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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1948
Page
5
North Long Beach Christian Church will launch a double Sunday session with Bible school split by age and two worship periods. Rev. Carl Lawson Crain cites rising attendance and World Wide Communion Sunday as reasons, and says the plan aids parents who can attend worship while children study.
Marjorie Gortner a four year old Long Beach boy preacher has toured the midwestern states. He appeared in Davenport Iowa and Omaha Nebraska and will return here this month. He held meetings in Denver Civic Auditorium Colorado Springs and Springfield Missouri. In Long Beach he performs at the Masonic Temple 835 Locust Ave and studies with local instrumental musicians. His two year old brother Vernoe joins in musical numbers.
The 40th anniversary observance for the Church of the Nazarene union will take place tomorrow evening at North Long Beach Nazarene Church located at 37 E Mountain View St. Rev. David W. Simpson leads with prominent Nazarene pastors and lay leaders slated to participate.
East Side Christian Church prepares World Wide Communion Sunday on October 3. Missionary couple Mr and Mrs David Byerlee will speak at 9:30 am and 8:30 pm, with three discussion groups and a showing of the film My Name Is Han. Rally Day emphasizes every member presence amid the Crusade for a Christian World 1948-50.
Paris Oct 2 The Security Council weighs a request from acting Palestine mediator Ralph Bunche for extra support to curb disobedience to UN authority by both Arabs and Jews. A Jerusalem dispatch reports a cable from Bunche urging action to stop obstructive conduct against the truce supervision body and cooperation with it. U S Consul General John J MacDonald, as commission chairman, signs a cable accusing a deliberate Jewish campaign led by Jerusalem's military governor Bernard Joseph to discredit the truce commission and Bunche.
Pr. Robert Murray Pratt, newly installed Unitarian minister, will address Facts Fiction and Truth at the 11 a.m. service tomorrow. He urges distinguishing between facts fancies fiction reality and truth to evaluate ideologies, and notes a series of radio broadcasts from KFOX at 8 15 a.m. each Sunday on Unitarian philosophy and liberal religion.
Holy Trinity American Lutheran Church outlines a special service schedule tomorrow emphasizing Christian education. Sunday School at 9:50 features department promotions and an illustrated lecture “Raising the Sunday School Standard.” Rev. C. F. Pohlman will preach on Christian education and child training.
Miss Naomi Randall of Anderson Indiana will speak at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Community Church of God 1862 Pine Ave. She will describe her Christian work in Kentucky mountain districts where she organized a World War II Youth Mission that still operates and has earned praise in eastern and Midwestern states for evangelism. The mission has influenced several hundred mountain youths toward Christian service.
Mrs. F. M. Rogers retires Sept. 1 as superintendent of the California Christian Home. She helped found the Massie Home in Long Beach in 1916 and led the home through major enlargement. In 11 years in Long Beach she served as financial secretary and treasurer before becoming superintendent, caring for more than 300 residents. Greta Brown succeeds her, as Rogers moves to Clare mont to be with relatives.
The Bellflower Community Men's Bible class holds its annual rally day tomorrow at 9 30 a.m. in Candle light Chapel 9815 E Arkansas St. Rev Ernest Hasselblad leads with music devotional then lesson by a class member. Officers include Chet Henrecksin president Webster Barth vice president Floyd Van Kley secretary Roy Black treasurer Harold Aston secretary.
East Long Beach Methodist Church will hold Family Night during tomorrow evening’s service as part of the Loyalty Crusade. Rev. Quentin P. Roger will speak on The First Line of Defense, with special music and attractions including an award for the family having the most members present. World Music Communion Sunday will be observed at 11 a.m.
First Presbyterian Church plans to unite with Protestant churches worldwide in a World Communion tomorrow morning. Dr. William Irvin Williams, pastor, will lead a communion meditation on the theme "Spiritually Paid" as part of the observance.
First Brethren Church of Bell tower on Clark Avenue and Flower Street will hold Rally Day and Homecoming tomorrow. A combined Bible school program and church service start at 10 a m with a Bible school participation. Rev George Mr Richardson will preach The Greatest Battle You'll Ever Fight. A basket dinner follows in the new school unit auditorium. At 2 30 p m congregational singing and special numbers precede a Youth for Christ message by Rev Al Triester.
Clarence Peddicord, a 31 year old blind Portland man, underwent a cornea transplant in his right eye at St. Clare Hospital in New York. Hospital officials called the procedure apparently successful but said it will be several weeks to determine if sight returns. Saratoga Springs businessman Henry Karlin has underwritten some expenses and Peddicord will receive a second transplant on the left eye.
Rev Robert F Shattuck leads World Wide Communion Sunday service at Calvary Presbyterian Church with a meditation themed It Was the Night of His Betrayal. An evening program features the film This Road We Walk documenting church relief and reconstruction abroad.
Rev Oscar Stern of Prague will explain the traditional Passover as it was in Jesus time at the morning service tomorrow showing its transformation into the Lord's Supper.
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