Christmas cantatas and plays planned by area churches
Area churches announce several Christmas programs this weekend. Elm Street Baptist Church Murphysboro presents Carol of Christmas by its adult choir at 7 30 p m Saturday. Chatham Baptist Church hosts The Bethlehem Inn youth pageant at 7 p m Saturday. First Assembly of God Murphysboro offers His Love Reaching cantata at 7 p m Wednesday. Marion Assemblies of God presents a Christmas cantata. First Christian Church Murphysboro features Joy to the World cantata by its adult choir at 7 30 p m Sunday.
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Murphysboro
Bethlehem Inn
Chatham Baptist Church
Chatham
Assembly of God
15Th
South Streets
Marion
Assemblies of God Church
First Christian Church
Pine St
The
First Apostolic Church of Cambria
Cambria Road
John W. Peterson
First Baptist Church
W. Murray St
Lesser
Ron Simpson
Groundbreaking for Glass Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove
Early this month groundbreaking ceremonies marked the crystal cathedral in Garden Grove California to be completed in 1980 as the new home of the Garden Grove Community Church. Handel's Messiah will be performed at 2 p.m. Sunday at Frankfort High School with the Messiah Chorus led by Jon Nicholas of West Frankfort. Frank E. Trobaugh, longtime chorus conductor, retires after 65 years of directing local choirs on doctors orders.
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Garden Grove
Calif
Garden Grove Community
Frankfort
East Main St
West Frankfort
Messiah
Jon Nicholas
Frank E. Trobaugh
Trobaugh
Messiah Chorus
Christmas programs grace Carbondale churches
On Sunday events fill local churches with Yuletide offerings. The First Baptist Church hosts The Holy Night at 7 p.m. with children from the religious education department of the Unitarian Fellowship presenting a 10:30 a.m. program earlier. Visitors may bring gifts to support church ministries.
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First Baptist Church
W. Main St
Carbondale
Religious Education Department
The
Unitarian Fellowship
W. Elm St
Janeeke Resnick
Jean Shisler
Local church groups announce holiday programs and 1978 institute
The First Apostolic Church of Cambria and other churches schedule Christmas plays and caroling at various times and locations. The 48th annual Church and Community Institute will take place January 16–17 at the Illini Union on the UIUC campus with sessions on work home and church led by university and church leaders. Registration brochures and info are available through denominational offices and the Perry County Extension Office.
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Eileen Ashby
Pat Longshore
First United Presbyterian Church of
Church and Community Institute
Illini Union
Champaign-Urbana
University of Illinois
Illinois
The
Cooperative Extension Service
Office of Continuing Education and Public Service
Church and Community Institute Committee
Perry County
South St
Pinckneyville
Church staff unions gain ground in Catholic and Protestant groups
A U S Catholic bishops subcommittee and church leaders acknowledge workers right to organize. unions have formed among lay teachers in Catholic high schools across 19 dioceses, amid economic and doctrinal strains as churches face applying social teaching to labor relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Farrell
Washington
D.C
James A. Hamilton
National Council of Churches
Interdenominational Organization
U.S
Catholic Bishops
Impoverished Jews neglected in poverty study film
A special ABC documentary written by Howard Enders highlights the overlooked poverty among Jews, estimating 500000 to 1 million people in the United States living on 40000 or less per year for a four person family. Betram H. Gold notes government programs neglect Jewish needs and a reluctance to seek public relief persists.
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George Cornell
Associated Press
New York
ABC
Howard Enders
New York City
Gible
Betram H. Gold
American Jewish Committee
U.S
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