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Teens for Christ Leave But City Sheds No Tear
By Terry Coville, Daily Pilot Staff, The Daily Pilot, California
March 1, 1969, North America
Huntington Beach officials are not lining the streets to bid farewell to the militant Teens for Christ who are leaving because they fear the destruction of California.
“It doesn’t grieve me very much that they should go to Tucson,” says Mayor Alvin Coen.
The youthful and zestful evangelists have picked Tucson, Ariz., as their new headquarters. A vantage point to watch California sink under the wages of sin sometime this month.
And how about the desert community of Tucson? Can it withstand the Christian onslaught of the teens’ fundamentalist religion.
‘INVADERS’
“We plan to absorb them just like the Chinese did their invaders,” says Larry Ferguson, assistant managing editor of the “Arizona Daily Star.”
“These Teens for Christ can exercise their freedom of speed in Tucson as long as they don’t annoy anyone,” he added.
Huntington’s Mayor Coen took a less benevolent attitude toward the teens, “Now that they’re leaving, …
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Teens for Christ Leave!
The Daily Pilot, California
February 24, 1969, North America
The militant Teens for Christ group noted for picketing schools and hassling organized religion, is planning to flee Huntington Beach for fear of the destruction of California.
Leaders of the teen organization assert that predictions from the Lord indicate California, as a land of sin, will be destroyed, perhaps by the predicted great earthquake of April 15.
Thus the young followers of Jesus are packing their bags and preparing to flee the state. They are going to Tucson, Ariz.
“We’d be gone by now,” declared Miguel Ward of the Teens group, “except that some of our followers are still in court in Costa Mesa.”
For the past year, they have been based at the “Light House” club on Main Street in Huntington Beach, and led by Pastor Dave Berg who began his preaching to youth in Miami.
Their new home in Tucson will also be called “The Light House.” It’s …
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Christ Teens Picket at Valley High!
The Daily Pilot, California
February 22, 1969, North America
About 15 Teens for Christ picketed Fountain Valley High School Monday from 2 to 4 p.m. in their continuing protest against what they charge is education’s unfairness to religion.
The young Christian revolutionaries have previously picketed Marina High School and Huntington Beach High School to demonstrate their belief in the right to distribute Bible tracts on school property.
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