Our good friend and brother, James DeForest
Murch, will be the special lecturer in restoration history at
Pacific Christian College, Long Beach, California during the
winter quarter.... Curtis Lydic will be teaching English and
Bible at Southeastern Christian College during the current
quarter. His address is 1916 Kingtree Drive, Lexington, Kentucky
40505.... William H. Davis is now on the philosophy staff at
Auburn University, having transferred from the University of
Houston.... Stanley K. McDaniel is Speech instructor and Director
of forensics at the College of the Redwoods, Eureka,
California.... Bruce Breeze wrote us from Transvaal, South
Africa, to give an account of the funeral service of the Prime
Minister of the Republic of South Africa, who was slain by an
assassin.... Ed Spencer and Hubert Prather, Nassau, Bahamas, had
a busy summer for Christ on the island of Andros.... We regret to
chronicle the death of Hubert Weems, Bonne Terre, Missouri,
September 8.... Mark Maxey sent an interesting report of the camp
program from Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan.... Gary Freeman has
resigned from work at Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and is now
laboring with brethren at Torrance, California.... Kyle Simplot
is president of "The Christian Amateur Radio Fellowship" meeting
daily at 3890 kc. at 1200 GMT. If you are a Christian "ham" you
are invited to write for information. Address Kyle at Erwin,
Tennessee 37650.... The congregation at Brownsburg, Indiana, has
guaranteed from their own treasury full support ($11,700) for Tom
and Wanda Kirkpatrick who will serve on the mission field in
Ethiopia.... Have you written to F. L. Lemley, 4801 Depew Street,
Denver, Colorado 80212, for a copy of his booklet, "A Re-Study of
Marriage and Divorce?" He will send you one for only fifty cents.
It's different!... An open forum study on Romans 14 was held at
the Millbrook Church of Christ, Fresno, California, September 16,
17.... "Darwin and the Beetles" can be secured at the rate of 10
for a dime, plus postage, if you'll write to the author, Robert
E. Kafahl, President of Highland College, 450 Avenue 64,
Pasadena, California.... Robert E. Pritchard, P.O. Box 579,
Saratoga, California, will reproduce the famous "'Sermon on the
Law" by Alexander Campbell, in his Christianity
Restored, and it will then be released in pamphlet
form.... If you want to know what Christians are really doing to
penetrate the world with a genuine witness write to Box 106, East
New York Station, Brooklyn, New York 11207, and ask for the
September 10 issue of "Inner City Faith Corps Field Report."....
B. H. Blazer, Route 2, Old River Road, Cartersville, Georgia
30120, will send you free upon request the first several issues
of "Church of Christ--Truth Crusade."... Walter Short, of
Training Center for Service, St. Louis, was awarded the Citizen
of the Week Award, by Station KATZ, for his labors in inner city
work in the ghetto area. Walter is a white man, and the radio
station is maintained by Negroes for the Negro community....
Charles Owens, a colored brother with "Training Center for
Service" has a prayer meeting every morning, Monday through
Friday, in the high rise housing development. He also taught at
Camp Arrowhead in Hamilton, Indiana.... We want to urge you to
secure a copy of Far East Christian Missionary, Volume 6,
No. 1. Here are a few of the reasons. "From Inside Berkeley, Part
2" by Al Hammond; "How the Christian Looks at Demons and Psychic
Phenomena, Part 2," by the same author; and "Restoration and
Unity" by Jim Furniss. This last is a speech delivered in
a dialogue session with non-instrument Churches of Christ, and in
it Jim takes the position that there is no pattern upon which to
base restoration. The mailing address is 390 North Ridge Vista,
San Jose, California.... A special seminar on timely topics will
be held Thanksgiving Day at the Rochelle Road Church of Christ,
in Irving, Texas.... Max Ward Randall, who spent many years in
the African mission field is now Professor of Missions at Lincoln
Christian College, Lincoln, Illinois.... The nineteenth annual
Christian Fellowship Week, held at Louisville, Kentucky,
attracted large audiences .... A Bible Chair program at
Southwestern College at Weatherford, Oklahoma, is on the way,
with a new Bible building and Student Center scheduled for
construction.... Lewis A. Foster and Henry M. Morris will be the
speakers during Faith Crusade, to be held at Ozark Bible College,
Joplin, Missouri, Nov. 29-Dec. 1.... E. P. C. Hollard, who has
been Home Missions Director for 15 years among Churches of Christ
in South Australia, has resigned to labor with the Glenelg
congregation in Adelaide.... Vernon Hurst was invited to spend
the weekend with brethren at Idaho Falls, Idaho, September 25....
More than 400 persons gathered for the Fellowship Forum conducted
by the editor at Atlanta, Georgia, on September 22. The audience
was composed of persons from six different segments of the
restoration movement.... Arrangements have been made for meetings
in Chicago, Illinois, on November 2, 3, 4, with a view to
training "commandoes for Christ" to recapture some of the lost
areas. For information write to Fred P. Thompson, Jr., 2600 West
79th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60652.... Among other invitations
to speak which the editor has accepted for next year is one to
address the Southern Christian Convention, at Kingsport,
Tennessee, on the evening of March 30, on the theme "Recovering
the Power of the Church." The theme of the convention will be
"Renewal Through Recovery."... Arrangements have also been made
for a fellowship forum to be held at Columbia, Missouri, on
Feburary 23, 24, with sessions on Thursday evening, Friday
morning and afternoon, to which all brethren within the
restoration movement background are invited. The editor will
speak at each meeting, allow questions from the audience, and
discuss the problems faced in the present crisis of disunity. He
will address the college and university class banquet on Friday
night. Information can be secured by writing to Lowell E. McCoy,
1108 West Ash Street, Columbia, Missouri 65201..... Special
meetings have also been arranged with the Riverside congregation
at Wichita, Kansas, March 6-10. Details may be secured by
addressing Willis Nigh, 2503 Bullinger Drive, Wichita, Kansas
67204. Robert Meyers is currently laboring with the Riverside
congregation.... We have been agreeably surprised at the response
to the series of articles on worship which have appeared in these
pages, and we sincerely thank all who have written about them. It
is quite evident that there is a rising tide of concern among all
of the brethren.... The meeting with the congregation at
Gallatin, Tennessee, drew excellent audiences, with brethren
attending from numerous places throughout the area. Hall Calhoun
Crowder labors with the brethren at Gallatin.... Brethren who
edit The Pattern, published by the Minnehaha Church of
Christ, 3217 N. E. 54th Street, Vancouver, Washington 98663, have
challenged James D. Bales or J. D. Thomas to defend the position
that the use of instrumental music in public worship is a sin.
They have agreed to furnish a man capable of defending the
opposing view.... Gary Tiffin, San Jose, California, has an
appointment as part time instructor at Stanford University in
California.
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