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Looking Ahead to Greater Horizons

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Looking Ahead to Greater Horizons (1946-47) is a promotional film for Abilene Christian College (now named Abilene Christian University) that profiles the school’s Christian values, departments, extracurricular activities, and campus buildings, focusing primarily on the school’s benefactors and the World War II veterans that attend ACC. The narrator gives a history of campus development made possible through donors and examines temporary veteran housing that future donations could help improve.

http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php/2013_01474

Looking Ahead to Greater Horizons 1946-47

 

This Just In: Belle Plaine, Kansas Church History

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We just received this lovely little 26-paged booklet. Compiled in 1956 by G.R. Tinius, it is a history of the earliest Churches of Christ in Belle Plaine, Kansas. It contains historical accounts of five different congregations: Palestine, Pleasant Valley, Council Hill, Belle Plaine, and Peck churches of Christ.

If you have any other interesting history on any of these congregations, please reach out and share. If you have booklets similar to this about local church history in your area, we would love to hear about it.