The Ohio Independent Baptist, January 1961

January, 1961 U/1 - - WHAT Zinn and 35 membe-s of the Chapel C hoir of Cedarvi lle College gave a n enjoyable service and then had to stay over night in homes because of the snow-which meant more joy! BIBLE BAPTI T, BEDFORD Pastor Morrell reports increasi ng co-op– eration in Monday night calling, but wants more than 54 % of his church officers out each week. Most pastors would say that was wonderful. J ust now he is going through the Ten Commandments one a week at the Wed– nesday night prayer meetings. GRACE BAPTIST, CEDARVILLE The church has voted to buy a fair ly large and substantial Presbyteri.a n church building which became ava_lable b.e– caese the nvo Presbyterian churches 1n Cedan•i lle united. This is a g reat step for· ward in the life of this church. Pastor and 1'1rs. A. D . Moffit spent 8 davs in a Bible conference a t Kasson, • Minnesota Nov. 20-27. FIRST BAPTIST, NILE A So· 1 l Winners Confe ..ence was held Dec. J -4 under the au S")ices of the Beth– any Association, with Dr. John R . Rice as the speaker. HUNTSBURG BAPTIST E<:1angelist Kenneth D odson of Winona Lake. l!1 l., will hold special meetings Jan. 1~-22. The Sunday school is a busy place Sund~ys, with 14 classes. AVON BAPTIST December 2nd the Avon Baptist Church purchased a Conn organ . On Christmas mornin~ it was put into use and that evening Mrs. H omer Graven, the pastor's wife gave an organ recital. FOSTORIA BAPTIST Missionary Wm. Fusco prearhed both servires Nov. 27th. The next Wednesday night Mj ssionary Romyne Strickland spoke and showed pictures of his Baptist Mid– Missions work in Trad Reovbl1c. D ec. 11th Bob Davenport, You th for Christ speaker and a group from Findlay brought chal– lengi ng messages in sermon and song. BROOKSIDE BAPTI T, CLEVELAND While the OARBC unday school con– test gave only 4th place to Brookside in Class C, rhe effore engendere(i such en– thusiasm that the next Sunday they launched a drive to reach a new goal- 50 l before '61. We hope they made 1t. FIRST BAPTIST, SPENCER Pastor Adam Galt reports that several souls have been saved through home and hospital visitation. He also reached one soul wJ1en preaching one night in the WeJlingcon rev1val. 'fRINI1Y BAPTIS'l ·, LORAIN Pastor David G anine of the First Baptise hurch of Blanchester served as our evangelist Nov. 27 De:c 8. In spite of weather conditions, che power of the Holy Spirit was present and 8 came forward either for salvation or re-dedication. Brorl1- cr ani11e:: is a force{ ul speaker and true to tl1e ospeJ. J-I is invitations are given ef– fectively, according co I)astor Hukill , but THE OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST UR HURCHE wisely, without resorting to tricks to get folks forwa rd. A H APPY PA TOR Brother Glenn Greenwood writes as of Nov. 28th : "May the Lord bless you, Bro. Nordlund, and we wi ll attempt to gee as much information to you about camp and our church as we possibly can . You might be interested to know that OL' r arrendance is considerably h igher than last year, and we have seen more souls saved recently tha n any other time in our ministry. Bap– tisms are quire freguent and all of these things ,ve attribute co the