Evening star., 1950-10-29
Festival Of Faith
Expects 10 Draw
10000 Tonight
300 Meetings Planned
As Protestonts Join
In Preaching Mission

In rreochIng MISSION
The most ambitious preaching
mission ever undertaken in WASH
ington will open tonight with Q
Protestant Festival of Faith meet
ing at 8 o'clock in Uline Arena.
Nearly 10000 persons are ex-
pected to be on hand when
professional Of metropolitan area
ministers enters the arena singing
Lead On, o King Eternal" DR..
Edward Willingham, president Of
the Washington Ministerial Union
and pastor of National Baptist
Memorial Church, and the Rev.
Adrian Pfeiffer, pastor of Takoma
Lutheran Church, will head the
procession. DR.. Willingham will
carry the Christian flag and Mr..
Pfeiffer an open Bible.
DIR. Clarence w. Crawford. pres
ident of the Washington Fedora
tion of Churches and pastor Of
Calvary Baptist Church, will pre-
side. The invocation will be given
by the Rev. Ward B. Hurlburt,
federation Committee on Evan
gelism chairman and pastor of
Brookland Baptist Church, and
the benediction by the Rev. John
Peters, minister of Ebenezer
Methodist Church.
Many to Take Part.
Others taking part will include
Australian Ambassador Norman j.
0. Maxim, reading from the Scrip
lures; the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun,
Bishop of Washington, prayer.
and the Rev. George Schnabel,
chairman of the preaching mis-
sion and minister of Albright Me-
mortal Evangelical United Breth-
rem Church. who will speak on
Our Preaching Mission"
Thirty nationally known min
listers from all parts of the coun-
try will speak at approximately
300 meetings during the mission,
which continues through FRI
day. The mission. sponsored by
the Washington Federation of
Churches with the Councils of
Churches Of Arlington, Bethesda
and Silver Spring and the Asso-
citation Of Churches of Fairfax,
Va, cooperating. has as it's theme
THE Faith by Which We Live"
Nineteen preaching centers, set
at strategic places through the
Washington area, will hold serv-
ices at 8 o'clock each evening to-
morrow through Friday. Eleven
Bible lectures will be given each
day by outstanding teachers.
Various groups will hold special
meetings through the week.
/ Vinson to Attend Tuesday.
1 One Of these meetings will b.
held at 1918 pm. Tuesday ir
the Mayf1ower Hotel with DR.
Ralph w. Sockman of New York
noted radio preacher. as the
speaker. More than / 900 lawyers
and jurists. including Chief JUS
tice Vinson. will attend. Chief
Judge Bolitha Laws of District
Court will preside
Each morning during the week
seminar for ministers will be
held at II o'clock in the Episco-
pal Church of the Epiphany. 1917
G street NV. Methodist Bishop
Gerald Kennedy of Portland.
Greg. will lead the seminar to-
morrow.
MONDAY services. at 1890 pm,
will be held tomorrow through
Friday at the Pentagon. the Mill
tary District of Washington an
nounced today. DR.. John Suther-
land Bonnell, minister of Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church, New
York, will speak tomorrow. Speak
ers the following days will be
Bishop Kennedy. Tuesday; DR..
Ralph w. Loew of Buffalo, NY.
Wednesday; DR.. Aaron Nickel of
st. Petersburg, Fla, Thursday.
and DR.. Theodore F. Adams, Fri
day.
"a Club Meetings Planned.
The first of "a special club
meetings to be held this week will
be the Fairfax Rotary Club at
$50 pm. tomorrow in First Bap-
tlst Church. Fairfax, Va. DR..
Theodore F. Adams, pastor Of
First Baptist Church, Richmond.
will speak.
Another special event tomor-
row will be talk by Mrs. Harper
Sibley, president of the United
Council of Church Women. at
9:55 am. tomorrow at chapel Of
the School of Religion, Howard
University.