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...most outstanding young man in Minneapolis for 1944" turned out to be blond, strapping (6 ft. 2 in.; 205 Ibs.) Rev. Reuben Youngdahl, 33. His outstanding job: in only seven years he converted Mount Olivet Lutheran Church from a debt-ridden institution of 200 members into a booming 2,500-member parish...
Last week Mount Olivet, now the second biggest church in the Augustana Lutheran Synod, celebrated its 25th anniversary. The congregation had already outgrown its new $50,000 church. Pastor Youngdahl was holding three identical services every Sunday, each overflowing the 465 seats and jamming the church to the doors. To meet the rush, he planned to split $400,000 between a new postwar church building and a Sunday school, youth center and gymnasium...
...Reuben Youngdahl, son of a Swedish grocer, took unorthodox risks to perform this transformation. He first plunged the church deeper into debt in order to build in a better part of town. Then he set out after new members. He told his parishioners that he believes that church member ship is a "seven-day-a-week proposition"; if they wanted to belong, they would have to keep busy. They do-in thirteen women's and social clubs, four youth groups, two missionary societies, a day nursery...
...missionary, watched the war in the Far East, returned to the U.S. in 1938 to stump for a boycott and embargo against Japan. In Minnesota's Fifth District last week, Newcomer Judd won the Republican nomination for Congress nearly 3-to-2 over excitable, table-pounding incumbent Oscar Youngdahl, who did not recognize the Japanese menace until last...