Iowa Methodists Launch Five Year World Evangelism Plan
The Iowa United Methodist Conference kicked off a five year World Evangelism plan with a kickoff dinner at St. Pauls United Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids. Dr. Alan Walker of Sydney Australia outlined efforts to raise 853000 of the 1013000 needed to fund the program and to spread the Christian faith to about 2700 million people with little knowledge of Jesus.
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United Methodist Church
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
Third Ave
Alan Walker
Sydney
Australia
Denomina
Walker
World Mission
Jesus
Emerson S. Colaw
Hyde Park Community
World Mission Evangelism plans five year drive
A church figure outlined a five year plan to spread evangelism worldwide through conferences youth events resource sharing and new communication methods. Goals include transforming personalities through Jesus lifting church impact and addressing racism poverty and war. the plan references John Wesley and Mayflower ideals. A dinner raised 32 165 55 in cash and pledges with a Des Moines meeting held the prior week.
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Jesus
Charles Colson
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
George Foreman
Walker
John Wesley
America
Des Moines
Lenten events and talks fill church schedule in Iowa towns
Ron Gonder of WMT will speak at an interdenominational Lenten luncheon at First Presbyterian Church Cedar Rapids. The $1.75 meal starts at 11 45 with multiple city churches and organizations sponsoring. The northwest side coop Lent services run 7 30 nightly at Salvation Army Center and feature Rev Gordon Packard and others.
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Ron Gonder
WMT
First Presbyterian Church
Fifth St. SE
Gonder
Iowa
Illinois
Church Women United
Churches United
Metropolitan Ymca
Salvation Army Corps Center
C Ave
Gordon Packard
St. James
Central Park Presbyterian Church
B Ave
June M. Todd
Guerin Thompson
Tom Ryder
Clarence Whisler
Carl Albert
Allen S. van Cleve
Christian Churches
Disciples of Christ
Noelridge Park
Salvation Army Center
1000 C Ave
Canada
Death and Dying Topics At Cornell College Conference
Cornell College hosts a daylong conference on death and dying titled The Sting of Death in the Commons from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dr. George Paterson and Dr. Dennis Klass discuss theological and pastoral reflections and death education with videotaped interviews and a 3 to 4 p.m. discussion. Klass repeats at Coe College at 7:30 p.m. in Hickok Hall Room 105.
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America
Bob Rutgers
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Coe College
Cornell
George Paterson
University of Iowa School of Religion
Dennis Klass
Webster College
St. Louis
Paterson
Iowa
The
University
Klass
Coe
Hickok Hall
Department of Religion
Christian Children's Fund marks 40 years of aid in world reach
Christian Children's Fund executive director Christian Mills recalls the agency’s 1938 origins as the China Children's Fund and its growth into a global nonprofit with a $30 million budget and about 170000 beneficiaries in 13 countries. The program emphasizes family centered care via direct cash grants and local caseworker support, keeping children with their families rather than institutions.
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Mills
CCF
China
Christian Children’s Fund
The
United States
Children’s Fund
Clarke
Better Business Bureau
National Information Bureau
Religion's duty to help change society urged by Iowa professor
University of Iowa professor George Forell argues born again Christians isolate religion from the world by coping with problems rather than changing them. He co-edits God's Call to Public Responsibility a 64 page, quarterly book of essays for clergy, selling 10,000 copies, featuring views on religion and First Amendment rights and Lutherans in Dar es Salaam.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
George Forell
University
School of Religion
Forell
God
Lutheran World Federation
Dar Es Salaam
Tanzania
Paul G. Kauper
The
University of Michigan
William H. Lazareth
Lutheran Church In America
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Green’s Grove
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First Covenant Church
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Francis Schaeffer
Justice Panel
Hope United Church of Christ
Ninth Ave
Hiawatha, Will
Campus Bible Fellowship
Federated Church
Shiokari Pass
Hillside Wesleyan Church
First Ave
Gene P. Richter
First United Presbyterian Church
Shellsburg
Maumee Valley
Ohio
Verent C. Mills
J. Calvitt Clarke
Richmond, Va
Earl Long
Louisiana
Forest
Carter
Playboy Magazine
Good Baptist
Dave Smith
Cedar Rapids
David Nelson Roth
Kenwood Park Presbyterian Church
35Th St. and ‘C’ Ave. NE
UNITY
John Cuddeback
Pythian Hall
Old Marion Road
Sadat
Middle East
Family Church That
First Assembly of God
42Nd Street N.E
Kennedy High School
Victor C. Unruh
God's
Pastor Unruh
Joseph M. Stowell
Schaumberg
Dr. Stowell
General Assn
Regular Baptist Churches
Messengers OF Praise
Faith Baptist Bible College
Ankeny
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