Returns to The Farm Religious Leader Freed From Jail
The Farm founder Stephen Gaskin, 40, returns to lead his rural Tennessee community near Summertown after a year in prison for marijuana on the farm. He promotes strict disciplines, vegetarian living, nonviolence, and a distinctive, experiential religion drawing 800 followers and 400 offshoots.
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3Farm
Stephen Gaskin
mid-Tennnessee
Cottons
New York City
Tennessee
Mildred Tassone
Gaskin
San Francisco
Summertown
Tenn
Waning Clinton church seeks help amid membership decline
The Clinton Presbyterian Church grapples with shrinking membership as Clinton Reservoir development looms. A presbytery committee will study goals for its 87 churches and may offer recommendations. About 70 members exist with only ~20 weekly attendees as officials consider belt tightening and volunteer help.
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Clinton’s
Presbyterian Church
Clinton Reservoir
Eastern Kansas Methodists hold conference at Baldwin
The spring session of the Kansas East Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church will be held on the Baker University campus June 6-8. Delegates from 104,000 members in 365 churches will attend with Bishop Ernest T. Dixon Jr. presiding. The program opens June 6 with a 9 a.m. holy communion and a planning session, followed by four worship services including a preconference service at 7:30 p.m. Thursday led by Dr. Eugene.
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Baldwin
Kansas East
United Methodist Church
Baker University
United Methodist
Kansas
Ernest T. Dixon, Jr
Topeka
Eugene
Preachers Set for Methodist Conference June 1976
McFillens from St Paul School of Theology will preach under Bishop Eugene M Frank and Bishop Dixon will lead the ordination and retirement service. The conference will set 1976 priorities, approve new ministers, elect representatives to general and jurisdictional conferences, and adjourn at 3 p.m. June 8.
McFillens to discuss heifer project at Sunflower church supper
Mr and Mrs W L McFillen will speak at the Sunflower United Methodist Church community fellowship supper at 6 p m Tuesday about a non sectarian heifer project headquartered in Little Rock. In 1972 they first traveled to Korea with animals to aid missionaries and others have since donated animals through area churches. The McFillens, longtime Kansas City area residents, are retired soil conservationists and attendees should bring a covered dish.
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W.L. McFillen
Sunflower United Methodist Church Community Fellowship
Little Rock
McFillens
Korea
McFillen
Kansas City
Minister to Begin at Baldwin in United Methodist Churches
The Rev. Harold Dean Knewtson is named minister of the Worden and Clearfield United Methodist churches at Baldwin Rt 1. He starts June 11 with wife Mary Alice and three sons moving from Cummings. He previously served Camp Creek and Cummings UMC for three years and holds a B S and M S in agricultural education from Kansas State University and a Master of Divinity from St Paul School of Ministry. Summer hours at West Side Presbyterian begin Sunday with 9:30 worship followed by 10:30 children’s church school. A junior high youth program with films and speakers is offered. The 9:30 sermon theme is Celebration of Life.
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Harold Dean Knewtson
Worden and
Clearfield United Methodist
Rt. 1
Baldwin
Mr. Knewtson
Mary Alice
Cummings
Camp Creek
Cummings United Methodist
Kansas State University
St. Paul School
West Side Presbyterian Church
Churches Schedule Vacation Bible School and Services
Lawrence area churches announce vacation Bible schools for children 3 to 12 at Lawrence Wesleyan Immanuel Lutheran and Central United Methodist, with sessions 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. or 9 to 11:30 a.m., and worship services across multiple congregations including Trinity Lutheran, West Side Presbyterian, and Southside Church of Christ. Community events include a concert by Oberlin’s Senior High Bell Choir, ordination services for local ministers, and a father and son banquet at Central United Methodist.
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Immanuel Lutheran Church
17Th and
Oberlin
West Side Presbyterian Church
Southside Church of Christ, 25Th and
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