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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1955
Page
5
Under the Board of Christian Education guidance enrollment rose from 143,600 to 216,032 in ten years. Rev T Franklins A Lm reports the increase and notes the steady growth across the denomination.
The World Youth Fellowship Convention opens in Fritzlar Germany on July 16 as part of the Diamond Jubilee Year. Delegates from around 16 countries will attend. German youths help complete a new Bible School building with a $10,000 goal for windows and interior work.
Two thousand attendees are expected at the first World Missions Convention of the Church of God in Daylan, with Daylan Westminster Methodist Church hosting. The three day event features keynote by Dr. Adam W. Miller of Anderson College and speaker Jamon J. Wyker, president of United Church Women. Miss Khan of Calcutta will address the closing session. Theme is This We Believe Together We Serve as part of the churchs Advance Jubilee War.
The Church of God Board of Home Missions maps a broad evangelism push to plant new congregations in all states and territories. Led by the department of evangelism, the program funds conferences and organizational efforts, with four early mission sites in Boston, Birmingham, Denver, and Omaha, and ongoing support to hundreds of groups through monthly programs and building assistance. The women’s society and publishing arms support youth outreach and literature distribution, including Elsie Egermeier’s Bible Story Book revisions.
The Church of God highlights five years of home mission work and 37 projects since a 1920 Spanish mission in Texas. Home missionaries now cover Indian ends, urban Negro communities, Japanese and Chinese groups in the West, mountain peoples of the South, agricultural migrants, Alaska aid, and include youth programs and rural projects. Miss Nawini Tait, director, notes a broad outreach among America's needy.
World Service extends aid to eight agencies through its Missionary Board and allied boards, aiding education, missions and benevolence. The supported bodies include Anderson College and Theological Seminary, Pacific Vigh t College, Gospel Trumpet Company and related church entities, helping local churches advance international work.
Anderson College claims status as the oldest Church of God affiliated college in its area. It is accredited by North Central Association and other bodies, led by Dr. Dalin Morrison as president. The college offers undergrad degrees and the bachelor of theology. Pacific Bible College in Portland is noted with Gray as president. Alberta Bible Institute in Camrose is described as a Canadian link in the worldwide education program.
The Church of God board of church extension and home missions launches new services under the Christian Brotherhood Hour. The program assists 50 churches with advisory hips, bringing radio outreach across the United States Canada and beyond.
The Diamond Jubilee year opens for the Church of God with a week of convocation activities led by the International Convention. A 42 minute film Heaven to Earth premieres at 7 30 pm in the large tabernacle with Dr Harold L Phillips, editor of the Gospel Trumpet, speaking on The Faith of Our Pioneers. The event is part of a broader move involving 30 000 attendees from across the nation and abroad, culminating Sunday in Christ's World Service Day.
The Gospel Trumpet Company marks its seventy-fifth birthday on January 1 1946 as a leading religious publisher and official paper of the Church of God. Dr Steele C Smith coordinating to join the firm’s Jubilee year with Whatch of God celebrations, tracing roots from D S Warner and early Christian workers through a series of moves from Tipton to Indianapolis Cardington Grand Junction and Anderson. Approximately 260 employees work in the 1908 East North Street building undergoing rehab, with the first site being a two story structure later destroyed by fire.
The Missionary Board of the Church at God announced sixteen missionaries to serve in India Korea Japan British Guiana Egypt and Africa. The group includes well known Anderson figures and others nationwide. Fifteen will depart soon for foreign service aided by executive secretary Lester A Crose. Several have prior foreign mission experience.
A Church of God report shows loans totaling over 45 million dollars since 1921 to assist church building, new congregations, and facilities across the United States Canada Mexico Alaska and abroad. The Church Loan Service approved 433 loans totaling 27 200 in its first year and now funds endeavors from parsonages to youth camps while pensions for ministers grow toward one million dollars by 1936. It names missionaries heading to Korea Japan Syria Lebanon and Barbados with staff shifts, retirements, and sabbaticals shaping a broad international program.
Series outlines the growth of the Church of God with its international headquarters in the United States. The narrative credits many men and women over years for church boards and committees work. The Diamond Jubilee marks 75 years of fellowship service and witness and forecasts future work.
Ninety nine missionaries will be supported this Diamond Jubilee year, with sixteen departing for distant fields this summer or at the end of the current convention. Rev. J Edgar Smith announces that 568 congregations and preaching places span Africa Asia Europe and South America, including Kenya China Japan Philippines and many other regions. Strong mission effort notes Bible schools training centers churches and hospitals established to aid literature work.
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