photo MR. AND MRS. ERNEST HARRIS

Baptist Church Members Will Tour Bible Lands

PERHAM -- The First Baptist Church of Perham has undertaken the project of sending two of its members on a tour of Bible lands, which will include Athens and Corinth in Greece and a number of places of interest in Israel.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Harris are to be honored with this trip, flying to New York, N, Y., on Feb. 16 [1970] and leaving Kennedy International Airport by chartered jet on Feb. 17. This tour is in recognition of Mrs. Harris' 35 years of service in the church and Sunday school and her husband's service as deacon and in other areas.

Mrs. Harris has taught in the Sunday school for 35 years. Twenty-seven years were spent in the teaching of junior and intermediate classes, and for the past eight years she has taught the women's Bible class.

In 1947, she organized the Girls' Fellowship Guild and the Junior Baptist Youth Fellowship, and served as leader of the two organizations for 20 years. Far the past 18 years, she has been director of the junior church.

Other areas of service have included her work as church clerk for 15 years: two four-year terms as president of the Women's Missionary Society; advisor of the Senior Youth Fellowship; president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and doing the mimeographing for the church.

In the North Aroostook Baptist Association, Mrs. Harris has served as association clerk; president of the Women's Association, Spiritual Life chairman; Home and Foreign Mission interpreter and chairman of communications.

She has represented the church on the State Board of the American Baptist Woman of Maine and is now State Chairman of Special Interest Missionaries. Her service as a member of the Perham Church has included 11 years as a counselor in the Baptist School of Christian Training. 12 years

as a teacher in the Junior and Junior High Camps and 14 years as registrar for the Senior Camp. She is currently president of the Aroostook County Woman's Temperance Union and State General Secretary for the Loyal Temperance Legion.

Harris has served as deacon in the church, Sunday school superintendent, on the board of trustees, on the Committee on Evangelism and is an honorary deacon. He is now serving as a trustee of the Baptist School of Christian Training.

Host pastors on the tour will be the Rev. Wendell Mullen and the Rev. Wayne Mullen, who serve churches in the Hartford, Conn., area.

[February 1970]