Holsopples sail to Uganda with MCC mission for three years
Elroy and Mary Holsopple join Mennonite Central Committee and depart Cedar Rapids on a three year Uganda assignment. They will live with Ugandan communities in Hoima, design programs, and supervise a woodworking shop while MCC funds their needs and a monthly $40 allowance. They emphasize walking in others shoes to foster development and compassion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalona
Elroy
Mary Holsopple
Mennonite Central Committee
MCC
Cedar Rapids
Uganda
Mary
Peace Corps
Holsopples
D. Paul Yoders
Yoder
Purdue University
Lafayette
Mennonite
Brethren In Christ
Europe
Nairobi
Kenya
Hoima
Church of Uganda
Holma
Jinga
Liz Anderson
Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood
Liz
Iowa State
Lafayette Urban Ministries
Mennonite Disaster Service
Mobile
Ala
Frederick
Britain
Kampala
South 12Th St
Akron
Evangelistic events and church notices crowd Hiawatha week
Frances Eddy discusses Turkey life and Christian missions in an Islamic country at Hope United Church of Christ. A Sunday slide presentation follows as part of a week of evangelistic events including a Monday start for a crusade by Northbrook Baptist Chapel under a big top tent on Boyson Road NE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Eddy
Grinnell
Near East Mission
Istanbul
Turkey
Hope United Church of Christ
Ninth Ave
Hiawatha
Northbrook Baptist Chapel
Boyson Road
Council Street
Ed Gregory
Immanuel Baptist Church
Nixon Elementary School
Faith Lutheran Church
Call
Paul Plavnick
Mennonites enter theatrical world
Lancaster Mennonites finance and plan a major film about pacifism titled Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed. Lucy Jarvis and Carl Foreman lead development with Merle and Phyllis Good as executive producers. The project budgets at about 10 million dollars with seed funding of 1 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lancaster
Lucy Jarvis
Philip Hallie
France
Jarvis
Carl Foreman
Merle
Phyllis Good
Foreman
Kwai
le Chambon
Andre Pascal Trocme
Magda
St. Bartholomew’s Day
Little Brown Church reunion set Sunday
NASHUA The Little Brown Church in the Vale will host the 30th Annual Wedding Reunion on Sunday August 1. Couples married at the church will attend daylong fellowship with a 10 a.m. Sunday school and 11 a.m. worship service featuring recommitment of vows. Recognition will go to couples married 50 years or longer and prizes for longest, farthest traveled and most recently married. An organ concert and performances by church groups follow, ending with the hymn The Church in the Wildwood and the bell toll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashua
Little Brown
the Vale
John Christy
the Wildwood
William Pitts
Betty Hatzky
Little Brown Church Choir
Sunshine Singers
Spring of Living Waters
Wildwood
Murals Define St Ignatius Church in Montana Mission
In St Ignatius Montana a Flathead Indian mission church displays 58 murals painted by Jesuit brother Joseph Carignano starting in 1900. The art, plus two later works by Sam Wiprud, blends Old Testament scenes with Flathead cultural imagery including Mary and child as squaw and papoose.
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Los Angeles Times
ST. Ignatius
Mont
Indian Mission Church
Montana
Joseph Obersinner
Flathead
St. Ignatius Loyola
Joseph Carignano
Carignano
Sam Wiprud
Mary
Jesus
Father Obersinner
Christ
Don Keyes
St. Ignatius Mission Church
Flathead Indian Reservation
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Sandra VanAmburg
Lazette
Elroy Holsapple
Mary Yoder Holsapple
Holma Woodworking Shop
Church of
Crusade
Bible School
Calvary Baptist Church
Johnson Ave
Kaupins
Tama
Alfred Kaupins
Emanuel Lutheran Church
Strawberry Point
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Latvia
New Creation
Grace College of the Bible
Omaha
Valley View Baptist Church
Mount Vernon Road
Tional Bible College
First Church of the Nazarene
First Ave
Grady Wilson
Billy Graham
Ann Dunnigan
Family Services
St. Pius X School
Collins Road
John the XXIII Society
Little Brown Church
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