Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best of Everything. Pilot Jackson got his divinity degree at Fort Worth's Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1951, was assigned to Japan, spent two years learning the language. Last fall a group of U.S. military people, calling themselves the Southern Baptist Military Fellowship, asked Jackson to help them organize an English-speaking Baptist church in Tokyo. The Jacksonian result: a whirlwind of preaching, fund-raising and organizing, topped by ground-breaking ceremonies with a brass band from the U.S.A.F.'s 41st Air Division. For the full-scale Tokyo revival Jackson is organizing along with the new church...
...Vera Little is a strapping, 27-year-old Memphis girl who went to Europe on a Fulbright fellowship in 1954 to study voice at the Paris Conservatory. While on a concert tour, she dropped into a Hamburg café one day, was spotted by an opera official. "That's exactly the kind of girl wre're looking for to sing Carmen," he said to his companion. "Pity she's not a singer." Said his companion, a friend of Vera's: "But she is-and besides she's a mezzo." Next day Soprano Little flew...
...Dignity is given to the place by a set of men called Fellows, who, living at the expense of the College, spend the day walking about arm in arm, looking immensley important, and occupy the evening in telling stories and drinking immense quantities of Port wine. To gain a fellowship is the aim of every undergraduate...
Glenview Community Church has no simple pastor with assistants but a "team ministry" of four clergymen, all equal in authority. Their church is a believe-as-you-like, worship-as-you-please fellowship of searchers, and the ministers' language often sounds less religious than sociological. Christians should develop a "relationship with God," enabling them "to live out their potential"; an eye must be kept on "fringe individuals"; the church is "developmental-task-oriented" and its beliefs are "anchored but open-ended...
...Real Fellowship. Glenview Community Church is 17 years old, and when Congregationalist Minister Robert Edgar went there in 1941, it had only 50 members in a community of 2,000 people. Today the community has mushroomed to 16,000, and the church estimates its adult membership at 2,000, with an additional 1,500 who have not yet joined but take part in church activities. Some 2,200 youngsters engage the full-time efforts of two of the four ministers-Methodist-ordained Clinton Ritchie, who handles the teenagers, and Baptist-ordained Theophilus Ringsmuth. who concentrates on the youngsters below...