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The origins of Vacation Bible School can be traced back to Hopedale, Illinois, USA, in 1894. Sunday school teacher D. T. Miles, who also was a public school teacher, felt that she was limited by time constraints in teaching the Bible to children, so she started a daily Bible school to teach children during the summer. The first Bible school ...
Black Bible Chronicles: From Genesis to the Promised Land. New York: African American Family Press. ISBN 1-56977-000-X. Introduction by Andrew Young, activist and former mayor of Atlanta. McCary, P. K. (February 1994). Rappin' With Jesus: The Good News According to the Four Brothers. New York: African American Family Press. ISBN 1-56977-005-0.
In 1963, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Toronto contracted Rogers to come to Toronto to develop and host the 15-minute black-and-white children's program Misterogers; it lasted from 1963 to 1967. [28] [34] It was the first time Rogers appeared on camera. CBC's children's programming head Fred Rainsberry insisted on it, telling ...
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
By 1944, PF Flyers released their first kids' collection, and created the slogan, "Run Faster, Jump Higher". [1] Fashion trends in the 1940s and 1950s saw PF Flyers expand from gyms and ball fields to become fashionable active footwear; its main competitors were Converse and Keds. "Everything you do is more fun with PF" read one 1947 magazine ad.
Jennifer Anne Garner was born on April 17, 1972, in Houston, Texas, but moved to Charleston, West Virginia, at age three.Her father, William John Garner, received his undergraduate and graduate degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University and worked as a chemical engineer for Union Carbide; her mother, Patricia Ann English, was a homemaker and later an English teacher at a local ...
Migrants abandoned the worst-hit sections of Texas during the Dust Bowl years. Especially from this period on, Black people left Texas in the Great Migration to get work in the Northern United States or California and to escape segregation. [100] In 1940, Texas was 74% White, 14.4% Black, and 11.5% Hispanic. [121]
The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), also known as the Missouri Synod, [2] is a confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States.With 1.7 million members as of 2022 [4] it is the second-largest Lutheran body in the United States, behind the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.