The Ohio Independent Baptist, November 1960

November, 1960 --~~~~~~~~~~~~---~'l~H~E~O~H~I~O~I~ND~EPENDENT BAPTI T ~~~~-=:.:.:....~~--------------------------iP~a~ge~S~e~ve~n HIGHLIGHTS Con'L $15 a year in regi tration from the students and take daily offerings in the chapel services . The r est of the finances must largely come from our churches. TEW CHURCHES WELCOMED • Twelve churches were accepted Monday evening and Tue day evening ,vas the time to welcome them. Of course, there ,vere other good things also, like the piano vari– ation 1 ?£ "Come Ye Thankful People, Come that was rendered b y P astor Hall Dautel of Portsmouth. Also the anthem given by the Cedru· Hill choir under the direction of Warren ~f ack, their new minister of youth and music. \¥hat a joy to welcome hvelve churches, two more than we did back in 1951 our previous high. The next day \Ve h eard that the First Missionary Baptist Church of Eden Park, a suburb of Portsmouth, has also voted to seek fellowship ; but of course we will have to wait and count that in 1961. In the m eantime we can assure them that they will be welcomed in due time . With the first one for the new associational year coming in so soon, le t us pray for fifteen n ext year. Those wel– comed were: Bible Mission Baptis t Church, Quaker City, Gilbert Cubbison , pastor Calvary Baptis t Church, Findlay, F. Donald Worden , pastor Calvary Baptist Church, Salem , L eslie Wells, pastor Carpenter Baptist Church, R. A. Biddle, pastor Emmanuel Baptist Church, Akron , pastorless Faith Baptist Church , Columbus, Frank G. Coleman, pastor CLEVELAND HEBREW MISSION Inc. Our 56th Year A ~ta.ff of fourteen dedicated workers devoted to the task of takinP th Gospel to the tens of thousand; of J ws in Cleveland, Youngstown ar~ otl1er cities in Northeaste~ Oh10; Charleston, W. Va., and Sao P~ulo, Bra.l1l . .Visitation, Bible classes, radio and d · spread distribution of lite1 aturP– th methods used to win J ws to Ch . . W~te for frP informative maga - nne, - Trwnp t r for Isra l ." . raJd V. Srn Iser, Supt. P . 0 . Box 3556 lev land 18, Ohio Faith Baptist Church , Gree11 ill Harold R. Green, pastor , Faith Bapti t Cht1rch Peri·y W , , av11e J. hellenberger , p as tor ~ Faith Baptist hfilcl1, a11 Wert T ed Cary, pastor ' Fellowship Baptist Church , Medina County, L ewis Hunter pas tor Litchf!eld Baptist ChU:ch, Da rrel] Bice, pastor ew Lyme Baptist Churcl1, C. Rich – ard Phelps, pastor All of the pastors could 11ot b e there to receive the right hand of fellow– ship personally> and two had no messenger present to receive it; but we want to assure them that they are one with us and welcomed b y '\Vay of the OIB. Tl1e message of the evening wa g ive11 on fi e minutes notice b y the 1:ew pastor of the Graham Road Bap– t1 t Church of Akron , B. C. Jennings. The scheduled speaker for some rea– s~n could not come . Brother Jen– n1ngs proved himself an old-fashioned Baptis t preach er , who is always ready. Speaki11g from II P e ter 3, h e pled with us to live and erve in view of the Lord's n ear return . Why b e o concerned about business and social s tanding when a ll these things will be burned up? WED E DAY MOR I G Wednesday morning called for ra incoats, but a goodly number were out at 9:30. Pastor C larence Tow11- send of First Baptist , Bow]j11g Gree11, spoke from James 5: 17 on "A Man of Like Passions." It was a plea for mor liken ess to Elijah in prayerful– n ess. Elijah was as human as we are, bt1 t h e prayed down g reat vic– tori e . H e was not like the b oy who prayed , "Lord, ble everybod ," but very p ecific, nor was h e ]ike a1 - other b oy cat1 ght witl1 his l1and in ~,he cooki jar. The boy prayed , Mother , d o yot1 want 1ne to g t <low11 befor I get a spa11king?,, EJijah pray d with pow r becat1sc }1 <)b eyecl. 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Allan Met– calfe, of the Hebre,v hri tian o– cie ty of C leveland, rirs t defined the phrase to mean a elf-governing, self-supporting and self-propagating church , but admitted tl1at '\Va~ dif– ficult i11 Jewish work. Ruth H ege told how a church of 16 member wa organized i11 the Con go by the h elp of a translation of Reese's book on H ow to Organize a Bapti t Church . William Large aid in P eru the 1 a– tional cht1rch had b e tter di cipline tha11 h ere. He nev r pa tor a church t1nless for a .fe,v mo11th , ttu11 it O\'er to a pastor, and the11 only l1elp \vl1 n tl1e pa tor a k him to come in. \ il– Jia1n a11nichael ha laborecl i11 Mo– l tamn1eda11 Mali Fecleratio11 of \\l e t Africa, ,vl1er there ar 11ot 11ot1gh .,hristia11s to l1a e orga1 izecl church e "Cept at the c ntral tatio11. 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