Sacred drama and religious events listed for weekend and week
A series of church events and programs are announced across Cedar Rapids area. The Challenge of the Cross Friday 7 30 p m at Bethel AME Church. Hallelujah What a Savior! choir cantata Sunday 10 30 a m at Walker UMC. Full Gospel MBF meets April 14 6 30 p m at Cedar Rapids Holiday Inn with Mick Mattiace. First Lutheran Channel 9 programs Friday 6 30 p m and Easter 5 30 p m. Monticello Baptist marks first anniversary Sunday. Temple Deaf College students perform with Temple Kansas City. Sermon by Steve Hammerdinger at Trinity Church of the Nazarene. Covenant Players Palm Sunday drama 11 a m at Coe College Dows Theater. Faith Bible Church Ro bins and Noelridge Baptist Bible conference Sunday through Friday with noon services and sack lunches.
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Walker United Methodist Church
Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International
Cedar Rapids Holiday Inn
Mick Mattiace
Prairie High School
Monticello Baptist Church
Temple Deaf College
Kansas City
Steve Hammerdinger
Temple
Faith Bible Church of
Robins
Noelridge Baptist
Clifton St. NE
Faith Church
Noelridge
Good Friday Ecumenical Services Planned at Two Churches
An ecumenical Good Friday program open to all will be held at Memorial Coliseum on May’s Island with Trinity and Bethany Lutheran churches leading the noon services from 12:10 to 12:50. Pastor Ronald Pfluger will preach on And They Crucified Him and Pastor Richard Thompson will lead the liturgy. At First Presbyterian Church 310 Fifth St SE services run 12:05 to 12:50 with Dr Malcolm Peel presenting The Cross A Canceled Bond. Events are sponsored by Churches United Church Women United and the YMCA.
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Memorial Coliseum
May’s Island
First Presbyterian Church
Fifth St
Coliseum
Trinity
Bethany Lutheran
Ronald Pfluger
Bethel
Richard Thompson
Avenue of Just chronicles heroism during the Holocaust
A 10 30 a m Sunday program on KCRG Channel 9 presents Avenue of the Just a documentary by the Anti Defamation League of Bnai Brith about individuals who risked their lives to save Jews in World War II. Otto Frank father of Anne Frank gives a rare interview.
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KCRG
Channel 9
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
Anne Frank
Otto Frank
Amsterdam
Jerusalem
Yad Vashem
Europe
United States
Israel
National Council of Churches Board Sets San Antonio Meeting
The National Council of Churches governing board will hold its semiannual meeting in San Antonio May 9 11. With over 250 members from 32 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox bodies the agenda includes energy ethics criminal justice amnesty for undocumented and overstayed persons and a joint NCC Soviet churches arms reduction statement.
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National Council of Churches’ Governing Board
San Antonio
National Council of Churches
NCC
Ford's aunt dies at 90
Savilla King Pettis, aunt of former President Gerald Ford, died Thursday in Omaha at age 90.
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Ford
Omaha
Neb
Savilla King Pettis
Gerald Ford
Where Waters Run shown at Grace Trinity Church
The Moody science film Where the Waters Run will be shown at Grace Trinity Church in Shellsburg during the 7 p.m. Good Friday service. Today’s birthdays include Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. age 41, actor James Garner, and writer Donald Barthelme.
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Moody Science Film
Grace Trinity Church
Shellsburg
Gov
Edmund Brown Jr
California
James Garner
Donald Barthelme
Houston man dies after 65 hour artificial heart wait
On this date in 1969, Has Kell Earp of Houston died from complications after living 65 hours with a mechanical heart before receiving a human heart transplant.
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Houston
Haskell Earp
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Bethel A.M.E
Sixth St
First Lutheran Church
George W. Carlson
Nazarene Elder
Paul A. Madden
Newton
Church of the Nazarene
Roger and
Euleta Sweeney
Trinity Church of the Nazarene
K St. St
Coe Service
Covenant Players
Dows
Coe College
Bible Conference
National Council of Churches of Christ
The
U.S. Catholic Conference
Southern Baptist Convention
Jewish Theological Seminary
National Council
Henry Ford
2Nd Ave
Mten's
Pope John Paul II
Peter Marshall
Floyd Thatcher
3Rd Ave. SE
Paramount Theatre
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Czechoslovakia
Poland
16Th Ave
Cedar E
FUN
Machine
Cue’s Knitting Studio
Westwood Dr
Mountain Pine
OZ Seli
Anette
Modular Group
Stanley Dining
Hall
Hollywood
Collins
Collins Road
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