The Ohio Independent Baptist, March 1961

March, 1961 THE OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST Page Five ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BIG NEWS FROM A LITTLE CHURCH P astor Ben Garlich writes , ' 'Little church-little news," but when a mall village church report a real , Holy Ghost revival , we think it is Big News. He continues : "We have just finished a ten day meeting ( in Jan. ) with Evangelist Kenneth Dodson, and ,ve as a church are looking for a return visit from this dear brother. We feel that he has a real ministry for our churche in th e hour in which we are living. His address is Box 614, Winona Lake, Ind. ' 'We are happy to report 14 con– versions and 73 who made it know11 publicly that they wanted to do greater things for the Lord, by being a usable instrument for Him. "Sp eaking from the pastor's view, I consider this man a pastor to the pastors . When he leaves the church, the folk are more conscious of the presence of the Lord. We feel that there was a definite revival started, as we saw even the lives of the Christians changed; and we are look– ing forward to greater things. ' 'Last week our Boys Brigade went out to camo in the snow u11der the - leadership of Mr . Thomas Redditt. Even i1 this the spirit of revival was present. It is a1nazing the numher of men who are willi11g to give up a 11ice, warm b ed to go out to sleep in the snow with our boys." We m igh t add tl1at another sign of quickened interest in this church is a monthly newsletter that goes out tinder the title, "From the Pastor's Desk." It is mostly packed with spirit– ual quotations from Spurgeon ( in the February number ) and others 01 Salvation and Soul-Winning. We are p laying this news item up, not to favor Brother Gar]ich's chw·ch or Evangelist Dodson , but to en– courage all our churches to get busy and pray and work for revival. When a ch urch that reported only 91 mem– bers last year a11d situated in what is almost open country, can have a revival like the one they had, a ll of our churches ca11 have proportionate b lessings with the same consecration in prayer and hou e to house wit– nessing. Those are the things Bro. Dodso11 emphasizes. BEREA STARTS BROOK PARK CHURCH Wonde1fl1l news comes from tl1e Ber a Baptist hurch , wl1icl1 has done wl1at \V l1a\'e so lo11g pr acl1 cl – giv 11 ov r sixt}' m 1nl)crs lo start ~1 new work i11 Brook P~1rk , a f~tst gro\\ – i11g sul)url> t<> th 3 east ~111cl S0\1tl1 of tl1 ~ ,r at 1 ( ~I c>v lt111d Airport . \ e J1op soo11 le> 1 c>ar 11101 a l)ou l it arid Just wl1er tl1 .,y arc 1n eli11g 1 rom tl1 :. jr JJ,1sto1 II ~111 }' A. 1 t1v ~1. It is 0111}' 11 rtl11rttl tl1~1t J:>astcJr rt1v r a11d tl1 ... 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Ouri11g t11() Set·c)11cl "'' <>rlcl \\' ,tr tl1 gc>, c111111 ),,t g1 t);.1tl ('111 ,trgt)cl tl1'" I "'\ ' \ lt111cl 11 !JOJ t ,t11d f <>re cl tl11s c: 11111 t·li le> Ill()\'" l e> R t't a , ,, 111 ·11 rs 11<)\\ t11<.~ c.: l1t11 t ·l1 t]1,1t is l1el1)111g tc> Ot"'- g11 l t }1js J l a\ \\ 1 0J"k a f \\ lllt}t'S to t}1 eftst <>l ,,,)1 ~re it \\ 1 rts 1t~ If c>11gi1lnll)' locatecl. Tl1en it was almost open country , now it is a city of over ,5,000 l1omes. After serving as pas– tor at the Bible Baptist Church of Bedford from '45 to '56, ,vhere he led in the erectio11 of their present fine building, Brother Cruver and his f amily u11ited with the Berea Bap- • tist Church, where h e h as been a loy,11 h elper of Pastor Earl Willetts in many capacities. So as we said, it i 011ly 11atural tl1at in tl1is challenge of a mushrooming st1bt1rb just to th r1ortheast of Ber a, the cht1rch shottld ask Brother C ru er to head this new work, to wl1ich h e is well trained b xperie11ce. 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