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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1958
Page
3
The First Baptist Church of Anamosa marks 100 years since its first congregational meeting held at thelphet Kimball home with Elder Daniel Rowley as moderator. The article details building milestones from 1868 brick church to 1957 updates, pastors, notable members, and current pastor Rev. David Yeend, highlighting ongoing plans for a new educational building.
Wesleyan Methodists will dedicate the new chapel parsonage at 2600 First Ave NW with a 2:30 Sunday service. The Rev G M Hubby leads the church. Rev Clarence Budensiek presides as Iowa Conference president. Paul Roberts of Waterloo provides music. A 1955 donation total from fifty Protestant and Orthodox denominations reached $1,842,592,260.
The Rev William R Everts moves from Waterloo to Cedar Rapids to organize a Re formed Church in America congregation, the first in Cedar Rapids. The denomination bought four lots on Gordon avenue, plans a 40 by 60 foot masonry church with 175-seat sanctuary and a basement kitchen and 50 Sunday school rooms, debt free at about 35000 dollars. Construction begins within a month, services expected this fall, with a parsonage to follow. The Cedar Rapids church will serve surrounding residents, with Everts as regional missionary guiding new church organization. He was ordained 36 years ago, graduate of Central College and Western Theological Seminary.
The article traces the Dutch Reformed Church's American arrival in 1628 from Holland, its growth to about 200,000 members in 800 churches, and mentions Dwight Everts who served in Pekin, Des Moines, Waterloo and now resides at 1842 Ellis boulevard SW. It cites Dr. Norman Vincent Peale as a well known minister in New York City.
The Rev. James S. Rila of Carrollton Ohio will lead Cotter and Salem Presbyterian churches in Columbus Junction starting July 13. He and his family move into the Cotter manse, replacing supply pastor Louis Penningroth who has been serving both churches.
United Press International reports scholar J Carter Swaim of the National Council of Churches urges reading the Bible by a planned order. He favors starting with the New Testament Gospels Mark Luke John then Acts and Epistles, before Old Testament prophets and laws, ending with Genesis and Revelation.
Special to The Gazette Des Moines Drake university hosts a week long Quadrennial Convocation of Protestant colleges with 60 presidents and 50 deans and trustees among 400 delegates from about 500 colleges. Leading educators like Dr Kathleen Bliss and Dr Hilda Neatby will lecture on the church related college role, its historical, theological and educational factors, and its function as the educator of the whole person.
In Cedar Rapids Gazette June 21 1958 a student group publishes a compact critical study on the crises, opportunities and responsibilities facing Christian colleges. It outlines their views and will be discussed during the week.
The Rev. Thomas Ruffin of St. George's Syrian Orthodox Church in Worcester earned a bachelor of arts in philosophy while serving full time as pastor of a 1,400 member congregation. The Worcester Telegram notes he is the first non Catholic clergyman to receive a degree from Assumption College. He also serves as adviser to Orthodox youth and regional church groups and credits his wife for support throughout his studies.
Cedar Rapids church listings cover numerous denominations with service times and addresses. Notable congregations include First ABC 1200 2nd Ave SE Rev James M Webb and Central Ave NW 1500 Ist Ave NW Rev James McNeil, plus Catholic Immaculate Conception 859 3rd Ave SE and St Ludmila 211 21st Ave SW with mass times.
The Rev. Merle Stombaugh leads services at the Christian Missionary Alliance church located at 3412 Old Marioard NE The schedule lists Sunday School at 9 30 a.m Worship at 10 30 a.m and Evening Service at 7 30 p.m including the pastor and location.
First 701 25th Street NE lists Rev Norman Swensen at S school 9 30 worship 10 45 with the sermon The Ten Eternal Commandments. Evening service at 7 presents Weighed Not Counted.
