Sigmon Named AFSC Visa Unit Director in Charlotte
Robert Lee Sigmon of Charlotte has been appointed by the American Friends Service Committee as field director of the new United States unit of Voluntary International Service Assignments. He will lead a team of VISA volunteers ages 20 to 30 to work on community service projects in literacy nutrition hygiene citizenship education and agriculture with units planned in Florida North and South Carolina and eastern Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Lee Sigmon
Charlotte
American Friends Service Committee
United States
Voluntary International Service Assignments
VISA
AFSC
B. Tartt Bell
Pakistan
Theological College
Bangalore
India
Marian
Lahore
Marian Sigmon
YWCA
Boston
National Council of Churches
Sigmons
Florida
North
South Carolina
Kentucky
Church Notebook Lutherans Welcome New Pastor
Emanuel Lutheran Church in High Point welcomes Rev. Paul E Monroe Jr as new pastor succeeding Rev. Harry D Hawthorne. Monroe, a Phillips? graduate of Lenoir Rhyne and Hamlin Divinity School, has served in Cassopolis Nashville Newberry and other towns. He is married with four children. Also news on High Point Friends summer vesper, Methodist committees in Western North Carolina Conference, and plans for Christian opposition to Communism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faye Marks
New York State
Emmanuel Luth
Washington, D. C
Eran Church
High Point
Monroe War
Tomorland
Gastonia
Tow
Casscomes
Nashtown
Ohio
Newberry
S. C
Ville
Tenn
Stator
First Lutheran Church
Newberry College
Monroe
Traught
Harry D. Hawthorne
Hawthorne
Nashville
Religion In Life
Nashville Tennessean
Mr. Mottroe
Lutheran Theological Seminary
Kentucky, Tennessee Synod
Board of Home Missions
Kentucky-Tennessee Synod
Synod
Social Missions Board
National Council of Churches Assemblies
St. Louis
San Francisco
Mr. Monroe
Josephine Beck
Warren
Emmanual Lutheran Parsonage
Quaker Lane
Thomasville
Lexington
North Carolina
From Sojourners to Slaves Israel in Egypt study
R R Ramsey recalls Jacob and Joseph narratives from Genesis to Exodus and describes Israelite migration and the rise of a new Pharaoh who feared foreign slave power. The piece frames biblical history from Jacob’s family to the early oppression of Israel in Egypt.
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Ramsey
Tsras
Jacob
Egypt
Saul
Abraham
Israel
Joseph
Middle East
Nile Valley
Biblical lesson themes in Joseph and Pharaoh interview
A religious narrative outlines Goshen’s placement for Israelites and Joseph’s truth telling in Pharaoh's interview. It contrasts divine deliverance with Egyptian oppression, notes midwives defying royal orders, and highlights God’s will guiding deliverance rather than Pharaoh’s destruction.
Sons Of Freedom To Stop Mass Property Destruction
RELIGION IN THE NEWS By FRED COLEMAN AGASSIZ BC AP No more nude parades says Big Fanny a 230 pound grandmother who led the Sons of Freedom protest marches The mass destruction of property has stopped too Florence Storgoff Big Fanny Freedomite leader believes a miscarriage of justice must be corrected The sect camps outside a fireproof prison built in 1962 housing 100 members for up to 10 years arson terrorism They live in tarpaper shacks near Fraser Valley 73 miles southeast of Vancouver They speak Russian cook borscht and wait to embarrass the BC government while seeking release of their brothers
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Coleman Agassiz
B.C
Big Fanny
Sons of Freedom
Florence Storgoff
Canada
Freedomite
Vancouver
Fraser Valley
Rocky Mountain
British Columbia
Russia
Leo Tolstoy
London
Dukhobors
Kootenay Valley
Freedomites
Agassiz
Big Fanty
Salvation Army
Brewer Takes Church Post In Polkton
Richard B. Brewer has accepted the call as pastor of Red Hill Baptist Church in Polkton effective July 30. He studied at Clarke College and New Orleans Seminary, has ten years as minister of music and education, and led at N. Main Street Baptist for 18 months. He and his wife have three children and she is an organist. The item also details Dukhobor history and 1960s protests in Canada, noting past violence by the Freedomites and shifts in public response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard B. Brewer
Red Hill
Polkton
Brewer
Clarke College
Newton
Miss
New Orleans
W. Plunket Martin
New Orleans Seminary
Augusta College
Augusta
Medical College of Georgia
N. Main Street Baptist
Ricky
Marty
Ted
Go To Church Month Emphasized By High Point Jaycees
High Point Junior Chamber of Commerce outlines July activities to boost church attendance as civic duty. A July 19 4 pm City Park service features Rev Tom Haggs, and a lakeside service at City Lake will have Haggs as speaker with Roger Cole leading music. Dean Comer chairs, invites churches needing speakers to contact Jaycee headquarters on N Hamilton Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Junior Chamber of Commerce
City Park
Tom Haggs
Jaycees
City Lake
Haggs
Emerywood Baptist Church
Roger Cole
Green Baptist Church
Dean Comer
Jaycee
N. Hamilton Street
Concert by the Anderson College Lyrics Trio at First Church
The Anderson College Lyrics Trio will present a sacred music concert at 7 30 p m at First Church of God located at Main Street and Greenview Terrace.
