Immanuel Baptist Church plans 40th anniversary fete
Immanuel Baptist Church in Long Beach marks its 40th anniversary with a morning service led by guest preacher Dr. Frank M. Kepner, a picnic lunch in Recreation Park, and a 7:30 p.m. music program featuring Helmut Assman, the Sanctuary Choir under Sam H. Kosowsky, and organist Rev. Jensen. The event recalls the church’s 1913 founding and notes plans for a new pipe organ by the Ar elabor Skinner Co. The organ will have 30 speaking stops and 2152 pipes, with reconstruction of the chancel to begin soon.
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Frank M. Kepner
Southern California Baptist Convention
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Helmut Assman
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Caesar Frank
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George D. Knights
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Keith Bauserman
Arab Skinner Co
Boston
Pastor Will Share Pulpit With Friend
Reuben Field Pieters of First Presbyterian Church announces sharing the pulpit Sunday morning with Rev. Roland Anderson of Fairmont Presbyterian Church Dayton Ohio. Anderson has built a 1000 member congregation and a colonial church edifice with educational facilities. Pieters introduces Anderson at 11 a.m. service with a public reception for new members at Westminster Hall coffee hour. Cathedral Choir directed by Mrs Arthur J Keltie sings two anthems The Prodigal Son and My Soul.
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First Presbyterian Church
Roland Anderson
Fairmont Presbyterian Church
Dayton
Ohio
Anderson
Dr Pieters
Pieters
Westminster Hall
Arthur J. Keltie
Ministerial Union Names New Leader in Long Beach
Rev. R. Merrill Jersen, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, was elected president of the Long Beach Ministerial Union at the annual luncheon and election meeting held at the Armed Service YMCA. He succeeds Rev. William Harrison Myers of First Methodist Church. Jersen has served as treasurer and on several committees, and previously pastored in Ontario. Newly chosen officers include Rev. Emerson G. Hangen vice president, George F. McLean executive secretary, Rev. Ben Thomson Cowles treasurer. The president will form committees to work with the Council of Churches.
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R. Merrill Jersen
Immanuel Baptist Church
Long Beach
Armed Services Ymca
Ben Thomson Cowles
St. John’s Community
Minister Chosen by Unitarian Congregation in Graf ton
Rev. Jack Alvin Kent of Graf ton Mass was elected by unanimous vote to preach at the Unitarian Church at 850 Lime Age. He will start Sept. 1. The congregation approved buying a parsonage with a down payment due immediately. A fund-raising bazaar and auction will follow, featuring a white elephant booth and a box supper auctioned by attending women at Lambert Hall at 6:30 p.m.
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Jack Alvin Kent
Grafton
Mass
Unitarian Church
Lambert Hall
Two Prayer Desks to Be Dedicated at All Saints
Two carved oak sanctuary desks donated in memory of the late Charles Adams will be dedicated at the 11 a m service at All Saints Episcopal Church. Rector Rev Harry Leigh-Pink announced the gift from St Catherine's Guild. Desks were designed by Harvey Lochridge to match the church's oak litany desk and pulpit and reflect Adams's WWII chaplain kit carvings.
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Charles Adams
All Saints Episcopal Church
Harry Leigh-Pink
Harvey Lochridge
St. Catherine's Guild
Adams
Leigh-Pink
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