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.”

 

Farrakhan meets Peoples Temple in Ukiah, CA: Ukiah Daily Journal, September 3, 1976

 Ukiah Daily Journal, Ukiah Calif.  Friday, September 3,1976.  Page 8

Spiritual Jubilee and national tour

Eventful summer for Peoples Temple

A wide variety of programs and special events have highlighted this Bicentennial summer season for members of  Peoples Temple.

In late May, the Temple cosponsored a Spiritual Jubilee with the Nation of Islam. attended by 20,000 people, that received nation-wide publicity, bringing together people, from all faiths, and emphasizing the need for brotherhood.  Dignitaries and leaders in religious, civic, and governmental spheres attended, and heard speeches by Rev. Jim Jones, and the Muslim’s chief minister, Wallace Muhammad. 

In June, over 750 members of the Temple took a 10,000 mile national tour, covering 22 states, bringing the message of brotherhood to many major metropolitan centers, and visiting scenes of historic and cultural interest.  The trip culminated with a Fourth of July celebration on Redwood Valley attended by several thousand members and guests of the congregation.

The summer months saw the implementation of educational and recreational programs, featuring field trips to many areas of interest, special film programs, trade and technical training programs, as well as religious, historical and cultural enrichment courses and seminars for young and old.  Many guest speakers from the community addressed the congregation, and expressed the need for more churches and community groups to follow the model of Peoples Temple in its outreach of concern and practical help.

One of the church’s most successful projects that was brought to fruition during the summer has been the establishment of a Bay Area Community News Service, the Peoples Forum, reaching hundreds of thousands of homes.  

Over the weekend, representatives from the congregation met with Minister Abdul Farrakhan, international representative of the Muslim Mosques, at a press conference attended by Channel 5‘s Belva Davis, and other news persons.  

Jonestown Massacre: Nation of Islam - Peoples Temple. Ukiah Daily Journal. April 9, 1976

Ukiah Daily Journal, Ukiah, Calif. Friday, April 9th, 1976. Page 12

Joint worship service for Temple and Islam SAN FRANCISCO - 

A large number of civic and religious leaders gathered at Peoples Temple in San Francisco last weekend and participated in a joint worship service between the leadership of the Nation of Islam and Pastor Jim Jones’ congregation. 

The service represented a breakthrough in relations with the Nation of Islam. They recently became inclusive in their membership and accepting of all races, and now frequently worship with the Peoples Temple. 

San Francisco District Attorney Joseph Freitas, legislators from both State Senate and Assembly, as well as 15 pastors of all different faiths, including the bishop of the nationwide Christian Church denomination, participated in the worship service. 

The Los Angeles extension of Peoples Temple,which Jim Jones also pastors, is participating in joint services with the Nation of Islam mosque in Southern California, where Temple officers met recently with the movement’s national leader and chief minister, Wallace D. Muhammad. 

News of the meeting was kept private until released in the Temple’s newspaper, the Peoples Forum. which is circulated to 600,000 people throughout they bay region and Northern California. 

The paper is designed to report good news that is taking place in America, as well as being a “defense for the defenseless.” 

In recent issues the Forum has had wide ranging articles, including appeals for support in opposing the continued killing of baby seals in Canada. 

The paper also encouraged readers to write the Soviet Union, urging a liberalization of ‘emigration policies to allow free movement of its citizens, including Soviet Jews, to any country they would choose. 

 

 

Also mentioned in the Forum was a call for support of the family of a policeman who died just two and a half months before his retirement, causing the forfeit of a pension that woo;d have gone to his wife and children. 

The Peoples Temple congregation voted in one of its recent services to accept a visit from the consul general of the present Chilean regime. 

The officials request was made in response to a letter from the Peoples Temple thanking the new regime for releasing political prisoners in Chile. 

Rev. Jones told the members and visitors in service, “Though we do not approve of militant regimes, we do believe in freedom of expression and the free exchange of ideas, and thus want to allow the opportunity of hearing both sides of the Chilean issue.”