The Ohio Independent Baptist, June 1963

eport on nevv _amp atmos roperty By LYNN ROGERS (T the Tru tees of l)h10 Reguhir Bt1p· ti t H n,e and Ca,np, In<. ) 1 \ t a 111eel1ng (lf the Hl) r11c a11tl ( a 1111, trtt tee" J a11. 21. I l)(1J at ' 'Htll– t('J' H,.1t1 .... c·· .. 1 111 ti(.10 a llcd f r the .1J'J''l'tl1t111cr1t l.)f .. 1 Cl1n1n1ittec t ' ltid) a i1rl lt'C lcli 11lan f r i111pr \ cn1cnt f rcL rt.: .. 1t tt)nd 1 f ,1 i 1 i t,e a t can1 p. Two 111t'r11h(.;f, , , ere app in ted b th tru - t "'l' • Br th r T \\ n end a nd reen– ,, 1 l.i. the third \\ a t be appointed h\ the ouncil f Ten. he chai r- 11;.1n. Br ther Hu y. app inted Lynn Roger . ..... \\' hen the ouncil of Ten met at 'orthfi Id Bapti t hurch, March _5th I ugg ted to the o ther m em– ber of the committee: ince the man tha t O\\ n the property a ll the way around amp P atmo operate a bu i– ne in Hud on ( 10 mile f rom orth– field) : why don't we ee if we can loo k. him up a nd approach him per- onal I)' about our need for more land a t camp? Town end and Greenwood thought it worth a try however no one knew the man name. Pa tor Willett indicated he h ad it on file in hi office. We a ked if he would go direct!}' to hi office when the Counc il of Ten adjourned and call the infor– mation back to u . The Council ad– journed late in the afternoon. Brother TO\.\'n end did not feel a if he could ta 1 longer, particularly s ince we did not have authority to purchase pro– pert)' anyway. H e felt he mu t begin hi return trip to Bowling Green. H o\.\iever, Bro ther Greenwood and I ,vere till convinced a per onal ap– proach should be made. Becau e Brother Greenwood rode with brother ~foffat the latter wa a ked if he wa \.\. illing to ta}' on and wait for Brother \Villett · call and then go with u in our earch for the owner of the pro– pert}' ad joining Patmo . H e agreed to the plan. \Ve arrived at the "Morse In tru– ment Company· about 20 minute after fr. 1 ohn Morse, the founder and pre ident. had gone home . An em– plO)'e directed u ( as be t he could) to t\1r. Mor e's home in Twin burg. \\'e arrived at hi home ju t as he at do\vn to hi evening meal. When his vlife ad1v i ed u of thi , we ex– plained who we were and indicated we v.'ould come back in half an hour. H e Page 4, JUNE 1963 John Morse, preside nt of Morse Instrument Co. gives 3.26 acres to Camp Patmos t rustees; space will be used to in– crease recreational area. apparently vcr hcard ur introduction a nd t ltl Mr . Mor e that he in i ts \\rC come in then . To our amazement he called ti right into the famil y roon1 where he wa enjoying dinner o n a tray while ea ted in a contour c hair. I related thi de tail to how Ott how warm thi man wa right from our fir t meeting. We explained to Mr. Mor e how the Lord ha ble ed our camp through the year . Brother Greenwood r eported the number we had there la t year . I told of having to send some of our young people out of s tate to camp la t year becau e our camp wa filled to capacity. Mr. Mor e seemed moved and definitely intere ted in helping u out of our problem. Brother Greenwood showed him a ,plot plan of our property with the building in their re pective places . He pointed out to Mr. Morse that we are s imply "running out" of space for recreational facilities. Shown aerial photo Mr. Mor e a ked if we could take the time to go to hi office in Hud on. He aid he had an aerial photo of the i land, also tax map of his property drawn to scale. We readily agreed to go! After we arrived at his office he pread on a large drawing board a map of his land and said, "Sketch on there roughly what you think you need. " We sugge ted it would be good if we could include the lake frontage outh of "Finley Memorial Chapel" that we have clear– ed off and are now using to park car and for ome ,ports activitie . Then if we could extend our property pos- ib]y another 300 feet in depth. Such a plot was outlined - approximately three or four acre . H e aid he would make a trip to the i land and ee what such a plot looked like in an on-the-spot survey. We asked what he thought he might want for the ground we had outlined and he said, "Oh , I think the imple t and be t approach to that after I ve had legal coun el is for me to just give it to you!' ' Our obviou enthu ia m cou ld not be entirely muff led. We Jet him know how we and the young people of our churc he wot1ld ap– preciate uc h a plend id ges ture on hi part. When the ouncil of Ten met at edar Hill Bapti t hurc h in leve- Jand on April 15 Brother Greenwood phoned Mr. Mor e. Mr . Mor5e said he had made the trip to the I land and that he had a piece of ground marked out that he wa prepared to give to u . He aid he had gone over it with hi attorney, we could pub– licize the news. Temporary disappointment After that Council meeting Brother5 Greenwood, Young and I went to the Morse home. He showed u wha t he had decided to give us on a scale model tax map of the i land. H e had cut back the grant from that which we had originally di cussed; poss ibly three and a half to five acres back to about two acres. He un– doubtedly could notice our concern as we viewed the ,piece of property directly behind the camp that he was giving us. It was obvious we had doubts as to whether or not a regula– tion softball diamond could be built on the piece of property he wa giv– ing. He suggested ·that we go to the camp and see if we could lay out a ball diamond on the porperty and if not come back to him and see what we could work out. So on April 26 Glenn Greenwood, Pastor Kenneth Nelson of North Royalton and I met at Sandu ky at 8: 00 a.m. We went to the i land and with the aid of takes that we had prepared in ad– vance, a hundred foot tape, and a handbook on regulation court in– cluding ba ketbaJl , volleyball, and a oftball diamond , we proceeded to s take out the variou needs on the pro,perty that wa to be given to the camp. Becau e of ome extremely large tree on the northeast corner area of the property to be given, we ruled that out as a place where we could build a oftball diamond, there– fore, we moved to the ou th ection of the new property right behind the piece of concrete that was used last (Continued on inside back cover) THE OHIO JNDf PENDENT BAPTIST