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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1963
Page
3
The Church of the Nazarene holds its Southern California District Assembly on May 22 23 at the First Nazarene Church in San Diego.
Rev. William Sherrill appointed youth director for the Southwest District of Foursquare Churches at Lakewood Foursquare Gospel Church on Studebaker Road. He came to Lakewood from National City, California, in April after organizing a Foursquare Church there in 1961. He has served in youth work and pastoring in Wisconsin Crescent City California and Long Beach. He graduated from Bob Jones University in 1956 with a BA in religion and is married with a son, Mark.
George H. Le Barr will present a free public lecture titled Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Sunday at VWoam Lafayette Hotel. He will discuss arguments for God's existence in a public talk open to all attendees.
Editor notes a national salute to mothers this Sunday for Mothers Day. The piece, authored by Burmester in 1920, reflects on a mother’s guiding faith, solace, and encouragement shaping a boy into a man with divine imagery and gratitude.
The Carthorne Promers Quarcette gospel group will perform a Sunday concert at 10 45 a m during the First Assembly of God Church service in Lakewood at 6022 East Candlewood Street The quartet is among the early full-time gospel groups on the West Coast and has appeared on radio and television nationwide.
SANTA MONICA The Pacific District Convention of the American Lutheran Church will be held at Mount Olive Evangelical Lutheran Church on Ocean Park Boulevard from Tuesday through Friday. More than 200 laymen and 230 pastors are expected to attend.
Grover C. Busby, formerly executive secretary of the Southern California Arizona Methodist Conference Board of Education and pastor at Belmont Heights, is appointed national executive with the Board of Christian Social Concerns in Washington DC. He will head the board's division of human relations and economic affairs starting August 1.
Rev Ivy Hooper, missionary for the Spiritualist Episcopal Church, will give the final lecture in a series at the First Spiritualist Episcopal Church located at 16422 Saint Vermont Avenue, Gardena, on Sunday morning at 10:45 a.m. The public is welcome.
Rev Alfred O Storvick pastor of St Timothy Lutheran Church Woodruff Avenue and Arbor Read Lakewood returns to the pulpit Sunday after a three week study tour of Egypt Lebanon Syria Jordan Israel and Greece. He was one of 12 Southland ministers on the trip. Materials gathered will aid architects designing a Nations Bible Monument near Hemet California. The monument will reproduce the Jordan Valley Sea of Galilee Dead Sea and other Palestine sites. Storvick will preach at 830 and 11 am services.
The article notes Jehovah's Witnesses folding their semiannual circuit convention in Anaheim La Palma Park from May 31 to June 2 under Rev Albert J Kemp with Irvin Johnson directing. It mentions the Willow Street presiding minister of the Long Church of God Jon St and a special service honoring him and his wife this week.
Dean and Mary Jean Brown, noted Southern California sacred musicians, present the Sacred Caravan Concert Sunday at 7 pm. The event takes place at the First Assembly of God Church on 10th Street and Linden Ave, and the public is welcome.
An all day religious retreat open to the public is held at Grace Methodist Church on Third Street and Jani Peto Avenue. Rev Happ Cribb leads the program.
Presbyterians of the Southland will install Rev. Tug D. Nelson Paradess pastor as moderator of the Los Angeles Presbytery in a 10 am ceremony at First Presbyterian Church North Hollywood. Five hundred ministerial and lay delegates from Los Angeles Orange and San Diego Counties and Hawaii will attend. The public is welcome.
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