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Show A Lifetime Of Servic- eNow On 11th Mission,,. F MBITJO ffMEB (Skhsjeksihigs BENSON, ? f i B ' Involvement ' Plan to learn to be a mi.ii.ster semiby remaining within the cloistered walls of a is who minister a declared Presbyterian nary," about to Join the faculty of Union Theological Semi- It is bo longer possible nary i t, & In present day The Every member a Notable about this mission was the reopening of trading in Mexico Gty. Elder Fenn started door to door trading, that had been discontinued, due to file conditions and time. A zealous Church worker, Mr. Fenn has given a third of his life to missionary work, f.e has fulfilled 10 missions His next mission was the Spanish American in 1947. He was set apart by Elder Spencer W. Kimball as one of the two councilors to serve with Pres. Lorin F. Jones in El Paso. admonition, missionary," has been a way of liie for Alvah Fenn for practically all of his 79 years. prom ttw ReHglou News Service and ft wires of the Associated frees and the United Press International ) f for the Church and was set apart tor his Uth mission about a month ago. His wife has served four of these with him. Richmond, Va. The Rev. Bruce Robertson of the New Covenant Presbyterian church In Miami has resigned his post to direct the new Program in Church and Society at the Virginia theological schooL I will attempt to find ways to involve students learning situations outside the seminary, he said. "I will place them in government, community organizations, hospitals, prisons, businesses, research, institutions anywhere I can. Mexico. Short Subject In 1910 Mr. Fenn married Carmen Forster in Douglas, Ariz. She was honored as Arizonas Mother of the Year in 1953. The couple have 14 children, 11 of them living. Suffering many of the early day hardships, the couple left Mexico in 1912 due to the revolution. Times were hard and we had tefr ev-- e r ything we The United Methodist Church has produced its first short subject film and will distribute it through a major theatrical agency for showing in commercial theaters. To be released in June by the Churchs Division Radio and Film Communication of Television, (TRAFCJO), file film is called Hello Up There and will be made available along with Columbia Pictures Run Wild, Run Free. feae Columbia partially financed the montage of ture, which focuses on a original paintings and comments by eight and seven-minut- owned sight-and-sou- Mexico, nine-year-o- ld The building in which President Andrew Jackson joined the church was reopened in Hermitage, Tenn., and dedicated as a shrine. Known as the Old Hermitage church, the brick Uplifting Mankind can no longer be an The modem missionary amateur filled with the simple love of his fallow man, 30 Maryknoll priests and biothers were told at annual departure ceremonies at Maryknoll, N.Y. Rather, said Bishop Peter L. Gerety of Portland, Me., the man who brings the Word of God to foreign lands must be filled with expertise in the uplift of the human race according to modem methods and on a modem scale. The address was' heard by more than 4,000 persons parents, relatives and friends of the departing missionaries who came to the motherhouse of the Maryknoll order here to witness the departure ceremony. Poverty Programs strategy committee in Montreal urged Canadas Christian congregations to earmark 3 to 5 percent of their annual Income for a concerted war on poverty at home and abroad. This beginning in 1970 would be an investment of about 310 million annually in people and projects and would also put our money where our mouth is when advocating that Canada allot one percent of its gross national product to international report, issued aid, fite committee said. The in booklet form, was a direct result of a national conference of 500 delegates from 12 denominations which was convened by the Canadian Council of Churches (OCC) and the Canadian Catholic Conference (COO, voice of the hierarchy. inter-churc- h self-hel- p e in Mr. Traveling by chilwagon was painstaking with two of months the eight youngest dren, age. At Tombstone our youngest son, Frankie, took sick and we spent our last money for a doctor, said Mr. 'Jackson Church structure was damaged by fire in 1965 after 142 years of continuous service. It is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, U.S. (Southern). General Jackson gave the land for the church in 1823 but it was not until 1839 that he was converted and became a member. The preacher who. the question on Presasked the fiery byterian doctrine was the Rev. John T. Edgar. Alvah Fenn no slowing down . . . Fenn. arms. He passed away in Mothers The family settled in the small Mormon community of Powerene, near Benson. I worked hard and we accumulated enough so I thought I could go oo remy first mission. In October 1916 I ceived my call to the Southern States. I was leaving my wife and four children. It seemed that every obstacle was being put into my path to discourage me from going. I had a choice mare I was going to leave for Mother to use to drive the buggy. The mare slipped, fell and died. I bought 100 chides figuring on the family having fryers, pullets and eggs to eat A flock of crows swooped down on them and in a short time had killed all