The Ohio Independent Baptist, October 1959

• October 1959 ____________!HE OHIO INDEPENDENT_ BAPTIS~T_____ ___ _____ Page Fifteen • • • WHAT OUR CHURCHE S BLESSED HOPE BAPTIST, Springfield The evening Vacation Bible School ior the whole family proved a won– derful success. Ther e were 275 en– rolled and good regula r attendance . Missionary George Norton of Brazil {aught mission courses to both the adults and Senior young people . The o1her course for the adults was "Death and the H er eafter " and for the Seniors, "God's Will for Our L . " 1ves. Sept . 11 and 12 Pastor Glenn Green– wood took 60 of his Young People to Iv1arion for a two-day r e treat to plan the fall youth work and face the chal– lenges of Christ. EAST SIDE BAPTIST, Lorain Ground was broken Sunday after– noon of Aug. 301h , at the new build– ing site on Euclid Avenue and Lark– moor. Pastor Howard K . Miller was assisted by Rev. Edw. Spencer of the P enfield Junction Baptist Church. The occasion marked a milestone in the reaching of a goal it has had for several years to minister to a large residential area on the east side of the city. The contract for the new edifice, which will cost n early $240,000, was awarded to the Elmer Hume Con– tracting Firm. Edward J . Horber of Cleveland is the architect. The audi – torium and balconies will seat 900 and a Sunday school wing will house ? social hall as well. P art of the block of property on which the church will be constructed was given by the late Dr. Meek dur– ing the ministry of Rev. Verne L . Dunham. Pastor Miller has just re– cently come to Lorain, but he has had experience in two large building projects before and so seems to have come "for such a time as this." The building committee consists of Herbert Jones, chairman, Howard D . Sloan, Melvin Frederick, Wm. Pruitt, Rudy Stewart and the pastor! Com– pletion of the building is sch eduled for next June. AMBROSE BAPTIST, F ayette Pastor Leonard Swanson writes, "Our fall revival date is Nov . 15-22. Our Evangelist will be Rev. Bill Compton of J acksonville, Fla. Rev. Alfred Col– well was with us Sept. 13 in the morning service. The Lord blessed l1is ministry here. "Our church has taken the second Wednesday of each month at the Cherry St. Mission in Toledo. Last \1.J Pdnesday seven men responded to the invitation. "We have two st udents at Cedar-– ville-Miss Phyllis Ernest, who is a Senio1, and her sister , Mrs. Thelma Neefe, who is a Freshman. Both are i11 the Teacher's Course.,, ROAD WORK BAPTIST, lia1 r 1<. ttsville Pastor Ray Fellenger writes, "The wo11dc.r ful OIB cam today a11d it i11spir ~d n1e to send in n ws. Tl1 r has lJP ~r1 110 sum1n r slump f 01 us, for tli ) surnmer attendance l1as been the l) s on record Witl1 the aid of a grarlt fro111 th Baptist Builcl r's Club, 111ucl1 11c cl cl Sunday scJ1ool 1 ooms l1av \) 11 added and d di ·at d S [) t 6tl1. Ov 1· 100 lJoys a11<l girls at te11d cl l11 tl11 w ·eks of Vacatior1 Bil)le School. The Lord's blessings on our small country church has enabled them to finance a much needed n ew car for the pastor." CALVARY BAPTIST, P ainesville The young people of Senior high school and college age had a blessed time at a r etr eat held at the Stoney Glen Camp. Thirty-sev en young peo– ple and their counsellors and pastor went out after church Sunday night and spent L abor Day in a time of fel lowship and spiritual refr eshment. The Temple Bell Ringer s of Erie nttracted over 150 children on Satur– d ay afternoon of Sept. 1st and "Uncle" George O'K eefe of the Brookside church in Cleveland did the preach– ing. The names and addresses of all the children were taken and a fine pros pect list was obtained for fall visitation. Eight days of r evival ar e planned for Nov . 