SIU Star Ralph Johnson Balances Sports and Service
Ralph Johnson, SIU basketball standout, coaches Sunday school at First Methodist Church in Carbondale while pursuing a degree in personnel management. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army ROTC, plans logistics work in Fayetteville, and hopes to continue youth work in North Carolina as a Scout leader. Johnson credits family influence for his religious and military commitments and emphasizes prioritizing what matters most in life.
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Diane Lavos
Southern Illinois An
Southern Illinois University
Ralph Johnson
Air Force
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Johnson
SIU
First Methodist Church
Carbondale
Fayetteville, N.C
Trenton
Vietnam
Officers Christian Union
Robert Propst
Vacation Bible School
North Carolina
Youths plan guitar mass and revival services
St Marys Catholic Youth Organization and Surfing Club sponsor a guitar mass on July 2 at Our Lady of Mt Carmel in Herrin with a noon mass and city park picnic. A revival service follows daily at Rock Springs Baptist Church at 7 30 p m starting June 26 led by Rev Gene Bennett of Alto Pass. Bethel AME Church Carbondale presents Talent on Parade Sunday at 7 30 p m inviting the public.
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St. Mary’s
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church
Herrin
City Park
Rock Springs Baptist Church
Gene Bennett
Alto Pass
Campership Planned by Church Group This Summer
The Womens Missionary Union of Johnston City First Baptist Church will fund a Girls Auxiliary camp at Lake Salateeska near Pinckneyville. In July the group will visit shut ins with devotionals. Mrs John Willhite, program chairman, led a lesson on Churches form a Convention Utah Idaho.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Womens Missionary Union
Johnston City
First Baptist Church
Lake Salateeska
Pinckneyville
John Willhite
Utah - Idaho
Jerusalem scholars study Dead Sea Scroll fragments
In the Old City of Jerusalem Israeli archaeologists led by Dr. Avraham Biran entered the Palestine Archaeological Museum to inventory Dead Sea Scroll fragments found after the 1967 capture. They lack complete catalog records and hope to uncover more from the fortress museum near the north wall. The scrolls date from about 150 B.C. to 68 A.D.
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Jerusalem
Old City
Avraham Biran
Israeli Department of Antiquities and Museums
Palestine Archeological Museum
Brian
John D. Rockefeller Jr
William F. Albright
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Albright
Qumren
Wright to be ordained in Zeigler First Christian Church
D M Wright will be ordained at 7 30 p m Sunday in Zeigler First Christian Church. He has completed four years at Lincoln Christian College and preached in Southern Illinois. He plans further study at St Louis Christian College. Pastor Bill Jackson will deliver the sermon The Preachers Task. Open to the public with refreshments afterward. Wright and his wife reside at 309 Vaux St Zeigler. Wright's mother Mrs Lucille Wright also lives in Zeigler. A Zone Rally in Murphysboro will follow Tuesday at 7 30 p m with twelve churches and a Collegian Quartet from Olivet Nazarene College Kankakee on tour.
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Donald Max Wright
Zeigler
First Christian Church
Wright
Lincoln Christian College
Southern Illinois
St. Louis Christian College
Bill Jackson
Zeigler Church
Church of the Nazarene
N. 7Th St
Murphysboro
Collegian Quartet
Olivet Nazarene College
Kankakee
Methodists to Launch Building Fund Drive in Murphysboro
The Methodist Church of Murphysboro plans a three year pledge drive to raise 140000 for renovating its 15th and Pine street church and to fund an addition. The merged First and Centenary congregations total about 700. the project may cost over 300000. The drive aims to begin pledges this Sunday with a weekend of prayer and a 9 to 9 vigil at the church led by Rev. Julius J Webb from the General Board of Missions.
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Methodist Church of
Murphysboro
15Th and
Pine Sts
First Methodist
Centenary Methodist Churches
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E. Jackson St
Evangelical Presbyterian
John P. Hoogstrate
Brush School
Carbondale Savings and Loan
St. Joseph
St. Joseph Church Grounds
Willisville, Illinois
Llinoisan
the Bulletin
D. M. Wright
Vaux St
Lucille Wright
Christian
Science
S. University Ave
Carterville
Illinois Ave
Walnut Street
Julia Ward Howe
Bilt
Herrin Lumber Co
South Park
Methodists
Christian Science
Marion
KSD
St. Louis
Daddy
Harry
Epps Motors, Inc
Lake Road
Carbondale, Illinois
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