Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sidewalk. Young Rector Kinsolving's congregation obviously likes the shaking he is giving it. He moved to Pasco four months ago from a mission vicarage in California, an earlier tour as intern chaplain at San Quentin Prison and two years as an adman in Philadelphia and Phoenix. Ariz., has a strong Episcopal family background (his father, grandfather, great-uncle and cousin were or are bishops ). Said a fellow clergyman: "Who's Who is on his side-even if Episcopal doctrine is not." At Pasco, Kinsolving has broken all church attendance records, more than doubled church pledges...
...strange if I felt quite as natural with my civilian hat as I did with my military cap. And I want to indulge for just a moment this feeling of homesickness, the fun of going and seeing some of the people of SHAPE [who are] carrying the same mission, doing the same job that all of us started in 1951 ... To all of you, greetings, good wishes, good luck, and I hope that your homes are warm and nice, and the kids in good health and everything is going fine with all of you-from whatever nation...
...Sumatra, Borneo and the Celebes, anti-Sukarno army colonels have long been conducting their own barter trade direct with foreign countries. The military commanders have been levying their own taxes, building their own roads and schools for nearly two years. In Singapore the colonels dealt through a foreign trade mission they had appointed themselves, over the head of the central government in Djakarta...
Mejan's militant indignation spotlights a remarkable achievement of the Roman Catholic Church in Africa's 219 mission territories, where 19 black bishops and 1,690 black priests (up from three bishops and 1,254 priests in 1951) work smoothly with their white fellow churchmen. Notable among the native church leaders...
BISHOP ALOYSIUS BIGIRUMWANI, Apostolic Vicar of Ruanda Urundi (bordering on the Belgian Congo), is a descendant of the kings of the famed Watutsi tribe of giants. From a mountaintop mission at Nyundo, overlooking Lake Kivu and the flaring volcanoes of Nyiragongo and Nya-mulagira. tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Bishop Bigi-rumwani, 53, directs five white bishops and 471 priests, both white and Negro. Since his consecration in 1952, 20,000 converts have joined the church in his own diocese, but two-thirds of the half-million tribesmen in the territory he administers as senior bishop are still pagan...