The Ohio Independent Baptist, May-June 1965

Payment made for church prope rty The above photo shows Robert Riedel , Grace Baptist Chu rch treasurer presenting a check to Mrs . Dorothy Rogers w hile he r son the Rev. Robert Rogers (FBHM) looks on. Mr. Rogers w as guest speaker that evening . Left foreground is Mrs. Robert Rog e rs. Down payment is made on future church site On Feb. 14. 1964~ 98 member and friend of Grace Bapti t Church R oeky R iver. attended a banquet to tart a fund for a new anctuary. .t\ n offering of 1,001 wa r eceived. One year later, F eb. 15 1965 125 member and friend gather ed at th e R ock}' R iver P avilion for a b anquet at \\'hich time a ch eck for 6,000 was pre ented to Mr . Dor othy Roger as a down paymen t on her 9 and one-half acre pr oper ty in We tlake as a future ""ite of the c hurch . An offering of 1,065 was r eceived that evening toward the build ing fund . The new church i te i on U.S. Route 20, about 2 and one-h alf mi les we ,t of the present church . Ther e h ~ been a -teady grow,th piritually numerically and financi– ally under the mini try of Pa tor Douglas R . C ouch for which we prai e God and give Him the glory," W. Eugene Schlechty clerk of t he church said. ' 'AJ.though no defini te d a te h a been e t for breaking ground for our new church, our bui lding commi ttee i bu"'y making ,plan for the futur e . ' A ucces ful Bible Confer ence was held r e(;ently with Pa tor Peter N ieuw– koop of St. J ohns, Mich ., as speaker. The theme was 'J,"r ael, the Guiding Star of Prophecy. " New building is completed at First Baptist, Parma n c 1 1. I . . I J°'i. grt_1u ntl \ n l1r(1k ' n (> 11 tl1c si ' a,1t1 t1 nc-half acr .. l(lt a t 78,i() Stnlc J{ cJ:t{I (>;1r 111a, for t I, c r; i rs t R, 111 t 1 ~ t h t I rc h <> f J'> ar 111 a. n fay 9. 1965 ( M thcr's J)ay) firs t '>l' rvicc~ were schccftdccl for the new ht 11 ltl i ng. ancl l)c(f ica tio,, T ay wi 11 l1 c c I' t• I .. . t 96) 0 r. J an1c ~ . Jcrcn1iah, rrc-·dtlcnt o f ( cclarvi ll c ( c,I .. lcgc i .., J a lee.I as ~peaker fo r the clecJica– lio n. "The Building cos t i $ 125.00() excltt<iive of furni shing~," the Rev. amue l 1lio tt , pa tor of the c ht1rch. ·.,a id . HThere ar e 12 und ay Schoo l c la r ooms." Ro <;, Mall a lieu and Rober ts of f a silon, Ohio i the architectt1ra l con ult ant and H offr.etter Con~tr t1c– t ion Co. of Broadv iew H e ights was in charge of the erec ti on of the ·building. Keith Webster of Bedford ordained to ministry An ordination council m ade up of p as tors and laymen from 11 Baptist churche in ithe area m et on Mond ay, Apri l 5, 1965, at 10 :00 a .m. to ex– amine Mr. Kei,th R . Webster as to hi·3 qualifica tions for ordination to the Go pel ministry. The council gathered at the West Milford Bapti t Chur.ch West Milford , W . Va., where Mr. Websiter has erved as p~ itor for th e past nine months. Moderator of the council was P as– tor D onald Beighto'J of Calvary Bap– itist C hurch, Mann ington, West Vir– ginia. P astor Wayne McAllester of Bible Bap tist Chur ch, Parkersburg, W. Va. , was elected clerk. An or din a tion ser vice will be cheduled by the West Milford Baptis t Church at a later date. Sunday School contest proves -successful Fir t Bapti t Church E lyr ia repor ts a succe ful campaign. T he Sun– da)l School ha just finish ed a month of HMarch to Sunday School in 1farch·· with an increase of 25 percent in attendance over the ame period last year. Gains wer e recorded in all departments wi th not– ed ad·v,ance as follows : Beginners, 11 percent; Juniors. 22 percent· Ber ean (Adult). 30 percent: H ebronite ( Ad– ult). 39 per-cent: Primary 42 percent Nur ery. 47 percent: and Amba ador (You ng Adult), 100 percent. Added blessing were evidence in the fact that Church attendance in– creased by nearly 100. with a high of 653 on March 28. Sunday School MAY-JUNE 1965 PAGE 12 a ttend ance r eached 742 on this ame Sund1ay with an aver age of 705 for the month of M arch. Some 20 deci– ·3 ion for Chri t wer e r ecorded and 80 new people wer e enli ted in the Sun– day School. ' Much of the cr edi t for a jo b well done goe to the officer s and teacher of the Sund ay School who were fait hfu l in m aking over 1000 call during the mo nth be ides following up every ab entee with a card , call or visi t ,, P a tor Woodrow W . Mc– Caleb said. T he theme for the con te t, under the sponsor h ip of the a tional Sun– day School A·~ ociat ion , was ' F or times like these . . . E vangelize!' ' Points were given for a ttendance on time, Bible brought, and taying for Church . Plans are underway to con erve the r esult by careful foll ow up , a well as improved promotion w ithin the Sunday School . Summed up in one word, the secret to Sunday Schoo] growth i the re ult of: VISITATIO ! When we go, they will come! We mu t r each them to win them, t o teach them. R ev. Woodrow W. McCaleb i pa tor of the E lyri a Church, and Rev. John Weyant i mini ter of hri tian education. THE OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST