METHODIST CHURCH.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20909, 17 July 1933, Page 6

METHODIST CHURCH.

LEPJSTON OR CI." IT. The Re v. F. B. Lawrence presided over the quarterly meeting of the Leeston Methodist Circuit. Sympathy was extended to Mrs F. Bishop in the death of'her sister, to the family of Mrs Martin (Taumutu), and to Mrs H. Wright Johnson, who is in hospital. The meeting cordially approved of a suggestion that Mr Lawrence should exchange pulpits with the Rev. N. A. Friberg, of the Leeston Anglican parish, on , July 30. A similar arrangement b'etween Mr Lawrence and the Rev. D. N. Pryor (Presbyterian)

had been approved at tae meeting. tt The membership was r*pyS*Ei be 213 seniors. 68 juniors, ana *LS*' fants, the senior membership BfJjS, M increased by eight, during the j The balance-sheet gave thei|*SSb.i, for the quarter as £122 fe debit balance had been re*iee« £24 Is to £l2 lis lid. It plained that only for sev«al tional items of expenditure 1 would have been a vote of thanks was accord** ■EJjfc'ii cuit ladies' guild and other JjESm whose efforts at the recent themum show produced a *»w* jOj "it was stated that the si on appeal would be made current quarter. *^aWlH>s' Satisfactory reports were. from Sunday schools and other people's organisation*. " M