CROP Rally Planned Tomorrow at Los Angeles Lutheran Church
The All-counties Rally of the Christian Rural Overseas Program will be held tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at an Angelus Lutheran church in Los Angeles. Rev. Stuart Pratt will speak on California farm products and the program’s mission, with emphasis on powdered milk donations. a similar meeting is planned for Bellflower.
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Stuart Pratt
Rially
Grof
Japan
Angelica Utheran
Ervati
Les An
Geles
Christian Rural Overseas Program
C.R.O.P
Southern California Committee
Richard Cronshey
California
Bellflower
Local Pastors Plan Convocation Rite at USC Campus
Three ministers form the planning committee for the Second annual Ministers Convocation expected to draw over 500 Southland ministers to the University of Southern California campus January 31 to February 2. Dr Floyd B LaFavre Rev Louis Landgrebe and Rev Frank De Jong lead the effort with co sponsorship from USC School of Religion and the Southern California Council of Protestant Churches. Twenty two denominations represented. theme City of God or City of Man.
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Southland
University of Southern California
Floyd B. LaFavre
Burns Memorial Evangelical
United Brethren Church
Louis Landgrebe
Parkway Evangelical and Reformed Church
Long Beach
Frank de Jong
Lakewood City
Southern California Council of Protestant Churches
Young Adult Church to Meet Tomorrow
The Young Adult Church of Bay Shore Congregational Church will meet tomorrow at 7 30 p m in the church parlors for its devotional period. Rev Milton G Gabrielson will lead a discussion on Understanding Our Roman Catholic Brethren. ANI young adults are invited to attend.
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Bay Shore
Highway Evangelist to Address Buena Park Baptists
Mars J. Goodger a highway evangelist will speak tomorrow evening at Buena Park Baptist Church. Pastor Rev. Ernest Wright says Goodger has traveled 13 years covering 58000 miles by bicycle and more than 35000 miles on foot with several hundred miles recently by car. He will be accompanied by a musical saw player.
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Mars J. Goodger
Buena Park Baptist Church
Ernest Wright
Goodger
Memorial Healing Center Metaphysics Lectures and Classes
Memorial Healing Center led by Carl Horton Pierce Foundation offers Monday and Thursday evening sessions with question analysis open to the public. Healing appointments available through Lila Hivier at Suite 2009, Long Beach and Denton contact numbers 6728.
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Memorial Healing Center
Carl Horton Pierce Foundation
Lila Hivier
Long Beach
C. Richard Mitgh
J. Leign Denton
Whittierite to Lead Four Peace Education Sessions
Four weekly meetings in Long Beach titled Taking Jesus Seriously in World Affairs will be led by Dr. Kirby Page under the American Friends Service Committee at First Congregational Church. Each evening includes a 6 p.m. dinner session and an 8 p.m. address with a forum, focusing on faith and global peace topics. Dr. Page will tour ten Southern California communities in January and February as part of a year round Quaker peace education program.
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Jesus
Long Beach
Wiliam H. McCance
Kirby Page
Whittier
World Observer
American Friends Service Committee
First Congregational Church
Russia
United States
Dr. Page
California
Isj
Carl Allen
Reuben Luther Anderson
Stuart LeRoy Anderson
Levantia Bartlett
E. O. Bemis
K. Bingham
E. J. Bulgin
George W. Dotson
Winfield Edson
Wilford
Youth Council Program Planned at Bellflower Church
The Youth Council of Bellflower Community Presbyterian Church mapped next year at a Live Oak Silverado Canyon conference. Rosalee Miller led the meeting. Coordinators include Mil dred Speight for faith and life, Barbara Nyenhuis for stewardship, Marilyn Mortensen for fellowship, and Ann Sue Allen for outreach. Planned projects feature a February talent show, March snow conference, April Easter service, May Mother’s Day service, and vacation period social events.
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Bellflower Community Presbyterian Church
Live Oak
Silverado Canyon
Rosalee Miller
Faith and Life
Mildred Speight
Barbara Nyenhuis
Marilyn Mortensen
Ann Sue Allen
Public Invited Christian Science Services at Belmont Theater
Public invited to attend weekly Christian Science services every Sunday at 11 a m at the Belmont Theater 4918 E Second St with Sunday School for ages 3 to 19 at 9 30 a m A Wednesday noon testimonial meeting is also held for the public at the same location
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Christian Science
Belmont Theater
Second St
Hawaiian guitarist Heopi to headline Youth for Christ rally
Noted guitarist Heopi, hailed as king of the Hawaiian guitar and film actor, will perform at a Youth for Christ rally in First Brethren auditorium, Fifth Street and Cherry Avenue. Also appearing are Rey Edegard, Seattle concert pianist and cornetist, with director Jim Coulter leading the assembly.
