Historic Churches Lincoln's Church Indiana
Frederick Polley recalls the Lincoln family moving to Little Pigeon Creek Indiana in 1816 and settling in Hurricane township Perry County They traveled from Troy on the Ohio river to their future home Abraham Lincoln grew up amid fall colors and memory rich years Thomas Lincoln joined Pigeon Baptist Church on June 7 1823.
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Frederick Polley
Thomas Lincoln
Nancy
Sarah
Abraham
Indiana
Troy
Ohio River
Anderson Creek
Abe
Little
Little Pigeon Creek
Hurricane Township
Perry County
Ind
Spencer County
Abe Lincoln
Lincolns
Pigeon Baptist
Link Missionary Honored At Marion Church Service
A service of recognition will honor the church's link missionary Ned M. Roberts at Marion Christian Church. The church joins Christian churches in Walla Walla Washington and Zanesville Ohio to fund Roberts as evangelistic missionary to Mondombe station in the Belgian Congo. Roberts, a Washington native and United Christian Missionary Society representative, serves at Africa's farthest inland mission station. Organizers for the annual women's day observance include Charles Tritle Glen Johnson Mrs Arthur Newman and Mrs Lyndell Miller with Mrs G A Dykes as missions committee chair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Christian Church
Walla
Wash
Zanesville
Ohio
Ned M. Roberts
Belgian Congo
Wr. Roberts
Mondombe
Congo River
Christian Church Missionary Station
Africa
Washington
United Christian Missionary Society
Charles Tritle
Glen Johnson
Arthur Newman
Lyndell Miller
A. Dykes
Missions Committee
Lincoln era log church with Abe Lincoln connection
The text notes a man became a trustee and moderator, was a skilled carpenter, and helped construct a small log church south of the Lincoln home. It mentions door and window frames and the pulpit made by him, with Young Abe assisting, and a drawing from the cemetery yard shows the little frame church on the site of the original log building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soon
Young Abe
Lincoln Home
Cemetery
Cedar Rapids and Marion Churches Council Dinner Meeting
The Cedar Rapids and Marion Council of Churches will hold its annual dinner Wednesday at 6 30 p.m. at Central Park Presbyterian Cedar Rapids. Dr S L Bonting a Dutch church worker and public health service specialist will speak. Reservations via pastors or 700 Merchants Bank building council office.
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Cedar Rapids and Marion
Council
Merchants Bank
Cedar Rapids Church Notices Dense with Area Faiths
A June church listing details numerous Cedar Rapids congregations with addresses, pastors, and service times across Christian denominations including Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and more. Highlights include Immaculate Conception Mass schedules and St. Ludmila masses amid varied Evangelical and Orthodox listings.
National Council of Churches to Meet in Denver
The National Council of Churches will hold its second general assembly in Denver with a nationwide National Council Day observance. About 600 voting delegates from 29 member bodies will attend along with 2 000 to 3 000 total attendees across meetings from Monday to Friday in Denver. Presiding will be Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill with speakers including John Foster Dulles and Archbishops from Greek Orthodox and other denominations. Iowa delegates listed include Revs. Ernest Press H C Nielsen Marvin B Kober Arlo Avers Brown and others from Des Moines Davenport Cedar Rapids Pella Hampton and Winterset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soial
Denver
General Assembly
National Council of the Churches of Christ
United States of America
National Council of Churches
National Council
Council
Henry Knox Sherrill
Protestant Episcopal Church
Sherrill
John Foster Dulles
Samuel McCrea Cavert
Michael
Greek Orthodox Church
Luther Weigle
Yale Divinity School
Arthur J. Moore
G. Bromley Ox
Chastertown
Wil
Fred P. Juckem
Davenport
Alfred J. Bail
H. L. ‘Bump
Howard Chris‘Jensen
H. R. Fields
Alfred Jensen
Warner Muir
Ernest Mielser
John E. McCaw
Ij. Oo. Nelson
Des Moines
Paul Smith
Fort Dorge
Judson E. Fiebeger
Grinnell
Ida Egede
Hampton
Earl E. Harper
Iowa City
Frank G. Brooks
Russell D. Cole
Vernon
Gerrit Vander Lugt
Peggy Ann Leu
Pella
Harry E. Burch
Winterset
Church Rededication Set for Sunday at Oxford Junction
The English Lutheran church in Oxford Junction will rededicate Sunday at 2 p.m. after a summer remodeling that added a 1-foot rear extension housing the altar and choir. New floors, arched ceiling, basement updates, and a modern oil furnace accompany sermons by Dr. Alfred Beil of Des Moines. The church, organized in 1861, is the town’s oldest congregation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford Junction
Alfred J. Beil
Des ‘[Moines
Iowa
L.jack Ehlers
It Seminary
Installation Service For New Cedar Rapids Pastor At St Mark's
The Rev. Richard W. Engstrom becomes pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran in Cedar Rapids with installation led by the Rev. Raynold Lingwall of Red Oak. The service includes ministers Q. T. Engquist Des Moines and Edwin Carlen Marshalltown. A 2:50 p.m. meeting will discuss a Minneapolis church finance matter with delegates Gus Sanborn and Ruben Stong mentioned.
