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Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 8/14/2012 at 22:31:05

First Baptist-Presbyterian Church
Mount Ayr, Iowa

Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, September 25, 2003

First Baptist Church holds "Celebration of the Past" Oct. 1

First Baptist Church worship committee will be holding a "celebration of the past" service Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. at the First Baptist Church on Fillmore and Jefferson streets.

The community is invited to participate in the singing, communion and memory time during this special service inside the church.

A candlelighting ceremony will occur when members of the First Baptist Church, carrying a lit candle, will meet members of the Mount Ayr Presbyterian Church, with unlit candles, half-way between the churches and then continue on into the Presbyterian Church.

The two congregations of First Baptist Church and Mount Ayr Presbyterian Church have voted and approved the joining of the churches that will take place on January 1, 2004.

On Oct. 4, the First Baptist Church will hold a public auction including all furnishings, fixtures, stained glass windows and appliances with the money going to the building fund.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2012