Area churches plan New Year Eve services
Numerous Syracuse area churches announce New Year Eve events including guest soprano appearances by Myrtle Hall and a Ghanaian student speaker Emanuel Akowuah. Services span 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. with communion, concerts, baptisms, and special messages from Rev. James Durham Rev. Don Wallace Rev. Edward Stady and others across North Syracuse, Liverpool, and nearby parishes.
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Syracuse
Prano
James Street Methodist Church
Emanuel
New Year varied calendars and diverse customs around the world
The article surveys how different cultures mark the new year with varied calendars, from the Christian year tied to the Nov. 30 closest Sunday to Jewish and East Asian observances. It notes New Year superstitions, Saturnalia echoes, and the move toward a universal business year standard while detailing customs on New Year’s Eve and Day.
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Weston Hemisphere
Women Seen as Passive in Church Literature Study
Washington report notes a Jed study finds Sunday school material portrays women as weak, subservient, and dependent on men. It cites Bible stories and church histories that limit female roles while highlighting strong historical women, urging curricula to reflect women’s equality and spiritual worth.
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Washington
Opt
Jezebel
Delilah
Bathsheba
Ruth
Mary
Jarius
Miriam
Israel
Deborah
Sheba
Ester
Persia
Meles
Diana Beach
Joint Educational Development
Jed
Miss Beach
United Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
John Knox Press
United Methodist
God
Father
Jesus
Joan of Arc
St. Theresa
Jane Addams
New Year Concert to Feature Myrtle Hall at North Syracuse
The North Syracuse Baptist Church plans a New Year’s Eve concert at 8 p.m. by soprano Myrtle Hall of King’s College Briarcliffe Manor. Hall, praised for her singing in the U S and London, hails from Greenville South Carolina and rose to notice with Cliff Barrows during the Billy Graham Crusade in 1966. She studied at Juilliard and King’s College Briarcliffe and now serves as the college’s public relations representative. A 6 p.m. banquet for high school students precedes the concert, followed by a Communion service.
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Prano Myrtle
King’s College
Briarcliffe Manor
North Syracuse Baptist Church
Myrtle Hall
Hall
London
Greenville
S.C
Cliff Barrows
Billy Graham
Crusade
Juilliard School of Music
New York City
Briarcliffe
Miss Hail
I Believe in God Yet I Struggle with Sin and Hopelessness
A teen writes about faith, battling sex and alcohol, persistent depression, and a wall between self and God. The advisor urges sincere repentance, turning to Christ, rejecting selfish pleasure, and living by God's Spirit for victory. Emphasizing forsaking old ways, the message warns that staying on the fence won't work and urges immediate commitment.
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Christ
God
Jesus
Solomon
Area pastors plan role in ecumenical venture
Syracuse area churches plan Key 73 a nationwide ecumenical evangelism effort with more than 140 denominations in the United States and Canada. Open churches will pray at noon daily through next Saturday. Local events include a Nazarene mass choir and John Peterson program April 22, a September citywide Lutheran convention, a January 7 rally at First English Lutheran Church, and a Lent preaching mission with pulpit exchanges. Delaware Baptist Church hosts a Key 73 program January 7 with Rev. James E. Durham. A TV kickoff titled Faith in Action airs January 7 at 4 pm on WHEN.
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James E. Durham
Syracuse
United States
Canada
Churches of the Nazarene
John Peterson
Upper New York Synod
First English Lutheran
Edward D. Perry
Delaware Baptist Church
Syracuse Universalists Chronicle Through Church History
A church brochure from Syracuse First Universalist Church traces Universalism in the city to the early 1800s, notes the 1880 formal organization downtown, and recounts sites through a 1960 building at Waring and Nottingham. It highlights ministers Frederick Betts and Ellsworth Reamon and references the 1960s Unitarian Universalist merger led from Syracuse.
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Syracuse
Universalist
Waring
Nottingham Roads
Frederick W. Betts
Ellsworth C. Reamon
First Universalist Church
Unitarian Universalist Association
Unitarians
Universalists
May Memorial Unitarian Church
UUA
Clifford Mellor
Charles Howe
Howe
Austin
Tex
Disciple to Speak on Knowledge From Maharaj Ji
A disciple of the 15 year old Indian guru Maharaj Ji will speak at 7 20 p m today at DeWitt Community Church and at 7 30 p m tomorrow at the Divine Light Center in Fayetteville. He says Maharaj Ji has a gift for humanity called knowledge of the soul and claims about six million followers, over 35000 in the United States.
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Mahatma Rajeshwar
Maharaj Ji
DeWitt Community Church
Divine Light Center
Highbridge St
Fayetteville
Gur Ji
United States
St John’s Lutheran Church Service Schedule Listed
St John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church Comer Batlermn at St and Prospect Ave Byzannae New X01 presents worship at 9:00 AM led by Pastor Soman Bum MLV with Buhay Church School and nursery services from 10:00 to 3:00 PM.
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St. John’s Evangelical
Erpooh N.Y. Vine & Hazel Its
Walter Th Kopp
Edwin
Kepp
Suarez
David Buehler
West Genesee Hills Baptist Church
Genesee Street
Camillas
New York
Suntday
David C. Seaver
Foster
Regular Baptist Cho
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Upstate Medical Center
Educational Fund
Hani W. Khoury
Syracuse Alliance Church
James K. Armstrong
Joanne Loucky
South Presbyterian Church
Donald £. Wallace
Baptist Church
Immanuel Baptist Church
William Sammons
the Redeemer Evangelical Covenant Church
Liverpool
Donald E. Lindman
Walter D. Cavert
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Robinson Memorial Presbyterian Church
Westvale
Gail W. Harkness
Donna Page
China
Japan
St. Paul
By David E. Anderson
Madhine Manufacturing Co
N. Syracuse
Miss Myrtle Hall
Washinton
D.C
Unitarian Universalists
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First Christian Assembly
Avery
Hamilton St
Alfred Palms
Darday
Christian Science Ee Oneseee Thea
North Central Assembly OF God
Pastor Skymer
Grace Assembly
God Ghurgh IV
Robert A. Sans Poser
Ker
Ona
Methodist Church
Reformed Presbyterian
South Salina St. Edward A
Ea Uasesday
Good Shepherd Lutheran
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Solina
Colvin
Donald E. Wallace
Trinity Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
Swansea Drive
Sys
Adolph L. Steinke
East Genesee
Mr. Phillips
Child Care Church
Gospel Temple
Church of God In Christ
Oakwood
Avene
Ifracuse
New Xore
Evangelist Service
First Presbyterian Church
West Genesee St
Robert B. Lee
Harold B. Sanderson, Jr
Church School
LaFayette Avenue
United Methodist Church
LaFayette
Midland Avenues
Tafre
Jay Austin Wileys
Charat Sebeal
First Bible Baptist Church
Lincoln Bank
Genesee
Jamesville Road
Bible
Hendrick’s
Syracuse University
McCombe
First Baptist Church
Worshity
Quest For
Randolph B. Hellwig
EWCA
South Main St
N. Ye
Edward H. Stady
Persacking
Myrtle
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