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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1962
Page
5
The piece argues that most young people are high quality, urges pride in the next generation, and cites a college letter about gratitude and faith. It stresses parental support, daily prayers, and living by godly example to unleash a child’s best self.
Thirty two laymen and ministers from eleven Long Beach Methodist churches will attend the 112th annual Southern California Arizona Methodist Conference at the University of Redlands June 18 through 24. Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles will preside and ordain new ministers on June 23. Dr Joseph Sittler will speak at evening meetings and Dr George A Warmer Jr will address a press dinner June 19. Kennedy will read ministerial appointments at closing on Sunday June 24. Budgets near 3 million dollars await approval with 15 resolutions on topics from extremist groups to tariffs.
Bethany Baptist Church at 1045 am plans a sermon combined with a drama titled The Challenge of The Baccalaureate services. The event features Dick Anthony as tenor soloist and Jeansice McConnell on piano and organ with Lenny in the leading Evangelevening role. The drama heightens the Baccalaureate service for the elementary school class and graduates from other Long Beach schools. Anthony has appeared on network radio TV programs and in concerts across the United States Canada Europe and on records.
The University of Redlands chapel hosts a baccalaureate with a father and daughter both participants. Rev Dr Wilbur M Franklin of Calvary Presbyterian will speak on Qua Vadis, with Grace Ellen Franklin as a graduation district member. Franklin's background includes Maryville College and studies at Princeton Seminary and German universities Heidelberg and Berlin.
The Rev. Stanley A. Wick director of the Quiche Bible Institute in Guatemala will be guest minister at 11 am Sunday at First Presbyterian Church. The institute trains lay leaders in farming carpentry tailoring typing and other trades. Wick has led the institute since 1951 and heads Presbyterian institutes in Guatemala City and San Felipe.
The Rev. Dave Grant of Youth for Christ International will speak at Garfield Baptist Church at 23rd St and Caspian Ave Sunday at 730 PM. Grant has traveled over 100000 miles in 15 countries and addressed more than 100000 people last year.
G H LeBarr will present three free talks Sunday in Ilam at 2:30 and 8 pm in the Panorama Room of Hotel Lafayette. The program promises accessible lectures and a question session with the speaker.
Rev Watson Argue a former associate of Billy Graham will headline Pentecost Sunday services at First Assembly of God Church on 10th Street and Linden Avenue with morning sermon The Rising Generation and an evening message The Appointment of A King Argue has preached in 50 countries and comes from a family rooted in ministry with his grandfather a Methodist minister and his father an Assembly of God preacher three of his sons also in the ministry.
Rev E C Schilling will lead the Bellflower ministers association for the 1962 63 year with installation next Wednesday at noon in Hollandease Restaurant. Wives of ministers will attend as special guests. Officers to be installed include Dr W H Rutgers Bethany Christian Reformed Church vice president Rev J E Wright First Baptist Church secretary and Pastor John Rhodes Seventh day Adventist Church treasurer.
Dr Elias den Arend field evangelist of the American Board of Missions to the Jews will speak at the Bible Conference at Calvary Baptist Church 5722 Lime Ave on five June 1633. He began contact with Christianity during persecutions by the Gestapo in 1942 and served as an officer in the Dutch Army helping train saboteurs.
St. John s United Presbyterian Church at 4603 Rosecrans Ave will conduct a Vacation Bible School from June 15 to June 22. A volunteer staff of 50 adults and youths will conduct classes meeting daily from 9 a m to 12 noon.
Bellflower Grace Church Coke and Cedar Streets will run another Vacation Bible School this summer for children aged five to 12 from June 18 to June 23.
The Senior Choir of Christ's Second Baptist Church at 1471 Californias Ave directed by Mrs. Martha Marable will present a Music Festival in the church auditorium Sunday at 3 pm. Mrs Sadye Daggs will be at the organ and Mrs Dorothy Irving and Mrs Charles Faulkner will be the pianists.
Westminster St Luke s Lutheran Church at 13552 Goldenwest St will hold a Vacation Bible School from June 18 to June 29. Pastor John Falk said classes run weekdays, Monday through Friday, 9 to 11 45 a.m.
St Barnabas Church at 3955 Grange Ave opens Forty Hours Devotions Sunday at 10:30 AM with procession and Solemn High Mass. Adoration continues through afternoon, then 7:30 PM devotions. Masses Monday at 6:30 and 3:00 AM, High Mass for peace at 9 AM, evening service 7:20 PM. Rev Joseph Murphy OMI to conduct.
Douglas Dollerkide president of the Companion Chapter NAACP and Claude Miles of Compton will speak Sunday at 4:00 pm in room 208 YAV.CA Sixth St and Pacific Ave. Presented by the Baha Faith of Long Beach the free lecture celebrates Race Amity Day with the subject Man One Family and refreshments served.
Swami Vandanananda a native of Bangalore in South India will speak at the Religious Forum at The Congregations Church 1309 E Third St next Wednesday at 730 pm The Inner Light will be his subject He is a graduate of Madras Christian College and joined the Ramakeshma Order in 1933 and became 2 swami in 1947 The Rev Vernon L Booker is pastor of the church where the forum will be held.
Sandra Williams of 1231 S Grand Ave will represent the harbor district at a Sunday city wide rally from 2:30 to 4 pm at the Church of the Open Door in Los Angeles. She placed first in the Bible contest sponsored by Los Angeles Christian Released Time Education, Inc. Christin Lynn Callaway of Torrance was FERRET Up.
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