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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1956
Page
4
Church programs in the Long Beach area will feature guest speakers who will emphasize missionary work. The visits highlight outreach efforts and community engagement by local congregations.
Rev E H Schroeder named to first Lutheran pastorate as Long Beach Council of Churches outlines a 1956 budget of 43000, up 1300 from 1955, to fund expansion and the Education released time program. Campaign plans call for 24000 from public, 19000 from private sources, with events across local churches.
The Ladies Guild of Bethany Lutheran Church Lakewood Will hosts the Christian Growth Institute of the Harbor Zone of the Lutheran Women's Missionary League. The zone includes seven churches in Long Beach Harbor City and San Pedro with speakers Rev H L Manhrs and Rev E M Fassow. Programs cover social welfare chaplaincy leadership training and inter church activities plus Holy Week Thanksgiving and Reformation services. The drive is led by Mrs E J Wightman and Kenneth S Wing. Other items include film showings at Pine Ave Church of God First Brethren Church and First Congregational Church plus a new worship service at Mayfair Presbyterian Church and a Lutheran World Federation assembly delegation.
The Rev Reinnold M Jensen is named pastor of the Woodruff Community Evangelical and Reformed Church at 3908 Woodruff Ave. He will lead a 10 a m service and will be welcomed with a 6 p m potluck dinner. He succeeds Rev Arlia W Hoelscher who led the church for five years and will organize a new church in Buena Park. The Jensen family will reside at the church parsonage. He previously led a church in Columbus for six years, helped build it in 1952 and paid its debt in three years. He also held regional church roles and education committees before moving to Lakewood.
Ground will be broken at 3 p.m. Sunday for the first units of St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church on a 10 acre tract at Parkcrest Street and Palo Verde Avenue in Los Altos. The $211,800 complex includes a 750 seat church and an eight room school. construction to be finished in fall.
Members of St. John Baptist Church present a musical program at 3 30 pm Sunday at the First Church of the Nazarene located at 10th Street and Olive Avenue under direction of Percy Anderson. The event features choirs from New Hope and St. Mark Baptist Churches with soloists Christine Potter Benzell Graham Ralph Billingslea Jennie Mae Whitfield and J Raymond Henderson. Rev H Gould Merriwether Jr will preside. The newly organized Baptist group has an option to purchase the Nazarene property.
The E Ray Moore Memorial Hall at Wintersburg Methodist Church will be dedicated at 10 30 am Sunday with Bishop Gerald Kennedy presiding. Thomas Levy president of Farmers Insurance Group will speak. Rev Paul W Travis pastor and others participate in the ceremony.
Sunday Lesson Sermon titled Are Sin Disease and Death Real aims to comfort believers with spiritual healing. A Bible passage read by the second reader references Tobit and a messenger aiding uprightness, promising deliverance from the pit and renewed life.
UNESCO reports in its seventh volume on translations that the Bible remains the world’s most translated book. The United Nations News observatory notes the widely distributed scriptures across languages, underscoring global religious and cultural reach.
Bishop Sheen argues that America's greatest enemy is internal hate toward races, classes, and religions. He urges charity as the path to eradicating hate, noting love should be willed and directed toward all, even those we dislike, and stresses that true charity resides in the will, not emotions.
The Rev Joe Inman described as a minister of healing will lead a revival series starting 11 a m Sunday at Lakewood Foursquare Gospel Church 3445 Studebaker Rd The series runs through April 15 with Inman speaking at 730 p m daily except Mondays and Saturdays
Louis A. Sisti a music teacher will discuss his Europe trip and audience with Pope Pius XII at a Branch 123 Italian Catholic Federation meeting. The session starts at 8 p.m. today at St. Athanasius Church Linden Avenue and Market Street.
A Seventh Day Adventist School PLT A hosts a home cooked food sale in Lincoln Park public market from 7 p.m. to 12 p.m. on April 2. Proceeds support improvements to the school’s auditorium.
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