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AGGIELIFE
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Bethel Temple Assembly of God
2608 Villa Maria,
Bryan
776-4835
Sunday Worship 10:15, 6:00 pm
Sunday School 9:00
www.startel.net/bethel
‘Baptist
Fellowship Free Will
Baptist Church
College & Career Class
You are invited to a Bible
study especially for students.
Sunday mornings at 9:45
1228 W. Villa Maria
779-2297
For more information contact
Marcus Brewer: 696-6558
m-brewer@tamu.edu
http://PersonalWebs.mvriad.net/ffwb
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First time visitors get a free, homemade pie!
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LIVING HOPE BAPTIST CHRUCH
Now meeting at Cypress Grove Inter. School
on Graham Road behind the new Kroger in C.S.
INFO: 690-1911
1 Upbeat worship Sunday Schedule
1 Casual setting 9:45 a.m....Bible Study
Friendly people 11:00 a.m Worship
Practical messages 6:00 p.m Worship
Cathode
St. Mary’s
Catholic Center
603 Church Avenue in Northgate
(979)846-5717
www.aqqiecatholic.ora
Pastoral Team
Rev. Michael J. Sis, Pastor
Rev. David A. Konderla, Associate Pastor
Campus Ministers - Deacon Bill Scott,
Deacon David Reed, Martha Tonn, Lillian
Smith, Maureen Murray, Jill Bludau
Daily Masses
Mon.-Fri.: 5:30 p.m. in the Church
Tues. & Thurs. 12:05 p.m.
in the All Faiths Chapel
Sat.: 10:30 a.m. (Korean)
Weekend Masses
Sat.: 5:30 p.m. (English), 7:00 p.m. (Spanish)
Sun.: 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:00 p.m.
Confessions
Wed. 8:30-9:30 p.m., Sat. 4:00-5:15 p.m.
or by appointment.
Christian
First Christian Church
900 South Ennis, Bryan
823-5451
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Morning Worship 10:45 a.m.
Robert D. Chandler, Minister
Cfmrcfi ofCfmst
A&M
Church of Christ
1901 Harvey Mitchell Pkwy.
(979)693-0400
Sunday Morning Services:
8 a.m. & 10:30
Sunday Night:
6 p.m.
Aggie Class: Sunday, 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday Bible Study: 7 p.m.
AGGIES FOR CHRIST
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The Battalion today!
845-2696
‘EpiscopaC
St. Thomas Episcopal
906 George Bush Dr. • College Station, TX
696-1726
Sunday services at 8:00, 9:00 and especially
for late rising Ags, 11:15 a.m.
Next door to Canterbury House,
the Episopal Student Center
Lutheran
Beautiful Savior Ev. Lutheran Church
1007 Krenek Tap Rd. • College Station
693-4514
Bible Study, Sunday School & Conversational English 9:00 a.m.
Worship 10:15 a.m. •/
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I ovenant
Family Church
' "Success Begins on Sunday "
Danny & Janet Green, Pastors
Sunday 10:30 a.m. Wednesday 7:30 p.m.
4010 Harvey Rd., (Hwy. 30) For information:
College Station 774-1269 www.covenant-family-church.org
Community
Church
260-1163
10 a.m.
Sundays
The Hilton
Small groups
meet weekly
see www.comchurch.com
for more info
‘Pentecostal
Cornerstone Church
■ Mid Week Small Group Meetings
• Sunday Service at 4:30pm on George Bush,
just across from campus at the
College Station Conference Center.
485-8744
Presbyterian
Covenant Presbyterian Church
“A welcoming community of faith who reaches out,
cares for one another
& proclaims the love of Jesus Christ to all”
Thomas W. Estes & G. Thomas Huser
- Ministers
Currently Meeting at Pebble Creek
Elementary
Sunday Service: 8:30 & 11 a.m.
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.
Aggie Classes: 9:45
Coming Soon (2001) to Rock Prarie & Wellborn
Office: 3404 South College Ave., Bryan, TX 77802
(979) 846-5631, www.covenantpresbyterian.org
LAY THEOLOGY WEEKEND
January 19-21
“HOW DO WE VIEW SCRIPTURE?”
