Jim Jones - Mosque Maryam: Peoples Temple Revival: Ukiah Daily Journal, October 15, 1976

Ukiah Daily Journal, Ukiah, Calif.  Friday, October 15, 1976. Page 10

Temple revival services prove successful  

 

Capacity audiences hear Rev. Jones speak

Rev. Jim Jones, pastor of Peoples Temple, recently embarked on a series of remarkable revival services that have been highly successful and heavily attended.  The tour began with an interfaith meeting that featured ministers of several denominations (including the Nation of Islam, and a representative of the Jewish community) as well as government and civic officials, in Kansas City.

In subsequent meetings held in St. Louis, Chicago, and Detroit, capacity audiences heard Rev. Jones stress the importance of humanitarian service.  Referring to examples from the life and teaching of Jesus with regard to care for the people in need, Rev, Jones emphasized the spirit of ecumenical unity as a vehicle for achieving these goals.

The revivals were held in Disciples of Christ, Methodist, and A.M.E. denominational churches.  

In every service, people with problems in the area of drug usage and alcoholism were ministered to, and many of these joined the Peoples Temple, choosing to relocate in California in order to receive more extended help from the rehabilitation outreach of the Temple.  These people boarded the bus caravan that was carrying many hundreds of Temple members traveling with Rev. Jones on this series of meetings, designed to spread the message of Christian human service and interfaith unity.

Rev. Jones has also been calling attention to the need for people of conscious to be concerned about the dangers facing our freedoms, especially freedom of the press.

Rev. Jones will be returning to California after paying a visit to the church’s agricultural mission project in South America, where great quantities of food have been harvested in efforts to help relieve world hunger.  

 

The project has received the plaudits of many government officials there and in the United States, and is demonstrating the kind of dramatic results that can be achieved when people work together with the spirit of service to mankind which, Rev. Jones emphasizes, is “the highest service to God.”