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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1964
Page
7
A 1964 Scottsdale page lists numerous churches and religious centers with addresses, pastors, and service times including Camelback Seventh Day Adventist Coral and Thunderbird Academy locations, Catholic and Protestant parishes, mosques not shown, and schedules for Sabbath school worship and Bible study across multiple venues in Scottsdale and Phoenix area communities.
The Rev Johnston H Calhoun of Scottsdale will be a commissioner to the 176th General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church meeting in Oklahoma City. He pastors Scottsdale United Presbyterian Church and will join about 900 delegates as boards report and plans for the next year are set. He will also lead a pre assembly Evangelism session on The Finality of Jesus Christ in Today’s World.
The Rev. L Philip Samuelson of Papago Peaks Baptist Church travels to Atlantic City New Jersey to join the American Baptist Convention and Baptist Jubilee Advance sessions May 22 24 The event features speakers Hubert Humphrey Billy Graham Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King with a 150th anniversary program including the oratorio What Is Man by the Philadelphia City Choirs
Prince of Peace Bible School schedules a June session from the 1st to the 12th at the Church on 56th Street and Indian School Road. Pastor Philip Gangser leads the program with the theme Trust and Obey. Students ages three to seventh grade attend 9 to 11 15 a.m. daily, closing with an open house at 7 30 p.m. on June 12. Superintendent Brad Van Ness and assistant Don Fischer oversee activities. A Rock Point Indian Mission project, supported by Lutheran churches, is featured.
The 11 a.m. service will receive 25 young people into full Communion at Ascension Lutheran Church 7100 N Mockingbird Lane. A 6:30 p.m. banquet by the Senior Luther League will honor the confirmands in the church day school fellowship hall. Worship services at 8:30 and 11 a.m. feature Pastor Paul L. Baumgartner speaking on The Whole Wide World and You.
Louis Cassels reports that May 17 marks the Christian church’s 1934th birthday, tracing Pentecost to A D 30 in Jerusalem. The piece notes the Holy Spirit’s role in guiding believers, early miracles, and the ongoing ecumenical movement led by spiritual unity.
Moslems in Phoenix mark Muharram 1 1384 A H with a public 2 p m service at the First Congregational Church. Dr Jamil Diab will lecture on the Hijra and refreshments will conclude the event as chants from the Holy Quran fill the room.
The Rev Milton E VanSlyke pastor of First Baptist Church of Scottsdale will receive an honorary Doctor of Divinity at Eastern Baptist College June 1 during commencement exercises in Pennsylvania He graduated Wheaton College in 1943 and earned a BD from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1947 He was ordained in 1949 and previously led churches in Meadville and Chester Springs before moving to Scottsdale in 1953
The Salem church schedules its first confirmation service at 9 a m tomorrow at the Scottsdale Boys Club its temporary meeting place. Dennis Frierson and Thomas Wallquist are the confirmands after last Sunday’s examination by Rev John P Gaertner the pastor.
Phil Smith son of Mr and Mrs Tom Smith of 1917 E Hub Bell has been elected president of the Scotts dale Christian Church youth group for the coming year. Other new officers include Glen Dorchler vice president Connie Lancaster secretary Kathy Heib treasurer and Terri Jensen general chairman of committees.
An All Aboard for Camp program is set for 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Shepherd Hills Congregational United Church of Christ, 5524 E. Lafayette Blvd. The 10 a.m. worship service tomorrow will feature Rev. Charles M. Brown speaking on One Spirit One Body.
A sermon urges regular church attendance and Bible reading as foundations for character and citizenship. It argues church strength sustains democracy, and notes parents plan for children's education while stressing that true success comes from moral formation rooted in Christian truths.
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