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     Registrations for the Western Christian Convention which it was our privilege to address in Denver, Colorado, exceeded one thousand.... A goodly number attended the discussion on fellowship at Rolla, Missouri, where Howard E. Short, Don DeWelt, Harold Key and the editor spoke. The questions from the audience were excellent. A booklet containing all four major speeches can he secured by writing Martin M. Mitchum, Post Office Box 69, Rolla, Missouri. The cost is 35c each; three for $1.00.... First Christian Church at Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the second oldest congregation of the Restoration Movement in the state. Invitations were issued to all segments of the restoration brotherhood to attend the 60th anniversary at which the editor spoke three times. Other special meetings with various groups of brethren were arranged for our stay in the area at all of which love and consideration were shown.... The fellowship forum conducted at Eldon, Missouri, attracted a number of brethren from various segments of the brotherhood, and the open forum periods produced many questions which demonstrated great thought. Another such meeting is being planned for the future in the same location.... Darrell Bolin, 134 Susquehanna Ave., Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, has arranged for publication of weekly articles in the Lock Haven Express for the next six months. These articles will be devoted to the plea for restoration of the primitive order. If your heart moves you to help in the expense involved in this effort your contributions will be gratefully received. We urge that you send a gift to help in this worthy project.... Our brother in Christ, Otis A. Herndon, 81, departed this life at Almartha, Missouri, October 28.... We extend our sincere sympathy to Brother Laurence Terry, Kansas City, Missouri, whose father passed away on Nov.19.... Vern and Rita Middleton, East Alton, Illinois, have a baby girl, Lori Ann, born Nov.23.... Bernard and Polly Brown, Saint Louis, Missouri, have a baby boy, Geoffrey Dean, born Nov.22.... Harold Key spoke to about 150 men from the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ at First Christian Church, Ferguson, Missouri, November 19. Brother Key will also be one of the speakers at the lectureship of Saint Louis Christian College in January.... Please remember that you can secure additional copies of this paper at the rate of ten for one dollar. There are also extra copies remaining of the November and December issues dealing with answers to articles appearing in Firm Foundation, edited by Brother Reuel Lemmons.... Ray and Patsy Mann, Saint Louis, Missouri, have a baby girl, Kimberley, born November 14.... Buff Scott reports two immersed at Bridgeport, Connecticut, one of whom was his son, Buff III. Darrell Bolin was with the Bridgeport brethren from Nov.24 to Dec. 1.... You are missing a real treat if you have not read "Raccoon John Smith" by Louis Cochran. We will mail you a copy for $4.95 and you will read it with pleasure.... Clifton Mabery immersed two at Bonne Terre, Missouri, and two placed membership with the congregation on that date.... Bernie Crum immersed one at Flat River on Nov.11.... Please remember that all of the issues of MISSION MESSENGER for 1963 will be issued in a clothbound book under the title "The Unity of the Spirit." This 196 page volume which is fully indexed can be obtained for $2.49 by ordering before the publication date of March 1. Send no money and we will bill you with the book, but please send your advance order at once.... Invitations were issued by Central Church of Christ, Saint Louis, Missouri, for all

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brethren to attend a "Workshop in Personal Evangelism" conducted by Andy T. Ritchie, Jr., December 3-6.... Would you like to make someone happy and start your own New Year out right? We'd like to suggest the name of a couple of shut-ins who would appreciate a card more than you could even realize. One is Mrs. Nora Jarrett, South Hoffman Street, Athens, Alabama 35611. The other is Laura Ritchie, 1204 Park Avenue, Apartment 323, Saint Louis 63104. This aged sister recently underwent serious surgery resulting in a colostomy. She lives alone in a housing project and your card would help to brighten the day.... Bernie Crum reports one immersed at Flat River, Missouri, on December 9.... George and Betty Sue Shinsato, Norman, Oklahoma, have a baby girl, Suzy Darlene, born November 26.... The Charles Gillespies, Walnut Grove, Missouri, have a baby girl, Susan Marie, born November 29.... We regret to report the death of Thelma Mills, Saint Louis, Missouri, for whom funeral services were conducted December 10.... The annual New Year's eve service of the congregations in Saint Louis was conducted at the Lillian Avenue meetinghouse.... Do you have a copy of Johnson's Peoples' New Testament with Notes? We will send you the large complete one volume edition for only $5.00.... It is our intention to share with you other of the speeches made by the brethren at the fellowship forum held at Hartford, Illinois, and we think that you will appreciate the opportunity of reading what these men have to offer.... We urge you to help out in the crusade for unity of the believers by sending in a list of subscribers at the beginning of this year. We need your assistance. If you feel that we are doing a worthwhile work why not send a list of friends and brethren who ought to be sharing in the things that are written? You can send it to any of your friends for a dollar per year.... You can also help us a great deal if you will send your renewal in advance of expiration to save the cost and trouble of notification. You cannot lose because your subscription will be advanced from date of expiration.... If you move be sure to notify us. It costs us ten cents every time the post office notifies us of a change of address. This means a great deal in view of the fact that it costs more than $1.00 per year for us to get the paper to each one of you. The additional amount is supplied by brethren through their donations to this cause. If all of us are willing to work together it makes it easier and we earnestly solicit your aid in all of these areas.... The monthly journal Word From Heaven has found it necessary to suspend publication, but we will undertake to absorb the unexpired subscriptions into our list and send copies of the MISSION MESSENGER for as long as the subscriptions would have run. Accordingly, if this paper has a red (X) after your name it indicates that you were a subscriber to Word From Heaven and had but one more copy of the paper due you. We will appreciate it if you care to send in your subscription to MISSION MESSENGER, but you must feel under no obligation to do so, as we are happy to send you the paper on the basis of your former subscription and as a token of our regard for the editor. We regret that the paper can no longer he published because it was serving a real need.

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