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Raynold Lingwall
Red Oak
Iowa ‘Conference
Augustana Luitheran Church
Richard W. Eng‘strom
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
Cedar Rapids
St. Mark’s
Lwitl
Q. T. Enggquist
Des Moines
UNITY CENTER SERVICE AT 1015 Second Avenue
Mabel Swanson leads the Unity Center at 1015 Second Avenue SE with Sunday school at 9 30 and worship at 11. The sermon titled The Nature of the Kingdom guides the morning service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist
Second Avenue
James M. Webb
Church
Mt. Vernon
Arthur Westerhoff
Calvary
Third Avenue
Russell A. Pavy
Bible School
Brethren
Grace
D Avenue
The
Arnold R. Kriegbaum
Hellenic Orthodor St. John the Baptist
Church OF the Brethren
George
Fourth Avenue
John B. Wieand
Queens
Interdenominational
Fifth Avenue
A. J. Stokes
Christian Science
Second Avenue SE
Evangelical and Community Alliance
Oakland Road
William F. Kissell
Word of the Prophets
Tech
Covenant
Eighth Avenue
Twenty-fifth Street
Clarence Anderson
Robert Haertig
Salmon
Edgewood E Avenue
Edgewood Road
Ernest W. Volkenant
G Avenue
iRev
J. Clyde Flewelling
Jschool
Fifth Street St
H. M. Grant
Church School
Pentecostal Evangelical
Third Street
the Rev. Co. L. Kirk
Presbyterian Hus Memorial
Ninth Avenue
Z. F. Faulk
Kenwood Park
Thirty Fifth Street
Keith Taber
St. George
Tenth Street
George Ghannam
St. John the Baptist
Seventh Street
Jerome Ie Yared
Seventh Day Adventist
First Avenue
T. A. Nickum
Sunshine Mission
Second Street
Walter A. Pierce
Unity Center
Mabel Swanson
New Minister At Foursquare In Cedar Rapids
The Rev. Herman Mullis, formerly of First Foursquare in Boise Idaho, becomes pastor of Foursquare Gospel Church in Cedar Rapids beginning Sunday. He has pastored in Idaho California and the Deep South and was educated at Carolina Evangelistic Theological Seminary and Foursquare Seminary. He and his wife will reside in the church parsonage at 2219 First Ave SW. The sermon series will include The Advent Season The Promise Ever of Old and Christ in Christmas with broadcasts on KCRG Sundays from 10 to noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Mullis
First Foursquare Church
Boise
Idaho
Foursquare Gospel Church
Cedar Rapids
Mr. Mullis
California
Deep South
North Carolina
Carolina Evangelistic Theological Seminary
Foursquare Seminary
Los Angeles
Agricultural Settlement Established at Tsiklag Kibuz Lahan
A new agricultural settlement named Kibuz Lahan is established on the biblical site Tsiklag in southern Israel. Located on a hill, the settlers report the soil is suitable for barley planting and the site is tied to the biblical story of David and Ashish.
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Tsiklag
Tel Aviv
Holy Land
Ashish
Gath
David
Saul
Kibuz Lahan
Israel
Bible Translation Planned by Solomons Natives
In Sydney the British and Foreign Bible Society will publish a complete Bible translation into Wiesaghi by three Seventh Day Adventist native teachers and an Australian missionary. The language is spoken by thousands on islands around Marovo lagoon in the Western Solomons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uiesaghis
Sydney
Australia
British and Foreign Bible Society
Solomon Island
Marovo Lagoon
Solomons
Cedar Rapids Talk on Guideposts to Mental Health
The Men's Council of First Presbyterian Church Cedar Rapids will hear a talk titled Guideposts to Mental Health Tuesday at 7 30 pm in the church Youth Center. Rev Waldemar Argow of Cedar Rapids, an N A M H officer, will speak. The choir director and Miss Mable Ormston will be the organist.
