The Ohio Independent Baptist, August 1962

• 1n ew church being erected the city of Seven Hills The Ground-Breaking Ceremony of .unday,, May 27 at 581 East Ridge– vood Drive, Seven Hill (Cleveland I ) , Ohio, officially gave the "go" ignal to The Westwood onstruction ompany, Lakewood , Ohio, Architect nd Contractor, to proceed with the rection of a $165,000 olonial– t}11e brick structure for The Brook– ide Baptist hurch on six beautiful cres of land. The congregation had been di - 1issed f ram the Morning ervice at 420 Henninger Road at 11 : 20 and rocceded in1mediately to the new hurch ite. The service opened with 1e singing of the great song of the hurch , .. reat is Thy Faithfulness" ;d by Orves Stevens, Direc tor of ,1 usic. Mr . Pa Lil Bushi, ( 'hairman of 1e Board of f) eacons, gave the in– O(;ation and l' u~tor (,corge W. t'K .. cfc (lcJivcreu brief co111111ents. Ground wa then broken by Pa tor O'Keefe, Mr. Earl Buck, hairman of the Board of Tru tee and Mr. Rich– ard J. Maurer Pre ident of The We t– wood on truction Company. The congregation joined in the inging of the Doxology, and Mr. arl Thei hairman of the Building ommittee, pronounced the benediction. Thi new tructure with anctuary and educational facilitie to accom– modate 500 people will enable both pa tor and people to offer a hri t– centered n1ini try, hristian fellow- 5hip. and a place for piritt1al activi tie. to the n1any fan1ilie~ of thi area. At thi~ tin1e of writing the dis– po ition of the present church is un– certain, bL1 t dt1c con\idcration i~ b 1ng given le) co11 tinucd Rcgt1lar BaJ)tt~t tc\l1r11011y at the 342() Hen11inger R()aJ I c.>c a tIon . Smile W}1en yc.>Lt'rc ,tll tircc.J C)Ltt ar1tl rcati)' ll) llr<111 A11d 111c11 's WU)-'s scc111 n1~an nn<.I vile, I)<. 11 ' t frc \.\IJl anti !-iCC>Wl a11<.l glar at 1t1e \VOrltl SL11·1,ri e tl1~111 all will1 ~1 . 111il~. ·1 \\;ill take J 0L1t <.1f ) ' Ottr tirt:tl t.)I • llltlk, · \\'i IJ l i tie \ <. l I "' ,,~r a \ l1il "; l 1 l r it tal i 1) ' - f > t t r 111 l I s I t s t t ,shilll n lr,)\\Jl A 11 l I , u1 I I t1 i r I 11 J 1 r a 111 i J • 1 OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST Rev. Leland Howard moves to Rochester Rev. Leland Howard of the Elyria Bapti t Church, gradt1ated from The Bapti t Bible In titute of Cleveland in 1951 and began a Bible clas in Amher t on March 29, 1952. The cla became a Bapti t Fellow hip oon and wa organized into a Regular Bapti t Church that umn1er. Rev. Leland Howard wa called to be the fir t pa tor of the church and the membership now i over 200. In the ten year of mini try at Amher t, Pa tor Howard led the church to bt1ild two building . which now ha a lovely new meeting place that will seat between 300-400. The Rocl1e ter Bapt i t Cht1rch. formerly t1nder the mini try of Rev. Donald Matheny i a real acti, 1 e group and has a burden for the ot11 of men. Pastor Howard began the work the fir t Sunday of Aug. A va– cation Bible School he]d at the Church under the leader hip of Patil Jewitt wa a r eal ble ing. There were over I 00 in attendance and in the la t da 1 meeting 32 made deci ion for alvation. Rev. Matheny i now pa tor of the En1n1anuel Bapti t Church. lark burg W. Va. Rev. Leland Howard, trea 11rer of the Ohio Home and amp, Inc., al o ha a new addre . It i. Bo 3. Roche ter Ohio. Has homecoming rally Wheeler btrrg Bapti t hurch haci a homecon1ing Jt1l 22. ti~. ionar) peaker for the da) \ as Warll Har– ri , Jr. Dt1ring the r1oor1 hot1r ti inner \\ a\ crveu in picnic st) le \\ ith fo<.)ll prc)– vidc<l b} the l<.)cc1l cl1urch congregl1- tion. lr1 tl1e aftcrr1oon there \\a, ,pt" 'i~1l \1ngi11g, te~ti111l)nic\, ,l B1l1le 111c\~4\g anti ()Id f,1 hil1tlt.:tl chl1rl'l1 tellt)\\,l11i1 ''Men's Retreat'' at Camp Patmos (Sept. 3..6) l t)t)1'ing for a ft..\ \\' cl ·1," <.)f s1,iri tt1al refr~~h111 r1t '! 1 lll' ll 1)lan 1, d ltc11 I tlh.. \ll·n's J{ c trtat ' .,1 anlJ) l'ntnll)s l·1,– tt~111l)t'r ~ - t). I her ' ll' ll) 11\; tl1rcl_; 1·1 , s l)I f 1- l, l\V llil), lUl ,lfl I lt: 'l ti11 6 t)ll tl1e \\' )l'lf ,, itl1 [ r. \\'i lli,,111 Kt1l1nle as rclrt:al s1 ~nk r. l P ge 9 AUGUST 1962