The Island churches which they visited during these years were: Alexandra Baptist. Cross Roads Church of Christ. Fortune United. Souris United. Hunter River. O‘Leary Baptist. Fairview Baptist. Bedeque Baptist. New Glasgow Church of Christ. Murray River Baptist, Murray Harbour Baptist. Cardigan Presbyterian. Wheatly River. Charlottetown Central Christian. Charlottetown First Baptist. Upton Gospel Chapel. Hillcrest United. Cavendish Baptist. St. Peters United. Vernon River United. Dunstaffnage Central United. Morell United. South Lake Christian, and West Covehead. They also held services at Victoria Park. The Provincial Sanitorium. Forest Hills Park, and Boughton Bay Camp Ground. Although each of these services was special in its own way. every year there seemed to be events which stood out. Some

of these were:

1974 - The first complete service conducted in another church outside our area; in July the group first dressed all alike in brown and yellow: in the fall a bus was purchased which enabled all the group to travel together.

1975 - The feature group at the Montague Canadian Bible Society Song-A- Rama where they sang seven numbers: sang six numbers at the Canadian Bible Society Song-A-Rama at Confederation Centre: a weekend in Dartmouth where they sang at the Christian Church Convention on Saturday and at the Sunday morning worship service. It was here they first wore their new blue uniforms.

1976 - The group sang at the TV. taping of Atlantic Provinces “Reach for the Top" at Souris Regional High School; a tape was made with Boyd Leard doing the taping using Boyd‘s equipment as well as some from the New Christian Singers: the donation of an electric portable piano and the pur- case of an amplifier greatly assisted the group as they performed. A retreat for the group members was held at Camp Buchanan. This was a time of study- ing and discussing God‘s Word together while getting to know God and one another better. The high point of the year was the trip by airplane to the Bap- tist Federation meetings of Canada held in Hamilton, Ontario from July 7-10. While there the young people met and fellowshipped with Christian young people from across Canada. The group participated in singing at the youth section of Hamilton Place (Cornea). at the General Assembly. as well as holding an outdoor service at James St. Baptist Church.

The saddest part of the year was in saying good-bye to Rev. Arthur Willis as he was retiring at the end of August and moving to Bowser. British Columbia to be close to his family. Mr. Willis had certainly been a great inspiration and encouragement to the young people through his teaching and his youthful energy and interest in them. While accompanying the young people to Hamilton. one would hardly know that he was anything but a teenager as he rode along with the group.

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