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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1968
Page
1
Pope Paul VI encyclical on birth control sparks debate on ecumenism. Some Catholics and Protestants see the issue as expanding freedom of conscience and reducing fear of papal authority, potentially easing historical divisions between Rome and Protestant churches.
Officials from CBS NBC and ABC told Baptist leaders they will de emphasize violence in upcoming fall programs. CBS president Frank Stanton said non news violence is screened with some shows withheld or heavily edited. NBC noted program and script changes and rejection of violent ideas. ABC cited directives to reduce portrayals of violence without blaming television.
The Rev. James E. Conklin, American Baptist missionary to Thailand, will speak at First Baptist church Thursday at 7 30 p m. He is on furlough from the center for the ill tribes at Chiengmai in northern Thailand and serves as pastor of the Chiengmai community church. He has conducted retreats for the U S air force and holds degrees from the College of the Sequoias Linfield College and Berkeley Baptist Divinity School.
Pastor G E Volsch has been named the new minister of the Seventh Day Adventist church succeeding Pastor Robert Goransson who is transferred to Muscatine. Volsch previously served as a missionary in Taiwan and led Taiwan Missionary College. He is a Union College graduate and has held church and mission roles in North Dakota. The Volsch family, with four children, resides at 3808 Redbud Road NE.
In Torquay England the Reverend Harry Ryder Jones raised his Sunday service by half an hour after church attendance slid from 150 to 55 due to a popular television show. The move aimed to counter program fatigue and restore worship participation.
St Pauls Methodist church will sponsor an eight day program N O W Needs Opportunity and Witness from October 16 to 23 featuring guests Dr Walter Judd and Bishop Everett W Palmer. Activities include a Great Day of Methodist Singing a Teacher Recognition Dinner Malaysia trip talk youth retreat Laymen's Sunday and a finale at Veterans Memorial Coliseum with 1500 attendees expected.
A detailed list of church names and addresses in Cedar Rapids with service times S S 9 30 10 45 Eve times and special programs. Includes Central 3030 Fave NW First 2531 42nd St NE Berean 5037 Center Point Rd NE and many others with Sunday and Wednesday schedules and guest speakers.
A listing of Mass times and assigned priests for multiple Catholic churches including All Saints Dalewood Immaculate Conception St Jude St Ludmila St Matthew s St Patrick s St Pius X and St Wenceslaus with specified addresses and clergy. Mass times range from early morning to early evening across the parishes.
Christian Cedar-6th street at 3rd avenue SW Barton G Murray SS 9 Serv 10:15 First 840 3rd ave SE John M Hardy SS 9:30 Serv 10:40 The Blessedness Of Sorrow Noelridge 4529 Regal Ave NE B Fred Woolsey SS the Serv 9 The Evasion of od
Bethany at 1300 6th St NW lists Mary A White with Sunday school at 8 45 and service at 10 with a program titled A Peculiar People. Fair Oaks at 1243 Apache Trail NW lists Richard Menzel with Sunday school at 9 30 and service at 10 30 and a sermon themed Forever And For ever.
Public talks and Watchtower sessions listed for two Jehovah's Witness units. West Unit 1221 Center Point Road presents talk at 9 and Watchtower at 10. East Unit 3103 Pioneer Avenue Southeast holds talk at 9 30 and Watchtower at 10 30.
The Latter Day Saints list services at Trailridge Rd SE with Melvin Tew as priesthood from 8:30 and Sunday School at 10:30 Eve serves. Reorganized at 19th St NE with Elder William Landrum and Sunday School at 9:45 and Service at 11.
A list of Lutheran and Lutheran affiliated congregations with addresses in Missouri and nearby areas showing Sunday school times service hours evening Bible study and midweek offerings. Several churches note sermon titles such as Tell It Like It Is The Reliable One s and A Unique Friendship with ages and class ranges for Sunday School segments.
Meeting times and Sunday school details for Bethel AME 6th St SE John I Thomas and Free-8006 Ave NW Howard F Harris S S times Wesleyan 2600 1st Ave NW Richard Ernst S S 9 45 Serv 10 45 Evening studies The Highest Obsession What Christ Thinks Of The Church Eve 7 Wed 7 30
Aleck Ulmet at 1328 K street SW and John Friend at 1515 29th street NE list Sunday schedule with Sunday School at 9 45 and service at 10 45. Evening service at 7 30 and youth services at 6 with a 7 00 service for youth.
The page catalogs Sunday school (S.S.) and service times for numerous churches including Asbury, Faith, Salem, St. James, St. Mark's, St. Paul, St. Peter's, Trinity, and Union stations. It notes speakers Bertram Bill Long, Paul W. Somerville, Elmer C. Boom, and others, with sermon topics such as Seeing and Perceiving New Anatomies The Same Old Stars and Does The Church Care Each entry provides street location and service times.
Readable printed schedule lists church locations pastimes and service times. Names include Calvin Seventh Day at 38th Street Earl A Huebner Allen Van Cleve Eugene W Tolstedt Christ Church at Istave John E Wheatley First Church at 5th Street Dr Francis W Pritchard Gary L Rush Michael D Seitz and Hus Memorial at 9th Avenue. Sermon titles shown include We Are Tired Of Waiting The Price of Envy When You Have Been Hurt Deeply.
A listing of church names, locations, pastors or contact persons, and schedule details including Sunday school times, morning and evening services, and midweek events across Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas. Several churches note special topics and Wednesday or Thursday sessions along with web references where available.
A log cabin begun four years ago on the Cedar river at West Branch to mark the centennial of a youth group will be dedicated Sunday at 2 30 p m The West Branch Friends church youth started building in 1964 to celebrate the 1865 founding by John Y Hoover great-uncle of Herbert C Hoover The ceremony will be preceded by a basket lunch at the cabin site.
SPECIAL stewardship series at St Stephen s Lutheran church runs October 12 to 21 led by Stan Shefveland from Minneapolis a resident counselor on the stewardship staff of the American Lutheran Church.
Dr George M Lamsa scriptural scholar will present six lectures at Unity Center 1015 Second Avenue SE with sessions 11 am and 7 30 pm Sunday and 2 pm and 7 30 pm Monday and Tuesday He has translated the Bible from Aramaic scrolls and has taught at Unity School of Christianity since 1965 The public is invited
Five Northeast Iowa clergy will represent Cedar Rapids Marion and other areas at the biennial ALC convention in Omaha from October 16 to 22. Delegates include Roy N. Jorgensen Glori a Dei Cedar Rapids Everett Petersen Marion William Thalacker West Branch G D A Engelhardt Preston Richard Hovert Iowa City Arnold M Kuester Oli The gathering is expected to attract about 1,000 delegates from nearly 5,000 congregations.
National Bible week begins with a luncheon at New York's Hotel Pierre honoring Wallace E. Johnson national chairman. The event kicks off the Bible society and Laymen's committee observance for the week of Oct 20 and the Bible reading program through Thanksgiving. Johnson, from Memphis Tennessee, leads Religious Heritage of America and funds Baptist church construction.
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