Faith Growth: A Clergyman’s Unlikely Path to Ministry
In a reflection on religious vocation, Rev. R Hope Robertson recalls childhood in a Hingston Jamaica manse, early choir service, and a shift from law to medicine to ministry. A Panama encounter with an oculist steered him toward Seventh-day Adventist training and a career shaped by his grandmother Fanny Petrie’s devout influence.
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Seventh-day Church
Hingston
Jamaica
Joseph
Fanny Petrie
Panama
Angelican Theological Seminary
Mandeville Seventh-day Adventist Ministerial College
Kingston
Lutherans Post Theses Replica Observes Reformation Day
Long Beach churches post replicas of Martin Luther's Ninety Five Theses on doors during Sunday services to reaffirm Lutheran doctrines. Services at St. Paul's Church 8:30 and 11:30 a.m. and First Lutheran at 10 a.m. mark the observance. the original 1517 castle posting sparked the Reformation.
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Luther
Castle
Wittenberg
Germany
Alvin Zadow
Claude Wright
Charles N. Goehring
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
St. Paul’s Lutheran
Martin Luther
Missionary Couple to Speak at Lakewood Assembly of God
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne C. Turnbull will be guest speakers at Lakewood Assembly of God Sunday at 11. They spent three and a half years as missionaries in the Dominican Republic and will discuss their experiences and mission progress. The Turnbulls will also show a film titled Hope for Manana about the Dominican Bible School.
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Lakewood
St Johns Holds Women’s Day Observance at Church
Missionary Baptist Church will observe its first annual Women’s Day with two services. Morning speaker Mrs Bernice Thompson Ganfield, past president of the Long Beach Council DE Church Women, will discuss a topic by Mrs William Jacks at the 5 pm service on escaping the realities of life. The day’s theme is the Church in Tadsy’s World.
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By the
Golden Gate
Tre St. John’ Missionary Baptist
Sermon Service at First Congregational Church Sunday
Dr Raymond Lindquist of Hollywood First Presbyterian Church will speak at 3 30 pm. He leads the General Council of the Presbyterian Church. Music directed by Dr Robert Magin features the Reformation choir and Mohler Pipe organ with a ministers procession and robed choir.
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First Congregational Church
Raymond Lindquist
Hollywood First Presbyterian Church
General Council
The
Presbyterian Church
Robert Magin
Mohler
Local Artists Sing Elijah at First Baptist Church
Local artists present Elijah a Sunday night program at 8 p m at First Baptist Church. Rachel Morton will narrate excerpts from Mendelssohn oratorio and has a rich European opera background under Barbirolli Sargent and Wood. Sydney Cullum sings Elijah with Ann Barrows and Barbara Poulsheck as soloists.
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Elijah
First Baptist Church
Rachel Morton
Rachel
Morton
Europe
Lading Opera
John Barbirolli
Malcom Sargent
Henry Wood
Sydney Cullum
Singers Workshop
Ann Barrows
Barbara Poulsheck
Methodists Hear Lecture by Newly Appointed Minister
The Grace Methodist Church hosts two lectures Sunday night by Rev. Dwight G. Bennett and his wife Mrs. Bennett. They describe experiences in the Middle East and observations on Arab Israeli tensions. Public invited to service at 7 45 p.m. and classes at 6 45 p.m.
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Grace Methodist Church
Dwight G. Bennett
Bennett
Middle East
Bennetts
Holy Land
Observer
Alliance Church Ends Youth Week With Challenge to Youth
The Christian and Missionary Alliance Church wraps up a special youth emphasis week. The close Sunday at 7 30 pm features a concluding service directed by the church youths with the theme The Challenge of Youth to the Church.
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Alliance Church
Christian and Missionary Alliance
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