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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1978
Page
8
AP reports a new translation by over 100 conservative scholars called the New International Version aiming for clearer modern language. It drops thee and thy for you and your and uses direct phrasing in passages such as Genesis 4:1 and Luke 9:30 to convey events with plain accuracy.
A 30 missionary scholarly team spanning five English speaking nations completed a modern Bible translation started in 1968 under the transdenominational oversight of a Committee on Bible Translation. The New Testament finished 1973 and the full Bible released by Zondervan Hodder and Stoughton and the Bible Society. Elijah Trueblood lauds its clarity and balance.
Rev. C D Gadbow of Marshalltown speaks Sunday at First Church of the Nazarene in two services as part of a five week revival. Jim Fisher will speak at Unity Church in Pythian Hall. Ransom Hess performs a sermon in song at Grace Brethren Church. A Mercy Center music workshop runs Saturday. Wycliffe Associates dinner and program set for Thursday. Noah Ridge Baptist hosts Dr Norman Geisler for a two day program with multiple sessions.
William Hyde and Gar Linda Hyde of Iowa were named missionaries by the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. They will serve in the Philippines while attending Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley California. Hyde was born in Cedar Rapids and educated at the University of Iowa. Mrs Hyde was born in Estherville and also holds a University of Iowa degree.
Sister Cathy Thornton of Mount Mercy Spiritual Center will be guest speaker at 9 30 a m Sunday for the adult Sunday school class at St Michael's Episcopal Church 220 40th St NE. She will discuss how to be a Christian in a Christian vocation.
Roberta Morrison from Minneapolis will address the Iowa City chapter of Women’s Aglow at the monthly meeting. The event runs Tuesday at 11 30 a m at the Purple Cow on Highway 218 near North Liberty three miles north of I 80. Reservations by Monday noon to Gertrude Meade Agnes Whitlow Donna Petersen or Sallyann Dexter. Luncheon cost three dollars.
A Petaluma grower Francis Collings entered a pumpkin weighing 29744 pounds and 98 inches around earning the World Heavyweight title at Half Moon Bay California. California entries took first and second places with Ohio's Dale Dixon entering the largest non California pumpkin at 13744 pounds.
A World Council of Churches panel in Stony Point decried American churches’ busi ness like, bureaucratic style that alienates worshippers. Leaders cited debates over abortion, homosexuality, women’s ordination, and civil rights progress as ongoing tensions within U S religious life.
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