If this site was useful to you, we'd be happy for a small donation. Be sure to enter "MLA donation" in the Comments box.
Hershey, Lester T. (1912-2007)
From Biograph
(Difference between revisions)
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 2007 Nov 19 p. 7 |
''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 2007 Nov 19 p. 7 |
||
− | Birth date: 1912 |
+ | Birth date: 1912 Nov 28 |
+ | |||
+ | text of obituary: |
||
+ | |||
+ | <center><font size="+2">'''Spanish-language radio pioneer dies'''</font></center> |
||
+ | |||
+ | <font size="1">By Mennonite Mission Network</font> |
||
+ | |||
+ | PORT ASHBY, W.Va. — As a mission worker in Puerto Rico in 1947, Lester T. Hershey thought a secular medium, radio, could be used to spread the gospel across Puerto Rico. |
||
+ | |||
+ | From Hershey's original idea, a Spanish-language radio program emerged within the Puerto Rican Mennonite Church, first called the ''Hour of Calvary'' and later ''Light and Truth.'' |
||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | |||
[[Category:Mennonite Weekly Review obituaries]] |
[[Category:Mennonite Weekly Review obituaries]] |
Revision as of 14:19, 8 June 2011
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2007 Nov 19 p. 7
Birth date: 1912 Nov 28
text of obituary:
By Mennonite Mission Network
PORT ASHBY, W.Va. — As a mission worker in Puerto Rico in 1947, Lester T. Hershey thought a secular medium, radio, could be used to spread the gospel across Puerto Rico.
From Hershey's original idea, a Spanish-language radio program emerged within the Puerto Rican Mennonite Church, first called the Hour of Calvary and later Light and Truth.