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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1967
Page
5
Judy Jones reports on a Southeastern Regional Family Life Session at Lake Junaluska. The piece quotes church leaders expressing optimism about renewed church strength and planning for larger work despite uncertain times.
The Southeastern regional family life conference for the Methodist church was planned under the theme The Christian Family Serves Through the Church and Community with Dr. R. Lawrence directing. Other items include a Bible school at Walnut Grove Baptist, a July camp guest speaker from Oklahoma, a Muscle Shoals youth rally at Town Creek Baptist, and various youth and ministerial updates across area churches.
The article profiles one of the world’s largest Christian youth movements as 50,000 young Latter-day Saints gathered for the annual June youth conference. It describes a year round program blending fun with faith through outdoor camping public speaking dances dramas music sports crafts lifesaving and nature lore activities.
Rev. Bart Leach emerges as a pioneering minister embracing industrial ministry. A 1955 Ivy League MVP at the University of Pennsylvania who spent three summers at the university camp, he was ordained in 1959 and seeks to unite secular life with ministry through Kimberly Clark Corporation.
The Westminster United Presbyterian Church grew from 26 members to 489 communicants with key leaders and events. Rev. John Davis arrived in 1888 but left Decatur due to a yellow fever epidemic. Rev. E. Horace Porter became the first pastor in 1889. The church began on a bare lot at 8th Ave and Jackson St, built a wooden Gothic tower, later rebuilt in steel and brick in 1939, with brick veneer. The educational building opened in 1949, the sanctuary burned in 1951, the new sanctuary finished in 1954, the manse acquired in 1960, and Rev. Edwin F. Dalstrom became pastor in 1961.
The Antioch church rises as a base for Gentile outreach. Paul and Barnabas are chosen to spread the gospel, with a Jewish sermon guiding converts and the mission setting sail from Seleucia to Cyprus. The venture launches a world-wide Christian mission amid Jewish opposition.
Alabama church music workshop at the University of Alabama runs July 5 to 7 with a concert by the Chattanooga Boys Choir founded in 1954. Dr. Lloyd Pfautsch of Southern Methodist University leads sessions on conducting, voice care, and rehearsal philosophy for the church youth arm’s activities.
The Lutheran Church in America reports a total membership of 3,279,036, showing an increase of 13,381 members in the past year.
The obituary notes an Elmhurst College graduate formerly a soloist with the Robert Shaw Chorale New York Oratorio Society Toscanini Chorus and CBS and NBC choruses.
The Sharpence Southern Baptist Church in Bedfordshire England becomes the first English church to join the Illinois based Chicago Baptist Association. Church officials confirm the linkage and historic cooperation across national lines.
In 1917 American forces began arriving in France marking the entry of the United States into World War I. The arrival signaled and sustained Allied effort as American units joined Allied armies on the Western Front.
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