The Ohio Independent Baptist, February 1964

Ced • 10 ron • • ssoc1a ion C 1 Co e e Library ti , Ohio Its off icers, churches an·d activities Association has wide variety of activities The Hebron Association which comprise 32 churche , has a wide variety of activities during the year. Youth meetings, Sunday School work– ers conference, Hebron boat ride, Women's Missionary Union activities are stressed. Youth activities are em,phasized by the Hebron Association and a monthly youth rally is held the first Saturday of each month. Present youth committee members are R ev. Kenneth Houser , chairman; R ev. Douglas Couch and Rev. Garrison Rice. Rev. Norman Hoag, youth director last year, supplie us with this in– formation about the youth activitie . The average attendance i 730 with a top attendance of 1,050. They have tried to have a variety of meet– ings with college choir and mu ical groups represented. Evangeli ts have been Rev. Winters anc.l Rev. Cruvers. l .. ocal pastors were Darrell Bice, Rev. John trong and Rev. Dean H enry. Youth speakers were d. ullcr, Rev. Romyne Strickland Clerk rHE OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST Alan Forbes and R onn Huff. A film "Tony Fontane Story" wa shown rund missionary speakers were Dr . Allan Lewi s and R ev. Car on Fremonrt. Emphasi on youth activitie is two– fold: ( 1) Salvation , and (2) Con- ecr a tion of life by C hristian . Meet– ing were in two central churches, First Baptist, E lyria and Euclid Baptist, Lorain with the youth ar– riving by bu,s and automobi les. Each month an attendance ,plaque i awarded which is r eturned the next month unless a church win it ix times in a row. They h ave three groups determined by average Sun– d ·ay School attendance. So far the Fellowship Bapti t Church of Young Corner has won a plaque to keep. Besides these activities, special even,ts are scheduled each year with a J unior-Senior banquet in June a fun night and the Hebron boat ride. Rev. Darrell R. Bice Moderator ,. .. Rev. Verne Dunham Vice Moderator Sunday School Committee shows increased growth Thi committee spon ored a Sunday School Workers Conference in Febru– ary, 1962. It was followed by a con test between as ociation churche . The conference held at First Bapti 1:, E lyria, had workshops led by Hebron A ociation pastors and people. Some of the workshop topic were: "The Value of good record , ' "Grading and Facilitie , ' How to be a Good Teacher " ' Leader hip in the Sunday School ' ' Methods in Teaching," "Vj uals in Teaching,' ' ' 'Work hop and Mu ic," "Per onnel and Pupil Problem ," 'Sunday School Conte ts,'' "Vi itation,' "Publicity and Promo– tion, ' and 'Mission and Evangeli m." Dr. N . A. Wiens, pastor of the Gray– ton Road Bapti t Church, D etroit, Mich. , was the mainline peaker. The "Operation Growth" Sunday School Contest tha!t fallowed wa highly competitive with mo t of the a ociation churche cooperating. The competing churche had a collective increa e of 20 per cent. The Hebron A ociation hurche r a nge in ize from in the 60' to 600' . The committee trie to provide chal– lenge to all the size work in the light of the fact that 80 p r cent of the chL1rch member come throt1gh the Sunday School even though it u L1a11y receive 10 per cent of the Pa tor' .. tin1e. If the local con1n11ttee t1cceed in n1aking fello\\ 'h~p churche and Pa tor ·· u11da, chool Minded ' ' it has perfor111cd it re– spon ibilit)r. Rev . John R. Allen Trea urer Page 9, FEBRUARY, 196