The Ohio Independent Baptist, January 1964

VOL. 36, NO. 3 The Ohio Independent Baptist Your State Missionary Nurse asks: "When will there be a church in my city?'' After a Sunday morning service, a nur e working with a welfare agency asked, "When will there be new churches started acros the city where I work?', This Christian young woman has many oppor tunities to witnes for the Lord but there i no church in the area toward which she can direct her converts and no pa tor clo e enough to come in and witness to the men and to follow up the e contact for Christ. Another lady said recently, "I have been distressed about the fact that there are o few Regular Bapti t hurches along the western edge of Ohio." She was right and we are con– cerned about thi fact that from the Michigan border to the Ohio R iver there are only four of our churches in those counties bordering on the Indiana line. A number of people have expres ed the need for new churches in incin– nati. This is the second largest city in Ohio, with a population of over a haJf-miJiion people, and we do not have a regular Baptist hurch in that city. A home missionary took me across new housing developments ot1t- ide the city where he works to how the need for two or three new church– es in areas adjoining the area now Rev. Earl D. Umbaugh THE OHIO INDEPENDENT 8APTIST reached by his new church. A num– ber of people have aid to me that they have a brother or a si ter or a son or a daughter who have moved into ome sizable city in Ohio and have found that there i no sound gospel church to which they can take their families. All of the e expre sion of need point up the work that God has given our Fellowship to do. It is true that we can not begin to meet the need in all of these place . We do not have the trength to do it. We do not have the financial re ource nor the people neces ary to tart a new church every place that there i a need - but what we can do, we ought to do. Our pastors and churche are determined to make an all-out effort and we believe the work of God will be trengthened all aero Ohio. J e u said, "A k, and it hall be given you· eek, and ye hall find; knock, and it hall be o,pened unto you ; For every one that a keth re– ceiveth; and he that eeketh findeth: and to him that knocketh it hall be opened." Rev. Cecil Lewis called to head Wilmington work Rev. eci1 Lewi of Indiana ha been called to be pa tor of the new work being e tabli hed in Wiln1ing– ton, Ohio. The Rev. Mr. Lewi for111 - er ly wa a istant pa tor at River ide Bap ti t hurch, Decatur, I'll., ,vhile Rev. eorge A. Bate ,va\ pa tor tl1crc. l .,ater the Rev. Mr. l _,ewi at– tendee] race heological e111inar) , Winona l..,ake, Ind ., tl1cn pa to1 et.I a cht1rch in Ind iana. (jr ace BaJ)tist C l1t1rcl1 , ~ec.i,,rv1llc. recen ti, had the Rev. 1\ 1 1r. l .. ewis ,1, ~pccial spc,1kcr I > d M1·s L. e':i 1s I cce11ll'- 1 ~ev. an ' . n J l)ougl1t a l1on1c i11 W 1l111i11g to11 an li J>la11 to t1a, ~ scr, 1 ices in tl1 'i1 l1asc- 111 111 t1ntil ~t11tal)lc qt1art ers are t)l1 - I ai11ed for l1t1rc h service . ..-fl1e ' ha,, t~'O dat1gl1tcrs. JANUARY, 1964 018 Editor • to write articles By J ame s R. J ohnson One of the recommendations of the Council of Ten, in a meeting recently was that the editor should write a monthly column for the Ohio Inde– pendent Bapti t magazine. They ug– gested that I should write on current events 1a they exi t in Ohio or the nation and relate my belief as to their meaning in the Christian world. Thus the existence of a new addition to the OIB magizne. I will not however wholly center my thought on thi one area of think– ing, for there i much to write about and ometime an editor ha ome idea to pre ent that n1ay be of ome he] p to pa tor , mi ionarie , or the lay worker in our Ohio A ociation of Regular Bapti t churche . In the pa t I have tried to play down n1y role a editor of the maga– zine for there i alway the tendency to take Ltch an active place in the magazine a to publicize one elf. It i not my de ire to do thi and I will try only to pre ent idea that will be helpft1I, or plan that hould be u ed to better n1ake known th Word of God. Opinion e pre ~ ed in the e article are the vie\\ of the (Continued on page 13) t:a,,or James K. Jonn on Page 3, JANUARY, 1964