Clergymen from all over Webster Parish were honored by the Minden Civitan Club at the annual Clergy Appreciation Banquet on Tuesday, March 25.
By Marilyn Miller
The Minden Civitan Club celebrated its 62nd annual Clergy Appreciation Banquet on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at Minden’s First Methodist Church.
Clergy from all over Webster Parish were honored with a sit-down dinner by Hugh Woods and special music by Cynthia Sandidge and Nancy Collins.
International Clergy Week was officially proclaimed by President Richard Nixon in 1970 after the Albuquerque Breakfast Civitan Club set aside time in the mid-1960s to honor the memory of four military chaplains who went down with their ship because they had given their lifejackets to soldiers who had none. The troop transport was the “Dorchester,” which was torpedoed and sunk early on the morning of Feb. 3, 1943 off the coast of Greenland.
The Minden Civitan Club adopted the service project 62 years ago.
On the program Tuesday night were Civitans Steve Bryan, the Pledge of Allegiance; Roger Grubbs, Welcome, Introductions, and Program introduction; Johnny McCormick, Invocation; Joe Holley, reading of the Civitan Creed; and Rev. Steve Berger, benediction.
Cynthia Sandidge (right) and Nancy Collins provided a program of old-time gospel music to attendees at the Minden Civitan Club’s annual Clergy Appreciation Banquet.