but one. I had a nice milk heifer "that would make a milk cow. She got bloated and I lost a yearling calf. Whenever I had a setback, it make us more determined. Satan wasnt going to discourage my wife nor me. would I got to Salt Lake City by train, and while there I met a friend from Mexico, Omar Bundy, now of St George, who had been called to the isame mission. We had tickets to Chattanooga, Tenn. We were among 35 called to that mission. requested to change their mission assignments to the Spanish American. Elder Bundy consented, but I held off. I had been raised in Mexico and we had been mistreated and driven out and I didnt want any more to do with them. A small voice kept urging me, You go to the Mexican Mission and you will be blessed, so I agreed. While in Del Norte in Colorado, Elder Fenn was a victim of a mob. He and Elder Bundy had split up, trading door to door. I had the impression to get out of there, but before I could get to Elder Bundy, a mob had grown. The mob leader shouted to me, You represent the church of the devil I replied, doctrine. and man-mad- e When you come before the judgment seat of Christ to be judged, you will know I represen i the true church of Christ. With that he hit me and then he hit me again, knocking me down, breaking my nose, and he began kicking me and hitting me. He saw a daw hammer on a nearby gate post, and went after it. Grabbing it he came at me. I thought, if he hits me with that, he will kill me. A still small voice came to me and said, Hell never hit you with that hammer. I prayed, God protect me. He tried to raise the hammer to deal the final blow, but his hand froze. He couldnt move and finally the hammer fell, he gathered himself together in panic and fled. rs Pres. Rey L. Pratt from Mexico Salt Lake Gty, to open up the Spanish American Mission (now Mexican) and he had one missionary. He caw us and asked where we were going. We told him to file Southern States. twas in Later he and Elder Bundy received word that they had teen I In October 1962 we were set apart In Salt Lake Gty by Elder Boyd K. Packer. He promised us that, if you will heed the council of the mission president, youll see the power of the Lord manifested such as youve never seen in your life. This was literally fulfilled when they were about to close Azuel, a town about 180 miles away. The mission presidency asked us to go there, and perhaps we could keep it open. We .went and within two weeks we had baptized a young man 20 years old. Then we baptized a young lady, whose mother, 70 years of age, had been bedfast for a long time. Mother insisted the ill lady was worthy of a blessing. After I had blessed her, she got up and tossed away all of her medicine. That night we had to walk about blocks to put on a cottage meeting. We came home about 9 p.m. and Mother went to bed. I had been writing at the table in the bedroom. She said, Alvah, something terrible has happened to me. I cant see. She raised up and repeated it. Then she fell unconscious. 11 Fenn said. children. V On his ninth mission, Mr. and Mrs. Fenn were called to Argentina. Bom Nov. 23, 1889 in Lawrence, Emery County, Utah, Mr. Fenns life was typical of the early pioneers. He was the son of pioneer parents, John Fenn and Matilda Sorenson. In the early 1890s, the family moved to hplp establish the Mormon colonies in in An ARE. Mr. Fenn continued to serve in the a missionary. His next official mission wasnt until seven sons and seven daughters had been bom, and three sons, Karl R. of Lake Arrowhead, Calif., A1 F. of Phoenix and Don F. of Benson had fulfilled foreign mis- Church, always sions. He went to Mexico Gty with son, Karl, serving his second mission in 1946. WEEK The oil was on the table. I took it and anointed and blessed her. Her face was pale as death. She gave a little gasp and another, shorter, and when I felt her pulse, it had stopped. 1 said to myself I guess the Lord has taken Mother. What will the children think of her dying so far from home. They so adored her. I continued to hold her pulse, then it occurred to me that I had better get a doctor. I got a neighbor to find one, and the word spread in the neighborhood. Neighbors came in, and soon the doctor arrived, but he had forgotten his bag, so he sent someone to the corner drug store to fill a prescription. Meanwhile, Mothers pulse sumed and she began to recover. re- No one can imagine a doctor rushing to a call on an emergency without his bag. The Lords hand was in that too, because this wouldnt have been a miracle had the doctor been able to provide medication, Mr. Fenn maintained. After coming home there was much rejoicing, but the rocking chair was not meant for them. Mr. Fenn accepted a call to his 10th mission, in the Southern Arizona Stake. The worth of souls are great. There is much to do and we should he at our Fathers business, he said. We all can do it. Since the age of 65, when most men retire, he has served on six missions, held more than 2,000 cottage meetings, organized two branches, said 4,000 prayers, sang 3,500 hymns, conducted 1,700 cottage meetings in Spanish, bap tized more than 300 people, opened up missionary work in Sonora and Lower California, and s.en the power of the Lord manifested in hundreds of ways. ENDING JUNE 21, 1969 CHURCH-- 11 a' |
