The Ohio Independent Baptist, December 1960

, December, 1960 U/1 - w AT CHEDULE OF EV. WINTER Evangelise Don Winters writes that he ,vil l be v.r ith the orthfield Baptist Church, ov. 9-20; Nov. 25-Dec. 4 he will speak at Paterson, N . J ., Fi rst Baptist of H emp– stead, . Y ., and at Ramsey, N . J., where Bob Rogers is pastor. Dec. 7-18 he will be with Pas tor Glenn Davis and his people at Clintonville Baptist, Columbus. He has no open dates until Feb. 12th. BTBLE Ml TON BAPTI T . OT EGO Past0r Ber t Kinsey is teaching school at Frazevbur~ and is now trviog to sta rt a new restimonv there. Oct. 24-30 he held revival meetings there besides taki ng care of his church in Otsego. Truly, he mus t be a bnsy man. . H e also reoorted the recogniti on service r eld ept. 12 at the Bible .Mission Ba?ti st Church at Ouaker City, which was received into our fellowship at our annual meeting. Ten ch11rches sent messengers and all were c;~tisfied with the work that Pastor Gilbert Cubbison and his people are doing at Quaker City. RICHLAND CENTER BAPTI T , BELLE CENTER Pastor Robert L. Humphries writes: "During the summer months we averaged 7O in our Sunday School. There were 66 in average attendance and 9 teachers at our DVBS and four professions of faith. A new c~llin ~ program has been started to reach the lost of our commu nity. Our young people's program has been re-organized with new goals." CAMDEN BAPTIST, KIPTON We are sorry this is so late, but Aug. 21 this country church celebrated its 17. 5th anniversary with four pastors present. Rev. Robert Barrett is the present pastor anc! God is blessing his work. W e congrar:u– late this church and hope it will keep its light burning for many years to come. CALVARY BAPTI T, TIFFIN Iretha Sherman writes: "Sunday, Oct. 9, was H arvest H 0me Day, wi th a group from Cedarville College as our guests. R:ev. Robert Gromacki brought the morning message. A girrs trj o, including Carol Brown, a member of our church and a sophomore at college, sang several num– bers. A love offering wac; takPn for the school. At noon a potluck di nner was served in the fellowshi o rooms of the church. The unday school 1s having a contest, with points for being present. bringing guests, stayinJ? for church. and prCJ)ar1ng the lesson." We might add t~ev also joined rhe stare contest and had a h1gl1 Ocr 30th of 75 ALVARY BAPTIST, ALEM JJastor Lesl ic: Wells corrects rhe edi tor fc>r sayj ng rl1ar the cl1urch l1ad secured another parsonage for his f~n1ily. 16-17 N. r:1 ls~·or tl1 is w htre l1e Ii ves, l)u r 1s also the address of the church After l)cing tl1ere rece11tly, we realize tl1ey still ha_ve ain,)le roon1 for the c.hurcl1 dO\l.'nsta1rs and cJ1e 1,arsonage upstairs. 1"hc revival under the 1,1c--aching of Rev . Jan1e5 ,o ilev, Sr., resulted in cJ1e salvation of t,,vo v.'0111en and th1ee cl1ildren. 1 1 1 J{ S'J" BAPrJ"ISrf, S'"f'J{ ) 'Kl! ll 1..he Young J)coi,Ie observed ...cdarville oJlege Da}' e1>t. 24 tl1 , \1, ich a su1,11er be- • Jng served co 4(J guest:>. ll ~pre.sentar1ves f1 on1 Sl:veral Ba1>tist chui ches \VeJ e in at– tend 11ce. A 1nen's <1uartet f 1r>111 cl1e college THE OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST UR H R presented several numbers and gave talks. President J ames Jeremiah spoke at the unday services the next day. REV. GUY READ LEAVE After faithfully crying fo r two months to revive and unite the 30 members that com– posed the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Piqua, Rev. Guy A. Read and his wife gave up and moved to Florida. There he hopes to do rescue mi ssion work and serve wherever the Lord opens doors. Pastors in the area feel he did the best he could, and we are only sorry