Methodists Launching Evangelistic Movement
Western North Carolina Methodists launch a major evangelistic drive climaxing June 10 1962 with church members joining this year. Goals include reaching the unchurched and backsliders, baptizing babies, a 4 percent net membership gain, and a religious census. A Pfeiffer College school for resource leaders is set for August 21 22 1962 with district and local church training events across multiple cities February through March 1962.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
North Carolina
Deadwood
Methodist General Conference
Jesus Christ
Pfeiffer College
Misenheimer
N. C
Dil- Worth
United Visitation
Greensboro
High Point
Salisbury
Thomasville
Albemarle
Gastonia
Marion
Asheville
Waynesville
Statesville
North Wilkesboro
Winston- Salem
Green Street Baptist Church hosts Sunbeam Focus Week events
A week of church activities at Green Street Baptist Church highlights a 75th Sunbeam Band anniversary and Sunbeam Focus Week across the Southern Baptist Convention. Programs include Vacation Bible School at E Grimes Avenue Chapel directed by Rev J D Allgood, Women's Missionary Society meetings, and Sunday School conference notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Street Baptist Church
Ridgecrest
E. Grimes Avenue Baptist Chapel
Green Street Church
J.D. Allgood
Chanel
The
Bible School
Mission
Women's Missionary Society of
Sunbeam Band
Southern Baptist Convention
High Point
Sunbeam
Women's Missionary Union
How To Be Lazy And Enjoy It
A Journal of Lifetime Living piece extols lazy living with simple guidance. It urges avoiding grudges and envy, listening more, and letting others feel right in trivial matters. It promotes conserving energy by not rushing for buses or wrestling with minor worries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal of Lifetime Living
Historic Gavel To Be Used By World Methodist Conference
Oslo reports a gavel carved from Bethel Church Charleston pew wood will preside the World Methodist Conference program in Oslo. Dr. Nolan B. Harmon of Charlotte will use it for Methodism in Action. The gavel is one of eight gifts to Harmon, a leader in American Methodism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oslo
Norway
South Carolina
World Methodist Conference
Nolan B. Harmon
Charlotte
N. C
Bethel Methodist Church
Charleston
D. C
Francis Asbury
America
Bishop Harmon
Paul Hardin Jr
Alaska College
John Wesley
St. Simon's Island
Georgia
North Carolina
Methodist Church
U. S
Religious Film Purchases by Military Services
The army and Air Force are among the heaviest buyers of NCC produced films and filmstrips. Audiovisual materials cover topics from pre marital counseling to foreign missions relief and youth leader training, purchased for inductee presentations.
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Rhea
Army
Air Force
National Council of Churches
Saint Simeon the Stylite to Be Honored Again in Syria
Damascus AP report says Syria plans a celebration for Saint Simeon the Stylite who lived 27 years atop a desert pillar 20 miles from Aleppo. Tourism officials expect about 10,000 pilgrims, citing historic church ruins at the pillar base and the saint’s ancient model of solitude and devotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Lancashire
Damascus
Syria
Department of Tourism
Simeon
Aleppo
United Arab Republic
Yoss
Samara
France
India
English Street Baptist Church Adds Educational and Music Directors
English Street Baptist Church announced the hiring of Rev. Bill Arkinney as educational director and Hugh Whitley as director of music. Arkinney, a Spruce Pine native, has 13 years in accounting and office management with prior service in World War I and training at Wake Forest College. Whitley, from Albemarle, a Ferndale Junior High teacher, holds a degree from Catawba College and has served as organist and choir director in multiple denominations. he plans to organize seven choirs at the church by September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
English Street Baptist Church
Bill ArcKinney
Spruce Pine
McKinney
Mars Hill College
Steed College of Technology
Wake Forest College
Hugh Whitley
Albemarle
Whitley
C. C. Whitley
Mabel Holbrook
Ferndale Junior High School
Catawba
Indian Woman Educator Gets Post At Isabella Thoburn College
Dr Eva I Shipstone was elected president of Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow succeeding Dr Evangeline Thillayampalam who retired. Shipstone, a former psychology professor at the college, studied at Vanderbilt Radcliffe and Boston universities. Founded in 1886 the college bears the name of missionary Miss Isabella Thoburn and now celebrates its Diamond Jubilee with about 400 students including international learners from Africa Ceylon Burma Malaya and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Isabella Thoburn College
Lucknow
Eva I. Shipstone
Evangeline Thillayampalam
Shipstone
Vanderbilt
Boston
Radcliffe College
Isabella Thoburn
India
Africa
Ceylon
Burma
Malaya
High Point Methodists Attend Leadership School at Lake Junaluska
About 30 members of Wesley Memorial Methodist Church joined sessions of the Leadership School held annually at Lake Junaluska in August. The event is sponsored by The Methodist Church General Board of Education with the Southeastern Jurisdiction’s Conference Boards. Courses cover child work, beliefs, Bible context, youth, missions, handicapped education, and adult church education, with hands on labs for children and youth groups. The group stayed in a two apartment cottage, aiding volunteers led by Ann Tyler, Mrs. George Livles Jr., and Mrs. Harriss Covington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Leadership
Lake Junaluska
General Board of Education of
The
Methodist Church
Conference Boards of Education
Southeastern
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Wesley Memorial
Ann Tyler
George Livles Jr
Harriss Covington
Singing Along on Air at Charles Upson School
A young boy in the Charles Upson School chorus sang on WUSJ while wearing earphones listening to the program via a transistor radio during the performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lockport
the Times
Charles Upson School
WUSJ
Florida Minister To Speak At Forrest Hills Church
Rev Samuel N Milton pastor of Lakeview Presbyterian Church St Petersburg Florida will be guest minister at Forrest Hills Presbyterian Church Sunday Aug 13 Milton a North Carolina native has led a Florida pastorate nine and a half years serving in elective and advisory roles He has chaired Synod Vocational Guidance Council presbytery Education Committee and currently sits on Westminster Presbytery Nominating Committee and leads United Churches of Greater Saint Petersburg
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel N. Milton
Lakeview Presbyterian Church
St. Petersburg
Florida
Forrest Hills Presbyterian Church
Milton
Synod
Presbytery
Christian Education
Westminister Presbytery
United Churches of Greater
Youth Choir Travels To Burlington
The Youth Choir of Green Street Baptist Church traveled by car to Burlington to sing at the First Baptist Church Youth Revival on Friday evening August 11. They performed a classical program for the revival and followed with a Youth Fellowship concert featuring six spirituals. Local groups Caroletes El Rey Tres The Kingsmen Quartet and a new boys ensemble appeared at the fellowship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Street Baptist Church
First Baptist Church of
Burlington
Jesus
Green Street Church
First Baptist Church
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