The Ohio Independent Baptist, January 1964

Don Harl, song leader and choir d irector, Glenn Green wood youth d irector, Warren Weirsbe, Lynn Rogers, new youth director, and Clarence Townsend , after youth rally. After noon session at youth rally. Largest youth rally assembles • Cedarville 1n Young people from all over Ohio journeyed to Cedarville College the day after Thanksgiving to one of the largest rallies ever conducted by the Ohio Association of Regular Baptist hurches. More than 1100 were registered for the evening meal, but some had to cancel due to bus trouble, and snow in northern Ohio or some other reas– on. H owever , 1036 were present for the banquet and an estimated 1300 attended the evening meeting to h ear Rev. Warren Weirsbe from Calvary Baptist Church, Covington, Ky. speak on "Four Pictures th at Paul would have in his album," if he had one. Rev. G lenn Greenwood, you th di – rector for the OARBC for the past five years, resigned his ,po ition and made his announcement in the even– ir1g service. The ouncil of Ten, aware of the Rev. Mr . reenwood 's i11tentions, met in an afternoon session and after much di cussion, named llcv. Lynn Rogers, pastor of North– fi eld Baptist hurch, as the new youth director. Much has been accomplished and 1nar1y advancerner1 ts made <lL1r1ng Mr . ,reenwood's tenure as youth director. amp Patn1os has seen rnany i111prove- 111ents, over tl1ree acres were added to tl1e grounds, a11d one of the lat gc\ t grou11 of ca111per asse111bled tl1i s 1Ja~t ti 111111er. l "'l1e OllilCil of rl.,eJl decided tt1cn, v. 1 itl1 these addt;d duties ,t11d ft SJ)C)Jl – siliilitic:s, to }1avc: a co111111ittel'! of il1rec 111 n con isti11g of a yot1tl1 director THE OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST and two as i tants. Therefore, Rev. Clarence Townsend and Rev. Paul Schenck were appointed to a ist Lynn Roger . D espi te the inclement weather in Northeast Ohio First Baptist Cht1rch, Niles, Ohio won fir t place and wa awarded the Travel Trophy. The youth fe tivities consisted of two meeting and a b anquet. In the afternoon there wa a Bible quiz on the Book of Ruth ( ee front cover) and an idea "swap hop ' for the improvement of youth group . Connie Frappier Bryan Bapti t Church Bryan, Ohio wa the top winner on the Book of Ru th and won $10 for her youth group. The e young people ar e a real in- piration to watch a they 1neet for this you th rally. They exhibit good deportment, much en thu iam in sing– ing and a good hri tian te tin1ony. Trttly thi i one time of the year that our Ohio Bapti t yotith look for– ward to. However, it is qt1itc a prob– Jen1 to feed uch cl large group and there i5 talk that po ibly it 1night be ncce~sary in tl1c ft1lt1re to d1vitle ttp in ~n1all er groL1ps for tl1e a11nual yot1tl1 rally. Wh ,Lt tlo yoLt tl1ink , your1g peo1) lc? Write tis yoL1r thot1gl1t '°l a11d 1tlcas for the yot1tl1 rail). J)e1 l1a11~ "'c c\11 ti se so111e ,Jf ) ' Otlr lette1 ~ in tl1c Ol1i 111- tle fJe ndcn t lla pt isl 111agc1L1 r1e. 'c11tJ )' OLtr r f)l ies to J a111 s R . J )l111s(>_11 , I! clitor, hio lndep 11ue11t lla1)t1s t ~1 agrtzi Ile , l:J O r J 84, eJ «I i}}e, 11 j l. Cedarville student from Ohio church plans to teach By Kent Tennant edarville ollege, located 13 mile south of Springfield Ohio in Cedar– ville will be ubmitting monthly a short analy i of one of it tudent and gratefully achknowledge an op– portunity to tell of the many import– ant benefits it has to offer. For our first article Mis Nancy Smith wa elected. Mis Smith i from Kirker ville Ohio, and i a grad uate of Watkin Memorial High School. During her Senior year of high chool he re– ceived the cholar hip given annu ally by the Pue t lub ito one n1ember of the Senior cla . Mi mith i al o from Bible Mi ion B,apti t hurch, Reynold burg, Ohio Nancy i the i ter of orri Smith, who i the fou r th highe t corer in edarvi lle ollege ba ketball hi tory and who al o wa a tandout pitcher on the ba eball team. Maioring in English A enior n1ajoring in Engli. h and n1inoring in math, ancy ha con1piled a 3. 5 a un1 LJ lative a erage n a 4. 0 acade111ic ba i . pon graciL1at1011 ht: plan to teach on the eco11c.Jar} le\ el. Beside being a regular n1 n1ber of the girls' \ olleyball anti b sketball ~ca111 , anc) part1c1pates in the ' hor 1 lairc , a cc Lt Iar ing111g grt1t111, 111 ,\)..., the c ro11et in I <lcrn lt1~1c Ma"ter...,, t\ trea .... urcr t the l l)C~tl l1apte1 of ,1t1onal H011 r o 1et\ of 1 t1s1c, a11d 1~ al\t) a 111~111bc1 ot the en1011 •~tcr.... t]tt~\rtct, a l1il ·\riot1s 'Ot11 'll)' t~a111 ,, l11cl1 O\.'c~1sio11all) J)t:f– fo1111 al col lt'g ft111 ·t1 )Jls. 111 a lditi 11 to these a ti,,iti a tt c11Ll c11 t1 dl Stat oil g (continued on page 18) Page 7 , JANUARY, 1964