Church Briefs Highlight Local Faith Events and Speakers
Maurice Culver discusses Project Equality with the Crisis Class at First Presbyterian Church. First United Methodist hosts a spring kite event. The New Ones from Miltonvale College perform at Wesleyan Church. Revival Fires rally sponsored by Lawrence churches at Topeka High School features Cecil Todd as key speaker. Various youth rallies and musical programs pace the weekend across area churches.
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Maurice Culver
Kansas City
First Presbyterian Church
W. 23Rd
Culver
Kansas
Missouri
Miltonvale
Kan.) College
Wesleyan Church
Madeline
Lawrence
Topeka High School
North Lawrence
Lawrence Heights
Cecil Todd
Revival Fires Ministry
Baptist Bible College
Springfield
Lawrence High School
Baptist Bible
Bible Baptist
Vatican reports Catholics reach 633 million baptism total
Vatican statistics show 633 million baptized Catholics world wide at end of 1969, about 18 percent of the global population. Priests numbered 425,000 with 5,156 new diocesan clergy in 1969, while 5,014 died and 1,780 defected. The church faces ongoing shortages as defections and deaths exceed new ordinations.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Apathy Hits Ecumenism Says Idoc Editorial
Vatican report notes indifference toward Christian unity amid three groups of believers. Idoc quotes Rev Leo Alting von Geusau describing pre ecumenists ecumenists and post ecumenists and cautions unity dialogue has lost popular momentum.
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Vatican City
Idoc International
Rome
Ecumenical Documentation Center
Idoc
Leo Alting von Geusau
Hamiltons To Be Cited At Trinity Lutheran Open House
An open house honoring Pastor Harold Hamilton and his wife at Trinity Lutheran Church will precede a confirmation service. Hamilton, pastor since 1954, will move to Lincoln to serve First Lutheran. April 30 is his last Sunday and no successor is named. Twenty-three senior youth will become adults during a confirmation service at 11 a.m. with special communion at 9 and 11 a.m.
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Bill Muench
Springfield
Grace Baptist Church
Lighthouse Singers
Harold Hamilton
Trinity Lutheran Church
18Th
New Hampshire
Hamiltons
Hamilton
Trinity
Lincoln
Neb
First Lutheran
Methodists Ponder Changes At United Conference
United Methodist delegates in Atlanta through April 30 consider major alterations. Reports urge restating social principles, revising doctrinal standards, shifting attitudes toward women, and reducing theological schools. The change themes affect more than 250000 members in 800 Kansas churches and address war resisters, minorities, and church investments.
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Kansas
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