Word: presbyterian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presbyterian Louis H. Evans, 55, is one of the most successful clergymen in the U.S. In his 30 years of pastoral work, he has swept into churches from Pittsburgh to Pomona, Calif, with the kind of contagious enthusiasm that transforms backsliders into church elders, and the kind of organizing ability that soon makes any church deficit an object of purely historical interest...
...twelve years as pastor of Hollywood's First Presbyterian Church, he has not only made it the largest in the denomination (present membership: 6,400) but also given the scattered membership a personalized, closely bound organization almost without equal, e.g., there are 325 different societies to which a member of the First Church may belong (TIME...
Outside the Orbits. The Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. has long been aware of Dr. Evans' talents. Last year, on the 150th anniversary of Presbyterian home missions in the U.S., his fellow Presbyterians discussed using them in a new and nationwide ministry. Their object: to reach the millions of Americans who need some religious help but who exist outside the neatly traced orbits of local church congregations...
When Evangelist Graham got to Seoul, he preached for five packed services in the Presbyterian church, then went up to the front just before Christmas to see the troops. The day before Christmas, in a tour of the central front, 5,000 men turned out to see him. Christmas afternoon he put aside his helmet and flak vest, flew back to Tokyo. Both Evangelist Graham and Cardinal Spellman left a great many calmer, happier Christians behind them in Korea. Graham also left a dog-tired Korean interpreter, the Rev. Han Kyung Chik, a Seoul pastor. Said Presbyterian Han, after...
Eisenhower, reared in the Brethren in Christ church, is not a member of any denomination, has recently attended Presbyterian and Lutheran churches...