CAPT. WALTER F. HENRY
Commanding Officer
CDR. WESLEY E. SKILL
Executive Officer
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Next Sunday will be observed as
"Layman's Sunday" at the Protentant
Services. Capt. H. L. Anderson, MC,
USN, will be the speaker for the day.
The service itself will be led by an
other layman.
Layman's Sunday has been a regular
occurance, at least since 1953 and
many church calendars have listed it
for the third Sunday in October. Due
to late arrival of promational mater
ials and planning helps, it is being
observed here one week later than us
ual. Layman's Sunday is the day when
in thousands of local congregations
throughout the United States and Can
ada and in the. chapels of our service
men throughout the world, the regular
worship service is conducted by the
laymen of the church, at least in some
part.
It is the Layman's day to prepare
the service, to conduct the worship,
to give public witness! The regular
order of service need not necessarily
be followed.
The purpose of this observance is
not to minimize the importance of a
trained ministry ordained for the chief
purpose of preaching the Gospel. It
is not to take from them their regular
place of leadership in public worship*
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Rather it is to enlist and encourage
all laymen to participate fully in the
church's life and witness and to con
front all our men with the message,
"Always be ready,"
It is the Chaplain or Minister's
place to give assistance, to counsel
and to help in the preparation for the
worship for that day. A letter from
the National Council of Churchs states,
"Pastors who have seen to it that this
observance is included in the calendar
of the congregation, and given to it
endorsement and publicity,testify that
they have been richly rewarded."
Congregations, too, have been rich
ly rewarded, not only by the change
and knowing it is a lay-lead service,
but also by the thought-provoking mess
ages usually presented. It is a time
for all lay-men and lay-women to real
ize they are as much representatives
of the church and what it teaches as
are the Chaplains and Ministers.
Layman's Sunday thus offers the lay
men and laywomen of the Church an im
pressive opportunity to witness pub
licly and unitedly to our faith in
Jesus Christ5 to testify to what He
means to us and can mean to others;
and to demonstrate our place in Christ
ian witnessing.
Everyone should plan to attend!
Chaplain Vernon Stenberg
ABOARD USS LOOKOUT—(NavNews ) —The 9
improbability Barrier has been broken
and the crew of this radar picket ship
can take pride for their part in it.
On Sept. 29, unceasing vigilance was
finally rewarded and "Boot" seamen
throughout the Navy will probably take
heart in the fact that the LOOKOUT'S
lookout located a mail buoy.
The pick-up was made 428 miles east
of Cape Charles, Va. The buoy con
tained two letters, one addressed to a
Capt Harper of no address and one to a
Miss C. L. Goodbody in England. There
were also two quarts of blueberries,
presumably for the finder. It is ant
icipated that this may lead to dis
covery of a left-handed screwdriver
and 12 and 24 volt battery water.
-usn
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