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22 Port I DEC 17, 1953 Iflgflngtlfg Zlmtst Several Churches Offer Handel's The Messiah' minister to 2" PHARISEES Authorities to Tell of Trends in the Theater He has staged about 100 productions here and elsewhere. Davidson is director of the Mark Taper Forum Theatre at The Music Center. Last year he dim-tel "The Deputy," which toured the nation. Dye, executive director of the Performing Arts Council of The Music Center, has been general manager of Huntington Hartford Theatre. Presbyterian Youths Slate Y0122 people wCl on a pageant-drama at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday at Wilshire' J'rea'oytorian Church, 3rd St. at Western Ave. It will be a Nativity play, "On Bethlehem's Hill," written by Guida Crowley and with music directed by Alec Crowlev. Christmas Portions of Oratorio Will Be Performed by Choirs and String Quartet a Sacred Christmas Opera The i i 0 i 1 i lr i I The Rev. George T.

Johnson, a Methodist minister who is the James Reeb memorial civil rights worker for the Unitarian-Universa-list will be 11 ajn. speaker Sunday at Bur-bank Unitarian Fellowship, 320 E. Magnolia Blvd. lie will speak on the parable of the Pharisee and the publican. Mr.

Johnson, a Xegro, once was appointed to serve an all-white Meth-odist congregation at Clintondale, N.Y. BETHEL TEMPLE Assembly of Cod Nr. Downtown, 1250 tollovua Normon Gordon-, Pastor 11:00 Pastors CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 7:00 P.M. Sundoy School CHRISTMAS PROGRAM BoVuwood Frteg. VUnctal BU Exit.

South on BeVemt CMtitt Christmas Nignt Pino ot los Tunas. Son Gabriol (near San Gabriol Blvd.) Dr. W. Joseph Hsmphill. Pastor 1:30 and 11:00 a.m.

"THE SONG CF THE ANGELS" 7:00 p.m. "BORN A KING" Choir Christmas Cantati Saturday, December 24, 1:00 P.M. canoieitfint seme "10VE TRANSCENDING' Sun da School Christmas Program I I "BELLS OF BETHLEHEM" by Aimee Semple McPherson 8 Colorful Scenes of Music Drama Full Concert Orchestra Homer R. Hummel, conductor Linnie Olson, organist fret Seafs call for reserved sections Care. Ample Parking.

torio will be sung at 7:15 p.m. at the Roger Williams True Love Missionary Baptist Church, 1342 W. Adams with Eunice M. Woods, directing. The cathedral choir of the First Lutheran Church.

1S355 Roscoe Northridge, will present the work at 7:30 p.m., with Lorraine Richardson directing and Paul Torgerson, organist. A 7:30 p.m. performance will be presented at the Imperial Heights Community Church of the Breth-ren, 1909 W. Imperial Highway, with William Reynolds, directing. Glendale Church Begins Nativity Display Tuesday The annual outdoor ivity display of the First Methodist Church of Glendale will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, and will continue nightly through Christmas Eve. Against a 300-foot backdrop of Jerusalem, used for the motion picture, "The Greatest Story Ever Told," live donkeys, camels, sheep; goats and other animals lend realism, while 200 biblically-costumed persons enact the Christmas story. Community night, Wednesday, is to be witnessed by Mayor Howard Peters. Six Presentations December 25-7 P.M. 26, 27, 28, 29, P.M.

ANGELUS TEMPLE 1100 Glendale at Echo Park ADDITION PLANNED Daya Mata, president of Self-Realization Fellowship, breaks ground for on addition to the fellowship's international headquarters ot 3880 San Rafael Ave. It will be used to house resident members. Mrinalini Mata, left, vice president of the organization, recently returned from a lecture tour in Australia and New Zealand. 5,000 Churches, Schools, Clubs 389-1141. Nursery Sunday Services Dec.

I8i 10:45 A.M. "GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS" Dr. Guy P. Duffield 2:30 P.M. FELLOWSHIP RALLY Rev.

Robert Aguirre P.M. "THE BIRTH OF A LAMB" Rev. Milton W. Ellithorpe Inter-Church Goodwill Emphasized by Priest Three authorities on the American theater will discuss trends in commercial and art theaters at the 10:15 a.m. Wilshire Blvd.

Temple forum Sundav. They are Edward M. Greenberg, Gordon Davidson and Lyle Dye, Jr. Greenberg, resident stage director for the Los Angeles and San Francisco Civic Light Opera directs a musical theater workshop at USC. WORLD-WIDE BROADCAST KMPC KRKD KBBI-FM KGER KA8C 8:05 AM 2:30 PM 4:30 PM 5:00 PM 9:30 PM 710 KC 1150 KC 107.5 MC 1390 KC 790 KC WINGS OF HEALING Evelyn Wyatt, Director SUNDAY 11 AM Rev.

