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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1963
Page
3
Groundbreaking held Saturday for a new Cedar Rapids LDS chapel planned at Trail Ridge road and East Post road SE. The $135000 brick building will seat 325, with future expansion, air conditioning, and an initial membership of about 275.
A 50-voice Sen ior high youth choir from St. Pauls Methodist church Cedar Rapids schedules a first tour with three services titled The Life of Christ. Director David Noble reads between 12 anthems per program. Performances at 11 a.m Hoover school St Marks service, 2:30 p.m Meth Wick Manor, and 7 p.m First Methodist Tipton.
In Helsinki plans for a large parish church mostly underground beside a bomb shelter draw criticism and praise. Critics say a church should not be hidden underground, while supporters call crypt churches aligned with ancient Christian tradition.
Dr. Andrew Cordier, longtime United Nations adviser, urged transforming strangers into neighbors to achieve world peace during a Church of the Brethren conference in Ocean Grove New Jersey. He called for practical steps to foster global harmony and mutual trust.
NORTH ENGLISH The new Christian church parsonage will be dedicated Sunday at 2 p.m. Participating will be the Rev. Kirby Fuller of Sigourney the Rev. Oscar Barrow of Urbana and the Rev. Loren Lair of Des Moines. The parsonage was completed and occupied in November.
The Methodist World Council of Bishops approved a plan to foster a climate for fierce ministerial recruitment. A three bishop panel will visit 97 conferences to run an intensive educational program aimed at colleges and lay recruitment committees to draw more men into the ministry.
A full slate of Sunday morning and evening worship times is listed for numerous Cedar Rapids churches across Baptist, Methodist, AME, and Congregational congregations. Each entry names the church, street address, pastor or contact, and service times including Sunday schools and masses, with occasional sermon or program titles.
A list of church names and addresses with their parish priests and multiple Mass times. Entries include All Saints Dalewood, Immaculate Conception, St Jude's, St Ludmila's, St Matthew's, St Patrick's, St Pius X, and St Wenceslaus with assigned pastors and daily Mass slots.
Emmanuel Temple at 1014 10th Ave SE offers Sunday School at 10, worship at noon. New Jerusalem at 1027 6th St SE hosts Sunday School at 10:30 and a 12 o clock service with an 8 p.m. evening service.
Cedar 526 3rd Ave SW Barton G Murray SS 9 45 Serv 8 30 10 50 First 840 3rd Ave SE John M Hardy SS 9 30 Serv 10 40 Noelridge 4529 Regal Ave NE Marvin W Gee SS 10 40 Serv 9 30 We Rise with Him emphasizes weekend services and Sunday schools at multiple locations.
Two addresses appear with service times listed. Bethany 1300 6th St NW Mary A White SS 9:30 Serv 8:30 10:30. Fair Oaks 1243 Apache Trail NW Robert Steven.
Buffalo Blairs Ferry road NE Donald L Kline S S 10 Serv 11 Faith 1004 30th st NE Elmer C Boom S S 9 30 Serv 10 30 Salem 227 1st ave SW Leonard E Deaver SS 6 45 Serv 3 16 Westmar quartet Dr Tom Stone Sharon 831 18th ave SW A T Washington S S 9 Serv 10 Union Elyrd SW Rob ert Hefty S S 10 Serv 9
At East and West Center Point Road NE public talks announced. East unit hosts Death A Doorway to What at 7:15 with The General Priesthood Today at 4:15. West unit offers The General Priesthood Today at 4:15 and Death A Doorway to What at 7:15.
The notice lists church details for Mormon and Reorganized church locations. Mormon at 32nd Dairy Dale SE serves at 8:30 with Sunday School at 10:30 and Evening service at 6:30. Reorganized at 120 19th NE lists Robert H. Allen as contact with Sunday School at 9:45 and Service at 11.
Directory lists church names, addresses, pastors, and Sunday schedules. Many include Sunday schools, multiple worship times, evening services, and special readings or themes for Easter season. The collection covers denominations from LCA, ALC, Mo, Presbyterian, and interdenominational groups with frequent references to sermon topics and communion observances.
The note lists locations at First 1328 K Street SW and Oakland 1515 29th Street NE with names Whitlatch and Bailey and a time 9:45. It references rest stops or assignments for S.S. 9:45.
St George church at 1202 10th St NE lists Nicholas Laikley as S S at 10 15 with service at 11 St John church at 600 7th St SE with Samuel A Makad as S S and St John Gr at 501 A Ave NE with John Kallimanis S S at 9 30 and liturgy at 10 30 Am.
The United Church of Christ Eden location on 351 8th Ave is noted with street address details likely for a church listing or directory entry.
A round-table of church scholars predicts broader unity among denominations, less focus on buildings, and shifts in theology. They foresee stronger biblical study, tension between science and faith, and new mobile church forms beyond parish systems.
Mission Hospital administrator Robert Riggs will address Mt. Vernon church Sunday as part of the annual bank-offering service by the women’s society. He is on furlough from Seoul after six years overseas and plans to return to Korea in July for a five-year term with his family living in Marion. In Iowa City, Bishop Joseph A. Gomez of the AME Church will lecture on The Churches and Civil Rights at 4 p.m. Monday in Old Capitol Senate Chamber, hosted by the University of Iowa school of religion. A noon SUI student talk and a 5:30 p.m. reception at Mrs. Helen Lemme’s home will follow.
United Presbyterian Men from 61 churches of the Northeast Iowa presbytery will meet Sunday at the new church campground near Wyoming. The session runs 2 30 to 6 30 with a panel on Dr Marshal Scotts Seminar on the Church and Industry a talk by Dr Herbert Doran of the University of Dubuque plus lunch and a worship service.
Presenter George E. Van deman announces a religious program titled IT IS WRITTEN airing Sundays at 5 p.m. on KCRG TV9. The local slot highlights scriptural study and faith guidance for viewers in the area.
About 600 American Lutheran Church Women expected for the Waterloo Conference ALCW annual meeting April 30 at Zion Lutheran church in Oelwein. Program begins 9:30 a.m. and ends by 3:30 p.m. Speakers include Mrs. Merrill Gilkerson from Albert Lea and Rev. Gustav Riggert, campus pastor at the State College of Iowa.
In Bristol Connecticut Samuel Goodsell rejected a $100,000 offer on his junk business property and sold the land to Bristol Baptist Church for a token price of one dollar to fund a new church building. The move left the church to develop the site without the high asking price.
The Soviet literary review Literaturnaja Gazeta reports that more than half of babies born in the Soviet Union are baptized, highlighting widespread religious rites in Moscow and across the country.
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