in Jerusalem and an inscription that commends their participation in the 1968 Israel Bond campaign "to provide a sound economic foundation for the rebirth of Israel." At the banquet, Metropolitan Opera tenor Jan Peerce will sing Yiddish and Israel songs and can-torial music. Also Pinchas Sapir, secretary-general of Israel's Am National Council of Churches, will preach Sunday 11 :15 a.m. at the Shrine of the Black Madon-n a (Central United Church of Christ), 7625 Lin wood. Pinchas Sapir tmgci iii4.rif i ai'iiii Labor Party, will be the main speaker. Sapir, who ha3 had key roles in founding the state of Israel, is also a "minister without portfolio" in the Israel cabinet.

Father Parker Father Parker is a former vicar of the Church of the Resurrection, Ecorse. Williams Mr. Loretta Dorcas Nancy.