p. 13 | Our Work and Workers

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 7, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 14.

Our Work and Workers

A LITTLE church of eight members has been organized at Azusa, Cal., taking in also Glendora and Covina.

AT Rockport, Texas, a church of eleven members has been organized, largely of members from other companies.

FIVE members have been added to the church at Santa Cruz, Cal., through the labors of Miss Laura Morrison and Brother H. Shultz.

DURING the last nine months of 1908 more than 150 persons accepted the truth under instruction from the laborers of the Iowa Conference.

FOUR have been added to the number of believers in Victoria, B. C., since the beginning of the year through the labors of Brother F. H. Conway.

BROTHER J. A. MINNER writes from Fargo, Kan., that nine have signed the covenant to obey the commandments of the Lord. There is a deep interest, tho the opposition is strong.

AT Elida, N. M., Brother H. E. Giddings has been instrumental in bringing the knowledge of present truth to the people. Eleven signed the covenant and five more are obeying in part, waiting for further light.

A NEAT church building eight miles west of Durham, Kan., was dedicated free from debt, March 14. Brothers G. F. Haffner, J. Riffel, and Chas. Thompson conducted the services. The membership is largely German.

BROTHER F. H. DeVINNEY reports the organization of a church of thirty-one members at Schenectady, N. Y. Two short series of tent meetings were held in the city, and Brother C. DeWitt Sharp and Sister Emma Lawrence followed up the interest.

BRETHREN F. R. ROGERS and L. V. Crawford, laborers in Vicksburg, Miss., lost their homes by fire, March 4. Brother Rogers is superintendent of our mission school in that city. No one was injured excepting Brother Rogers, whose left hand was severely burned.

THE work in Nebraska during the year 1908 was very successful. The net increase in membership was 305. The total membership is 2,630. Offerings for foreign missions amounted to $14,785. Of this sum, $1,085 was raised by the young people, who are organized under the Missionary Volunteer movement. Twenty church schools are in operation.