Carbondale church groups plan joint worship services
Carbondale First Christian and First Presbyterian churches will combine for a 9 15 a m worship service with no service at the First Christian Church that day. Congregations invite parking at the First Presbyterian site and walking to the service. The arrangement continues a multi year tradition with summer joint worships at least twice.
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Carbondale First Christian Church
Carbondale First Presbyterian Church
First Christian Church
First Presbyterian Church
Bethel Bible School cares for inmates' children in Tennessee
Ike Keay leads Bethel Bible School a 67 acre home north of Chattanooga caring for 48 children of criminals. Established 1954 after a prisoner’s plea, it now operates six cottages housing eight children each with houseparents. The nonprofit funds come from donations and an annual celebrity golf tennis tourney. operating costs run about 31000 monthly.
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Edgar Miller
Chattanooga
Tenn
Ike Keay
Keay
Bethel Bible School
Tennessee
Bethel
Floyd Hipp
Signal Mountain
Scotland
Hixson
Kealy
Southern Baptists Show Case of Size and Diversity
AP’s George W. Cornell reports at the Southern Baptist Convention in Houston that the denomination, the nation’s largest Protestant group, spans all 50 states with 13.2 million members and missions in 90 foreign countries. Leaders highlight freedom of expression amid a mix of views, suspicions, and graciousness within this vast, loose-knit body.
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George W. Cornell
America
Southern Baptist Convention
Houston
Russell H. Dilday Jr
Southwestern Baptist Seminary
Fort Worth
Growth in Holocaust Education Reaches 300 U.S. Schools
The Anti-Defamation League reports about 300 public schools now teach the Holocaust and related genocide topics. Projections indicate more than half of the nation’s 15 million secondary students may study this material regularly within a decade.
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New York
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B’rith
League
Odd mix of zeal and upheaval in Baptist convention
The Southern Baptist convention in Houston drew about 16 000 messengers led by a conservative coalition. The meeting featured praise for seminaries and a rebuke of overt political activity in officer selection. Billy Graham urged the group to press on with the gospel as ballots and voting procedures sparked debate.
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Billy Graham
Houston
Astrodome
Southern Baptist
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