The Ohio Independent Baptist, August 1961

~~sc,__ 19_6_l_________ __~ T~H=E~O~H=IO~l~N~D~E~~D~BAPTIST -~~~~~~~------~--~~~~~~~~~P~a~g~e-=T~h=k~tee:.::n • - - w AT program. The church was also blessed and challenged recently, according to Pastor Lav.'head, by 1fission:!ry C. Burnet t Taylor, B B.11. ~rorker in Peru. who preached morning and evening June 25. CALVARY BAPTI T , Bucyrus Again the Calvary Baptist Church had a big Yacation Bible school-274 in aver– age attendance, including approximately 50 ~Torke:s. It continued for nvo v. 1 eeks. More than 30 dec1sions v.'ere made for Christ. CEDAR I-IILL BAPTI T , Cleveland 1ne were recei ved into fellowship at the June communion ~erv1ce. June 19-29 vacation Bible school was held, with the program for parents the last night. July 15th the Voice of Christian Youth met at the cl1urch. The program was in charge of The H armonettes, a trio of young ladies from Western Baptist Bible College of El Cerrito, California. The attendance v.•1nners for the past 12 months were an- 11ou11ced that night. Brookside Baptist v. on 10 Division A, Bible Baptist of Bed– ford in Division B, and First Baptise Sc1ongsville, 10 D1v1s1on C. WHEELERSBURG MI r,10 ARY BAPTIST Vacation Bible school closed J une 16th v.•ith an interesting program. 163 pupils v:ere enrolled and the averaged attend– ance v.•as 129 Pastor H olmes returned from our GARBC meetings at Winona Lake reporting m~ny spiritual blessings. July 9 v.'as Cedarville College Day, v.iith Prof George Lav. ler precching and Prof. Richar .:l Cook s1 nging The Ladies' lvf is– !;ionar} Circle has p::i<ked boxes for tv.-o returning m1ssionar1es and another for a hospital in 1'0. thern Rhodesia. EBE [ZfR I3APTIJ T, Bethesda Pasror I;ellengc:r rc1:,orts that the above ordination service ,vas very \\ell attended. le v,as preceded by a Bible conference June 11-14 v. 1 ich Lle,vellyn Thompson as the speaker. He 1ei)orts chat the unday school has reached cl1e 100 mark. He v.'oe id like co see a v,ork started ac t. Clairville and ,vonders if any of our OIB readers kno,v of BaJ)tists there who might l)e interested in l1elping. GRAHAl\1 ROAD BAPTI T, uyahoga Fall~ Ground v:iJJ be broken for che new building Augusr 6rh. le is ex1,ecced cl1ac 1J1e outside can be finisl1ed and l1eacing installed before ,vinter, so cl1e me11 v:ill l)e able to ,,,ork inside tl1rough rhe cold ,veather. TI:l\-11>J ..l! BAPTI T, J>orcsn1ouch Eight young 1,eo1,le artendei.l Youcl1 l)ay ac \Xf1non l~ke "JAllBC cor1fercnce June 20cl1. Assistant }> stor 'f'ho111as Bunyan and liarlcs urcio ,vent alo11g as l>us drivers. A 111ucl1 fuJler L,us headed 11orth June 25t11, 1nid-nigl1c, ,vitl1 30 Ju11iors Join Te,111,le 13ai,ti~t, Wlieeler~– i>ur" and 11nf ord, co ccend 1n1, l'ac,nos. ounseJJors Jro1n tlie tl11 e cl1urche also v. ent long nd Pa.,cor Bunyan, " '110 5 n ed s music dire tor 1l1at \\ 1 eek. B · I Ii 4 J .. BAJl'I J~ , ] 4 rie, P . e '· nd J\irs. Ro! J son, memb r o 111 hur }1, 11 ,e return for tl1e1r R HUR HE secon~ term to Ecuador, where they serve as aviators for Wycliffe Translators. pecial servic~s this semmer include t"\"\'O musical groups- The Evangelaires fro~ Grand Rapids Baptise Theological ueminary June 25 th, and the Ladies Trio of W estern Baptist Dible College July 16th. Another treat is the preaching of former pastor, Rev. . Franklin Logsdon July 30th. ' Garry Ballard Ordained A council of 13 delegates from 8 cl1t1rches met J une 16th at the Ebenezer Baptist Church of Bethesda to examine Garry Ballard as to his qualifications for ordination. The service "-as opened by Pas tor Ray Fellenger, who intro– duced Pastor H oyt Douglas of Atwater, a former pastor at Ebenezer, who led in a brief song service. The council v,as called to order and Pastor Marshall H arper of econd Baptist Church of Cambridge, v:as elected moderator, and Pastor H . P. House, r., Calvary Bap– tist Church of Byesville, was elected clerk. The candidate, Garry Ballard, is a graduate of the Tennessee Temple chools and has for the past 7 months been pastor of the Bi ble Baptist church of Dugger, Ind. After giving his testimony of conversion and call, and h1s doctrinal statement, he \Vas questioned and d~smissed, \\ h1le the coe nc1l considered v hat action to take. The council unanimously approved of his ordination and commended him highly for his concise and forthright ac.count of himself. The ord1nat1on took place that e\ en1ng. Rev. Hoye Douglas brought the cl1arge to the cand1dace, ReY. Bert K1nsei of Otsego gave the charge to the churc h, and Rev. H. P. House de– l1vere 1..l the ordination sermon from Isa 6 ARE DOING FIRST BAPTI T, iles Vacation Bible chool J une 12-16 reached a high attendance of 430! A good number of decisions for Christ were made by the older children. ] uly 1-, th the Deth:iny Association Youth Rally was held at iles with Rev. Park Tucker, Chaplain of the U. . Penitentiary at At– lanta, Ga., as che speaker . ORTH BETHEL YOUTH PIC IC Over 100 young people, representing most of the churches of the assoc1acion, had a fine time at a p1cn1c July 15th at Van Buren tate Park. After the meal the young people met by the lakeside for a devotional period, "ith Pastor 1-fax Tucker of Foscor1a giving the message FO TORIA BAPTIST Brodi Kozicl:i of Lavonia, Michigan, preached July 9th, ,1hile Pastor Tucker ,vas preaching at a United Youth Con– ference at Prospect, Pa., Friday, arurday 3nd unday. Four convention churches '"1th fundamental pastors united co hold this conference. Brother Tucker reports a real spiritual blessing resulted. BETHEL BAPTI T, \Varren Pastor Karl B. r111th accepted a call from the Parr 1'femorial Baptist Church of Petoskey, .1\lfichigan, and began his \\Ork there July first. Our prayer is that the Bethel cl1urch may soon find a good and hun1ble servant of the Lord ,, ho ,, 111 ac– cept the challenge of tl11s promising f iel<.i. While the member hip 1s small. the chu1 ch has some good '\\'orkers, sacr1 f1c.1al givers, a good building and an unl1n11ted £1eld. 1'1U IC L0\ 1 ER , ATIE TIO ! A h1-f1 recotr.:.i of l 1 gospel onl)' GeorJ~e Zinn sing~ chem ( 3, can be gocten fron1 Cedar, ,Ile Cedc.lr~ 1lle. Ohio, for 52 98. plu ong J l ~ lp) College, .. po ·ta~e. l 1 13 RIPTIO. C. P~I' I. ., -~1re ) Oll c>11 tl1 jc>l) getli11g 1)eo1)le tll re- 11c,,? \~ 7 itl1ot1t , Oltr l1el1) \\ t" ll)~e ]1alf of tl1e111 ! The BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY thorough t r ain ing OFFERS - - - - - - - - fo r Christia n Service • Three '\ ear Graduate en1inary • Bible allege - ,vith a General Course 111 us strong 111 i nor'> for 11i.s.si onaries l1ri.scian Edu ation L)irector Musi Directors l'a.scor.s- I>re· e111i11ary ,vo1 k • 'l",vo Year ertificace ot1rse hur h e recary ..... ourse l1risci~ln \X'orker'.s our~e • Orchodox - holarly - Bar,ci~ti - l.. o ated in beautiful rand R pid.s, or information '\\'rite: hri.sc - entered ii l1igan RAPT IST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 811 Weal thy St., S. e., Gr nd Rap d 6, Mlc:h Jg n