Word: ockenga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final day of Park Street's annual Missionary Conference, and the congregation held nine hours of services to raise funds for the missionaries the church currently supports-a spectacular 106 of them. Pastor Harold John Ockenga (rhymes with talk and pray) was more dynamic and persuasive than ever. "We are aware that there are still unreached tribes and peoples numbering probably 600 million people in the world," he said. "We believe it is our responsibility to get the Gospel to those people...
...Preacher Ockenga, 45, has not been content with merely shoring up Park Street's Protestant fundamentalism against Boston's Roman Catholics and Harvard's intellectuals. He is also part-time president of a theological school in California, a founder and the first president...