aggressive Tues– day n ight visitation which is in hig h jtel r for us . . . We are attemcring to liquidate some of our debt and the building com– mittee is now worl<in~ on the proposed plans for the new auditorium." Bigger attendance-more sot1ls - fre– quent baptisms-paying of debts: Those are the things tha t turn blne Mone.lays in– to hallelujah Mondays! If yot1 are not having chose thin.gs in yot1r church, why not pray more and visit n1ore, smile more and pay more! Then the other blessings will come! A HAPPY EDITOR Editors are just as huma n as pastors and like letters like the above one. If your church doesn't get into ot1r Fellowship P a~ges very often, try writing up news and senrling it in with a "bless you, edi– tor." We've just spent four weary hours culling news ou t of bu lletins and while ,ve are so thankful for them, it would be so much easier and better jf news items were sent in. lvfavbe some contributors wonder, since we slash them so; but really, it is easier to slash a news item down to the room we have for it than co make up an item from a bulletin! So, thank you, all you loyal contributors! ----------- A RE OLUTI01 FOR SU DAY SCHOOL TEACHER A D \ VORKER I vvil l accept JTI)' respo1 il)ility be– lievi11g 7oc1 11eecls 111e rigl1t l1ere. I \\'ill do my best-a11cl 11ot my " x– c.:use" best. I \\'ill be loy::11 a11d fai tl1ft1l to t l1e '-''Orsl1ip servic s. I \\' i ]] lear11 tl1 a11<l 11ot re111ai11 i11 f1111ctio11 s. "110,\ 1 " of 1ny job ig11ort11 c as to its I \\'ill spe11 cl son1 ti111e cacl1 clny i11 pray r. I \Vil] 11ot 0111) 11rt1y fc)r tl1 lc)st l)y 11,11r1c- I "'ril l "go" ,111cl try lo ,,,iJ1 tl1e111 . I \,,ill b fri 11cll)' tl11cl \\'ill 111,1k J) \()! )} lo,,e tl1is cl1t1rcl1 lJ ·a,1s of 1n ' 1ovc\ f <)r Ill) ·l1t11 t .·l 1 a11 cl 111} ~ ,l\' I<)t11. I \\ ill \\ c>rh. ,, itl1 tl1 \\' II LE (•}111rc·l1 1)1 <>gra111 ,111cl 11ot cle, elo1) a11 xc· J11siv ~ " ·lass)) loyult . I \.\ 1 ill r e 111 ~111b 1 tl1,1t 111) c:l1t1r<.:l1 ,,·il I b j11clg cl b) 111 ,l ·tio11s ,111cl \\ 1 ill s ~ k t<) 111ak ~ 111,, clatl\.' ]if C<)t111 t • { <)t 111t1cl1. Page Twenty-one ARE DOING I 'vvill sb·e1 gthen the h a11cl of my pastor ,tnd the le::lclers of my cht1rch a11d its orga11izatior1s. I vvill follo,,, Goel, ,vay jn mat– t ers of s tev"ardship. Al)c)ve ,1]1- I ,vill trv to k11ow Gocl,s ~ ,vill a11d fo ll o,v it.- elec ted. ---------- THE WORD OF GOD I am ofte11 as keel ,,,.hy I qt1ote the Bible sc) 1nt1ch 111 \\·ritte11 a11cl spoken mess,1ges. 1.,he re,1son is si1nple. The Bil)le is the \ Vorel of Goel a11d 110 \VOrcls of m,111 c,111 ec1t1,1.l it i11 at1tl1or– ity ancl al)ility to give 1ne11 a11cl \,V0111e11 tl1e l1elp tl1ey 11eecl. There is n1t1c·l1 uncertai11ty a11d rapicl cl1a11ge i11 this n1ocler11 \Vorlcl. The s1)eerl at \\ J1ic:h ,ve tr,lvel In,1kes it 2ifficult for lIS to c1isti11gt1ish lrt1tl1 frcn1 f ,.1lsel1c)ocl Tl1e Script11re is fill ecl \~/ith st1ch expressio11s ,ls ''thtis s,1ith the Lorcl." Go~l does 11c)t cl1a11ge. 011e ct11111ot argt1e ,,,itl1 Hi111. He i.) tl1e s,11ne ) es– tercla)-', to(lay ,111cl fore\ er. Revela– tions th,1t 11ave c·on1e clo,\'11 to t1s i11 the Scriph1res clc, 11ot c·l1a11ge. 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