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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1971
Page
11
A National Council of Churches summary finds 78.84 percent of religious contributions stay with congregations for internal operations while only 21.16 percent go to broader benevolent causes locally nationally and abroad. The share for external aid has risen 3.36 points since ten years ago, signaling growing concern for those beyond the sanctuary.
A survey finds Seventh-day Adventists, with 407,766 members, gave 148 million last year, 72 percent to hospitals and benevolences beyond local congregations. They kept 28 percent for themselves, averaging 350.96 per person. Other groups show varied sharing beyond congregations.
New York based Rev Dr David M Stowe takes over as head of Americas oldest missionary agency United Church Board for World Ministries amid calls for new methods and roles in world missions. He envisions lay and indigenous leadership boosting outreach through mass communications training and ecumenical cooperation.
Twenty five years after Churchill delivered the Iron Curtain speech at Westminster College Fulton Missouri Lord Harlech will give an anniversary address on the same campus. Security was tight as 20 000 people lined Fulton streets to glimpse Churchill and Truman arriving in an open car.
The United Methodist Church in the United States raised 45,597,287 for 1970 to support benevolent and administrative programs. General treasurer R Bryan Brawner said the total rose 6.24 percent from 1969. The World Service fund led with 22,412,126 as the basic benevolence item.
Michael J. Davis, a Clay Center native and magna cum laude Kansas State graduate, will join the Kansas University Law School faculty next fall as an associate professor. He is an honors Michigan Law School graduate and has served as a legislative assistant to U.S. Congressman Louis Stokes. His wife Jacqueline is a staff assistant to Senator Edward Kennedy.
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church sponsors an 7:30 p m open house on Sunday at 2312 Harvard Rd to let Lawrence residents meet candidates for the Unified School District 497 Board of Education. Speakers include Stephen Abrams Kenneth Anderson Frank Aydelotte Wallace Clark Jr. Mrs Alan Hack Richard Holzmeister Jack Landreth Dwayne Peaslee Frank Robbins Odell Shaver and John Spearman Sr. The remaining candidates cannot attend.
A marble statue of Christ from Italy was installed in front of the Wee Kirk of the Valley Church on the Day farm near Cedar Vale. The 1650 pound Cararra marble statue rests on a pedestal inscribed with Matthew 11 28 and credits Lotus M Day 1970 71. Day a retired Arkansas City monument plant owner built the mini church with six pews symbolizing the 12 apostles.
Final segment of World Day of Prayer activities continues tonight at Trinity Episcopal Church 1011 Vt. Father Robert Hasenkamp leads service at 7 30 assisted by Rev Weldon Patten. Theme New Life Awaits. Opened at 8 this morning with a prayer vigil. Father Harvard Wilbur led worship at 2 30 today.
Dr. Charles E. Green a Lawton Oklahoma pediatrician and health official envisions the Southern Baptist Convention operating a Navy hospital ship as a vessel of mercy. He proposes using the Sanctuary a 200 bed medical ship now in Vietnam to serve worldwide with church support and funding.
A series of services and lectures unfolds across Centenary United Methodist Trinity Lutheran Clearfield United Methodist Linwood and other churches. Guest speakers include Rev. Thomas Long Rev. Thomas Watan and Rev. Leslie King. Activities feature sermons lunches youth meetings and Thursday night lessons through March.
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