Harold ALLCOCK "Th Stones of a Crown" SUNDAY, 7:00 P.M. "TELL IT OUT" Christmas Cantata Directed by Muriel Allcock Featuring Church Choir Henry Spencer, Director Jr. Choir Carole Woodmansee, Dir. Treats tor tno Kiddies EMBASSY AUDITORIUM 147 South Grand Ave. Downtown los Angeles I 4 "MJir- tV ifi ij im3 Uh I i i I I I 1 Outstanding performances of Georg Friedrich II a oratorio, "The Messiah," will be given in several Southland churches Sunday the last Sunday before Christmas.

Only the so-called Christmas portions of the oratorio will be sung. Other parts of it traditionally are performed for the Easter season. An interdenominational Latin choir of 70 voices will sing it in Spanish at 4 p.m. at La Trinidad Methodist Church, 3336 E. 1st St, with Eli Saenz conducting.

A string quartet will assist. The performance is sponsored by the Evangelical Ministerial Assn. of Los according to the Rev. Cesar Lizarraga, president. 'Messiah' at 4 P.M.

At Glendale Presbyterian Church, 219 E. Harvard "The Messiah" will be sung at 4 pjn. In this continuation of a 25-year tradition, the presentation will be by a 60-voice choir and a 30-piece orchestra. Don G. Fontana directs, Donald Curry is organist.

Soloists include: Paul Mayo, tenor; Florine Hem-mings, contralto; Dana Patten, baritone; Robert Voris, bass, and Leigh Green Trenham and Virginia Valentine, sopranos. "The Messiah" also will be presented, at 8 p.m., at the First Methodist Church, Broadway at N. Kenwood Glendale. Voices will include the cathedral choir, and three other singing and there will be a orchestra. Four Soloists Soloists are: Sylvia Brogham-Dimiziani, soprano; Lee Madsen, contralto; Edward Clark, tenor; and Ron Hoffnell, bass.

Richard R. Alford will direct. Ladd Thomas is organist. Excerpts from the ora 1ML1PII 1 1 i 1 1 1 .1 1 Umi innt tft iilAl fuUL U34U Sunday, 1:30 to 940 A.M. Rev.H.SsVigeveno MISSION Radio Pastor Topic "PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS" the Other Sida ot life manor rrom KGER-Da! 1390 Smday, 4:00 ra 1:30 P.M.

KGFJt (1390) Monday through Friday 10:00 to 10:30 A.M. Help Feed Turkey Dinners To Hungry and Homeless Men Christmas Day. $5 will furnish 8 meals, $1.25 two. To Donate, Mail to UNION RESCUE MISSION Address All Mail ta ox 29, LA. 53 MA.

-e103 fit- firnr i 7:30 A.M. Radio 740 kc. 7:30 A.M. Sunday Radio KBIG 740 kc. Etifti "Your Communify Church via the Freeway" Sixth and Hops Streets DR.

J. VERNON McGEE, Pastor "CHRIST" 10:30 A.M. (KGER 1390 Ice) "ROMANCE AND RELIGION" Christmas Series from the Book of tuth Dr. McGeo Speaking 2:00 tM. "CHRISTMAS IN MALAYSIA" (IHwrrofed Message) Rev.

Al Mace Speakina 7:00 P.M. 'CHRISTMAS IN SONG AND STORY' Annuat Christian education Deportment Program Directed by Miriam Gollucci CAN BE "PUT" III XMAS? 7:30 P.M. THURSDAY BIBLE STUDY "Obscure Prophecies on the Birth ot Christ" Dr. McGeo Teaching Pree PoHb'rto and Nursery DAILY RADIO MONDAY-FRIDAY 7:30 l.m. XERB 1090 ke 12:00 N0M KGER 1390 ke 130 l.m.

KGER 1390 ke Paciiities tor All Service "We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." 2 Cor. 4:5. Write for FREE copy of "Is Christmas Christian Or Pagan?" MAURICE JOHHSOH Box 21, los Angeles, Caf. 90041 DR. RAY CHARLES JARMAN Christian Center Church of Huntington Park Dr.

Jarman a modernist for fifty-two years, who found the Lord in a marvelous New Birth Experience now preaches the Gospel to all hungry hearts. Meeting at Li Ji iK ij WILE. 1967 BHING The Downey Ministerial Assn. has embarked on a program of theological education for itself. Over a period of three creeks it has heard speakers from as many faiths explain the tenets.of their belief, usually with ecumenical overtones.

Wednesday, for example, three speakers from as many Lutheran gynods outlined their varying beliefs for the members. The first presentation In the program In November vras by Rabbi Martin Ry-back of Temple Ner Ta-roid. The second was by the Rev. Patrick Geary of St. Patrick's Catholic Church.

