Word: fellowship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church is committed by its very nature to the establishment of a human society in which discrimination based on race or color will no longer exist." According to the conference's "earnest desire," Methodists should "initiate, contend for and foster, within their own societies, a genuine and allinclusive fellowship...
...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 for its life...
...Communist world, in Hong Kong, 132 young Asians met last week in the warmth of Christian fellowship. It was the first Asia Baptist Youth Conference, held under the auspices of the Baptist World Alliance and the calm blue eyes of its president, Dr. Theodore Adams of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va. (TIME...
...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 fellowship and understanding have done away with all our suspicions...
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Indiana-born, Burney took his M.D. in 1930 at Indiana University School of Medicine, later studied at Johns Hopkins under a Rockefeller fellowship, went directly into public-health work. Pioneered mobile venereal-disease clinics, was assigned to the Navy during World War II, and went overseas to help fight VD among U.S. troops. Served as public-health commissioner of Indiana between 1945 and 1954, when he was called to Washington. With only two years as a top-ranking official in the U.S. Public Health Service, Burney surprised Washington by his appointment (ahead of other leading contenders...