CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, June 2, 1977 Pulpit and Pew By Paster DONALD W. REED The same periodical re- cently contained the headlines “Church Attendance Up” and “Church Attendance Down Badly." : Make ‘sense? Only if you understand the first headline refers to the United States and the second to Canada. According to the item on the U.S., church and synagogue attendance during 1976 rose for the first time since 1958, In a recent Gallup poll 42 per cent of the respondents said they had attended a church or a syna- gogue in the previous seven days. For the previous five years, the figure had been 40 per cent with a high of 49 per cent recorded in 1955 and 1958, Speaking to the same statistics, The Observer noted three times as many Americans now believe that religion is increasing its influence on American life than did in 1970. That year only 14 per cent thought the influence of Te. religious revival under way?” asked the Observer. es Compare the Canadian scene. The Christian Inquirer in January, 1976 notes three of - Canada’s major denominations report serious slumps in church attendance. One recent editor- ial referred to “the realities of declining membership” and commented that we “never ask ourselves what we should do about the fact the most priv- ileged, the most affluent and at one time the best organized church in Canada has been declining steadily.” An official from another major denomination noted that if church attendance is to increase, the church must be more militant and adjust to world great biblical truths. The fact is that while the face of society may be chang- ing, the heart of. man is..still corrupt and his mind confused." : The opinion may be generally unpopular, but the Bible's un- changed stand is that man needs to be redeemed from the bondage of sin and restored to \the paths of righteousness. And that only the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ can accomplish those ends, Dean M. Kelley, Director for Civil and Religious Liberty, National Council of Churches, noted in his 1972 book Why Conservative Churches are Growing that adherents are swelling these churches “be- cause they get there what other are unable to pro- That isn’t the whole story, however. Many churches are on the move and they are almost invariably the churches that still hold to an inspired and infallible Bible, still Practise vide: a clear sense of life's purpose.” “What the mainline churches need desperately to do is to return from pripheral concerns and recover their essential task: providing the that. makes life ligion was i to 44 per cent in 1976. “Is a Te continue to preach ‘the whole,” he said. | church directory’ ST. RITA'S CATHOLIC CHURCH Rev. W. Harrison Ph.. 365-7143 Saturday Night Mass 7 p.m. Sunday Masses at 9 am. and il am. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH Office 365-3430 Rev, Donald W. Reed Home 365-2630 Next to the Cloverleaf Motel, Castleaird Plaza Sunday School 9.45 Family Worship 11 a.m. Evening Worship 7 p.m. “GRACE PRESBYTERIAN” CHURCH 7th Ave. South, Castlegar | ' Worship Service — 11 a.m. Tues. — Bible Study 7 p.m. Rev. C. Smyth - 368-3818 ST. PETER LUTHERAN 405 Maple St., Castlegar Worship Service 9:00 a.! m. “Everyone Welcome’’ Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Rev. Richard Klein: Pastor 112- 4th Ave. N. 365-3662 or 365-3664 Listen to the Lutheran Hour, Sunday, 11:30 a.m. cKQR APOSTOLIC CHURCH Phone 365-6317 Below the Castleaird Plaza 10 a.m. Sunday School a a.m. Worshi pee te vi routh & ‘amily Night Rev. Ed ad ne Pastor one Val Leiding, Youth Pastor. Phone 399-4753 CHURCH OF GOD 804-7th Avenue.South “Learning” "Worshiping” “Serving” for all Ages. Robson 9:45 a.m. St. David's Anglican & United Churches REGIONAL ECUMENICAL PARISH United Church Service 9:30 a.m. Joint Anglican-United Family Communion Service, followed by Sunday School Picnic. Parish Office: - fies. Desmond Carroll — Anglican L Minister v. Ted Bristow — United 365-8337 11 am. ‘Family Worship Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Opportunities’ to serve ‘PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE 707 First Ave. Pastor: Rev. H. H. Graham Church Ph, 365-5212 Sunday School 9.50 a.m. . Morning Worship 11 a.m. Evangelistic Service 7 p.m. Tuesday: Bible Study 7:30 business directory Advertising Rates and Information Call 365-5210 & Co. Cortified General Accountants te Auditors - & Tax Consultants 609 Columbia Castlegar 365-3011 CASTLE TIRE LID. SALES & SERVICE Commercial & Industrial Tire Specialists . Passenger and Off Highway Tires WHEEL BALANCING 365-7145 1050 Columbia Avenue Castlegar IVAN WICKLUM © Licenced Roofing Contractor Al Types of Roofing Refinishing Rebii lion 8 Cortrels Sowieing’ Res, & Commercial * 927-9329 or 227-9341 Pr okanen 24-Hour Service Box 63, Gray Creek, B.C. For Electrical Contracting Sales & Service 365-7075 .. 