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Anderson College Lyrics Trio
First Church of God
Main Street
Greenview Ter
North Carolina Church Convention Marks 46th Annual Event
The Church of God of Prophecy holds its 46th North Carolina State Convention at Greensboro Road headquarters this week. Activities today include a 5 30 p m boat demonstration and a 6 30 p m Y S B parade followed by a talent display and band concert. Eugene Montgomery leads the evangelistic program at 8 p m Sunday as delegates’ schedule runs 8 45 a m to 2 p m. Sunday features sacred music, missionary program, choir numbers, pastor and state worker appointments, and final remarks by the state overseer. Over 5 000 people from across the state attend. M A Tomlinson is general overseer and G A Wilson is state overseer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of God of Prophecy
North Carolina
Greensboro Road
Y.S.B
Eugene Montgomery
M. A. Tomlinson
G. A. Wilson
Seminar for Jaycees Is Planned
Rev. Jack Causey of First Baptist Church Greensboro announces final plans for a Seminar on Religious Pluralism America’s Contemporary Dilemma at High Point College July 18. A Sunday breakfast for Jaycee chapter participants precedes talks by noted religion and public affairs leaders led by Dr. Carlyle Marney and Dr. Leonard Swidler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Causey
First Baptist Church of
Greensboro
North Carolina Junior Chamber of Commerce Committee On
America
Jaycee Chapter
High Point College
The
Jaycees
U.S
Rabbi Go Theological Seminary
Isl
Ephraim Inois
Franklin Littell
Fischoff
Lynchburg College
Thej
Virginia
Colonies
United States
Litlems
Religious Education
Intell
Becker
Leonard Swidler
Quesne University
Pittsburgh
Carlyle Marney
My- Peninsylvania
Offere Park Baptist Church
Methodists To Meet at Junaluska for Quadrennial Jurisdictional Conference
Southeast Methodism leaders gather at Lake Junaluska July 12 for the quadrennial Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference. About 460 delegates from 17 annual conferences in nine states will tackle bishop assignments, elections to jurisdictional and General Conference boards, and relations with the Central (Negro) Jurisdiction, with Bishop Marvin A. Franklin delivering the Episcopal address and Bishop Nolan B. Harmon hosting. A new episcopal area may be created, requiring a fourth bishop, and transfer provisions for Negro Methodists loom as the General Conference's decisions influence a council meeting July 7 before the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Junaluska
Southeastern
Marvin A. Franklin
Jackson, Miss
College of Bishops
Nolan B. Harmon
Charotter
Ralph Lockman
Christ Church, Methodist
New York City
Harmon
Franklin
Bachman Hodge
Birminghal
Alg
Charles D. White
Asheboro
General Conference
The
Methodist Church
Pittsburgh
U.S
Southeastern Jurisdictional Council
High Point Man Named Graduate History Assistant
High Point resident Lanier Z. Vance of High Point has won a graduate assistantship in history at Bob Jones University. He will pursue a master of arts degree in Christian Education and is the son of Mr and Mrs Z V Lanier of 414 Janice Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenville
8. C
Billy Vance Lanier
High Point
Bob Jones University
Bob Jones Jr
Z. V. Lanier
Janice Avenue
Lanier
Bob Jones Universty
William Jennings Bryan Literary Society
Puerto Rico
Bob Jones Universe
High Point High School
Episcopal Conference Opens with Bishops Balloting Schedule
The quadrennial membership of delegate leaders from 17 annual Conferences follows a Southeast Jurisdictional pattern. The Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference opens July 8 at 9 am with the Episcopal Address at 11 am. Committees meet that afternoon and the Jurisdictional Council runs the 8 pm program. The Episcopacy Committee reports at 9:20 am July 9, balloting for three or four new bishops begins after that. Bishop Eugene M. Frank will speak, Dr. Lockman will preach, and education is highlighted in the night program. Friday includes memorials and talks by fraternal messengers from other churches, with reports from Jurisdictional Conference committees that night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D Jurisdictional Council
Eugene M. Frank
Missouri
Council of Bishops
Methodist Church
Lockman
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Central Jurisdiction
Charles E. Brown Jr
U.S.A
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High Point Friends
High Point Friends Meeting
James S. Marion
Oak Hill Friends Meeting
High Point Meeting
Paul Monroe JR
Goshen
Eres
Nile
Joeph
Pharaoh
Churches of Christ
King
Pormigaton
Richard Brewer
Nicholas II
Geriptr
Alfred J. Buescher
Canaan
Geneala
Hendus
Junaluska
Green Street
Baptist Church
Billy V, Lanier
Crestwood Fretigferise Church
Maleter
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Greensboro Rd
DR. Price
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