Goodwill Industries Expands Internationally to Hawaii and Australia
The Goodwill program begun by the Methodist church to employ disabled people expands beyond the United States. Buicho C. Chung is named executive director for Honolulu and trains in U S workshops before returning in November to launch the Hawaii program. A Sydney development progresses with building construction underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodwill Industries
United States
Goodwill
Hawaii
Australia
Buicho C. Chung
Honolulu
Sydney
National Convocation to Convene in York Pennsylvania
York Pennsylvania to host the National Convocation on town and country church work from October 21 to 23 under the National Council of Churches. Seventeen seminar programs and a platform feature leaders including Dr Shirley and Dr Truman B Douglas. Serge F Hummon elected secretary of Town and Country Church replacing Wesleyn A Hotchkiss just appointed general secretary of Home Missions.
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York
Pennsylvania
National Council of Churches
Shirley
E. Green
Truman B
Truman B. ‘Douglas, Dr. Edward K. Ziegler
Clifford L. Samuelson
Henry S. Randolph
Glenn F
Sanford
Richard Q. Comfort
Benson Y. Landis
Dale W. Medearis
Robert Handy
Serge F. Hummon
Oak Park, Ilk
Townvand Country Church
Board of Home Missions
The
Congregational Christian Churches
Wesleyn A. Hotchkiss
Methodists Help Build New Churches Amid Recession
The Methodist Church reports its fundraising campaign directed by Rev. Dr Olen Hunt raised 28.0 million dollars for church building in the year ending May 31 1958, across 324 local churches. Total in six years topped 103 million with shifts in crusade totals vs 1956 57. Dr Hunt to retire January as finance head.
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Methodist Church
Corps of
Olen Hunt
Philadelphia
Hunt
Department of Finance and Field Service
National Missions
Methodist Board of Missions
A Lesson on Crossing Rivers and Wise Judgment
A narrator recalls a day trip from Alexandria Louisiana aboard the cannon ball. Forewarned by a self proclaimed expert the group crosses Bayou Rapides thinking Red River and confusing a lake with a hay field. The piece warns against overconfident disclosure and urges careful judgment.
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Alexandria
Louisiana
Bayou Rapides
Red River
Bayou -Rapides
Clare area social notes recount family visits and greetings
Mr and Mrs Franix Simpson and daughter Doris Kay visited Clare to honor a birthday at the home of Mr and Mrs Arthur Brown for a surprise. Numerous relatives from Chicago Indianapolis and Michigan dropped in for meals and visits with the Robb Yeoman Bergey Bowen Dixon Olds Mott Smith and other families. James Yeoman drove his mother to Lansing to see the Michigan Michigan State game after a week of hostess duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franix Simpson
Doris Kay
Rorothy Simpson
Clare
George Snider
Arthur Brown
Arnold Bidwell
Kenneth Perry
Chicago
Llinois
Harold Nichols
Michael
Allen
Robert Robb
Valerie
Paul
Orford
New Hampshire
James Yeoman
Lansing
Frank Yeoman
Robb
Yeoman
Leo G.bonham
Marion
Indiana
Etta Abbott
Frank
Mitchell
Larry Pilon Jr
Saginaw
Chris Smith
Floyd Bergey
Jackson
Albert Rube
Bay City
Frank Bowen
Straits Bridge
Upper Peninsula
Bowens
Paul Starlin
Mesick
Colie Dixon
Alva White
Midland
Robert Cleveland
New York
Eola McDonel
Ruth Herron
Walford Siel
Ernest Young
Vernon
Shirley Schaaf
Nita Seersaw
Sanford
Margaret Randall
Roberta Stevens
Rosebush
Wilma Bradley
Clyde McJames
Sheridan
Art Jerred
Detroit
Frank Nevins
Jack Hemstreet
Mt. Pleasant
Robert Foster
Darwin Mott
Alfred Smith
Joyce Newins
Elmer Olds
Coleman
Morris Henry
Harrigan
Mabel Hilyard
Me. Donel-Herron
Mannie Sutton
Jerry Ulrich
Arthur Sheets
Gladwin
Wells Johnson
Sally
Bishop Elected As Secretary In Mission Council
Bishop J. E. Lesslie Newbigin, chairman of the International Missionary Council, will become the council's full time general secretary on July 1, 1959. Born 1909 in Newcastle England he studied at Cambridge and served as a Church of Scotland missionary in South India since 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Lesslie Newbigin
International Missionary Council
Madura
Church ‘of
Church of South India
New York
London
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Evart National Farm Loan Assn
Evart
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Regent
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Tenchu Thom
Gobbys
Youle O
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Lves
Keister Adv. Service
Strasburg, Va
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Rae
Tory
Church of
Herrick Mennonite Church
Floyd F. Bontrager
Arthur Center Church OF God
Elza Beery
ST. John’s
Lutheran
Us-27
North End of
Robert Voss
Loomis Missionary Church
Chas, Trusdle
Faith Assembly of God
Farwell
Town Hall
Norman J
Kolenda
Hingis
Gracer Bible
Michigan
Juynn Phillips
Christian Science Services
Clare Masaqnie Hall
OUR Savior Lutheran Mission
Harrison
Raymond Mueller
Hayes Township
Hell
Brown Corners
Eagle Church
God
Eiza Beery
Congregational Church
Fifth Street
Hugh Kennedy
Farwell Park
W. Teale
Church OF the Nazarene
S. McEwan
Kerry Ulvich
the Reorganized Church OF Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Farwell, Michigan
Hobart L. Beavers
First Baptist Church
Gerrit Schut
Church Bible School
Episcopal Church
ST. Ann East
Old US
Charles M. Stuart
Colonville
Ochurch of God
V. Brinkman
Elm Grove
Dover Church
McNeil
Gilmore Church of Christ
Farwell C
Hiram Gates
Shaeffer's Dairy
Clare Sentinel
Church “News
Methodists
Robert H. Harper
Viene
Seer
BopGy Valley
Michigan Consolidated Gas Company
Sentinel
Gee
Catland Cement Association Co
Michigan National Tower
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