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Castleaird Plaza Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Satu 10:30 a.m. PHONE 365-6534 965-7266 “Phone | rday to 12.30 noon 365-2344 } renewal of their boycott of the Crescent Valley, Slee Park . and: South Slocan clementary, ‘ schools, - Alex Pereverzoff, a man they have known and | BURT CAMPBELL Publisher RYON GUEDES, Editor ‘Thursday Morning, June zi 1917 ~ Slap i in the Face “Nelson school board unfair—SI {not Dogpatch.” : early 1950s, ‘The above statement, written on a picket What fee worse, the board took no pains to sign last week, reflected a significant facet of the nits that’ the. resentment that led to Slocan Valley parents’ ae “for the position Pereverzoff was denied was “the best educational choice" for the job. To be sure, chairman Donna Graychick has ° repeatedly stressed the board's authorization— under section 129 of the Public Schools Act—but she has not specified what necessary qualities Pereverzoff lacks as a school principal, The Nelson school board has established its Valley has been working to dispel since the In the eyes of the parents, the board has dealt them a sharp slap.in the face by demoting dealt with for 25 years, without any sensitivity to the feelings of area residents. The decision : reflected to them an indifference to the area failed to do {s establish its reason for the action, e ay. peer bee The Feasible Objective “Now is the time. for Canada to re-dedicate in’ check ‘even if it means’ a Sane or itself to the goal of full employment. This need. _ indefinite, rein on certain powerful groups in the not be full employment defined as two to three economy. right to demote Alex Pereverzoff. What it has House Framing ¢ Form Work” Vanities ¢ Kitchen Cabinets Arborite Work ¢ All Forms of General Carpentry 65-7485 ¢ SS. No, 1, Site 29, C-1, Castlegar. . ATTENTION GRADS! 20% OFF. ALL CLOTHES FOR GRADUATION SHOP EARLY AT BONNETS aa per cent unemployment, as in the early postwar : Toronto St years, Conditions: have changed to justify a : i aa higher fi i igure, but not higher than the 4.6 per. R e-- d ¢ cent jobless rate suggested b; the Economic Council of Canada. - ie emin ers Reducing’ unemployment. to “that level This is the time of year when it's hard .to within three or four years is a-feasible objective. appreciate poems of praise for the autumn leaves, those mushy, “dirty, heavy, smelly < ‘reminders of last: fall's procrastination. —Ottawa Journal What's needed is the commitment by govern- ment, the n policies for job creation, and the determination that Jnflation will bokept _ At the Dustbow!’s Edge Most people are » beginning to realize that -' ‘indeed, we are again drifting perilously close to another era of depression. We again have the dust bowls and great drought, and there are even more people unemployed than there have been since the Great Depression of the thirties, Revelations on Cassette - At last church-goers-have found out how their clergymen, with all the other things they have to do, manage to produce. a‘ brand new © sermgn every Sunday. “According,to,a star The Wall’ Street’ Journal, they buy them.” “*, About a dozen firms -across the United States are selling a year's-sypply of taped or typed, sermons to’ some 40,000 clergymen and. _ priests for as little as $25 writes: Journal reporter George Mitchell. Rev. Robert Waznak, - a Roman Catholic priest who has studied the phenomenon,: believes it: has arisen because ~ ' But, unlike the thirties, many other. ‘nations in the world are crying for what. we have to sell—but only if we can produce it, can deliver it, and.on contract. . sermon. “The: minister, who can't deliver Soa ne: and relevant is in’badsha) ape.” years ago. A monk named Werner. of- Ellerbach.: ‘ Fathers”. Three hundred years later-another. “ collection came’ out, called pDotmt: Boca —The Dawson Creek News - most’ people today 20, to church ‘to: hear the compiled a. collection of sermons and gave it the © picturesque title, “Flowers Picked ‘from. the * UG MacDON, (the following.is reprint . from‘ a:regular, column: in th weekly, Kelowna’ Today).~° Every second . week—oh, happy ‘Friday—when, the old paycheque arrives, I sit down and stare at the little slip listing -“deductions”’ that: comes. with ite Basis ‘And every time, as I look at that big. chunk of cash that took wings and flew, something in my head cries, No... nol I'd’: . rather do it myself. Some deep instinct tells me that something . is. dreadfully -and . drastically: wrong with a ‘country that requires better than‘a quarter of my income to’ protect me from those slings and arrows of outrageous fortune..Something vist U wrong) witha’ country: in kh most of;:these.4compa meonre i : recently-established, the: idea’ origitiatéd 800 ? (Population works {th the: govt 1 which” 28. per. ‘cent of the in which’ read: that the auditor-general nt found $22. million of .govern- xpel ment spending during the past . ~ three years for. which absolute- ly. no value was received. - When I was born in 1944, there were 60,000, federal civil servants, Thirty yeara later we have twice'as many, people and seven: times ‘as-‘many civil servants. at's. going on? you get the payday blues, try tout the *- deduction stub, or, better -yet drag forth: the. income tax spending accounts for'a third of: the Gross National Product.:: Tm: not’ an economist. : I flunked economics at ‘college. 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