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Page 6 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1981 m ii* for the’ student who is A JOGGER • Shoes • Socks • Shorts • Warm-Ups LEISURE WARM-UPS • Speedo R ee . • Royalty CIO QC tn • Hang Ten to _ _ • Bruce Jenner $75.00 I I tO PRICES THROUGH SATURDAY ORLY $ l I 97 to $ 45 00 Local ,o< Church grows without a home TRISTATE A&M SPORTING GOODS 846-3280 3600 Old College Rd. 846-3570 By GARY BARKER Battalion Reporter Aldersgate United Methodist Church, a young interdenomina tional church, doesn’t have a building, but that hasn’t kept the congregation from growing. The group began meeting in May 1979 when Terry Teykl, church pastor, met with eight peo ple in his home. The church now meets in the A&M Consolidated Middle School auditorium at Jersey and Holik streets and has over 650 members. “While being without a build ing discourages some, it has helped us to remember that a church is a group of people and not a building, ” said Randy Wimpee, assistant pastor. The church’s members are from many different denomina tions. Wimpee, who is from a Bap tist background, said only 25 per cent of the members were Methodist in background. “Aldersgate is technically a Methodist church, but not a tradi tional Methodist church, ” he said. “Our worship services are unique to the Methodist church.” Garry Masterson, church youth coordinator, said the church’s Sunday morning service was a tra ditional Methodist service, but the Sunday night service was “an emotional and psychological heal ing time. ” He said the service in cluded time for personal prayers and meditation. “Our Sunday evening service is really a time for people to get their feelings out with God, ” Masterson said. Wimpee said the church’s infor mal services and outreach had helped it grow. “Our big emphasis has been to reach out to non-church-going people,” he said. “Terry (Teykl) has a tremendous way of reaching people.” And the church is still growing. About 30 persons, mostly college students and young couples, join the church every month, Wimpee said. Starting Sunday morning Aldersgate will have two worship services because of crowding in the auditorium. building will help Aldersgate do much more, Wimpee said, it is already involved in many activi ties. The church trains members in evangelism, has special prayer groups, supports a missionary in Mexico, and offers all of its Sunday night offering to local persons in need. The church is planning to buy 17 acres of land on the East Bypass on which it plans to build a multi purpose auditorium to seat 1,200 to 1,500 people. Although the new In addition to its benevolence ministries, Aldersgate also spon sors gospel concerts. Wimpee, who has promoted gospel concerts for five years in Bryan-College Station, said the church tries to have one of its concerts o Texas A&M campus each yi Last year the church 1 sponsor Dallas Holm i and Dogwood,amongo Dallas Holm and Praise o was videotaped and KAMU-TV. This year’s concerts incloiltj Second Chaptei of Acts, Bryan Auditorium; MikeH'mi Nov. 8, A&M Consolidated! die School; Bam McCuinJ Silverwind, No v .(day announced), RudcerAuc Celebrant Singers,Dec,] Consolidated Middle Schod I ITICAL ►RUM MOSCOW, WE HAVE A PROBLEM: CAN POLAND EMERGE FROM THE SOVIET SHADOW? FORMER AMBASSADOR TO POLAND WILLIAM SCHAUFELE JR 8 p.m. Rudder Theater Tues. Sept. 29 FREE E-Systems continues the tradition of the world’s great problem solvers. Maxwell’s electro magnetic field theory led to huge practical scientific advances. His light theory led to his own development of one of the first color photos and the kinetic theory of gasses. 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After the roll call vote, an attempt was made to refer the bill back to the Rules and Reg ulations Committee, but it did not receive support. In other action, the Senate filled 11 other vacancies: Engineering David Lawrence, sophomore civil engineering major Bob Doremus, senior mecha nical engineering major from Houston Ward II David Gorka, senior accounting major from Richmond Derreck Westrich, junior aerospace engineering major from Missori Lisa Barnett, junior mechanical engineering major from Alvin Mark Ely, sophomore account ing major from Blackwell Ward III Donna Avery, senior manage ment major from Longview Liberal Arts Mark Lynch, sophomore psychology major from San Antonio Todd Hedgepeth, senior jour nalism major from San Antonio Off Campus Graduate Ski Hufford, petroleum geolo gy, from Tennessee Steven Windh, agricultural fi nance, from California. Four Senate positions remain open: education at-large, liberal arts graduate, College of Medi cine and Hobby/McFadden/ Haas/Hobby. The Senate also began work on a campus canvas program, designed to get constituency opinions on major issues before the Senate. Each senator was given a questionaire to be filled out by his constituency on five issues: recognition of the fraternity/ sorority system or of the Inter- Fraternity Council and Panhel- lenic Council by the University, the requirement of night exams by some academic depart ments, the encouragement of faster installation of MCI long distance telephone service in the Bryan-College Stafom if the user fee concepts continued and the neidhil major airline, such asS west Airlines, to serviceEl wood Airport. 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