Family Theater: Little Church of the Ambush

Family Theater presents Eleanor Powell and David Jensen. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents Little Church of the Ambush, starring David Jensen. And now here's your hostess, Eleanor Powell.

Thank you, Tony Lefrano. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives. If we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world, Family Theater urges you to pray, pray together as a family.

And now to our transcribed drama, Little Church of the Ambush, starring David Jensen. An ordinance was passed last week in a town I live in. I guess you could call it an ordinance. At any rate it was a decision by the city fathers to restore a certain building.

you've probably never seen, though you might have driven through our town a hundred times. And for the building that it is, it has some pretty strange bedfellows, gin mills, warehouses, outlet stores and pawn shops, bowling alleys and penny arcades. And less than a block away, the theatre that serves off and on as the city's only burlesque house.

You see, it's on Gossett Avenue, a main street turned skid row since the days when the town was young and the building was first put up. But if you came to visit some relative or friend here, it's about two to one that you wouldn't get away without having a look at the building

that city residents call the Little Church of the Ambush. Of course, it's been known by other names, the Church the John Dade Bill, Church of the Wrath of God. And once an itinerant preacher said it ought to be called the Church of St. Peter of the sword. Reminiscent of that night in Gethsemane when Peter grew his sword and cut off the ear