The Voice

So. Calif. Conf.

At the close of the Saturday afternoon session Bishop Walker called District Vice-President, Mrs. Georgia Marshall of Oakland and Conference President Mr. Coley W. Stafford of Los Angeles, to the platform to conduct the Laymen's Conference. President Stafford with a short statement regarding the historic significance of the occasion, called on Mrs. Lucy Minor, Lay Chaplain of the Fifth District. and Mrs. Pinkie Wilson, Lay Chaplain of the Conference to conduct devotional.

Mrs. Mabel Norman, lay conference secretary called the roll. It was a thrill to watch the large number of league presidents making reports.

Probably the highlight of the lay session was the dramatic description of the struggle and sacrifice made by President Stafford and assistants painted by that lay preacher. Mr. Benjamin W. Inghram, of San Bernardino. He told of trips requiring all night and all day driving carrying the torch of Jesus to the little mission charges of the desert, during which $234 was raised and turned to the congregation to help with their conference claim. All conference officers were re-elected.

The Laymen's Voice, a newspaper carrying church news of particular interest to laymen, was well received at the conference. We urge all laymen to the voice.

I trust as we closed our first Lay- Annual Conference we have been made aware of the larger opportunity accorded us to render a greater service to God and man.

Let us ever remember the lines "A charge to keep I have a God to glorify."

-By Camilla Leftridge,
Los Angeles, Calif.