Ecumenical Council Father Geary stressed the need for goodwill in Inter-church discussion, rather than in "historically bitter" debate. He cited aspects of the work of the Vatican II Ecumenical Council and mentioned as one result the possibility of a single Catholic-Protestant Bible. of the problems confronting the church," he said, "is the difficulty of expressing in human language the inexpressible glory of God. "This difficulty has caused the Lord to establish an infallible teaching office in the earthly church." Father Geary expressed the Catholic view on the SLIDES, SONG TELL STORY OF NATIVITY The Christmas etory in slides, starring children of the church posed in the Hollywood Hills, will be presented after 11 a.m. services Sunday in Hollywood Congregational Church.

Norv Brooks directed the "actors," and Gregg White was photographer. Youth choirs will provide music. SUNDAY oft-debated practice of infant baptism, which some Protestant churches practice and others do not: "While God is the one who initiates and makes possible the salvation of man through faith in Christ, in a certain sense God makes possible a cooperation by man in the sal-vific process. "Infant baptism is evidence that the church considers salvation a free gift of God. The other six sacraments of the church (communion, penance, confirmation, matrimony, holy orders, and anointing the sick or extreme unction) follow baptism as tools which God uses to bring man successfully through life to Christian death." After answering many probing questions from his non-C a 1 i audience, Father Geary said he believes it is the Holy Spirit which today is drawing men of diverse beliefs closer together.

of HoliuwcodX I (nityuc Shettiy Rudy Atwood, Minister 1 11:00 A.M. 1 "AN OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS" 7:30 P.M. "NIGHT OF MIRACLES" By John Pttcrton Prentd by Choir Soloists till totty Days Mary Grow kre. Rudy at piano. Miss Ptwhy ot organ Kerth Hollywood FIRST ASSEMBLY of GOD CHURCH 11455 Burbank Blvd.

(Near lankershim) Rev. 0. leroy Sanders Dec. 1811 a.m. "OUR ETERNAL HOPE" 7 p.m.

Christian Concert John Peterson's Cantata "THE WONDER OF CHRISTMAS" Smtuary Choir, Madrinl Croup and InttrumenUlistt Dec. 25 11 a.m. CHRISTMAS WORSHIP 6-7 p.m. CANDLELIGHT VESPER NIGHT Huntington Park Seventh Day Adventist Church Clarendon and Stafford Church Service 1 1 A.M. Sunday School and Communion 9:30 Wecoma to off who want to inow Jesut Listen to KRKD Monday thru Saturday 6:45 A.M.

DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKES? A TOTAL BLACKOUT? WORLD WAR III? THE COMINQ OF JESUS? Brother Carr will be speaking Every Sun. 2:00 P.M. Hayward Hotel (Corner 6th and Spring) Executive Room, fifth floor For free literature write Box 203, Palmdale, California -DORIS AICERS- "MISS GOSPEL MUSIC" 2:30 P.M. Sundoy GOSPEL OF CHRIST CHURCH 89TH WESTERN LOS ANGELES INSPIRATIONAL SOUL SAVING SERVICES SERVICES EVERY NIGHT EXCEPT M0N. SAT.

AT 7:30 SUNDAY SERVICES 11:00 A.M., 2:30 P.M. and 7:00 P.M. INTERDENOMINATIONAL EVERYONE WELCOME REV. ESTELLE LEE DR. HAROLD MURPHY PASTORS I iii mm'm'i I A I il AND WUSICAt QUESTS A 1 EVERY MONDAY 1 WO P.M.

8:30 11 A.M. Pastor Ralpb Wilkerson Speaks Twice! 7 P.M. Christmas Cantata Concert Choir Coming Jon. 9, Wilkerson Motodyhmd Rally CiT FAITH CENTER I I I .1 IJ JUIJU 1J1I JJ 1615 Glendale GlendaK I 111. LVa uF1ilClIlil1i1IlV (across from Forest lawn) I Wlslil' -Cv Hi J-Jl.

-i 1,1 ioZmI JV I y. LEROY JENKINS CRUSADE IN THE SHRINE ADD. Temporarily Cancelled due to eastern committments Meeting wi' jbe rescheduled for a later date WATCH FOR NEW DATE kjY, ill '4 ml i-t li h- Wi ATTEND CLOSING SERVICES NOW AT VENTURA FAIR GROUNDS-VENTURA, CALIF. i JENKINS fc vv" w2 Pi I Pi i wK it DEC. 18th 7:30 P.M.

flffFA CUIUS fltffl CUEl ISTMflS CF EVERYONE WELCOME V8UTH" FT. STAGE! RADIO KIEV 8 A.M. SUNDAYS 87 ON DIAL i i r- Mt St IB afcl illaWMMaaTaoisWi'iia- iaM aiilT malliallasir IT sAiitir'f ifiTiif fct il ffllirtl BrtliJIrmiaWMls niofcisf ifr ill Artfr DRAMATIC ILLUSTRATION! PROBUCTlOgJ DOME if! BLACK LIGHT Of 00 EflTIM The Dlie most beautiful ever staged in. Los Angeles! -Atuaradi Wor(d Church fjear (Beverly and t. -1 MISS VELMA 'fCJ'" Hal iPCj inisf A..