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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1958
Page
9
A dense church directory lists numerous congregations in Baldwin and nearby towns with pastors, service times, Sunday schools, training unions, youth programs, and midweek prayer meetings. It names Holy Family Church in Eudora, several Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, and Christian churches, plus independent assemblies and sister churches across multiple streets and towns.
Vacation church school at Plymouth Congregational Church runs June 23 through July 2 from 8 to 11:30 a.m. on weekdays. For ages four through sixth grade, the theme is The Life of Jesus. Supervising staff include James Ewing assistant pastor and Afitchell, with J. Edw. Wolven listed.
Rev Charles Puls D D former pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church Lawrence will be guest speaker at morning worship and a special evening service. He pastored Lawrence 1926 to 1940 overseeing building of a $125000 church and led church work with Red Cross Radio WREN and Kansas ULCA efforts before moving to Madison Wisconsin.
Trinity Lutheran Church will host the 1958 Vacation Church School closing at 10 a.m. Sunday in the sanctuary at 13th and N. H. Sts. The program will include songs in Japanese and English, scripture read by a junior pupil, and a handiwork display by Primary and Junior Departments. Intermediate through Adult classes will not meet. Mrs. Arthur Winchell, general superintendent of the 1958 VCS, leads the program.
The Ungitarian Fellowship Sunday drama directed by Gordon Beck features five incidentals from Denver Leavenworth Russell Lawrence and New York City. Presented in Myers Hall Chapel at 19:30 a.m. The Evangelical United Brethren Church at 1501 Mass St changes its morning service times through August with Sunday School at 9 15 and Morning Worship at 10 20.
J Elbert Perkins S T B from The Methodist Church Mount Hope West Virginia reflects on God's trust in humanity. The article argues that scripture shows humans as near to divine status with responsibility to fulfill God’s trust, urging readers to justify that faith through humble effort.
A week of special events at St Luke A M E Church kicks off Sunday to celebrate a successful 10,000 mortgage liquidation drive begun under Rev Vinton Anderson. Rev H H Brookins of St Paul Wichita will lead a 4 PM service with a visiting choir, followed by a 6 30 PM Victory Banquet Monday with speaker Miss Yvonne Walker. Tuesday afternoon fellowship and Dr E Woody Hall attend, Wednesday features guest choirs, and Thursday at 8 PM Bishop R R Wright Jr will close the week as the mortgage is burned off.
The First Christian Church at 10th and Ky Streets shifts services for the summer with worship at 9:00 AM and Sunday School at 10:10 AM Dismissal of church school is at 11:00 AM J Robert Balch Associate Minister and Campus Life director serves as interim minister while a new pastor is sought Rudolph C Tatsch has resigned to take a similar post at Central Christian Church Sherman Texas
Jamestown New York delegates to the Augustana Lutheran Church 99th annual synod reaffirmed in principle a merger with the United Lutheran Church in America the American Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church Suomi Synod. Negotiations among the four bodies have been ongoing since 1955 with some leaders predicting a possible merger by 1963.
Brig. Gen. Joseph M. Colby, formerly commanding general of the Ordnance Ammunition Command at Joliet, will assume the post of deputy commander at the U.S. Army Ordnance Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville Alabama early in July 1958. He will assist Maj. Gen. J. B. Medaris in directing rocket and missile programs.
In Great Bend Kansas AP reports a young couple learned of several family tragedies. A nationwide watch followed Mr and Mrs Chester N Post, traveling from Eglin Air Force Base Florida to Clearfield Utah by house trailer. The Posts, an airman and wife, were alerted after the search began by Edd.
The Nationalist Chinese legislature completed passage of a government newspaper and magazine control bill. It awaits President Chiang Kai-shek's signature to become law. The bill allows suspension of publications after nine warnings or for sedition or treason convictions.
Thirty-three junior high and nineteen seniors from Plymouth Congregational Church attended Camp We-Shun-Ga south of Junction City during the first week of June.
Chackeray ofrest Beiltle informed the Mosts that Mrs. Posts mother in Wasdnesehas while visiting relatives in Colorado Springs. Her nephew, son of Mr and Mrs Thackes, Drew, killed in an automobile accident. Shortly before the Posts reached Clearfield, Thackeray also warned his son in law Charles Maver, injured in a separate auto collision near detmore Kas.
DeSoto Saturday afternoon crowds at Memorial Hall hosted Athenaeum Pleasant Hour and Merry Atak Jers clubs with Mrs Emma Cobb presiding. Sharon Thornton sang with Ruth Ann Goodrun. Marel Apoelmywhoe spoke of travels in England Scotland Ireland and France. Local residents and guests, including Arch Bedford and Linda Middleton, shuffled visits and vacations, while flood conditions prompted travel disruptions and family gatherings. Rev. Samuel F. Dutton attended the eastern Kansas Methodist conference in Topeka with J B Kenny and Fern Kercheval, returning for a group dinner hosted by the Kenneys.
The column lists family and church connections across Tulsa Oklahoma and Independence Missouri with visits to Lawrence and Cheyenne Wyoming. It notes storm damage to equipment, Methodist Conference participants in Pocatello, and several residents from nearby towns attending services and gatherings. Names include Parker, Wins, Suderman, and Freemen among others, with activities at churches, clubs, and lakes.
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