Catholic Priest Fights Illiteracy With Radio Sets
In Sutatenza Colombia Father Jose Joaquin Salcedo launched Radio Sutatenza School of the Air to educate rural residents. The project uses radios and organized listening groups to teach reading and basic skills, with UNESCO data noting hundreds of thousands reached and several tens of thousands literate in early years.
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Bogota
Colombia
Sutatenza
Jose Joaquin Salcedo
Radio
Radio Sutatenza
Mmix
Father Salcedo
Unesco
Radio Satatenza
Methodist Youth Set Meeting in Western North Carolina
The Western North Carolina Conference Methodist Youth Fellowship plans its annual Junior and Senior High Youth Council meeting August 27 to 29 at Camp Tekoa near Hendersonville. Delegates from 40,450 youths join district officers and counselors for sessions on 1961-62 plans, worship, and youth fellowship activities led by conference leaders and officers from Lake Junaluska.
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Charlotte
Western
North Carolina Conference
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Camp Tekoa
Hendersonville
N. C
Methodist
Lake Junaluska
Christian Faith and Action Assembly
Tony Craver
Lexington
John Andrews
Advance
Anne Thomas
Stoneville
Anne Palmer
Asheville
J. E. You
Bruce Anne Parcell
Statesville
Janet Harrison
Greensboro
Delbert Byrum
High Point
R. Paschal Waugh
Jamestown
I. L. Sharpe
Albemarle
Barbara Cox
Kenneth Fansler
North Carolina
Carl H. King
Board of Education
Paul H. Duckwall
Tom S. Lee Jr
Swafford to Speak at First Evangelical Service
James Swafford a Wake Forest Seminary student will deliver the sermon at First Evangelical and Reformed Church in the minister's absence. The event highlights a student speaker stepping in for the regular minister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Swafford
Wake Forest Seminary
First Evangelical and Reformed Church
Mission Gives Relief Money To Palestinian Refugees
The Pontifical Mission for Palestine sends funds raised by Roman Catholics worldwide to the Near East. It allocated 8715 dollars to UNRWA, 8000 for rebuilding a Dheisheh clinic near Bethlehem housing about 6000 refugees, with the rest for classroom equipment at the Assur ish hospital near Beirut for psychiatric nursing courses.
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Pontificial Mission For
Palestine
Near East
United Nations Relief and Work Agency
Dheisheh
Bethlehem
Jordan
Asshourish
Beirut
Lutherans To Select Church Name
The United Lutheran Mission congregation meeting at 313 Tar Heel Drive will choose a name after Sunday service. A steering committee picked three options Transfiguration Lutheran Church The Lutheran Church of the New Covenant and Holy Cross Lutheran Church. Rev. Charles R. Huggins will explain desired qualities and each suggested name at the gathering.
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United Lutheran Mission
Tar Heel Drive
Transfiguration Lutheran Church
Lutheran Church of the New Covenant
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
Charles R. Huggins
Rev G Dwight Conrad to Speak at Grace Lutheran Anniversary
The Rev G Dwight Conrad son of C H Conrad and the late Mrs Conrad of Thomasville will deliver the sermon in the second service marking Grace Lutheran Church founding in 1911. The 11 00 a m service occurs Sunday Aug 27 with Pastor Conrad among three Grace Church sons entering ministry.
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G. Dwight Conrad
C. H. Conrad
Coronation Service to Crown Queen Figures at N Main Baptist
A Girl's Auxiliary plans a coronation at N Main Baptist Church at 8 p m Sunday with queens princesses and maids in waiting. Sunbeams provide special music and solos will be sung by Mrs Faye Donald and Mrs Lucy Patterson.
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N. Main Baptist Church
Sunbeams
Faye Donald
Lucy Patterson
Merger Talk Continues Between Churches Across U.S.
The 236000 member Christian Reformed Church votes to extend talks toward merger with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and the Protestant Reformed Churches of America. The Orthodox Presbyterian Church has about 9500 members and the Protestant Reformed Churches of America about 3000.
