The Ohio Independent Baptist, February 1965

Rev. and Mrs. Earl S. Newki rk Columbus church calls pastor The Rev. Earl S. Newk,irk, pastor of Bible Baptist Church, Evansville, Ind., has accepted the unanimou call to serve the congregation of Faith Baptist Church, 43 W . 4th Aven11e, Columbus, Ohio. An installation serv,ice and recep– tion was held for P a tor Newkirk, Hi wife, Lillian, and 19 year old son, Tim, on Sunday af ternoon , Jan. 10. Rev. Ralph Gale, hi tory pro– fessor at Cedarville College was the main peaker with local minister of the GARBC Fellowship participating. Rev. Mr. ewkirk ha had pastor– ates in Lowell and Terre H aute, Ind. , and Detroit, Mich., and 4 1 h years Wheelersburg Rev. Donald Grollimund of Mil– waukee, Wi ., has been called a pastor of Wheeler burg Baptist Church. H e and hi fami ly were wel– comed in the church J an. 3. Bellefontaine Gary Fransted from edarville has been called as youth leader and choir director at Calvary Bapti t hurch, Bellefontaine. A pecial offering wa taken recently toward debt retirement of the church building. A staff from W .; l~ radio station in Springfield presented tl1e message in song and word. Hubbard The Bethany Baptist ellowship presented a program with two mis- ionaries fror11 tl1c continent of Africa al the alvar)' Bdj)list hurch, Hub– ard, 0 Jan. 18. Rev. ,ler1n ur1c– n1al't1 , of ; va11gelical Baptist Mis- ion , W. Africa ; and tv1iss J{t1lh Hege, Mid- 1i sio11s of tl1c Bclg1an ongo were JJeak·cr . Gallipoli 1 e ,. K 11netl1 Hou t:r of \V l.J011do11 , l1io, CV.'a a guest speaker Jan. 10 al ir t 13a1Jti t l1urcl1, 1al– li1,0Ji . THE OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST at Evan ville, Ind. before coming to co·Jumbu . He i a ,graduate of Burton College, Manitou Springs, Colo. w,ith a B.A. degree and of Bur– ton Seminary with Th.B. and Th.M. degree . The Rev. F. G. Coleman, former pa tor of Faith, retired last June 30, and the Rev. Harold B. Allison, a - i tant pa tor , .acted a interim until Rev. Mr. Newkiirk as urned the pa tor– ate on December 13. Faith ,Baptist Church wa organ– ized in 1958 and has had ,an active m,inistry on ohe near North Side of Columbu since that time. Niles J an. 5 wa opening night of the Mahoning Valley Regular Baptist Evening School. A real home is a ecr et society. Loyalty to one, family hould mean keeping ilent on fam,ily matter - just this and nothing more. A real home i a health r e ort. Mother are the natural phy ician . A real home i a coopera tive league. Hou ehold flouri h where the intere t of each is n1ade the intere t of all. A real hon1e i a bu ine concern. Order i a hou ewifc' hobby. But order without ~y tern i a h,arne without a hor c. A reaJ home 1s a haven of refuge. 1lhe world doc ,t·l1is for u all: it n1akc\ U\ ht1nger for a loving syn1 pathy an(I tt ca ln11ng, ~ooth1ng touch. A real hornc i , a tcn1ple of Wor hip. * A lhankf tal l1 cart tloublc\ OLtr blcs~– i11gs, cat1~111g tis to c11j y thc111 l\.\ ice - \.\ 1 l1cr1 \.\ c rccci vc the 111, t111J whe11 \iVe rc111c111lJcr tl1c.111 . * * \Vi\ l:.l . . . J re 1Jarc11l \\ 1 110 t,ik" tl1cir cl1ildr 11 to t111da)' 1100) a11d l1ttr 11 in ' lead of sc11di11g tl1cn1 . Girard There were 70 in SL1nday chool~ 74 in morning ervice; 79 in evening ervice at Bible Baptist Church, Gir– ard the week of Dec. 20, a new work tarted last year. Toledo Special meeting were held at Em– manual Baptist Church, Toledo, Jan. 11 , J2, with Dr . Lee Rober on a peaker . North Bethel churches were invited. First Baptist Church, Elyria Ordains Daniel P. Douglass Ordination council was called by the First Baptist Church of Elyr ia, and met Tue d.ay, Nov. 17 to examine the candidate £-or ordination, Daniel Paul Douglas . Mr. Dougla s pre- ented the council with an excellent rehearsal of hi conver ion to Christ, h.is call to the mini try, hi prepara– tion for the ministry and his doctrinal statement. Mr. Dou,gla i a graduate of the Baphi t Bible Seminary in Jo.hn on City, N. Y. At the conclu ion of the examina– tion the council gave a unan~mou recommendation to the church to proceed with the ordination. The public orrunation of Mr. Douglass to the Go pel Mini try wa held in the Fir t Bap ti t hurch, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. The ervice included the reading of the recomimendation of the council to the church by Arthur Dyke, and the unanimou acceptance of the same. Following, wa a vocal olo by Heriber t Carl on who ang HO To Be Like Thee." The ordination me age wa then preached by Dr. Kenneth Good promotion Director of the Fel– low hip of Bapti t for Home Mi ion , who e headquarter are at 13 7 Graf– ton Road in Elyria. · ext wa th charge to the candidate given from excerpt from I and 11 Tiimoth by Rev. Jol1n Weyant, Direct r of hri '– tian Education at Fir t Ba;pti t hurch. The Deacon of ir t Baptt ' t hurch then gathered ar und the .candidate for the pL1bl1c ord1nat1 n by the "I... aying on of ha11d ' '. t r. ' orJon ( ' art on, h, irn1an f the Board t Dedco11 - led in the 1di11a– tion prayc1 . I'he Re, . Da11iel Patil Dot1glas , \.\ u~ thc11 presented \\ ith tl1c ce1 t1ficatt! of or i1r1at1011 d11d a gift (}t 111011e)' fr 0111 rl1e cl1t1r h to bl: ti t:J to1 b ok~ to1 l1i " librar ' . "l"he ll, . Oaniel D tiglass is Pa t r of the ,race B, (lti t 'httr l1 i11 il- 1011 , Pa. FEBRUARY, 1965 PAGE 11