that the members finally voted to disband. MARANATHA BAPTIST PARSONAGE Th is fovr -bedroom home at 1628 . Fountain Ave, pri ogfield , was purchased tl1is fall by the ch urch and is now occupied by Rev. Arrhu.r H ouk and his family. It was purchased from Rev. Charles Bennett, Jr., the former pastor , who ha3 moved to Baltimore, Md. It is a well bui lt anJ a well arranged home. FIR T BAPTIST, BOWLING G~EN A special welcome to Bowling Green University students was put out this fall, inviting them and showing them where the church was, givi ng some cripture, and especially emphasizing what Baptists be– lieve about the Bible, God, Christ, creation, and salvation by grace. In this day of modernistic and nearly atheis tic education, that bulletin m ight anchor some student tempted to drift in to unbelief. They n~ed all the encou ragement we can give them. BLES ED HOPE BAP1'1 T, PRINGFIELD Pastor Glenn Greenwood has been bt1sy this fal l in two revivals, at Limestone, Pa, ?.nd at Bible Bapt ist Cl1urch of North tv(adison. Also he l1as had much to Jo with the planning of the Youtl1 Rally held tl1e day afcer Thanksg1v1ng anJ ,vas calleJ to 1c1,rcsenr our Youth l)epart111enr 111 ,1 conference on you th ,vork In Chi~ago. ) et God is l)lessing v. 1th the salvatio11 of so • ls in his O\Vn churc l1 and J)r,l\C.r 111c.ctings "C>rneti111t*s reach I JS in attendance A full t "111e church sc rct,1ry and c,dler h,ts be.en ca l led. l •DAR llJlJL DA I)'J I ' l', C..141 Vl 'LA l) ~u11day <:vening of Cl)C. l8tl1 ,1 un1c1uc. 1nusicaJ J)rogra111 \\'as J)re!.enced under the. chen1e: " hri sc (>Ur J)jlot." Besides tl1t nu1nbe1s by che regular choir, a n1ass Lhoir, n1adc up of past ch..,ir n1e111bers, sa11g. ' l here v.•ere also 111ar1y spe ic1ls '"fh is pre>· .~ a111 ,,.,•as in l1onc>r ot llc>l1c1 t l\1d ner, \\•ho Pa.'(e Thirteen ARE DOIN G has been choir master for the last fifteen years and is now retiring. GRACE BAPTIST , TROY Pastor E. J. Virgi nt writes chat he is very happy in his work, with a fine spirit in the congregation. The Sunday ~ervices are well attended. TEMPLE BAPTIST , PORTSMOUTH Revival services were held Oct. 4-9 with Dr. Kenneth R. Kinney of J ohnson City, N .Y . as the evangelist. Oct. 30th a t che evening service Pas tor H all Dautel spoke on the subjecc: "Protestants, Baptists, Cath– olics and Politics." We would have liked co be there. EUCLID-NOTTINGHAM BAPTIST, CLEVELAND M1ss Willis, the Educational D irector, reports that during the last church year Su nday school averaged 610, DVB 254 this summer, the Christ ian ervice Brigade averages 120, and Pioneer Girls 85. CHURCH TATI TIC HAME U According to the 1961 Yearbook of American Churches ( CC ) the total membershio of all churches and synagogues lase J an. first ( a year ago) was 11 2,226,– ,905, or 2.4 o/o more than che year before. Did the morals of our nation improve by 2.4o/o? There were 20,879,22() Baptists manv of whom muse have voted for a Cathol ic president or he cou ld not have been elect"'d; 12,358,861 11ethodi rs, 8,021,091 Lu therans, 1,202.956 Presby– terians; :,,807,6 12 Disciples of hr1st, 2,- 807 ,61 2 Ea tern Orthodox; t0,8..,1,,02 Roman ac hol1cs ( including hr1stened babies); and 5,500,000 J e\vs, n10 t of v.,hom never t{arken a ynagogue, <> they \\'ere listed in round nun1bers ). \"X' hecl1er \t,'e ReguL1r Bapt1St5 ,, ere lunl~)ed 1n ,, 1th the other Ba11r1st , or Just 1.gn <.1red, ,, e don't kno,\, but "' e do kno\, th,1r 1110 t An1crican (hurc.h 1nen1bers lt\L P<h c,11e les-; I1,e5 rhat they 11.1,e ne1chec 111oc,1l <.)r 5l)tritual 1 nf J ucn<. L r·1 R 1 BAT) l ISl . 1 I [)l , \ \ }),lstor ll .1l1)h ken1n1e er ,, 11tcs. 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