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Family Services Are Scheduled For Christmas

Christmas Morning family services will be held at 9:30 and 11 at the Coral Gables Congregational Church, 3010 De Soto Blvd. Special Christmas music will be presented by the Sanctuary and Pilgrim Fellowship Choirs. A Young Adult Conference will be held Dec. 26-28 at Lake Byrd Lodge. The Senior High Work Camp will be held there Dec. 28-30. "The World Around Us," an all-color motion picture lecture series featuring world travel and exploration, will be the during the spring season. The first in the series of five lectures, "The America Columbus Knew," will be held Wednesday, Jan. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary. The lecture will be narrated by Dr. Arthur C. Twomey, director of the Division of Education at Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.

They'll Go Caroling Tonight

The Christian Youth Fellowship of the First Christian Church, 222 Menores Ave., will go Christmas caroling Thursday, Dec. 22. The group will sing for church shut-ins and the aged. The adult choir will hold its annual Christmas party at the home of Mimi Monk, 1960 SW 61st Ct., Friday, Dec. 23, at 8 p.m. Husbands and wives of choir members are invited. All the children's departments will observe Christmas with "birthday cakes for Jesus" at Church School on Sunday, Dec. 25. The program will include scripture readings and carol singing.

Church Plans Student Night

The annual Student Night program will be held at the Shenandoah Baptist Church, 2225 SW 17th Ave., on Sunday, Dec. 25, at 7:45 p.m. Following the evening service, the Rev. and Mrs. Lloyd N. Whyte invite all students and their dates to meet in the church dining room. A "World Premier" of movies taken throughout the years of outstanding events of the Shenandoah Church will be shown Dec. 31 at 9:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. This will be followed by a New Year's Eve Watchnight Service at 11:15 p.m.

Gables Grants Funds To Help Flower Show

The Coral Gables City Commission last week voted an extra $250 to help back the flower show which will be sponsored by the Coral Gables Garden Club, Feb. 24-24, at the Masonic Lodge Hall. This raised the total appropriation to $100 for the public show, scheduled to open at 1 p.m., Feb. 24, and close at 9 p.m. the following day.

FOAM RUBBER

FOR ANY PURPOSE LEWISON INDUSTRIES 2230 S. W. 8th ST. PHONE HI-8-4390

SERTEL-REDUCKA The Insurance Men

AUTO FIRE BONDS LIFE SERTEL-REDUCKA The Insurance Men 150 S. MIAMI AVE. FR 1-7671

Temple To Celebrate Bar Mitzvah, Bas Mitzvah

HOWARD SIMON CHERYL KRONOWITZ On Saturday at Temple Judea, at 10:30 a.m., Howard Simon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Simon, will be Bar Mitzvah during the Torah Service, with Rabbi Morris A. Skop and Cantor Herman K. Gottlieb officiating. Howard has been a member of the Hebrew School for the past five years and will graduate at the close of the term this year. He has been a member of the Sunday School for the past eight years. He is a seventh grade student at Ponce de Leon Junior High School. His parents will be hosts at the Kiddush-Santification immediately following the service in his honor. Out-of-town guests for the Bar Mitzvah will be his aunts and uncles, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Magun and Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Magun of Connecticut; and an aunt, Mrs. Thelma Birnberg and her son from Los Angeles. * * * On Friday, Dec. 23, at 8:15 p.m., Cheryl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kronowitz, will be Bas Mitzvah during the Sabbath Service at Temple Judea, with Rabbi Skop and Cantor Gottlieb officiating. Cheryl is a graduate of the Hebrew School of the Temple which is attended for the past five years and the Sunday School for eight years. Following her Bas Mitzvah she will enter the Confirmation Department. She is an eighth grade student at Ponce de Leon Junior High School. Out-of-town guests for the Bas Mitzvah will be an aunt, Madelyn Zultan of Chicago; an uncle, Joe Heilbrom of California, and her brother, Ronald, with his wife, Bailee, and daughter, Rachel, of Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. Kronowitz will be hosts at the Oneg Shabbat following the service and will present the floral offering for the pulpit in honor of the occasion.

Sunday School Will Sing Of Christmas

"A Christmas Program in Song and Pageantry" will be presented by the Sunday School of South Miami Lutheran Church, 7190 Sunset Dr., Thursday, Dec. 22, at 7:30 p.m. The program will be held in the church garden. The Chancel Choir will sing at Christmas Eve Candlelighting Services at 7:30 and 11 p.m. Worship Services will be held Christmas Day at 9:30 and 11 a.m. Music will be by the combined children's choirs.

Methodists Plan Christmas Eve Service

Christmas Eve family service will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the sanctuary of the Coral Gables Methodist Church, 536 Coral Way. Dr. Lewis N. Head, pastor, will deliver a Christmas Day sermon at the 9:30 and 11 a.m. services. New members will be received into the church at this time. Twilight Vespers will be held at 5:30 p.m., Christmas Day. The combined youth choirs will present a musical program Sunday, Jan. 1, at 5:30 p.m.

Named To Board

O. K. Houstoun Jr., designer of Coral Gables' new fire station, has been named associated member of the Coral Gables Board of Architects, a board he has served on before.

11 New Patrol Cars Are On Their Way

Coral Gables police are scheduled to receive 11 new patrol cars costing $19,893 following approval of a contract with Monroe Zeeder by the City Commission. Two of the new Plymouths will be unmarked for use by plainclothesmen and others. Monroe Zeeder was the low bidder.

Coral Gables Church of Christ

"The churches of Christ salute you" Rom: 16:16 Coral Gables Church of Christ Meeting At University of Miami Room 308 Merrick Bldg. PHONE CA 1-3014 SUNDAY A.M. BIBLE STUDY - 10:00 A.M. SUNDAY WORSHIP - 11:00 a.m.; 6:00 p.m. "DOING BIBLE THINGS IN BIBLE WAYS AND CALLING BIBLE THINGS BY BIBLE NAMES"

Combs Funeral Home INC.

WALTER H. JACK J. PAUL H. Combs Funeral Home INC. Serving Faithfully since 1896 North-east Chapel 1539 N.E. 2nd Ave. Coral Gables Chapel 1661 S.W. Douglas Rd. (37th Ave.) Paul H. Combs, Sr. Mgr. Glen H. Spencer Mgr. PHONE FR 3-2101 DADE COUNTY'S OLDEST FUNERAL SERVICE

Christmas Day Service Will Be For Families

The University Baptist Church will hold a Christmas Twilight Family Service Christmas Day at 5 o'clock in lieu of the evening service. "The Inn of Life" will present the story of the birth of Christ through colored slides of the great artists' conception of events that have come down to us through the centuries. Accompanying each scene will be scripture call productions readings telling the story of each. The Chancel and Chapel choirs, under the direction of Cecil Harper, with Mrs. James Markley III, reader, will share with the minister, Dr. T. Rupert Coleman, in the service. The Best News At the regular 8:30 and 11 o'clock morning services, Dr. Coleman will bring the Christmas message on "The Best News." The church will honor her 75 students attending 20 colleges, or institutions of higher learning, including the Air Force and Coast Guard Academies, on Wednesday evening. The students will be honored guests of the church at dinner, beginning at 5:45 o'clock. The Traditional Student Night Service, under the leadership of the Rev. Gent Cofer, minister to youth, will follow at 7:30 o'clock in the sanctuary. 'Found Faithful' The service, the theme of which is "Found Faithful," will be presided over by Marshall Parsons, of Dartmouth University. Among the other students participating will be: Sandy Hill, Andy and Judy Lester, William Woodward Jr., Erick Erickson, Steve Ulmer, Anna Mae Wallace, Carol Clifford, Martha Sue Hawkins and Edwin Aherns, Jr. A special college choir, under the leadership of Cecil Harper, will give the music for the service. Following the service, a reception and recreational period will be held in the new recreational patio of the church, especially for college students who are at home during the holiday season.

Orchids Fanciers Growing

President Lewis C. Vaughn of the South Florida Orchid Society has announced that this organization's membership just passed the 500 mark and is expected to reach 600 before the International Orchid Show in February.

CANDLE LIGHT SERVICES CHRISTMAS EVE

7:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. Christmas Musicale presented by MR. ARTHUR MILLER will be held between services ST. JAMES Lutheran Church 110 Phonetia Avenue Pastor, Earl L. Hively

Birthday Cake For Jesus Grove Woman Started A National Tradition

When a small boy asked his bedridden mother whose birthday came on Christmas, a six-year old tradition known as a "Birthday Cake for Christ" began. That tradition started in Miami and today is observed throughout the country. Six-year-old Douglas Prowse asked that question on a hot July day in 1953. His mother, Mrs. C. O. Prowse Jr., of 4040 Matheson Ave., Coconut Grove, answered with a poem that she wrote while bedridden for two months. Children Confused Writing "Once God Gave A Birthday Party" made Mrs. Prowse wonder how many other children were confused with that same question. "I began looking through magazines for suggestions about birthday cakes that might be appropriate but couldn't find any," said Mrs. Prowse, "so I designed my own." She became more interested in the thought of a birthday party for Christ and began searching for any material that might contribute to a suitable ceremony. "I collected 22 pages of material and added to it each year. It included songs and poems, readings and suggestions for Christmas pageants." In 1954 Mrs. Prowse approached the Greater Miami Council of Churches and the Ministerial Association with the idea and the material she had edited. Ten Churches Each of ten churches added ceremonies and the material was compiled in a brochure made available to the public. This six-year tradition that has become a firm part of Christmas celebrations in churches around the country is still based on Mrs. Prowse's theme of a "Birthday Cake for Christ". The lighting of candles symbolizes the spirit of Christmas and religious ceremonies from Mrs. Prowse's and local church contributions accompany it. On the cake is a silver star and an angel symbolizing the quest of the Wise Men and the promise made to the shepherds of peace on earth and good will toward men. Twenty red candles are lit... one for each century since the first Christmas. Families Like Idea Individual families have taken up Mrs. Prowse's idea, many of them serving the cake with Christmas dinner or when the presents are opened. Mrs. Prowse's purpose in the idea was to "renew and deepen the understanding of the true meaning of Christmas as the birthday of Christ." A description of the cake as well as the material gathered by Mrs. Prowse and local church groups can be obtained free of charge from the Miami Publicity Department, 320 NE 5th St., Miami, Fla. This brochure outlines the entire project as edited from the material collected by Mrs. Prowse. It represents long hours of work and the contributions of many people. "I couldn't even begin to name all the people who helped produce this brouchure," said Mrs. Prowse. "I merely spearheaded the project... many others did the work, voluntarily."

STUART B. PATTERSON

ALL FORMS OF INSURANCE STUART B. PATTERSON 1510A S. DIXIE HWY. CORAL GABLES PHONE MO 5-1385

Communion Eve Service Planned

Annual Christmas Eve Communion services of South Miami Methodist Church, Ponce de Leon Blvd. at Red Road, will be held at 11 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 24, with special music and candlelight. At 8:30 and 11 a.m. Christmas Day, Dr. Ralph B. Huston, the pastor, will speak on "Unto You ... This Day ... A Savior." The Chancel Choir, under the direction of Glenn Draper, will present special music. The traditional service of carols and candles will be held Chistmas night with Dr. Huston preaching on "The Innkeeper's Mistake."

ST. MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH

110 Sunset Dr MO 5-7333 Visitors Welcome Sunday Eucharist, 8:00, 9:15 Nursery & Church School at 9:15 Wed 6:30 PM Family Night Holy Eucharist - Dinner & Instruction Class

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH SERVICES First Church of Christ, Scientist

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH SERVICES Sunday Services 9:30 and 11:00 A.M. Sunday School 9:30 and 11:00 A.M. Wednesday Testimony Meeting 8:00 P.M. First Church of Christ, Scientist Coral Gables 410 Andalusia Avenue Free Public Reading Room Weekdays: 9 A.M. to 6 P.M except Monday and Friday 9 A.M to 9 P.M. Sunday: Reading only 2:00 to 4:30 P.M. 400 Andalusia Avenue

Christmas Greetings

To all our friends -- old and new -- we extend best wishes on this happy occasion. It's CHRISTMAS Time

WORSHIP University BAPTIST CHURCH

WORSHIP 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. The Best News By Dr. T. R. Coleman 5 P.M. Christmas Twilight Service "The Inn of Life" In Picture and Song 6:30 P.M.: Training Union New Member Fellowship Wednesday 7:30 P.M. Prayer Meeting 9:30 A.M.: Bible School University BAPTIST CHURCH RIVIERA DR. & SEGOVIA ST. Coral Gables T. Rupert Coleman, Ph.D., Pastor