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Show 1 t UWf " 0 "it -n AUK il i jgQ O CHRISTIAN SINGERS will Celebrant singers to appear in concert Jon Slemkoski's Celebrant Singers, an internationally known Christian music ministry will present pre-sent a community-wide conceit, Thursday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 2100 West Highway 40. The concert is free of charge and a free-will offering will betaken. Concert goers will be treated to contemporary Christian music, praise and worship, and personal Parick Ryan Ryan earns Eagle Scout rank Patrick Ryan, son of Bill and Darlene Ryan, received his Eagle Scout award at a Court of Honor on July 29. He is a member of Troop 891 of the Glines Fifth Ward under the leadership of Val Dean Bell. To receive his Eagle award, Ryan painted 22 picnic tables at East Park campground under the direction of the Ashley District, U.S. Forest Service. He will be a ninth grade student at Vernal Junior High School in the fall. He is an avid hunter and in fact, shot a lion in the Book Cliffs last year. This year he is looking forward to hunting bear in the same area. He also enjoys fishing and collecting col-lecting baseball cards. 0 I tZ v s i ri I vrj (pjjftflfej) Prove ittoyourself. n W MBIIIMWBaT.wl,ii i ,a f appear at First Baptist Church in Vernal on Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. witness and ministry. Featuring ten singers and a twelve piece orchestra, orches-tra, Celebrant Singers will inspire and bless as they share the Gospel of Jesus Christ through a musical celebration. "Celebrant Singers is not 'just another an-other music group.' Our objective is to share the love of Christ," said Celebrant Singers founder, Stemkoski. "It's a powerful ministry! min-istry! It will touch your heart. Bring your family and friends. It's an experience ex-perience you won't soon forget" Celebrant Singers have traveled throughout all SO states and 52 foreign for-eign countries and have sung to more than four-million people in live concerts and countless others via broadcast media. Nations of ministry include India, Iran, Egypt, East and West Africa, Latin America, all parts of Europe (including (in-cluding the former Eastern Bloc), Hong Kong, the Philippines, and most recentiy, Cuba. During 1993 seven teams of Celebrant Singers will present over 1,400 concerts in some 30 nations, nine Canadian provinces and all 50 states. - '" ':"r Celebrant Singers is interdenominational interdenomi-national in nature. Multiple teams of committed, dedicated and talented young adults represent 38 states, nine Canadian provinces and several sever-al foreign nations. In November of 1992, Celebrant Singers sang for the first time in the island nations of Cuba and Haiti. They were also privileged to make an historic outreach into the previously previ-ously closed nation of Albania in June 1991. "While similar groups traditionally traditional-ly have had an exclusively Protestant audience, Celebrant Singers is the first full time contem- Temperatures Date High Low Precip August 3 85 57 August 4 77 52 August 5 78 46 August 6 83 45 August 7 88 53 August 8 79 49 .18 August 9 85 53 .34 Courtesy of Sky West Airlines OB 00331 anuMn (SEQS33 QjOSOQJ D KZ I I I ' I mM I I Iff J II 1 U atfW W A A ft 1 I I M II u Q $ IT (1 porary christian singing group to have a widespread ministry among America's 60-million Roman Catholics," Stemkoski added. "Since 1977, we've sung in more than 3,000 parishes throughout North America." In addition to live appearances, Celebrant Singers have released six recordings to date. Pastor Royce Shoemate and the members of First Baptist Church extend an invitation to attend the concert. For more information call the church office at 789-1 347. Remington receives Eagle Scout award Roger Remington, 15-year-old son of Sylvia Remington, received his Eagle Scout rank in Boy Scouts at a Court of Honor held July 29. He is a member of Troop 89 1 of the Glines Fifth Ward under the direction direc-tion of Daryl Cook. To receive his Eagle rank, Remington painted picnic tables at Iron Springs campground, under the direction of the Ashley District, U.S. Forest Service. Roger will be a sophomore at Uintah High School in the fall. He enjoys fishing and camping and plays basketball. 