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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1955
Page
3
The Rev. and Mrs. Raymond Zents long time Gold Coast Africa missionaries will speak at Elyria First Assembly of God Sunday night. Rev. Robert Graber says the 7:30 service will feature their slides and many African curios. The event is open to the public.
Episcopal clergy from the Sandusky Region gather at St. Andrew's Church in a Tuesday meeting. The day begins with Holy Communion at 3 30 followed by breakfast served by advisers of the Girls Friendly Society. The Rev G Russel Hargate will report highlights of the General Conference attended in Honolulu with Mrs Hargate.
A $2,000,000 religious center was dedicated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, highlighting the university's broader campus facilities and religious life at one of America's leading engineering schools.
The Magyar Evangelical and Reformed Church Sunday school sponsors a Penny Carnival on Sunday Oct 16 in the church rooms. Proceeds fund Sunday school equipment and Christian education. A Penny Supper opens the event with various booth chairs and workers forming committees. Workers meet previously to plan Kingdom Service and a drive through Oct 16 to reduce church debt.
About 2 300 parents and teachers gathered in Columbus for their annual state convention themed This We Believe. They urged comprehensive support for children spanning education health safety and future adult life in a changing world. Dr Boynton Merrill and Dr Ralph W Sockman highlighted training in character and spiritual education as essential to living today and in the years ahead.
First Congregational Church forms a new group for single young adults up to age 30 with planned Sunday meetings. Mrs. Lester W. Green, Ohio Christian social action executive secretary, leads discussions on responsibilities of Christian youth. Future Sundays feature Mayor J Grant Keys and Attorney A H West as speakers.
The Rev. Francis L. Snare of First Baptist Tiffin will lead a week of evangelistic meetings at Calvary Baptist Church from Sunday Oct 23 to Sunday Oct 30 with nightly 7 30 services and a premeeting program. Dr Merrill and Dr Sockman address belief duty destiny and inner moral law in remarks linked to the series.
For Christ Youth Plan Work Day on Saturday morning October 22 hundreds of Congregational Christian youths nationwide will wear work clothes and perform various tasks. Money earned funds the Pilgrim Fellowship Christian World Mission Fund supporting churches schools hospitals and aid for the distressed. Since 1950 participation has grown with earnings increasing each year. The day begins and ends with dedication of self and money, and a prayer for fellowship witness and service.
Dr Clark Cooper assistant superintendent will conduct the Sunday vespers tomorrow afternoon at the Elyria Methodist Home. Congregational singing by the residents will be a feature of the service.
Dr. Gerald John Jud will headline the Medina Association of Congregational Christian Churches eleventh hundred third semiannual meeting at First Congregational Church in West Haven. He will discuss his book Strengthening the Bonds and the proposed functional church plan with six committees and colony visitation, aiming to boost church work and leadership. A Billy Graham film Oil Town U.S.A. will be shown in Lorain tonight at 7 30 as part of the rally arrangements by Lorain Youth for Christ.
The article notes that about 3 000 people were led to religion through Billy Graham's ministry in Houston Texas during a crusade at Rice Stadium where attendance reached 60 000 for a single service. The 90 minute full color film features Colleen Townsend Evans Paul Power Robert Clarke Georgia Lee Ralph Hoopes and stars Redd Harper and Cindy Walker. Doors to the Masonic Temple open at 6 pm with the picture starting at 7 30 pm.
Davidson Slack Post auxiliary members are urged to donate toward a lake project at the VFW National Home in Eaton Rapids Michigan. Contributions go to Helen Miller the national home chair by the next annual meeting October 17. Post men plan a meeting in the post hall on Monday.
Members of the Woman's Benefit Association from Wellington plan to attend the Past Presidents Convention in Toledo in October. Named attendees include Mary Prentice Louise Twining Edith Mosher Harriett Whitney and Shirley Cowley. The group met Thursday at the Wellington VFW Hall to finalize plans and announced a bounty rally set for Elyrial.
Workmen uncover two ancient Rome catacomb networks sealed since 1872. Tufa walls bear crude biblical scenes dating to end of the fourth century. Catacombs lie within 30 minutes’ walk of Rome’s walls. excavation continues under Gospel Airlift.
The Elyria Council of Church Women executives, women's group presidents, and clergy wives will meet at First Methodist Church on Tuesday at 9 30 a m to discuss women's work. The panel will study questions on constitutional freedoms juvenile delinquency desegregation Christian stewardship leadership international issues and the church mission to shape local action.
President Howard Lowry of the College of Wooster will keynote the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Ohio Council of Presbyterian Men on Wooster campus today and Sunday. Merle Jones of Beatrice Nebraska will deliver the main address at the dinner with devotions by Rev. Lester E lxemper.
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