Our mountain work [serial] . tery andsnowy day the Women of AshevillePresbytery attended the adjournedannual meeting at Brevard on Novem-ber 2nd with a total enrollment of ap-proximately 150. Mrs. R. E. McClure, president, wasin charge of the meeting which was pre-ceded by a meeting of the executiveboard of the Presbyterial. The work of the church was present-ed in a number of ways, and special em-phasis was laid on the Bible study plansfor 1955. Mrs. R. A. Dobyns, Presidentof the Women of Appalachia Synod,outlined the objectives and goals forlocal groups and individuals in 1955. Beginning in
Our mountain work [serial] . tery andsnowy day the Women of AshevillePresbytery attended the adjournedannual meeting at Brevard on Novem-ber 2nd with a total enrollment of ap-proximately 150. Mrs. R. E. McClure, president, wasin charge of the meeting which was pre-ceded by a meeting of the executiveboard of the Presbyterial. The work of the church was present-ed in a number of ways, and special em-phasis was laid on the Bible study plansfor 1955. Mrs. R. A. Dobyns, Presidentof the Women of Appalachia Synod,outlined the objectives and goals forlocal groups and individuals in 1955. Beginning in 1955, District Meet-ings will be held in the spring, andthe annual meeting in the fall. Plansfor the 1955 district meetings have notbeen made, but an invitation for the an-nual meeting in the fall was given bythe church. ANDREWS CHURCH BUILDSMODEL CHURCH Mary Hope Day, with the help ofother children in a Vacation BibleSchool at Andrews, and under the guid-ance of Mrs. L. B. Nichols, made themodel church shown in the She was not present at the time thatthe picture was taken which shows(left to right) George Hoblitzell,Butchie Sursavage, David Slagle, MikeSheidy, and their teacher, Mrs. Nichols. $2,400 RECEIVED TO DATEON CHURCH EXTENSION Twenty - -one churches had sent$2, on the Church Extensionoffering up to November 15, of the remittances were partial. Nine churches which gave a total of$1, in 1953 had not made anyremittance to the above date for 1954,but it is expected that their gifts willexceed the 1953 figures. Present indications indicate a totaloffering of about $4,200, which will bedivided 60% for the Assembly and 40%for the Presbytery. In 1953 the offeringwas $3,500, all of which went to theGeneral Assembly. In support of the Capital Gifts pro-gram in the Presbytery and the GeneralAssembly, Asheville Presbytery hadasked the churches to give approximate-ly $9,400 this year. The response ofthe churches is, therefore, less than fiftyper cent
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