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Christian Reformed Church
U.S. A
Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Protestant Reformed Churches of America
Pastor Conrad to Lead Bethany Lutheran Sermon
The Rev Conrad, current pastor at Bethany Lutheran Church in Hickory North Carolina, will deliver a sermon titled Shields of Gold. He graduated from Lenoir Rhyne College in 1936 and the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in 1939, and was ordained that year by the United Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North Carolina. He is married to Ruth Shoaf of Winston-Salem. they have three daughters and a son.
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Bethany Lutheran Church
Hickory
N. C
Conrad
Lenoir Rhyne College
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary
United Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North Carolina
Ruth Shoaf
Winston-Salem
Conrads
Appalling Ignorance in Christianity Warned by Bishop Corson
George W. Cornell reports Bishop Fred Pierce Corson new World Methodist Conference president says widespread religious ignorance weakens Christian action. He urges a deeper doctrinal education, noting Methodism roots and a shift to serious theological study among 25 million Methodists in 70 nations.
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George W. Cornell
Associated Press
World Methodism
Fred Pierce Corson
Philadephia
Oslo
Norway
World Methodist Conference
Harold Roberts
Carson
Dickinson College
Carlisle
General Board of Education
General Conference
Methodist Church
Gerald Kennedy
Los Angeles
Backwood
Divine guidance fuels Air Force commander and squadron
Maj. Eugene J. Budnik, commander of the 515th Bomb Squadron at Lockbourne AFB, says divine guidance shapes his leadership and the crew’s discipline. He notes officers from diverse backgrounds share the belief, framing leadership as a contest of ideas and ethics over mere weaponry.
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Phil Gunby
Columbus
Ohio
America
Maj
Eugene J. Budnik
Air Force
Strategic Air Command
Budnik
Montello
Wis
Lockbourne
515Th
Martin F- Foutz Jr
United Lutheran Church In America
Foutz
Maj. Budnik
Choir School at N Main Street Baptist Church
A multi day School of Church Music runs Monday through Friday at N Main Street Baptist Church with 7 pm to 9 pm sessions. Veil Capps of Greensboro directs a Choral Workshop each evening. Instructors include Capps and ministers and musicians from several local churches. Rev Peter Knezha, Latvian born evangelist, speaks at West End Baptist Mission Sunday at 7:30 pm. Dr Herbert H Peterson preaches at Lebanon Methodist Church Sunday at 11.00 am. Homecoming events noted at Mitchells Grove Methodist and Charity Baptist churches with morning worship and afternoon singings.
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The
Central Baptist Assn
N. Main Street Baptist Church
Veil Capps
Greensboro
Capps
Roger W. Cole
Green Street Baptist Church
Walter Jacobs
N. Main ‘Street Baptist
James W
James W. ‘Sears, Pianist At Green Street ‘Baptist Church; Joe McWethey
Lexington Avenue Baptist Church
Martha Wallace
Allen Jay Baptist Church
Peter Knezha
Latvia
West End Baptist Mission
Redding
Ennis
Mr. Knezha
Funeral service announced for Mount Zion church
A sacramental service will be held Sunday at 7 30 p.m. at Mount Zion Free Will Baptist Church on Woodbine Street. Rev. Mac Crisp is the pastor. Other services Sunday include Sunday School at 10 a.m. morning worship at 11 a.m. Young People’s meeting at 7 p.m. and the evening service at 7 30.
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Charity Baptist Church
Fraley Road
S. Main Street
W. O. Powers
Mount Zion Free Will Baptist Church
Woodbine Street
Mac Crisp
Tulsa mother delivers 17th child
Mrs. Eddie Everett, 36, of Tulsa Oklahoma, recently gave birth to a son. It is her 17th child.
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Tulsa
Okla
Eddie Everett
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Thomasville
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By Faye Marks
Mr. Knezka
Germany
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Jacksonville, Fla
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Herbert H. Peterson
High Point College
Lebanon Methodist
Peterson
Methodist Board of Missions
Malaya
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St. Louis
Denver University
Denver
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Kenneth Crouse
Lebanon Methodist Church
Mitchell’s Grove Methodist Church
Kivett Drive
Oakdale Road
J. Edwin Houk
E. J. Cates JR
Park Street
High Point, N. C
Lydia
Alfred J. Buescher
Europe
Paul
Asia
Macedonia
Silas
Philippi
Acts
John J
Trywood
Bayti
Thomas Stephens Haggai
Westchester
Country Club Drive
Bethel
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