1 I u f I I 1 1 I 1 ; r V I I JT I SO X ft , - TSV. trict UiMon Roger Remington ' ho U Wilcken returns from Honors Academy During July 11 to 22, Kristi Wilcken attended the Governor's Honors Academy at Southern Utah University with 49 other students from across the state. While there, she acquired valuable skills in group dynamics and insight into current issues. The group of 50 students took several field trips to many of southern south-ern Utah's famous places such as Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, Brigham Young's winter home, and several others. Students had the opportunity op-portunity to hear many speakers from across the United States. They were also able to clean up a decrepit yard for an elderly couple living in Cedar City. Members of the local community helped to sponsor Miss Wilcken on her trip, including expenses and tuition tu-ition for the Governor's Honors Academy. Wayne Bristow Evangelist to speak in Vernal Evangelist Wayne Bristow of Oklahoma City, Okla. will be in the Vernal, Aug. 15 and 16 to meet with local Christian pastors and interested in-terested laypersons regarding the possibility of a Northeastern Utah Area Evangelistic Crusade for the Fall of 1994, according to spokesman Royce Shoemate, pastor of the Vernal First Baptist Church. Pastor Shoemate reports that "several "sev-eral months ago pastors of the following fol-lowing churches began meeting weekly to pray about the possibility of such a crusade in Vernal: Vernal Christian, World Vision Assembly, Bethel Chapel, and First Baptist." Mr. Bristow is a veteran of 40 years of active ministry. His primary prima-ry emphasis for most of these years has been crusade evangelism. Currently, he is assisting churches in North America and Brazil in preparation for such crusades. Experienced team personnel are available to assist him in these projects. pro-jects. While in Vernal, he will preach at 7:00 Sunday evening, August 15, at Western Park. The four sponsoring churches, and their pastors, extend an invitation to the public to attend. Music will be directed by Pastor Stan Arias and the various churches will present special music. Nursery care will be provided at each sponsoring spon-soring church's building. Mr. Bristow will be bringing an evangelistic evange-listic message as well as sharing various aspects of crusade evangelism. evange-lism. A no-host breakfast is planned at the Weston Lamplighter at 8:00 Monday morning, August 16. Mr. Bristow will speak on "Crusade Evangelism and Your Community." Reservations should be made by August 14 through the offices of the churches named above. This meeting meet-ing is open to pastors and lay-members of area christian churches. Vernal Express '1 x Vn l7 r 1 ' mat 1 m NELSON CRONYN and Judith Keller is biking across the United States to draw attention to the growing problem of adult illiteracy. Bikers go cross-country for literacy awareness "One in five adults in the U.S. over the age of 18 are functionally illiterate," said Judith Keller, former director of Bridgerland Literacy in Logan. For this reason, Keller and her husband, national champion cyclist, cy-clist, Nelson Cronyn, are biking across the United States to increase awareness in this growing social problem. In addition, they hope to raise funds for literacy programs across the country. They are riding a tandem bike. Judith and Nelson met while serving serv-ing in the Peace Corps in West Africa. That is where they both discovered dis-covered their interest in literacy. The cause has been dubbed "Bike for Literacy." "I guess you can say we are hooked on literacy. It is such a fundamental fun-damental thing but yet so powerful," power-ful," Keller said. Adult literacy is described as the ability to read and write in society. This is the ability to read a want ad, fill out a check or job application and find a phone number, among other basic things. The statistics show that one in seven adults in Utah are unable to accomplish what the other six people can. Keller says that illiteracy costs billions bil-lions of dollars every year in lost business productivity, unrealized tax revenue, unemployment compensation compensa-tion and crime. It also relegates thousands of state's residents to lifetimes life-times of isolation and embarrassment embarrass-ment Keller said that several external factors can affect a person's reading SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES THE PATRIARCHAL AGE 7 by Evangelist Samuel A. Matthews Vernal church of Christ Last week we studied how Joseph was exalted to be the ruler of all Egypt, second only to Pharaoh himself (Gen 41:38-45). After seven prosperous years, the world, including the land of Canaan, was struck by a general famine just as Joseph had said. To obtain food, Joseph's brothers were forced to come from Canaan to Egypt and bow before Joseph just as his childhood dreams had predicted (Gen 37:5-8). But after 21 years they did not recognize him (Gen 41:5342:8). Later, Joseph identified himself to his brothers and told them that he forgave them for having sold him into slavery. He then introduced his brothers to Pharaoh who welcomed them to Egypt. At Pharaoh's invitation their father, Jacob, and all of his descendants moved to Egypt and settled in Goshen, one of Egypt's choicest areas (Gen 45:1-46:28). 