Word: synods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church growth and activity. Adventists now have some 900,000 baptized members throughout the world, who contributed $56 million in offerings last year, helped support 2,000 foreign missionaries. The fall council's main business: approving a new foreign missions budget of $21 million. ¶ The Cape Town Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church officially viewed with alarm a report that Roman Catholics had dedicated "South Africa and its people" to the "Blessed Virgin Mary Assumed into Heaven." Also alarmed at Catholic growth in South Africa (e.g., 170,000 Catholics of white or mixed race, 660,000 Negroes...
College, for many an oldtime minister, was where his young people lost their faith. And this was just true enough for those experiment-minded conservatives, the Missouri Synod Lutherans, to see what they could do about it. What they did has grown into a chain of churches as live-wire and enthusiastic as any in the country, with congregations made up entirely of college students...
...movement began to pick up headway in 1940, when the Missouri Synod appointed Dr. Reuben William Hahn executive secretary of the Student Service Commission in Chicago. Today, the commission directs study groups on more than 1.000 campuses; on 32, Lutheran students have their own chapels. This week Dr. Hahn dedicated the newest chapel at the University of Alabama...
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...
...Family Survey of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod [Aug. 17] ... is not a "Kinsey for Lutherans." The sex question was only one in 50 that were asked. The questionnaire, as a whole, was less than a third of the entire research into historic doctrines and practices in the Christian church...