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Sot Heopi
Fabove
Youth For Christ
First Brethren
Fifth St
Cherry Ave
Rey Edegard
Seattle
Wash
Jim Coulter
Youth For Christ Assembly
Wintersburg Methodist Church Conducts Visiting Campaign
Wintersburg Community Methodist Church begins a visiting campaign to acquaint residents with church activities and to help them find a church home. The calendar features Junior Choir music at tomorrow’s 10:30 worship, Senior Choir on January 29, and Thursday Play Night from 7 to 9 in the social hall. Rev. Charles M. Bacon led attendees at a regional evangelism meeting with Dr. Hayden Sears in Santa Ana.
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Wintersburg
Wintersburg Community
Bacon
E. Ray Moore
Oscar Stricklin
Hayden Sears
Richland Ave. Methodist Church
Santa Ana
Church Will Note 15th Year Since Its Organization
West Side Christian Church in Compton at 717 W Cherry St will mark its 15th anniversary with a home-coming day. The morning service features Harry R Humphries preaching on The Sermon on the Mount Blessed Are the Meek. A 2 30 pm anniversary talk by William Harvey Beard will follow the fellowship meal. A male quartet and soloist Peggy Ann Bruce perform. No evening service.
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West Side
Peggy Ann Bruce
Pepperdine College
William Harvey Beard
Pare Sole
Miss Bruce
Officers Chosen at Second Presbyterian Church Meeting
The annual congregational meeting of Second Presbyterian Church was held last Wednesday evening. Reports from all departments and activity committees were heard. Elected to the Session were C. P. Dibble, Thomas Lyng, George W. Perry, and T. H. Dunker. Mrs. J. Jolliffe joins the board of deacons and a member to the board of trustees. Dr. Ewing Stanton Hudson is pastor.
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Second Presbyterian Church
C. Pe Dibble
Thomas Lyng
George W. Perry
T. H. Dunkerly
RH. Pietry
J. Jolliffe
Ewing Stanton Hudson
Second Church
Winners Announced in Duplicate Bridge Night Report
Long Beach Duplicate Bridge Club members were named as winners for Wednesday night at the Masonic Temple per director Mrs. Bert L. Parker. North-South pairs included Mrs. Carl Powell with D. J. Spellman and Mrs. John DeVico with Dr. D. B. McCarthy. East-West winners were Verna Carson with Mrs. William Hobden and Frank Holmes with E. P. Schommer. Monday results list Lou Ryel and Louise Wickman among the top pairs.
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Long Beach
Duplicate Bridge Club
Masonic Temple
Bert L. Parker
North-South
Carl Powell
D. J. Spellman
John DeVico
D. B. McCarthy
John Dixon
Verna Carson
William Hobden
Frank Holmes
E. P. Schommer
Eldon Bond
Carl Daggett
Lou Ryel
Louise Wickman
Ray Stirlines
Percy Crawley
G. R. Browder
Pire
P. A. Hilbert
F. J. Morrison
Anne Mitchell
Air Force Chaplain to Speak at Belmont Heights Church
Chaplain Thoburnspeicher of the U S Air Force based at Long Beach will be guest pastor at Belmont Heights Methodist Church for 11 o'clock morning worship. He will preach on We Are Protestants. Speicher, a member of the Northern Iowa Conference, is on leave for military service and resides at 5426 Fairbrook Street.
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Thoburnspeicher
U. S. Air Force
Air Force Reserve Training Center
Long Beach
Belmont Heights Methodist Church
Speicher
Northern Iowa
Calvary Baptist to Welcome Christian Education Speaker
Mrs. Juanita B. Anderson, special representative of the Board of Christian Education, Southern California Baptist Convention, will address Calvary Baptist Church Sunday School teachers tomorrow at 3 p.m. The talk will illustrate the practice of graded planning in Christian teaching and its relation to developing individuals.
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Juanita B. Anderson
Board of Christian Education
Southern California Baptist Convention
Calvary Baptist Church
Tire theft from child’s bicycle shocks local resident
Mrs. Clayton Horne of 2202 W Williams St reported to police that a thief stole the tires from her child’s bicycle left locked in the front yard yesterday, highlighting a local theft incident.