45:1-46:28). There they dwelled for several generations, growing into a mighty people who came to be known as the children of Israel or Israelites (Ex 1:7; cf. Gen 32:27-28). 32:27-28). Joseph died when he was 110 years old. Just before his death, knowing that his people would some day return to the promised land, Joseph directed that his body be preserved and carried back with them to be buried in the land of Canaan (Gen 50:22-26; Heb 1 1 :22). This last wish was carried out under the leadership of Moses and Joshua many years later (Ex 13:19; Josh 24:32). Moses' birth occurred many years after Joseph died. A new ruler came to the Egyptian throne who began to persecute Joseph's people in spite of all that Joseph had done for Egypt. He made their lives unbearable through merciless slavery and other inhuman treatment. Moses was born during his reign (Acts 17:17-20; Ex 1:8-14). Wednesday, August 11, 1993 15 and writing ability. These include family, school or medical problems or a combination of any or all of them. But most of the time these factors are intergenerational, meaning mean-ing parents passing the inability to read or write to their children. At the Bridgerland Literacy Project, the highest age classification classifica-tion of those adults unable to read or write is in their 30s, but they help people from 18 to 85-plus years old. Keller stated those people in their 30's seem to be in the highest group because they have found themselves being forced to learn to read or loose their livelihood. Cronyn added that so many companies today to-day have intense safety programs and if the employee can't read signs, MSDS sheets, etc., they will be fired from their job. Throughout their lives, most of Bridgerland's students had "bluffed" their way through school then into the work force and are finding that they will loose their job if they aren't able to read or write. The two hope to arrive in Washington, D.C. around September 15. They have plans to meet with a Utah delegation made, up of Bennett and Shepherd as well as congressmen from other states. With a connection to the White House, they hope to meet with President andor First Lady Clinton or the Gores1. - After leaving Vernal, the couple will spend a few days in Steamboat Springs, Colo, and Estes Park, before be-fore heading into Denver this week. To reduce the number of Israelites in Egypt, the wicked king had ordered that all male children should be thrown into the river at birth (Ex 1:22). In order to save her son's life, Moses' mother prepared a special baske tand set baby Moses afloat on the river in the reeds just offshore (Ex 2:1-4). Pharaoh's daughter found baby Moses and loved him immediately. She decided to rear him in the palace as her own son. In the providence of God, the princess allowed Mirian, Moses' sister, to select a Hebrew nurse for the child. In this way Moses' own mother was employed to take care of him (Ex 2:5-10). This famous story manifests God's providential love and care for His people. With his own mother for his nurse, Moses learned that he was one of God's chosen people, a Hebrew or Israelite. As Moses grew older he became more and more unhappy at the cruel treatment his people received at the hands of the merciless Egyptians. His resentment for the Egyptians intensified, until at the age of 40 he killed an Egyptian slave-driver whom he saw beating one of his fellow-Hebrews (Ex 2:11-12; Acts 7:23-24). Moses had made his choice to defend God's people rather than to enjoy the opportunities of the king's palace (Heb 11:24-27). Fearing for his life, Moses fled into the land of Midian where he served as a shepherd in the wilderness for 40 years (Acts 7:29-30). Next week we'll see how God freed Israel through Moses. Please, search the Scriptures and see whether these things are so (Acts 17:11). You are invited to attend our worship assembly at 2045 West Hwy. 40 in Vernal. We meet each Sunday at 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. On Wednesday we meet at 7 p.m. Call 781-0914 for more information. |