CHURCH ANNIVERSARY

Evening Star, Issue 19619, 27 July 1927, Page 8

CHURCH ANNIVERSARY

SO UIH 1) E N Ei)J. N DAI ’I i STS

Despite the net weather jjl)OU eighty members of tlio emigregatioii °l the Sou ill Dunedin Baptist Church assembled to celebrate the fortieth anmvci'sarv of their church last night. The” l!ev. Stanley Jcnkin occupied the chair, and the proceed mgs were, opened with a hymn, alter winch Mi J. Bond led a prayer. ’ The annual report, "Inch "as read by Mr C. J. Durraeuit, stated that durum the vear the new names on the roll exceeded those that had been struck off by iwo, and the present niembeiship stood at Tib. During the year a, total sum of £0!)S had been given, avenndng Did iUs per week. The Sunday school roll contained names. The young meiTs class, under trio leadership of Mr Mond, had made good progress during the year, and had an average attendance ol twenty-one out of a total of thirty. The young women's Bible class, under Mrs Jenkin, was in a flourishing condition, with a membership of twenty, H was regretted that, the Young People’s League was no longer in existence, hut (ho question of reviving a meeting tor the young people was to be considered at an early date. Mr (J. K. Bcckingsalc, president ot the Otago and Southland Auxiliary ol the Baptist Union, expressed the conillations ot his executive on the work that had been carried out during the year. Mr Jenkin compared the. members of fhe church with the members of a .largo family. Just as. f lic members ot a family had a, diversity ot gilts and aspirations, so had the members of the clinreh. If all set themselves to work for the common good, he bad little tear for the future of the South Dunedin Baptist Church.