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Shortly after her father's death, Marian Anderson was "converted." Her mother is a Methodist. But Marian was converted in her father's Union Baptist Church, largely because the late Rev. Wesley G. Parks was deeply interested in . music, loved his choirs and encouraged any outstanding singer in them. At 13, Marian was singing in the church's adult choir. She took home the scores, and sang all the parts (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) over & over to her family until she had learned them. Since work is also a religion to her, Miss Anderson considers this...
...only one of the girls-dark, earnest Wauneita McConnell, 29-has been permitted to administer the sacraments, though Ruth Greenwood, a preacher's daughter, expects to be licensed by the bishop this month. All students plan to enter the Methodist ministry or church work of some sort...
During his 50-odd years of farming in Iowa's Warren County, squinty-eyed old Ed Russell had received many a pastoral call. But never had he seen a Methodist parson like pretty, plump Bobby-Soxer Ruth Greenwood. Last week, Bible in hand, she came from Pleasant Hill Church ready to chat with Ed, read some Scripture, and pray...
Sacramental Shock Troops. It is these changes in rural Iowa that have set 20-year-old Ruth Greenwood and others like her on their pastoral rounds. Last August, when brisk, cheerful Rev. Gene Carter, 30, took charge of the Warren County Group ministry, he found no less than 21 Methodist churches serving a population of 17,000. Eight of the churches had closed; the remaining 13 were getting along with three full-time ministers and "supply" preachers. Pastor Carter, a teacher of sociology and Christian leadership at Simpson College (Indianola, Iowa), decided to throw his students into the breach...
...last week he had organized a team of 17 boys (twelve of them ex-G.I.s) and 13 girls who conduct Sunday services, organize community activities, visit the sick and preach sermons among Warren County's undermanned Methodist churches. He had taught them how to baptize, given them pastoral pointers...