Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...richest man in the world packed his bags and went to Providence. There he worked hard at sociology and economics, got high marks and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; much of his spare time he spent teaching the boys' Bible class of a nearby Baptist church, or working in the college Y.M.C.A. To his surprise, John soon found that his quiet and modest ways were winning him a sincere and ready liking. He was elected president of the junior class, and after the traditionally tipsy annual junior celebration reported proudly to his mother that for the first time...
...couple of young ministers from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. Ky. started it in 1942. Clarence Jordan was 30 and specializing in city mission work, and Martin England was 36, taking a refresher course after missionary duty in Burma. With $59 between them they took an option on a rundown 440-acre plot beside the highway in as prejudiced a part of Georgia as anyone could find. A Louisville builder donated the rest of the money they needed, and they called the place Koinonia (pronounced coy-no-nee-ah), Greek for fellowship. Now the fellowship farm is fighting...
Young men and women from Japan, Korea, Nationalist China, the Philippines, Malaya, Thailand, Burma, India and Ceylon-representing nearly a million Asian Baptists-lived for a week at Hong Kong's Baptist mission school, held daily morning sessions of Bible study and group discussion, spent afternoons and evenings enjoying picnics, excursions, movies, talk. Leading topic: national prejudice and discrimination. Said 28-year-old Japanese Reiji Hoshizaki: "When our delegation arrived to attend this conference, our hearts were heavy with apprehension as to how other Asian delegates would feel toward us. We aren't apprehensive any longer. The good...
Before they separated, with plans to send a representative to the 1958 World Youth Conference in Canada, Baptist Ted Adams reminded them that there are "many different forces contending for your mind and soul. Communism says there is no God. Christianity says there is . . . Christianity is not frightened but challenged, not dismayed but stimulated . . . This is because Christianity has outlived, outdone and outdied all forms of dictatorial government and way of life . . . [Today] people must be willing to give their lives for Jesus Christ. In the present world God has use for expendable people only...
British-born Dr. Welch not only pioneered the nonalcoholic Communion service that has become standard in U.S. Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches, he also founded the nation's processed fruit juice industry. This week his Welch Grape Juice Co. will again make industrial history. The company (1955 net: $37 million) will be turned over to the National Grape Cooperative Association under a unique profit-sharing plan in which the company has virtually financed its own sale (for $28 million) to the 4,265 farmers who supply it with grapes...