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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1984
Page
6
Emily Hindman presents church notes surveying local congregations, events, and activities with brief notices from several denominations. Details include service schedules, community outreach, and upcoming gatherings across area parishes and missions.
The Rev. Milford T. Oswald Jr. will be installed as pastor of Graniteville First Baptist at the 11 o clock Sunday worship. Oswald, a Wagener native, earned a master of divinity at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Wake Forest NC. The church invites friends and relatives to attend.
Church membership rose by 1,150,445 to 139,603,059 in a year as mainline denominations edged up. Roman Catholics total 52,392,934 with a slight population share drop to 22.21 percent. Nuns declined to 118,027 and Catholic elementary enrollment fell to 2,156,187 in 7,696 parish schools.
A dense church directory lists numerous Aiken area churches with addresses and contact numbers. Entries cover Adventist, AME, Anglican, Baptist, Christian, Catholic, Christian Science, Church of Christ, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Salvation Army, each noting service times, pastors, and locations across multiple streets and roads. The directory shows wide religious presence in the region with Sunday and weekday schedules.
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