LAY HELP IN CHURCHES

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30153, 10 June 1963, Page 8

LAY HELP IN CHURCHES

Ministers Get More Time For “Job” (N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, June 9. An appeal for laymen to take a greater part in the administrative work of the church was made ■in Dunedin on Saturday by Mr F. Gaze, a teacher from a church school in India.

If more experienced laymen were prepared to assist in the committee work of the church. Mr Gaze said there would be more time available for ministers to do their real job—that of preaching the Gospel and winning others for Christ.

Mr Gaze was speaking at the annual conference of the Otago and Southland Association of Churches of the Baptist Union of New Zealand. In India, church membership was growing because of :he personal contact between the Christian and nonChristian. Too often in New Zealand, he said, there were so many meetings that there was no time to make personal contact with those outside the church and church membership fell off. “For so many years we have had children's Sunday schools,” he said. “I am pleased to see the number of churches which are taking up the all-ages Sunday school idea.

‘‘Christian adults cannot win non-Christian children. We need Christian adults winning non - Christian adults.”

Rewriting History.—Egyptian history will be rewritten by university professors to eliminate "all impurities deliberately introduced into it,” the Culture and National Guidance Ministry announced. —Cairo, June 7.