Comments taken from Church Bulletins

 

1.  Don’t let worry kill you--let the church help.

 

2.  Thursday night--Pot luck supper.  Prayer and medication to follow.

 

3.  Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our church and community.

 

4.  For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery down stairs.

 

5.  The rosebud on the altar this morning is to announce the birth of David Alan Boxer, the sin of Rev. and Mrs. Julius Boxer.

 

6.  This afternoon there will be a meeting in the South and North ends of the church.  Children will be baptized at both ends.

 

7.  Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. there will be an ice cream social.  All ladies giving milk will please come early.

 

8.  Wednesday, the ladies’ “Liturgy Society” will meet.  Mrs. Jones will sing, “Put me in My Little Bed” accompanied by the pastor.

 

9.  Thursday at 5:00 p.m. there will be a meeting of the Little Mothers Club.  All wishing to become little mothers, please see the minister in his study.

 

10.  This being Easter Sunday, we will ask Mrs. Lewis to come forward and lay an egg on the altar.

 

11.  The service will close with “Little Drops of Water.”  One of the ladies will start and the rest of the congregation will join in.

 

12.  Next Sunday a special collection will be taken to defray the cost of the new carpet.  All those wishing to do something on the new carpet will come forward and do so.

 

13. The ladies of the church have cast off clothing of every kind and they may be seen in the church basement Friday.

 

14.  A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall.  Music will follow.

 

15.  At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be “What is Hell?”  Come early and listen to our choir practice.

 

16.  Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles, and other items to be recycled.  Proceeds will be used to cripple children.

 

17.  The outreach committee has enlisted 25 visitors to make calls on people who are not afflicted with any church.

 

18.  The Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10.  All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B.S. is done.

 

19.  Low self-esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 to 8:30 p.m.  Please use the back door.

 

20.  Ushers will eat latecomers.

 

21.  The Rev. Merriwether spoke briefly, much to the delight of the audience.

 

22.  During the absence of our pastor, we enjoyed the rare privilege of hearing a good sermon when J.F. Stubbs supplied our pulpit.

 

23.  Due to the Rector's illness, Wednesday's healing services will be discontinued until further notice.

 

24.  The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the church basement on Friday at 7 p.m. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.

 

25.  The concert held in Fellowship Hall was a great success.  Special thanks are due to the minister's daughter, who labored the whole evening at the piano, which as usual fell upon her.

 

26.  A song fest was hell at the Methodist church Wednesday.

 

27.  On a church bulletin during the minister's illness:  GOD IS GOOD, Dr. Hargreaves is better.

 

28.  The 1997 Spring Council Retreat will be hell May 10 and 11.

 

29.  8 new choir robes are currently needed, due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.

 

30.  The choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning to join the choir.

 

32.  Weight Watchers will meet at 7 p.m.  Please use large double door at the side entrance.

 

33. The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday. "I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours!"

 

34.  Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa will be speaking tonight at Calvary Memorial Church in Racine. Come tonight and hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.

 

35.  Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say "hell" to someone who doesn't care much about you.

 

36.  Attend and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch.