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WORKERS APPRECIATED Commendation of the Excellent Work Being Accomplished in the Northern Part of the State by Mr, Wicker and Mr. Luther A S AN EVIDENCE of the excellent work being done in the neglected dis
It has long been a problem with the churches of the county how the spiritual needs of the many communities which have no churches near them might be ministered unto. Occasionally a minister would make a visit to some neighboring community and hold a religious service, but these have been very infrequent, and very little has been accomplished. Just when the local ministers were earnestly seeking for some plan whereby they could provide for dispensing the
tricts of California, through trained work ers of the Bible Institute, George -P. Wicker, who, with his wife, is supported in the field by the Christian Endeavor Society of the Church of the Open Door, has effected a complete interdenominational organization of Colusa county, and Edgar Luther, also of the Bible Institute, has been
GEORGE P. WICKER AND EDGAR LUTHER The former with his motor, the later with his cayuse, in Colusa County
selected as the evangelist and is now in the field. This is only one of the things Mr. Wicker has accomplished. The Colusa Daily Sun, in a recent issue, made the fol lowing statement, giving endorsement of the work: One of the very favorable signs, and one of special local interest, that Christ’s Church Universal is getting closer together, and in its various branches becoming more harmonious, sympathetic and co-operative, is to be noted in a new work just being started in this county, which will be known as the “Colusa County Church Extension Work.” v
Gospel in some effective manner in the neglected communities, George P. Wicker, a field worker for a Los Angeles Christian Endeavor Society, happened into the field and laid a plan before the ministers of the county whereby the problem bids fair to be solved. The plan provides for the employment of an interdenominational county evangelist whose time and energies shall be given solely to traveling over the county and min istering to the needs of the different fields without church advantages, by holding Gospel meetings, organizing Sunday Schools, and wherever he finds a family who have no opportunity of attending an organized Sunday School, and they will
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