Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pastor Hemingway was 24 when he came to town 33 years ago to take over the Lapeer Methodist Protestant Church. He was what the townspeople called a "visiting preacher"; he never forgot the people who lived too far away or were too sick to come to church regularly. When radio came along in the '205, he determined to expand his job at the Methodist church into a mission of the air. He tried to interest nearby cities such as Flint and Saginaw in setting up a broadcasting station strictly for religious programs, but he got no backing. Frank Hemingway...
...make such a preaching calendar come true is the ambition of Donald Grey Barnhouse, the bustling pastor of Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church. It does not matter to him that these illustrious preachers are all dead or that some of their audiences may number no more than 15 people. The trick will be turned by a spool of plastic tape and a standard 110-volt light socket. To distribute what he calls Portable Church Services, Barnhouse has turned to the tape recorder...
Barnhouse is under no illusion that his canned services can or should "supplant the living voice or the tender heart of the pastor." Even where there is no pastor, he says, "there has to be a devoted layman . . . The whole secret of this thing is audience participation...
...When Pastor Anderson went to the hospital, Garden City South roused itself in neighborliness. The neighbor who did most to get the others started was Mrs. Thomas Skelly, a Roman Catholic. She organized a committee to canvass the neighborhood. A "Pastor Anderson Fund" was established at St. Andrew's. West Hempstead and Garden City Catholics and Jews pitched in along with Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists and others. Though Mrs. Anderson soon got a teaching job nearby, St. Andrew's handed her five months of her husband's salary, and let her have the parsonage rent-free...
...grey-shingled, four-bedroom house and its lot. In the course of the afternoon, between 150 and 200 people dropped in to wish her well. Said she: "I regard it as a tribute to my husband, as a beautiful monument to his memory." Said St. Andrew's new pastor, Reuben Swanson: "It is an expression of the love of God in the hearts...