Dr. Kathryn Roberts
Asst. Professor of Old Testament
Studies
Austin Presbyterian Theological
Seminary
First Presbyterian Church
1100 Carter Creek Pkwy
For more information
www.fpcbryan.org
ZlnitecC ‘Methodist
A&M United Methodist
417 University Dr. (on Northgate) • 846-8731
Church at 8:50 & 11:00
College Sunday School 9:45
Sr. Pastor Dr. Jerry Neff
am-umc.org
{P First United Methodist Church
28th & Houston St.,
1 block E. of Texas Ave., in Bryan
779-1324
Sunday Worship 8:40 &10:55 a.m., 6:00 p.m.
www.gbgm-umc.org/fumbryan
Rev. Hatral Dunnam, Senior Pastor Rev. David Henry, Music Ministries
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Phil proves to be active holiday character,
A y JyTrU
prepares to determine coming of spring toit
By BROOKE HOLBERT FVi\/ Hoc rtr/^m/n irttrA ort ow<ant A marina in th/* IS^th r'pnhin IS
The Battalion
“There is no way this winter is
ever going to end as long as that
groundhog keeps seeing his shad
ow. I don’t see any way out of it.
He’s got to be stopped. And 1 have
to stop him.”
Before Bill Murray played the
cynieal, sarcastic weatherman in the
1993 movie Groundhog Day, most of
America had never paid much atten
tion to this little northeastern holiday.
Celebrated festively in the small
town of Punxsutawney, Penn., the
now-famous groundhog, Punx
sutawney Phil and his unusual meth
ods of predicting the weather have
been a secret known only to their
own community.
Today Groundhog Day is a holi
day recognized on most calendars,
the subject of many Web pages and
an enormous attraction for the lo
cals of Punxsutawney. Phil
has even appeared on the
Oprah Winfrey show.
Despite lacking
the glittery excite
ment of holidays
like Christmas
and Hal
loween.
Ground
hog Day has grown into an event
that draws as many as 30,000 peo
ple to Gobbler's Knob in Punx
sutawney. It is a week-long agenda
of events the community delights in
planning and hosting. It is an op
portunity for Punxsutawney to
showcase to the world all the charm
ing local features that have escaped
the growing age of technology.
This unique holiday originated in
Germany, where Candlemas Day,
commemorating the purification of
the Virgin Mary, was celebrated on
Feb. 2. The Germans believed that.if
a hedgehog saw his shadow on Can
dlemas Day, winter would last for six
more weeks. When
German set
tlers
brought
the
tradi
tion
to
■Tru
\e Ba
jlhe
America in the 18th centui),! 8 tea . n
weather-forecasting animal p n Wlt *
changed to the more predomil 11 I?
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groundhog. fT
Groundhog Day has becoti ■ '.
tionally recognized and Philli; e
come a politically involvedan )resL |s
cially responsible citizen, usii. l0 ][ s
popularity to draw attentionio ( ] aces j
causes. Phil met with Presi n I s ] as
Reagan in 1986, wore a yellor Thre
bon in honor of the Ameiilrank
hostages in Iran in 1981 andirf fresl
threatened to impose 60 wee,option -
winter during Prohibition it berg, w
not granted a drink. °.f
This year, Phil will coverEsocia
uncharted territory as the 2(> 3ctobei
diction will be announced inl|M un ‘ (
Square and televised live ontrji
ternet. Phil makes it clear thspr
no tame Easter Bunny type,reifc
sit back and be a mere mascotil
holiday. He is an active andim ||
groundhog and revered bythe^||
of Punxsutawney as a local trep
No one seems to mindtbaiM
is very little correlation bet«|^
forecasting groundhog andhj
rification of the Virgin Mar),
problem that Feb. 2 memor.j
very little, savealitii
rifted weather ,
casting. Nolle:
tion that
reveals winieil
continue
more weeks, |
gardless of
shadow. i
Despite
ray’s movie, whicThe A&
sorted that thehoEi
{iio worst, neuT-Gj
day of the year. (M|
Day is enjoyed by r
1 he festivities . By J' iu
ihh’The Ba\
The
ADRIAN CALCANEO/The Battalion
more
eveiy year
continue nen’s s
ta li/eam wi
cro# against
PeiffiMethod
Ameniual met
people ■ “Will
suckers he most
watchii/e have
animalpeiighn’s s
an imposjash. “1
task. Oni usrea ||^
it is just rant A&I v
“Punxsutawne 2_'j j n t h
As one Groundhog Day entlnij s r to t he
said, “If a rodent can bring usarH xas _ ^
ly spring, more power to him."
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