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Show Community Baptist Church Celebrates 65th Birthday The Community Baptist phurch will We celebrating it's 65th birthday March 7. The celebration really began on Wednesday, March 4th with evangalistic meetings and will include a birthday supper on Sunday evening at 5:30 at the Fellowship Hall en 544 Mivida Drive. Birthday Birth-day cakes will decorate the tables at the dinner. The church was organized in 1935 by a group of interested inter-ested citizens in Moab. Many of these same women organized organ-ized the Women's Literary Club 7 years earlier on March 9, 1898, they are now 72 years old. In 1950 the church changed their name Ifrom First Baptist Church to Community Baptist, because be-cause during a fire the community com-munity came to their aid and and helped to rebuild and donated do-nated money for the building build-ing of Bethany Hall. Since that time the church sold al) their property on East 1st North to the Seventh Day Adventist church. The only active posterity of the original charter members who live in Moab are Mrs. William Hayes, who grandmother grand-mother was Mrs. Mary Louise Goodman. Others are Dan and Jim Winbourn and Bruce Hardman, grandsons of Mrs. Mattie E. Turner, another charter member. Two members with a constant con-stant active record in the church since they joined are Howard W. Balsley, who be came a member about 1910 and Mrs. Ola Walker, who has been a member since 1914. Conducting services for the week-long celebration will be Rev. Arthur Green, Pastor of the Arthur and Center Valley Community Churches, Arthur, Nebraska. He is a well-known evangelist evange-list in the American Baptist Convention, according to Rev. Emil Balla. At one time hj served as State Evangelist in the State,, of Colorado. He will conduct a service each evening and will be in charge of the Sunday services as well. All members of the Church are invited to each of these sermons and to the dinner on Sunday. ,"'J-t-- -iir miiii iMii ' -r"i 'fimM Rev. Arthur Green |