The Ohio Independent Baptist, July 1964

After seven years - a new building! Washington Heights Baptist dedicates new building Imagine the joy of having your own building after seven year ! T1hi has been experienced by the members of Washington Height Baptist church ( formerly Grace Baptist Fellowship) of Dayton, Ohio, a they dedicated the first unit of their new buildin1g May 17th. We rejoiced to have Rev. Clyde Jones one of our own mem– bers, Rev. Don Moffat pastor of the Grace Baptist Church, Cedarville, Ohio, Dr. Clifford Johnson, Dean of Cedarville College, Rev. Ben Dirk or Flint, Michigan, Mr. Theo. Nie– buhr, Chairman of our Building Com– mittee and Pa tor Robert D . Mc- arthy, participate in the ervice . T1he Dedication sermon wa de– li vered by Dr. V . Raymond Edman , })resident of Wheaton College, Whea– ton. Illinois and a long time friend of Pastor Mc ar thy. he message was very appropri ate for the occasion a Dr Edn1an so e£fectively en1- pha~11ed the '·vertical" and Hhor1zon– tal" 1ncasuren1enls of a hri ~t center– ed church. He spoke of the two n1o~t i111porta11t tool s in con truc t1on ot a 111aterial building, a .. plun1b line' ' and tl1e "Jevcl' ' and used thcr11 as illu tration of the vertica l part of the cro s, (1od reaol1i11g clo\>.'11 to lost 111a11 J}rovidi11g a aviour ar1d <)f the l1orizo11tal arr11 f tl1t;; cros as tl1e 1 acl1i11g out 1 tl1e cl1Ltrcl1 to tl1c lost vvitl1 ll1e JO J)el . "l Iii leac]s LI l 111e11ti 11 1t1al dL1r- i11g tJlr c:\' 11 )' ar J ,vaiti11g fr a l)wildi11g, f ur of >tJr \\ 11 , ung f)c pie l,a,, 1,e11 t 11t f rtl1, 1 la la, to the ,.. a, ('.:l t a11d I r. a11tl J\tr . THf OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST Rhod e to the Ippy Ho pital in Cen– tral Africa. Other are in tr aining for Chr1istian ervice. A Brief History On Sunday Jan. l 3, 1957, approxi– mately eight fam,ilies gathered for worship in a downtown building, ,thus 1narking the beginning of the Wa h– ington H eights Bapti t Church . The original group wa organized a the Grace Bapti t Fellowship in Feb., 1957. Rev. Robert D . McCart:hy h as erved a pa tor ince Sept. 29, 1957. In 1958 the church voted to fellow– hip with the General A ociation of Regular Bapti t hurohes. From the very inception of the work, mi ion have been empha ized. A little more than a year after the fir t meeting, upport for the fir t mi ionary to be ent out wa ap– proved in June, 1958. Now four of our own member have been ac– cep ted for for eign mi ionary ervice. REV . R. D. McCARTHY Truly thi i a local church with a world wide vision. In October, 1961 the Lord led in the purchase of a five acre .tract on Far Hill Avenue in the center of a growing residential community. After being led in a bond program by Rev. Herb Hoover during w,hioh $135,000 in bond were placed, the contract for our f.ir t unit wa approved. On 1 une 30, 1963 ground wa broken and on April 15, 1964, the fir t Prayer ervice wa held in the new building. 'A we came to thi gloriou day of Dedication on May 17, 1964, our heart were filled with gratitude and j oy," pa tor MsCarthy said, We look forward with con,fiidence in Hi faith– fuJlne s to enlarge our mini try at home and abroad and a bright future of unlimited Chri ti an ervice for hrist." About 290 people were in attend– ance at the Dedication ervice in the after noon. The new Bulletin Board held a number of congratulation from friend who were unable to attend . The letters from Dr. P aul Jackson, GARBC Repre entative, Dr . Robert T. Ketcham and other all brought encouragement. Wire were received from Dr. Earle G. Griffith of Piedmont allege and Glady Bardouche and Violet Eaton, mi - ionarie who worked with the Pa tor and Mr . Mc arthy in Kentucky many year ago. A Hebrew hri tian wa the fir t candid ate to be baptized of the nine that te tified of their faith in Chri t in the fir t Bapti n1al ervice during the evening mee ting. Thi deeply ble ed ot1r heart and impre ed u with the value f the fir t line in our ch11rch new pap r adv rti ing which read , ' ' halon1 Jew L , 1 ingl) Invited to Attend ''. Thi attra ted our Hebrew hri tian bother an(l hi love ly fan1 ily t attend our cht1r h We ~ i h to e pre -- ot1r ar>prec1at1on to the 111an} fr1e11d \\ ho ha\ e pra) er· ft1lly helped tl'i th11 far . l ~he Ohio I 11ti c~1c11tlcnt Bapt1 t l1a, l1t'cn ,1 1 cdl t!ncot1ragc111ent too. a" ,, sl1a1 eLi i11 H1 l1le"\ing t1i1<)11 tl1e ,1,tc1 cl1t1r~l1~" <>f l)lll }1io ')\l)Cldlll)Il. MEN'S RETREAT Camp Patmos SEPT. 10 12 Men of the hour : Dr . Geo1 ge Hess, past president of American As!lloc. of Physicians and Sur-, geons from Bunker Hill , Ill . James Dalton, supt . of n,anufacturing production of Standard Oil of Ohio, fron, Euclid· Nottingh n1 Church JULY, 1964 Page 7