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Clayton Horne
W. Williams St
Ministers Hear Dr. Paul Sturges at January luncheon
Dr. Paul Sturges, pastor of First Baptist Church of Redland, addressed the Ministerial Union at the Armed Services YMCA patio about panoperative Church Responsibility. Over 60 ministers pledged support for the city-wide evangelism week Feb 16 23. Rev. Virgil H. Fisher announced Dr. Alva Cox of Akron will speak Feb 21.
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Paul Sturges
First Baptist Church of
Redland
Armed Services Y. M. C. A
Sturges
Virgil H. Fisher
Trinity Baptist Church
Alva Cox
Akron
Ohio
Presbyterians in Laguna Name d Church Officers
Community Presbyterian Church Laguna Beach announced its church officers this week. Elected to the Session were Rolland Cole Dr Herbert T Cox Dr Merton E Hill Russell Ireland Fred Taylor J Houston Witherspoon Charles McKibbin and Arthur Littlejohn. Church trustees are Stephen Brixey Harry M Guy Brayton Norton and A J Webster. Dr F E Billings will be clerk of the Session and Russell Bing Sunday school superintendent.
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Community Presbyterian Church
Laguna Beach
Dallas R. Turner
Rolland Cole
Herbert T. Cox
Merton E. Hill
Russell Ireland
Fred Taylor
J. Houston Witherspoon
Charles McKibbin
Arthur Littlejohn
Stephen Brixey
Harry M. Guy
Brayton Norton
A. J. Webster
Russell
Bing
Truth Sermon Topic at First Church of Christ Scientist Boston
The Sunday lesson-sermon centers on Truth with Psalms as the Golden Text for all branches of the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston. Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health is cited noting that worldly ologies fail to define truth and that spiritual rationality and free thought accompany approaching Science to free humanity from incorrect laws.
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First Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Mary Baker Eddy
Minister Called to Take Pulpit in March
Reverend Louis Landgrebe, pastor at Parkway Evangelical and Reformed Church, has accepted a unanimous call from First Evangelical and Reformed Church in Woodland. He will resign March 9 after nine years, during which membership grew 400 percent, remodeling added chancel, choir loft, stained glass, organ and cathedral chimes, and a new parsonage at 2736 Maine Ave. He serves as California Synod president and has been active in the Long Beach Ministerial Union.
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Louis Landgrebe
Parkway Evangelical and Reformed Church
14Th St
Pacific Ave
First Evangélical and Reformed
Woodland
Maine Ave
Landgrebe
California Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church
Long Beach Ministerial Union
Churches Mark Y.M.C.A. 50th Year Across Local Churches
Golden anniversary of the Long Beach Y M C A will be observed in Sunday services at many churches with special boy speakers. The celebration ends with a Golden Anniversary dinner at the Masonic Temple 35 Locust Ave on February 2.
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Long Beach
Gabrielson Sermon Topic Announced at Bay Shore Church
Rev. Milton G. Gabrielson will preach tomorrow at Bay Shore Community Congregational Church in two services at 9:30 and 10:50. The sermon titled the Home as a Proving Ground for Our Faith continues his 1950 Version of Our Christian Faith series.
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Milton G. Gabrielson
Bay Shore Community Congregational Church
Evangelist Rev Jack Murray to Speak at City Rally
Rev Jack Murray evangelist and director of the Bible Conference Harvey Cedars will speak at a public rally tomorrow at 3 30 p m sponsored by the American Council of Christian Churches in First Orthodox Presbyterian Church San Antonio Or and Linden Ave Delegates from affiliated Harbor Regional churches will attend The public is invited His rally message is Revivalism Evangelism and the 20th Century Reformation A buffet supper will follow the rally service.
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Jack Murray
Harvey Cedars
M. J
American Council of Christian Churches
First Orthodox
Presbyterian Church
San Antonio Or
Linden Ave
Harbor
Professional Women Hostesses for Dinner Program
Margaret Ives Chapter Basil Jimmie MecGarrigie will host a 6:30 p m buffet with Professional Women and men invited. Viola Sanders presides the club. Grace Dudley oversees supper. Marguerite Dougherty presents a variety program with Donna Roach as accordionist and vocalist. Myra Scholtenberger plays organ and leads community singing.
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Margaret Ives
Basil Jimmie MecGarrigie
Armed Services Y
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