Show N New Nev v e Minister Installed at Local Church Service of Installation for George A Harcus Jr as min min- minister minister ister of Kingsbury Congregational Congregational Community Church was held Thursday of last week at pm Gods Kingdom is built of people not people in the mass but individuals was the message stressed by the Rev Dr Ben Mohr Herbster New York City speaking at atthe atthe the installation Dr Herbster is president of the United Church of Christ OUR WORTH as a church is dependent on how faithful faithful- faithfully ly we are able to minister in Christs Christ's name unto the least the last and the lost Dr Her Her- Herbster said The ministers minister's energy in Continued on page 5 i w r i 5 j Iv R Rey ey u t A g sf t tf f r Is YI N k kIN r IN VERNAL FOR THE annual meeting of Utah Utan Association of United Church of Christ were left to right the Rev George A Harcus minister of Kingsbury Community Church the Rev Rov Stuart W former fermer local minister and presently at the Corn Com Community Congregational Church in Provo the Rev John Brooke minister of Sandy Com Com- Community Church Sandy Utah and new moderator of 01 the Association the Rev Ben M Herbster New York CUy president United Church of Christ the Rev Sidney Buck Buck- Buckham ham Salt L Lake City minister of the Conference of the United Church ChUICh of Christ Wm J Manspeaker Denver director of the Pine Cliff financial campaign and Lester W tent Kent Denver Pine PIM Cliff financial counselor Staff photo Continued from page 1 making pastoral calls success in raising money his ability to fill the church sanctuary for two or three services on Sunday mean nothing said Dr Herbster unless the lives of people are touched and deepened and strengthened It was for people that Christ came lived and died and it was for people that God raised Him from the dead It Itis is to people that He gives the promise of eternal life It was to influence people for the good and the true and the beautiful that Christ established established the Church The busi ness of the Church is to min ister to people he said DR HERBSTER is attend attend- lag Ing the annual meeting of the Utah Association of the he Inter Inter- InternatiOnal nati natiOnal nal Conference of the United Church of Christ in inVernal Vernal Dr Herbster deplored the lukewarm quality of much of modern religious life The writers of advertising copy often write with greater in in- in intensity that ministers minister's display in their sermons Few church es press the mission of the Church with energy and devo devotion tion he said We have not gone over board in our devotion to Christs Christ's mission he declared Our task the United Church president said as on behalf of Christ is to be men and women of love Jove and good will We must not only remake the lives of individual mem- mem members members bers of the church we must the remake the life of the world It Is for this job of remaking and regenerating that the Church was established he concluded SPEAKING at the meeting of the Utah of the Inter Inter- Intermountain mountain Conference of the United Church of Christ here Dr Herbster said that over 2400 churches have declared themselves open to people of all races Dr Herbster also reported that the churches have given in the past ni nine e months to the denominations denomination's special Committee for Racial Justice Now The funds are being used to support efforts to secure pas passage sage of civil rights legislation for scholarship aid to Negro college students for a pro pro- program gram of Negro voter oter registration tion for aid to individuals ar arrested rested while witnessing for racial justice for help to min who incur difficulties because of their stand for Negro rights I SLEEP BETTER every night because I know that the Church is seeking to be rele- rele relevant relevant vant in this desperate struggle gle Dr Herbster said This Is the Number One moral is is- is issue sue of our day the Church cannot be silent in these des des- desperate times The United Church president dent also reported on the de- de denomination's denomination's nominations nomination's biennial emphasis sis on the Church and Ur Urbanization The objectives of this em em- he pointed out are 1 that the churches and their people may find new ways to become involved in facing the reality of urban culture 2 that the people outside the Church already involved in urban culture may discover the presence of Christ in their jobs and in the struggle for a amore amore more human world HE EMPHASIZED the im rote played by the local churches of the denomination I have little patience with the criticisms I heard these days which down grade the part which the local congregation has played and will continue to play in the work of the Lord Here is where the Gospel is proclaimed where the sick the bereaved the bruis- bruis bruised bruised ed and battered are comfort ed where horizons are lifted where loyalty is ex expressed pressed where resources are made available where children are nurtured where we take a for that which is right and just He also paid tt to the initiative vision and nation wn by the 30 con of the United Church that have been organized since the union of the Evang- Evang Evangelical and nd Reformed Church and Congregational Christian churches was achieved at the national level in 1961 Other speakers during the two day meeting were Burtch BeaU neall architect of the Congregational church who discuss discuss- discussed discussed ed an architects architect's tion of the building Mr and Mrs Stuart W 01 01 brich also were present Mr is a former fornier minister of the Vernal Church The Association passed the following resol resolution ti n Be it resolved that the dole dele delegates gates to the Utah Association United Church of Christ go goon goon on record as supporting the Civil Rights Bill currently in debate debat in the Senate without crippling amendments furth furth- or er that we urge Senators Moss and Bennett alter after reasonable debate to vote for cloture That if said action be taken by this body the newspapers I and our senators be bc notified |