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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1962
Page
4
A Southerner recounts his shift from half-hearted faith to active belief after a church sermon on belief. Daily Bible reading and prayer helped him trust God, accept others, and feel a weight lift as he moved from minimum to maximum living. Belief, he says, is the key to happiness and effective living.
Seal Beach will hold its Daily Vacation Bible School August 6 through 17 from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon daily at Central Ave. Classes will be offered free for beginners through sixth grade.
Rev Rudolf Felamann, a hospital chaplain intern from Hamburg, Germany, will lead a one worship service at Lakewood Trinity Methodist Church Danboro during August before returning to Germany to head a church. He aims to aid hospital chaplaincy programs there inspired by Memorial Hospital and U.S. institutions. Rev George E Foye and church activities proceed with August services and senior choir music.
Neville, known for guiding local classes, schedules five lectures in Long Beach sponsored by Lakewood Church of Religious Science at Mark Twain School Auditorium on Clark Ave at Central St. Talks begin August 13 15 17 21 and 23 at 5 pm with Rev Cy Stevens noting the Bible contains up to date mental and spiritual living principles and Neville will interpret Biblical text.
The Rev. Willis Loar of Zell will occupy the pulpit of the First Baptist Church at Sixth and Orange Huntington Beach. Morning worship at 1045 am will feature the sermon A Portrait of Christ while the 7 pm service will cover Carry Your Corner with a second message.
The Southern California Baptist Convention director of youth work Rev. Vernon Legg attends the 1962 laboratory schools for administrators and workers with youth conducted by the American Baptist Assembly in Green Lake Wisconsin. It opened last Saturday and ends today as the Assembly enters its 19th year of service to American Baptists and others.
The Rev. Glenn B. Ogden of First Presbyterian Fostoria will speak at First Congregational Seaday on 2nd St at 9:30 and 10 am. Mrs Ogden a former Long Beach choir director and Frances Alleison will sing Like As the Hart with Arthur Gibert as guest organist.
Brahmachart Harold leads a talk on effective prayer at Self-Realization Fellowship Church 430 Ocean Blvd Sunday at 1 am quoting Parmahansa Yoganananda. He notes prayer follows divine laws, mind temple focus, and the dangers of doubt and material preoccupations.
Commander Edwin W Andrews, chaplain of the United States Naval Station Terminal Island, will be guest speaker at St Luke's Lutheran Church 5633 E Wardlow Rd. His sermon titled Matter of Life or Death will be delivered during the 9 30 and ham worship services on Sunday.
The Rev Bond Johnson pastor of Grace Methodist Church will be at Camp Roberts from August 4 through August 12 as chaplain for the 40th Armored Division Army National Guard during summer maneuvers. Associate pastor Rev J S William Hosford will lead all duties and preach at morning services August 5 and August 12, with topics "Tested by Fire" and "On Gambling" respectively.
Rev. Daniel W. Holland of Bellflower will speak Sunday morning at First Baptist Church. Rev. Oscar Michael Friedman a converted Jew raised Orthodox in Brooklyn will speak at the evening meeting.
Over six hundred employed women of the Methodist Church in the Southern California Arizona Conference will convene at California Western University Point Loma San Diego August 10 to 12 for the Wesleyan Service Guild weekend. Registration begins Friday at 8 pm in dormitories. A display of scrap books and sample worship centers will be featured. Conference meetings led by Esther Ratliff, conference secretary. Dr Noel LeRoques of First Methodist San Diego to preach Sunday with Guild Choir providing music.
In Cypress California the Holy Spirit Lutheran Church plans its first service on August 19 at 10 30 a m in a temporary location 12325 E Carson St across Bloomfield School. Rev Truesdell says six weeks of pastor work precede the opening and an organizational meeting will be announced.
About 20 new ministers of Jehovah's Witnesses will take part in the three day annual district convention opening Friday at the Orange County Fair Islands. All five Long Beach congregations will participate with Chairman Floyd Garrett delivering the opening theme at 2:30 pm. The convention theme is Courageous Ministers Remain Steadfast.
Miss Ethel Waters, famed violinist and actress, will perform at the Youth for Christ rally tonight at the NLB Brethren Church located at 61st Street and Orange Avenue. She shifted from secular fame to religious work after singing with a 1500-voice choir during the Billy Graham New York Crusade, and has since issued many records and made numerous Christian appearances. The Sixteen girls sextet, led by Dean and Mary Jean Brown, will join the program, having drawn warm applause across Southern California.
Albert H. Salter director of the Radio Gospel Fellowship Denver will speak Sundays at 1100 am 1455 W Willow Street Los Angeles He recently completed a world radio tour and recorded new programs in Hollywood His sermon Men of Faith precedes a quarterly Holy Communion open to all Christians
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