Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quiet Life. Gene and his wife, a tiny, dark-haired, brown-eyed girl, opened a little restaurant in Glendale, Calif., prospered moderately, and settled down to savor the quiet life and raise a family. They had two children, Greg, now 3, Robin, now 6. "Townsend," said his pastor, "was one of those sturdy, quietly happy men whom children instinctively love. When he came into the church with them on Sunday morning, it always made me feel good-any pastor with one family like that in his congregation has every reason to be happy...
JUNE-Sinner in Our Midst. In Fort Worth, while the Rev. Arizona Brisco, assistant pastor of the Rising Star Baptist Church, was waist-deep in the crowded baptismal pool, a thief made off with his trousers, wallet...
...were generally people of eccentric habits--many were not church members and the Puritan community had small sympathy for them. But as the craze spread, no one seemed safe from accusation. Even a minister, the Reverend George Burroughs, a Harvard graduate of the Class of 1670 and the former pastor of the Salem church, was seized. Soon scores of persons were under suspicion and no end was in sight. The matter became the concern of the whole colony and a special tribunal came to Salem to hear the cases. It consisted of some of the outstanding leaders of Massachusetts, headed...
Most of them wore name tags, and each newcomer was called upon to stand and be welcomed with a cheer-"Hi, Joe! Hi, Mary!"-with crew-cut Pastor Ed Wessling acting...
Calvary is sponsored jointly by the Wisconsin Synod and the Missouri Synod Lutherans, but it is run by a student council and popular 29-year-old Pastor Wessling, who wants to specialize in student work. College chapels like Calvary, he feels, can be a healthy new way of reaching young people...