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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1961
Page
7
Don D. Tullis reflects on maintaining faith amid bad weather and world troubles. A friend in Florida stays hopeful, paying Christmas bills and embracing spring’s splendor. The piece urges undying faith in divine victoria and ends with a wish that it shall be June in January.
The Board of American Missions of the United Lutheran Church in America reports over 22 million dollars in outstanding loans to 883 congregations across the United States Canada and the Caribbean. Treasurer Fred C Eggerstedt notes the funds support new church and parsonage construction and land purchases.
The Christian constituency of Formosa grew its share from 3.3 percent in 1957 to 4.5 percent in 1960, per the Taiwan Missionary Fellowship. Protestant adherents total 252,767, Catholics 213,764 among a 10,587,010 population.
Louisville hosts a Pan-Presbyterian National Convention November 1 to 3 with delegates from the Cumberland Presbyterian Church the Presbyterian Church U S A and the United Presbyterian Church U S A to discuss unified church matters.
Racine Mr and Mrs Dennie Hill and family moved from Columbus to the Wallace Weaver property. Mrs Chester Simpson returned Sunday after spending a month with her son Brian Simpson and his wife who had a baby recently at Bloomingdale.
The Rev. Dr. Edmund A. Steimle, a Lutheran and regular speaker on radio's The Protestant Hour, has been appointed a professor of homiletics at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
Cairo Radio reports the United Arab Republic will pay a regular salary to every Moslem who propagates the Island religion in Egypt after graduating from Al Azhar University. The UAR will also establish a Moslem liaison office in all Islamic countries.
President Eisenhower has proclaimed October 5 as a national day of prayer under a 1952 joint resolution. The day must be non-Sunday and invites Americans to seek God in prayer and meditation at churches, in groups, and individually.
Local church notices list multiple congregations with service times. Lower Plains Zion Free Will Baptist offers Sunday school at 9 30 a m and preaching at 7 p m with Wednesday prayer at 7 p m. The Plains Nazarene holds Sunday School at 9 30 a m and morning worship at 10 30 a m with evangelistic service at 7 30 p m. Angell Ridge Pilgrim Holiness, Graham Chapel, McDougal Methodist, The Plains Methodist, Strouds Run Community Church and Hanning provide varied Sunday services and midweek meetings.
A compiled list from the Athens Messenger outlines church services across multiple congregations for Sunday and midweek events. It notes times for Sunday schools, morning and evening worship, youth programs, prayer meetings, and special services across churches in Athens and nearby towns.
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