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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1957
Page
4
Ash Wednesday services mark the start of Lent in Catholic and Protestant churches. Ser mons and ashes at multiple churches outline a six week schedule with midweek Bible studies, Maundy services, communion, and Holy Week observances led by various pastors across Lakewood and nearby communities.
The Second Presbyterian Church at 261 Moline Ave invites parishioners to a dedication service at 11 a.m. Sunday. New pews were installed, the sanctuary redecorated, and the chancel and pulpit remodeled under Rev. Robert F H Frontite who leads the service. The church, founded in 1907, sits on the Molino site purchased by First Presbyterian Church.
In a talk titled The Day My Faith Grew Rev. Hiram B Crosby Jr of St Thomas Canterbury Episcopal Church recalls fear of his father's death and how reading Psalm 46 and the verse Be still and know that I am God shifted his focus from self to dependence on God. He says faith strengthened and fear faded as he embraced spiritual values.
Rev. Aoki, a missionary to Japan, will speak Sunday at Westside Church of Christ, 1594 IV Willow St. He recently returned from Japan after research on higher education. He will be accompanied by his wife Doris and two children Allele and Stanly, with a May 8 departure for Japan and a reception after the 7:33 pm service.
Monsignor Cawley Council hosts a Mardi Gras program featuring a pre-Lenten film event. The documentary will air on NBC TV channel 4 tonight at 9, with John Gunther narrating. Tickets available at the door.
Associate Professor Bertram McGarrity of Long Beach State College will speak in the noon This I Believe Series on Tuesday in classroom 159. The topic Dignity and the Worth of Man is to be explored, with the event sponsored by the College Regions Council. The series features faculty members sharing personal beliefs to show a cross section of religious thought on campus.
The Church Extension Board of the Presbytery of Los Angeles announces plans to build a Presbyterian church at Candlewood and Hayter Avenues to serve all of Lakewood. The unnamed church will be led by Rev. Harold Banks of Mayfair Presby Church as organizing pastor. Upon completion, Mayfair Church will be dissolved. Facilities on a 2.75 acre site will allow future expansion. Meantime services are held at Oliver Wendell Holmes Elementary School 5000 Barlin Ave at 11 am. The first meeting is Sunday April 7 with church school at the same time.
The Long Beach Liberal will host Wilson C. Riles Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Unitarian Church at 50 Lime Ave. Riles, regional secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and vice president of the American Civil Liberties Union, Southern California, will discuss New Hope in the South after touring the region and meeting Montgomery bus boycott leaders. Admission is sixty cents and the public is invited.
United Church Women sponsor World Day of Prayer observances in Long Beach in two locations. Downtown services at First Christian Church begin 11 am with Judge Martin DeVries delivering the afternoon address. noon meditations run 12:00 to 1:00. North Long Beach services at North Long Beach Christian Church start 12:30 with Mrs. Helen Walker of Whitier Friends Church as main speaker.
The Division of National Missions of the Methodist Church requests fifty thousand dollars for Crusade Scholarships as part of Week of Dedication from March 3 to 10. Nine home mission needs are included, bringing the total national missions askings to 280,000. With overseas missions and other services, the overall goal exceeds 800,000.
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