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First Presbyterian Church
Cedar Rapids
Waldemar A
Bible Reading Schedule and Local Church Honor
Worldwide Bible Reading selections list Matthew and John passages for next week. In Kalamazoo Mrs. Charles W. Peekstok is praised by First Evangelical United Brethren for 21 years of perfect Sunday school attendance. The Society for Propagating the Gospel traces to Moravian origins in 1778.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Bible Society
Worldwide Bible Reading Project
Kalamazoo, Mich
Charles W. Peekstok
First Evangelical United Brethren Church
The
Society For Propagating the Gospel
Missionary Society
America
Moravian Church
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Lincoln
Pigeon Creek
Link Missionary
C.R. Church Council
Cedar Rapids Church
Assembly OF God
Oakland Reed
Sven Kramer
Immaculate Conception
William H. Schulte
Alphonse P. White
Thomas F. Currier
St. Ludmila’s
Twentyfirst Avenue
Frank Hruby
Patrick’s
First Avenue NW
St. Matthew's
Twentyfourth Street
St. Wenceslaus
Fifth Street
A. W. Chihak
John J. Benda
All Saints
Dalewood Avenue
Twenty-ninth Street
George A. Stemm
Thomas Donnelly
Church OF God IN Christ
H Street
L.C. Colbert
Tenth Avenue
W. L. Bryant
Foursquare Gospel
Evan
Church OF the Open Bible
Charles Thompson
Seventeenth Street
J. Richard Wagner
Bethany
Sixth Street
Milton E. White
Christian
Cedar
Frazer A. Thomason
Galen L. Hose
Christ
Christ’s the Lead Holy Pene
Fifteenth Street
A. G. Darden
Church OF the Nazarene
Gadbow
Toe Ainsworth
Church OF God
Ellis Park
Avenue NW
Samuel C. Ritchhart
Prairie Street
Harold Justice
Church OF Christ
Central
Roy H. Lanier, Jr
Evangelical United Brethren
Sharon
Ninth Street
Walter Cerka
Salem
Wilson
Episcopal
A Avenue
N. W. Holland
Communion Aeanetis
St. John’s
Nineteenth Street SE
D. A. Loferski
Communion 8
Temple Judah
Beth Jacob
Washington Avenue SE
Walter H. Plaut
Jehovah's Witnesses
Kingdom Hall
Seventh, Street SE
Keath
Watchstower
God
Latter Day Saints
Reorganized
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
D. M. Cassidy
Mormon
YMCA
Man
Central Park
B Avenue
Allan FE. Schott
Boets
Daniels Fark
Center Point Raad
F. A. Mun[neke
Olivet
D. Keith Irwin
Westminster
Andrew E. Kurth
Arnold H. Marzell
Theodore G. Lilley
Sinclair
Twelfth Lavenue
Salvation Army
William W. Kyle
Holiness Meeting
Salvation Meeting
First Lutheran
H. G. Schwegler
Thirty-seventh Street
J. F. Wipperman
St. Stephen’s
E.L.C
Meadowbrook
N. L. Wogen
Christian Stewardship
Trinity — Missouri
E. H. Widmann
Methodis
St. James
Ellis Boulevard
Floyd Hinshaw
Bethel A.ale
C. H. Copeland
United Presbyterian
Eenwood
Thirty-third
Edwin T. Settle
Wilbert B
Audrey Overturf
St. Pauls
Third Avenue SE
Marvin B. Kober
Kenneth Metcalf
Unitarian
Peoples
Waldemar Argow
U.S. Council of Churches
English Lutheran Church
St. Mark's
Richard W. Engstrom
Foursquare
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Ruth Webster
Chueh Dpi
Simple Gospel Bible School
Dairydale Baptist Church
Mt. Vernon Road
Mable Ormston
Okie
Ent Ky
Rev. W. Pearce
Mosier Nelson
Gene E. Phillips
Ted
Leland
Gene E, Phillips
D. Gadbow
Leland Roesink
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