Showing off the new sign with directions to his church, the Rev. Robert Nelson, 1126 Military Ave., said the sign is part of the church's effort to "get closer" to the community. The sign, donated by a local real estate firm, shows the way to First…
First Baptist Church . . . educational wing is shown in above architect's drawing. The unit will relieve crowded conditions and beautify the church property.
Before Firefighters Arrived...the wooden elevators of the Bluffs Elevator Co. were a wall of flame. George R. Cockle photographed this scene standing on a locomotive about 300 yards from the fire. It was taken about 5 minutes after the initial…
Growth Of First Baptist Church . . . shows in the spacious extension of its overall plant through the past 50-year period. The sanctuary was built in 1024 and the annex was dedicated in 1965. Fond memories of its growth and strength will be shared in…
First Baptist Church . . . building is 60 years old. the First Baptist congregation has worshipped on the same downtown corner for the past 128 years and hope to remain there.
Rolling Out The Red Carpet . . . are left to right, Gary Hastings and Richard Hastings. The men, employees at a Council Bluffs carpeting company, rolled out the carpeting on the sidewalk in front of First Baptist Church to cut it in the right…
Top - New Annex Of First Baptist Church . . . is of harmonizing red brick. The new structure is attached to the church building by modernistic glass fronted corridors and white stone paneling.
Middle - Spacious Classrooms . . . such as this are…
Rehearsing A Number . . . for recital at First Christian Church is Dr. Tom Brantigan of Omaha. The guest recitalist is a minister of music and a music teacher.
Admiring Stone . . . to be placed in the corner of the Educational Unit at First Christian Church are Mrs. Wilbur Hummel, Richard D. Hogan, pastor, and David Peterson.
Bob Matter . . . strums his guitar at the Agape coffee house. His solo was part of entertainment which included testimonials from young people about how they found Christ. Anyone in the audience was invited to perform or to testify.
This Gigantic Mural . . . painted on a wall in the Toddler's classroom at First Christian Church illustrates Noah calling the birds and beasts to join him and his family aboard his ark to preserve them from the great flood. The artist was Mrs. Roy…
This Architectural Drawing . . . is of First Christian Church's proposed new $1,800,000 church building to be constructed directly west of the present educational unit and a the corner of Mynster and Sixth streets.
An arched roof section of the new First Christian Church educational unit is hoisted into place by a crane Friday. The roof ties into an arch at the front entrance. Each pre-cast, barrel vaulted section weighs 32,000 pounds. The $350,000 project,…
Testing The Soil . . . for Sunday's groundbreaking of the new First Christian Church, Sixth and Mynster streets, are the Rev. Richard D. Hogan, Judd Gillespie, church treasurer; Wayne Burgeson, chairman of the board; Marie Campbell, building…
First Christian Church . . . now reaches the full length of Mynster Street from the church proper at 532 Mynster St., on the northeast corner of Mynster and Scott Streets to the far corner which houses the Ingraham Real Estate Co., 101 N. 6th St. The…