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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1975
Page
7
A sermon-like reflection proclaims that God’s secret to reconciliation through Jesus is now revealed to the universe via the body of Christ. It urges personal involvement in ministry, contrasts belief with doubt, and warns the world is dying to see the decision of each reader.
A reader signs as WALK ON IN AND SIT RIGHT DOWN praising unsolicited visits and lending a helping hand while revealing he is a 23 year old male. The reply questions the anonymity of the signer and notes potential issues with public disclosure.
Rev. Chris Morgan, ordained in the United Church of Christianity, serves as a marketplace minister with a free counseling service based in Crown Center in Kansas City. He describes his approach as listening to people where they are, aligning with Jesus’s example in the marketplace.
Mrs Ray Blackwell is appointed to head the ladies work committee for August as chairman at the Church of Christ. Assisting are Mmes Elvin Reynolds Una Clark Coy Nichols John Stickels Randy Taylor Tilden Stewart Ray Hall and Rena Stickels.
Three Pecos churches First Christian First Presbyterian and First United Methodist conducted Vacation Church School July 21 25 involving 27 adults 6 youth and 61 children. Activities included a overnight trip for older kids to Black River Village NM and daily crafts music and lessons themed Gods World My Place in Gods World and All Things Work Together with a grand finale picnic.
French scholar Roger Garaudy, long a Communist and now calling himself Christian, says his faith grew from extensive Marxist Christian dialogue. In his Paris book The Word of Man, he argues God exists means man is more than man and that belief in God must include faith in human transcendence.
NEW HAVEN AP Tom Taylor aged 44 left IBM after 16 years earning 40000 to seek spiritual fulfillment. Ken Landall 34 quit a banking VP job to study at Yale Divinity School and serve as minister. John Rick 34, a General Foods marketing manager, followed a calling beyond money. All three pursue clergy life, bringing corporate insight to parish work. Landall notes a gradual realization rather than a flash, and his wife Claudia now supports the family as a banker. Landall cared for children and bemoaned gender roles, joking he became a women's liberationist and urges men to switch roles with their wives.
Tom Taylor, after 16 years with IBM, resigns as contract program manager to study and work part time at United Illuminating, seeking a life beyond corporate ascent. John Rick, once at General Foods, leaves marketing management for Yale Divinity School, finding joy in theology over profit. Landall also leaves business for church work, as all three plan parish ministry amid family and single life changes.
Dr James Kottoor at the Ecumenical Christian Centre in Bangalore described the Christian Conference of Asia CCA Christian Communicators Consultation as an international and ecumenical breakthrough in Asia. About 40 journalists from 16 countries attended. Participants warned upgrading Asian Christian communications will be difficult due to church control, credibility issues, elite alliances, borrowed theology, illiteracy, lack of trained journalists, and societal divisions.
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