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FD-350 (Hey. 7-16-63) (dount Clipping SMBERS wove INT) RENOVATED SINTFENTH S First services since TYR was bombed Sene THEET BAPTIST CHURCH were held Sundsys ° > Doors of church open first time since bomb Baptist The Negro church in the dewn is doors in town area held regular wor walhgham Sart far the first ship services under the leader f since it wax Sointed last ship of the flev John H. Cross . sastor 2 weenth Street wet reopened Spr. WO. Hester. secretary of missions tw special groups of the Alabama Stute Baptht . Codvemion. spoke from Rev + Sites TL which reatly~- “Amt sa a new heaven and anew earth DR. HESTER said thal out of ithis fext come tae ways ard means of developing a blue- print of the new earth. “The new carth will come oniy as we follow the strategy of Christ,” Dr Hester said HESTER TOLD the conse. gation that an the day of the honibing he wrote to the Guniwes of four girls whe were killed in the hot Victims af the une solved explosion were Carol Robertson 14, Denise McNair, tt, Addie Mae Collins, 14 Cyn Wesley. 14. i The congregation gathered unt side the church befere the sery- dees, where the message board ‘still carries the date, Sept. 15 'Then Cross led them Into. the santuary for the first time $n tine months. Some wepi. Sothe ‘athiied. Some embraced Fourteen persons were bap- tised. Sunday Schoul was beld in the basement rooms where the young childrea dled. and CROSS SAID the church was rebuilt’ with offerings fam around the world totalling more than $200,000. A memorial swin- jdow depletitgy “the suffering jservant’ Ig yet to arrive from \Wales, he said. Atanley B. Exhols of Birmihg- ham, the architect who reto- vated the church, was intro- eat to the congregation. Tro while newsmen received 4 warm‘) welcome . West Africa, Canada and a i Hs came f. eos poate “ r Fouts = BAL SOMB | Heng nvestigated state.) ie page THE BIRMINGHAM NEW! THE BIRMINGHAM POST~HERALD BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA a v+be04 Kil STR BLNAL BLOOMER JOURN Ky KM BIRMINGHAM hing ‘tlice