Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jolly, gaudy" Temple for the 41st annual convention of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. Membership, reported Church President Rolf McPherson, 50, Aimee's only son, has reached a record 218,800. The Angelus Temple has spawned more than 750 daughter churches and 1,300 mission stations in 27 countries; graduates from its three Bible colleges will carry the faith to eight more lands in 1964. The church now boasts gross assets of $41 million...
...Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, it operates a neighborhood house, complete with medical and dental clinics and a job-referral program. It set a team of educators to writing new Sunday-school texts that would fit the educational and cultural backgrounds of impoverished urban children. The society's mission extends to all levels of the city: it sponsors a middle-income housing program, backs a thriving Christian drama group, has two workers on the staff of big corporations studying the relationship of Christian ethics to business ideology...
...ardent pacificism giving way to a conviction that the Allied cause was just, and he ended up the war as an Army sergeant on Iwo Jima. After the war, Benedict was one of the founders of Manhattan's now famous East Harlem Protestant Parish, spent six years establishing mission churches in Cleveland slums before he was called to Chicago...
Virtually all of its 400 white mission aries have been evacuated, and the sprawling Unilever palm oil complex at Leverville - Kwilu's biggest industry - has been idled, putting 18,000 natives out of work...
Shortly after dawn, the party of twelve doughty adventurers donned life jackets, split into pairs and shoved off from shore on half a dozen rubber rafts. Mission: to shoot the rapids of the swirling Rio Grande as it passes through 1,900-ft.-deep Mariscal Canyon in Texas' Big Bend National Park. A jagged rock gashed one raft, temporarily putting it out of commission, but Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 65, and his bride of six months negotiated the hair-raising 14 miles of pounding waves, treacherous turns and large rocks without a spill. First-Timer Joan Douglas...