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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1965
Page
11
In Salt Lake City at St Mark's Episcopal church a Sunday morning service featured a folk song mass. The performance drew more than 600 attendees who joined in a Friday night hootenanny atmosphere with strummed tunes and toe tapping.
Rev Wayne Gentry president of Open Door Home in west Ouachita Parish will speak at the seventh anniversary observance with sessions in the morning and evening. He will discuss the home for meddy mothers and plans to enlarge rescue mission quarters. Reverend Gentry, formerly of Victory Baptist Church, is noted for pastoring churches in north Louisiana.
On May 28, 1962, Tehran reported swarms darkening the sky as locusts invaded from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Four U.S., four Soviet, and fifteen Iranian planes sprayed the crops, saving some north crops but causing millions in damage in the south. The note connects biblical locust plagues in Revelation to modern crises.
David Terry 22 a North east State College graduate will be ordained as a minister today at 5 p.m. by Faith Baptist Church of Monroe. Rev A T Mitchell interim pastor formed the ordination council which approved Terry. Council members include Rev Leon Ivey Rev E J Geis Rev Willie Woodard Rev L E Traxler Sr Rev Leland Langridge Rev Don Wainwright and Rev Mitchell. The Riverview Baptist Church of West Maine has called him as interim pastor and invited Twin Cities preachers to participate. He is married to Frances Free of Monroe and they have one child Karen. They plan to enter New Orleans Baptist Seminary in September.
A 6:30 p.m. welcome home program will be held at the Monroe Branch Chapel, 2300 Lee Ave., for Elder Charles Ram sey Rugg of Monroe. He returns after two years in the church mission field in California, including Mesa, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Whittier, San Diego, and Bur bank. He will speak and attends Brigham Young University in the fall for pre-dentistry studies.
Religious protests against the war in Viet Nam rise as leaders condemn Johnson policies. Dr. Leon I. Feuer of Toledo heads a sharp denunciation, insisting that killing solves no problems and urging new approaches. The UPI report ties church dissent to ongoing conflict and policy debates.
In Religion News Briefs from Chicago London and New York, church leaders debate unity and doctrine. Dr Harold Fey urges periodic conferences with the World Council of Churches to address race, population, secularism and disarmament. The Bishop of Chelmsford warns clergy to baptize infants or resign. World Outlook criticizes global denominational trends in favor of regional union. The Church of England names Maj Gen Adam Block as information chief urging organized adaptation. Protests against undeclared war rise alongside calls for peace. Pope Paul VI expands use of modern languages in Mass with English Preface possible in certain countries. Cardinal Ritter hails English in liturgy as a step toward clearer lay participation.
The Woman's Missionary Union of Monroe First Baptist Church sponsors a prayer retreat at the Drews home on Arkansas Road West Monroe. The outdoor schedule begins 9:30 a.m. with meditation and worship thoughts, followed by Bible study by Rev Earl Mercer, group lawn prayers, testimony, and a closing meditation before a noon lunch. Children require a lunch. nursery will be available.
The Methodist Church names Rev William C Strother Jr of Philadelphia as director of new church development for the National Division. He will focus on organizing new urban congregations and succeeds among a small team led by Rev Ralph T Mirse of Boston. Strother comes from the former Philadelphia District of the Delaware Methodist Conference and has served as district superintendent since 1960.
Peniel Baptist Church on Jonesboro Highway West Monroe originated as Old Unity Baptist Church. Organized by Walter and Buddy Stokes with John and Ben Blazier, it began under brush arbor and a wood stove heated one room structure. Mary Moore, the last living charter member, helped rename to Peniel. The history covers ministries, buildings, and leadership up to Rev. Dowden's seventh year, with a total membership of 427 and 248 in Sunday school.
The Rev Clark Williams assistant pastor of Broadmoor Presbyterian Church Shreveport will be guest speaker at 11 am services today at First Presbyterian Church Monroe He previously served Alabama Presbyterian Church Choudrant and moved to Red River Presbytery from North East Texas Presbytery between 1961 and 1964.
A sermon style piece asserts salvation comes only through Jesus Christ. It states God is supreme, keeper of salvation, and eternal, offering eternal life to believers who repent and trust. It urges turning to Christ for forgiveness, satisfaction, and peace, noting world problems stem from rejecting God.
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