Word: lutheran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were two worship services for the white Baptists of Plains, Ga., last week. One group met as usual at the Plains Baptist Church, made famous in Jimmy Carter's presidential race, while a group that has forsaken Plains Baptist gathered at a little-used Lutheran church five miles out of town. After Sunday-school classes on the lawn and in the woods, 30 dissidents heard Sumter County Agent Tim Lawson, their chief organizer, announce that the Rev. Fred Collins of nearby Camilla had agreed to be pastor of the fledgling Bottsford Baptist Mission. Collins, 34, left Plains Baptist...
...University Lutheran Church Saturday...
...world's most important religious broadcasting stations, Radio Voice of the Gospel in Addis Ababa, was built by the Lutheran World Federation in 1963 and has a 200,000-watt transmitter that can reach about 1 billion people in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The station, worth an estimated $12 million, was known not only for spreading the Gospel but also for broadcasting the most reliable news and educational programs of any Africa-based outlet. Since the downfall of the Christian monarchy in 1974, Radio Voice has been under increasing pressure from Ethiopia's military rulers...
...Laundromat was about to close-but it burned down first. Water is so scarce in many South Dakota towns, like Toronto (pop. 200), that assembly of a rescue "rain train" of 100 tank cars carrying 20,000 gallons each from the Missouri River is under consideration. Toronto's Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Daniel Chell, borrows water from a neighbor's cistern to flush toilets, boils rice in milk instead of water, and finds he is hard put to practice the "steadfastness and patience" he preaches. Some families in Minnesota, where 1,718 private wells dried up this winter...
...teenager, Bergman, the son of a Lutheran minister, spent summers in Germany with the family of a minister who was a dedicated Nazi. In 1935 Bergman went with his hosts to a party rally in Weimar. Caught up in the frenzy that greeted Hitler's arrival, he shouted "Heil Hitler!" along with the rest. He admits: "I was a real little Nazi when I returned to Sweden after that summer, but the infatuation was short-lived. The period fascinates me; I knew I'd do a film about it some...