CHURCHES OF CHRIST

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30586, 31 October 1964, Page 22

CHURCHES OF CHRIST

200 Delegates Next Week More than 200 delegates and visitors from Whangarei to Invercargill will assemble in Christchurch next week for the forty-second annual conference of the Associated Churches of Christ in New Zealand. The church this year celebrates its one hundred and twentieth anniversary since it founding in Nelson in 1844, but annual conferences only began in 1921. Since that time four conferences have been held in Christchurch, the last being in 1956. This year the conference will be presided over by a layman president, Mr R. Prince, a Wanganui architect. The vice-president is the Rev. W. Harford, senior Air Force chaplain in New Zealand. More than 50 churches will be represented at the conference. The host church will be the Moorhouse Avenue Church of Christ, where opening worship will be held on November 5. Conference committees will present reports for three days, and combined services will bring the conference to a close on November 8. The closing service on the Sunday evening will be held in St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church Where the preacher will be the Rev. R. D. G. Russ, minister of the Wanganui Church of Christ. The conference will be preceded on November 4 by the women’s conference at which guest speakers will be Miss Jean Delaney and Miss Heather Middlemiss, New Zealand medical missionaries with the Churches of Christ Mission in the New Hebrides.