1-8, with Rev. David Nettle– ton of Springfi eld, Mass., as the evangelist. THANKSGIVING YOUTH RALLY Tl1e place i. 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Sp ncer writes, ' 'We are planning a visitation progra111 the first Tuesday vening of acl1 month by which our cl1urcl1 n1e1r1b rs can r acl1 th visitors that con1e oc– casionally and rnal<c 11 w co11tacts fro111 the Sunday school "A Fathe1 an"'i 5011 Ba11c1u t Vvtll })e h Id Oct 27 at tl1e Clec11 ,, 1 ,v Ht~l 1 School W a1 e trust111g tl1e Lord. J or ~ou l~ that r1igl1t as w reacl1 ottt 111to tl 1 l co 1 nmu11ity a11cl bri11g i11 tl1l~ ttn - bave<l . "W r joit' · tl1a t t 111 of ot11· J t 111 - ARE DO ING iors made a decision for Christ at Camp Patmos this year. Also in our church program this year we are including regular times of fellowship Ior the families by having family night Every other month. At such a time we plan to show a Christian film for the family or have an evening of hymn singing and fellowship." BETHANY BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP met Monday, Sept. 21st at 3 to 5 at the Independent Baptist Church of 1'1orth Jackson for fellowship around the Word, and then enjoyed an out– door wien er roast. Then for the evening they attended r evival services a t the Grace Baptist Church in Youngstown, with Evangelist Andrew Cherdin as the speaker. FAIRFIELD BAPTIST, Thurston The vacation Bible school h eld in July proved a blessing, with an aver– age student att endance of 68 and an over-all average of 81. Th ere were eight professions of faith. The Sunday school picnic at Buck– eye Lake in August was well at– tended and greatly enjoyed. The church sent two groups to Camp P at– mos, both Junior and Senior. A Youth Rally has been planned for Sept. 19th and three nearby GARB churches have been invited . The speak er will be Pastor Worth Sauser of the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Mt. Vernon . A film on The Crucifixion will also be shown. Rev. and Mrs. Allen Adler , mis– sionaries to the Hopi Indians were speakers Aug . 26th-she to the ,vomen in the afternoon and he to the chur ch that night. Other missionary activities include sending clothing ana S . S. literature to mission aries Gerald Titus and Norman Warner in K entucky. God is richly blessing the ministry of Pastor and Mrs. David Shimp, and Oct. 19-26 h ave been se t aside for evangelistic m eetings, with his former pastor, Rev. Harold House of Byes– v ille, as the evangelist. BAPTIST BUILDER 1 S CLUB October and November have been set aside as a time to emphasize the great work that is being done in h elping struggling churches to build. In ten years $194,850 have been given without any strings attached to help churches complete building project - sever al in our own state. Any one who can give $2 five times a year a11d loves to see our GARBC adva11ce, ought to join! Each year more has been given, but think ,vl1at cot1ld b tlone if the goal is reached of 15,000 club members! That ,vould mea11 $150 000 a year- ever)' cent 11eedecl. , . . Actually, with risi11g costs, eacl1 cl1urch sl1ould be granted f ron1 $1,000 to $3,000, instead of $500 to $2,000. Tl1at cottld b don if 10.400 11,or Baptis ts ,vot1ld h . I sig11 ttp and k p t e1r prort11sc. . \1 ·p '()ll ,l "cl t1"fll'(1 ('ll"t()lllt'l' ! • • rJ' I 1t111 h P 1 t) , t ~ t' t \ a t • Ii <) , t r g· t > a 1 t1 I ~ ()()() ~tl l),t'l'lJ>1 it)ll~ ! l i'(> t' r1111el\ st t l>" t • 1 • i I > t it> 11 s t ll , :l ) . "<' 1·, 1 t • t 1 , s < ~ 11 < I ~ T () 11 r ft) l\lrs. l(11\1t z