At Covington the Rev. Hugh Swepees leads a Sunday church service and a South School session at 9 30. An inquiry titled Is the Universe Including Man Evolved by Atomic Force is noted among activities at First 1242 2nd Ave SE and nearby worship and Sunday school events.
The Rev. Jack A. Oliver leads Christian Church school at 9:45 and worship at 8:30. Cedar-526 3rd Ave SW lists The Rev. Ernest 8S Worden with Sunday school at 9:45 and worship at 8:30 and 10:45, including the sermon Fighting Weeds in Your Soul.
The church at 1230 15th St SE hosts Sunday services with Sunday school at 10, worship at 11, and an evening service at 8. Church events are announced for parishioners and attendees.
A catalog of area churches with addresses and ministers detailing Sunday school times worship services and special offerings including The Rev Leonard E Deaver The Rev Hubert L Sunderman The Rev Charles W Bellus The Rev Walter Cerka The Rev Samuel J Hahn and The Rev James C A Cole with times 8 30 9 45 and 10 45 for worship and various church school schedules across Salem Union Sharon St John s Grace and Eberhard Grace maps and a note on communion and morning prayers.
The Rev Herman Mullis preaches at 8S school 9 45, worship 11, evening 7 30 at 609 Istave SW. The church lists morning and evening services with Sunday school and worship times.
Interdenominational service details list Rev A J Stokes at 225 South Avenue SW. Sunday school at 10, worship at 11, evening service at 7 30.
A compact listing of area church services and programs including Trinity on 3rd Ave SW and Kenwood at Thirty-third St NE with morning and evening worship times, Sunday school, and noted sermon topics such as Build UNITARIAN and The Strange Vocation of Preaching. Also listed are Wesleyan, Peoples, Free, St James, St Pauls, John Huss, and Asbury locations with respective pastors and service times.
A listing of church names addresses and pastors with Sunday school and worship times. Denominations include Kenwood Westminster Tomorrows of an Olivet Has Memorial Knox Central Park First Sinclair Memorial Christ Church and Christ Church with details on service themes and communion plans.
The notice lists church activities: Pentecostal Evangelical at 629 Save NW with Rev. O L Kirk teaching and services at 9:45 Sunday school, 11 worship, 7:45 evening. Friends Quakers at YMCA chapel 10:30 worship. Salvation Army at 1123 3rd St SE with Major and Mrs J E La Lone, Sunday school at 10, holiness meeting at 11.
Sunshine Mission on 121 2nd Street NE lists Henry Men as singer and superintendent. Services held weeknights at 7 30 and on Sundays at 7.
A fragment notes a Seventh Day Adventist location at 3424 Istave NE Los Angeles and a school session on Saturday at 9 30 with Mr Heifsner listed.
The United Church of Christ at First E&R, 351 8th Ave SW, led by Rev E K Schneider, holds Sunday school at 9 30 and worship at 10 30. The Czech church at 1510 2nd St SW with Dr Milo Filipi offers Sunday school at 9 30 and worship at 10 30, featuring The Restoration of Peter in Czech.
Mabel Swanson leads the Unity Center at 1015 2nd Ave SE with a morning service at 9:30. The session emphasizes human and divine strength in faith and fellowship.
Linn county residents join three 50 year ministers at a St James Methodist church banquet honoring retired clergy. Names include Rev John B Ackman Cedar Rapids Rev Oswald Sandbach Mt Vernon and Rev James J Davies Fort Dodge.
The Rev Dom Columba Kelly formerly John Joseph Kelly of Williamsburg will be ordained a Catholic priest July 5 at Our Lady of Einsiedeln Abbey in Einsiedeln Switzerland. His parents accompany him for the ordination and for his first Mass July 1 in the same abbey. He studied at Gehry school in English Township and Parnell High School, then St Ambrose College Davenport, St Meinrad Archabbey Indiana, and Collegio de Sant Anselmo Rome. He will return to St Meinrad after further studies and then celebrate ordination at Williamsburg's St Marys Church.
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