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Hippies Turn Off Drugs’ Find ‘High’ in Christ!
By Kenneth W. Harrell, special to the Miami News, Miami News, Florida
May 3, 1969, North America
A small tribe of hippies has come here from Huntington Beach, Calif. as the vanguard of more ex-drug users who have found “high” in Christ and are trying to spread it around the country.
The group of 15 is staying at the home of Miami businessman Chrales Bledsoe, who is supporting and helping the group and likes to be thought of as their leader. Bledsoe lives at 275 NW 29th Ter., Hollywood.
One of them, a 27-year-old wanderer, Arny says, “We’re against organized religion.” Hearing that the Miami area was in need of a Christian movement, Arny and the others climbed aboard their Ford bus, and left California, the headquarters of the movement, called “Revolutionaries for Christ.”
Faith Dietrich, Arny’s 18-year-old wife spoke softly as she poured coffee for hippies.
Faith is an attractive blonde who knows the Bible as well as her husband (who spent months in the hills …
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Ex-Hippies Stage Court Room Pray-In!
Miami Herald, Florida
April 16, 1969, North America
FORT LAUDERDALE—They called themselves former pot-heads, speed freaks and hate mongers…
They called themselves Christian revolutionaries for Jesus, and held hands and prayed…
The corridors of Municipal Court looked like a scene from a Fellini art film Tuesday as 12 young disciples of a religious cult called Teens for Christ massed in support of four of the brethren who’d been arrested for picketing for Jesus.
AS THEY waited for their spot on the docket, they talked of conversion and Christ, cradled well-marked Bibles in their arms and addressed everyone with “God bless you” and “praise the Lord.”
They’d been caryin such messages as: “Jesus is Risen, He’s Alive, Halleluja.” and “God said great confusion would come…Turn to Jesus. Put prayer, Bible and God back in schools.”
THEY CHOSE to march on the sidewalk before the police station, they said, because another of their group, Bill Garrison, had been arrested for …
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"Go Tell It On The Mountain"
'Revolutionaries for Jesus' Holding Services in their Church at 2570 Menor Stravenue.
Dave Green—Citizen Staff Writer, The Tucson Daily Citizen
April 15, 1969, North America
Scores of hippies are flocking to Tucson, and with them has come a small band for reformed hippies carrying Bibles, whose mission, they say, is the conversion of their bearded brothers to that “old-time religion.”
Most of the new arrivals are here to escaper the “great earthquake,” which they contend will cause most or all of California to slide into the ocean by the middle of April. Dozen are here now and they say that as many as 500 are expected here within two months.
Not so, however, with the eager little group who call themselves “the Revolutionaries for Jesus.” They have discarded their love beads and taken to Bibles. They have given up their pads and gone to church.
Befriended by an artist-missionary on Tueson’s South Side, the small, but energetic little band began collecting its flock of would-be converts just last week. Invited to Tucson from Phoenix by …
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