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...spokesman David Strickland said yesterday that, although no formal invitation has been issued to Falwell, the IOP has initiated discussion with Memorial Church officials to co-sponsor an appearance by the controversial evangelist. The IOP and the church similarly co-sponsored evangelist Billy Graham's three-day campus visit last spring...
...that his father evangelized. Schellenberg, who is with the biggest U.S. mission agency, the Southern Baptist Convention, says, "My father wouldn't approve of what I'm doing," and calls his father's methods of seeking converts "buttonholing for Jesus." Yet the younger Schellenberg remains an evangelist. When a hot day's work is done, he chats with farmer friends about the threat of evil spirits and the opportunity of gaining freedom through Jesus Christ...
Alan Foster, 35, and his wife Vickie, 29, live with their three children in Campamento Chimora, a frontier settlement hacked out of Bolivia's hellish rain forest. Foster, whose father was an evangelist, was sent by the New Tribes Mission to work with the Yuqui Indians. He is about to join a "contact team" that hopes to find three elusive Yuqui groups deep in the jungle. Such teams are often attacked by the tribesmen they are trying to reach. But for all the dangers of their task, the Fosters have developed a close rapport with Indians at the station...
GENERAL Efrain Rios Montt, catapulted to power last spring through a coup, is a born-again Christian. The rightist leader worked as an evangelist before assuming his current duties and was affiliated with the Church of the Word, which has links to the Gospel Outreach group in Eureka, California...
...would like publicly to deplore the behavior last Tuesday of several members of the Harvard community. A Christian evangelist had stationed himself in front of Widener and was arguing his system of beliefs with several members of the crowd gathered around him. Another group arrived and began to ridicule this man's clothing and manner of speaking and otherwise to heckle...