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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1969
Page
15
The article discusses nervous tension as a major health issue and offers practical self help. It shares a personal anecdote of insomnia during the Great Low Mood era and describes a pamphlet urging relaxation techniques. Steps include relaxing the body, releasing the mind through imagination, and using affirmations to calm the soul.
Right Rev. Bishop Meletios, head of Greek Orthodox Western states, will preside at Long Beach over the 18th annual Byzantine baptism and Epiphany rites. Services begin 9:30 a.m. with Hierarchal Liturgy at Municipal Auditorium, followed by a 12:30 p.m. water blessing ceremony at the lagoon where the Holy Cross will be immersed and retrieved by swimmers. Bishop will be aided by seven South-?
Back from Brazil, Dr. David Stowell, missionary and former director of a Brazilian Amazon seminary, will speak at California Heights Baptist Church 4130 Gardenia Ave Sunday through Wednesday at 7 p.m. Rev. Nicholas Billinis of the Greek Orthodox parish will join. A 50-voice mixed choir will participate, followed by a Greek Glendi on the church grounds at 1643 Pacific Ave.
Four weeks of Sunday night programs start January at California Heights Methodist Church 3759 Orange Ave with a Philippine group dance and song and the Young Americans. Other events include Youth Night local social concerns and Athletes for Christ promoting brotherhood between Negro and white. Rev Dr Cort R Flint, 53, Baptist pastor and author, is named executive vice president of Religious Heritage of America Inc a national interfaith group upholding Judeo Christian tradition.
Pope Paul VI will ordain 12 new bishops from seven countries in a ceremony Monday. Among them are three Americans and three bishops from Bolivia, two from France, and one each from The Congo Canada Mexico and Italy, in a rite once called consecration.
Southern Baptists begin a campus ministry at San Francisco State University under the name Baptist Campus Fellowship with 14 students, aiming to grow among more than 20,000 on campus. Covenant Presbyterian's Dr. H David Burham praises holiday student attendance and fellowship. Evangelist Billy Graham plans a New York Crusade focusing on youth from June 13 to 22 at Madison Square Garden. Biola College to present Sunday Afternoon Musicals in a 75 acre campus recital hall. The article also muses on Karl Barth and the church’s role in society, stressing gospel-centered engagement.
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A church commission urges ending confirmation as graduation. It proposes baptism admission to communion by age 10 or 11 and delaying confirmation to age 15 or 16 after three years of instruction. It notes current debates and cites Episcopal Lutheran moves toward earlier communion and Catholic shifts. Bishop Sheen cited as example of changing timing.
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