Religious leaders plan bicentennial meeting in Washington
A national bicentennial consultation on Religion and the American Experience will be held in Washington at the Washington Hilton Hotel on May 21 and 29. Co sponsored by Project FORWARD 76 and ARBA the event is chaired by R H Edwin Espy and John W Warner.
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Washington
D.C
ARBA
R.H. Edwin Espy
John W. Warner
Washington Hilton
Project Forward ’76
Inter
Sanchez links with CME group for bicentennial observance
Elder Sanchez of Seventh Day Adventist churches in Saragosa and Van Horn will speak Sunday morning at Friendship CME Church. Rev. Lott hosts a fourth year conference at 7 30 p m with officer elections. Rev. P N Moore departs June 24 for Abilene and July 13 18 attends leadership school at Texas college campus church center in New York to aid nationwide bicentennial observance efforts. The invitee list follows discussions with religious and inter religious officials. Participants will come from various places.
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Seventh Day Adventist Church
Saragosa
van Horn
Friendship Cme
Lott
P.N. Moore
Abilene
Texas College
New York
Masons Hold Recognition Banquet In Odessa
Luther Vernon Foreman former master of Andy G Vaughn Lodge 1421 in Odessa will speak at the annual Masonic recognition banquet. The 7 p.m. event at Masonic Hall 624 S Oak St invites local and visiting Masons and their wives. Awards will honor Pecos Valley Lodge 736 members with 25 and 50 years of service.
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Luther Vernon Foreman
Andy G. Vaughn
Odessa
Masonic Hall
S. Oak St
Pecos
Texan says U S Christians can resume Vietnamese aid
The Rev. Ernest L. Fogg a longtime Indochina church worker said U S Christians can soon resume aid to Vietnamese projects under the new South Vietnamese government. He noted Americans were surprised by the new regime's openness and hopes the transition brings peace after 30 years of conflict.
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New York
U.S
Saigon
Fogg
World Council of Churches’ Fund For Reconciliation
Indochina
Courtney and Clawson Lead Youth Training Conference
Glorieta Baptist Conference Center in New Mexico hosts June 7-13 youth gathering led by Courtney and wife Cynthia Clawson. About 2,600 youths attend with theme Bright New Wings, featuring 42 faculty members and separate sessions for college students and young adults.
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Glorieta, N.M
Ragan Courtney
Cynthia Clawson
Glorieta Baptist Conference Center
Courtney
Dallas
Bright New Wings
Twyla Wright
Batesville
Ark
Bob Weissinger
Seventh and James Baptist Church
Waco
Wright
Koinonia
Consultation Aims to Spark Dialogue Across Faiths
Co sponsors describe the gathering as a catalyst not a program, emphasizing that diverse religious communities seek to rediscover one another and affirm their roles in the common body politic. They warn the aim is not blueprints or declarations but mutual learning.
United Methodists Elect Delegates for 1976 General Conference
Lay and clergy delegates will be elected by secret ballot at seven Texas and New Mexico annual conferences to represent 811,000 regional members at the United Methodist General Conference in Portland Oregon. Delegates will consider petitions for legislation before the world body of about 10 million United Methodists. The conferences will also elect delegates to the 1976 Jurisdictional Conference in Lincoln Nebraska where four new Methodist bishops will be elected and consecrated.
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Ore
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Texas
New Mexico
United Methodist Church
United States
Lincoln
Nebraska
Unisex undergarments and life advice in Ann Landers column
A readers’ collection of letters to Ann Landers covers men wearing panty girdles for back relief, push for men’s stores to stock them without stigma, a discussion of the word chutzpah with humorous examples, a hospital case from a man scorned by his partner, and a practical joke of sending Ann Landers’s Booze and You booklet.
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Ann
Barney
Ann Landers
P.O
Elgin
Ill
The World’s Most Beautiful Tree and a Call to Faith
A speaker recalls seeing a “world’s most beautiful tree” in Kansas and uses it as a metaphor for being rooted in God through Jesus Christ. The piece urges readers to accept salvation today, noting rivers of living water and the need for spiritual nourishment to weather life’s storms.
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Mabel
Topeka
Kan
Four Corners
Kansas
Fort Davis
Lympia Creek
Jesus
God
Jesus Christ
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