The Ohio Independent Baptist, April 1966

Your State Missionary Rev . Earl D. Umbaugh \Ve wi h to bring you up to da te this month concerning ome of the happening in ome of the new churche aero the state of Ohio. In the last report from the Hope Bapti t Church . Co]umbu Brother Bosworth report that they are continuing to see soL1l aved with 3 public deci - ion dL1ring the pa t month with 15 per on<; attending service for the fir t ti me during the month. The church ha cnli tecl R 1ean1\ 10 hegin their EI , HBORHOOD l VA TO FOR ( 'HRl . 1' calling program. These team<; will . )'· ten1atically ca11 on all the ho rne. in a different neighborhood each n1onth. Their purpose is to give a go pel witness to every person, to win people to Christ in the homes, to invite people to attend their church, to fill up their bu and to organize Bible cla e in homes where interest warrant it. They have prepared an interesting tract to be used in this pro– gram. They have recently been host to the We t Moriah Pastor's Fellowship, have hown the Cedarville College film ' Higher Than Higher Education' and engaged in a Sunday School attendance conte t during the month of Febru– ary. Local giving during the pa t month wa the highest in the hi story of the church and they are looking forward to becoming fu 11y self-sup– porting. The Vienna Baptist Church contin– ues to make good progre. . Dtte to increa. ed attend ance they have n1ove(l ottt of the Township H all ,lntl into the local High ~ chool for . unday erv– ice . There have heen over 3() deci - ion. for Chri t .. ince the opening of , Ltnd ay ervices on Augu t 8. Three were baptized in February and there are eight attending the Bible Institute at First Baptist Church, iles, which i sponsored by the churches in the Bethany Association. The church ha adopted the G.A.R.B.C. tatement of faith ) a Baptist Covenant, constitution and by-laws and have held a Recogni– tion Council and ervice on February 17. The church now has 40 members. The Oberlin Calvary Baptist Church i running around fifty in attendance. They are negotiating for the purchase of property. Bethel Baptist Toledo and Champion Baptist are both in their new buildings. Champion had their fir t ervice in the new building on New Year· Eve and the fir t Sun– day in January. and Bethel occupied their building for the first time on ttnday. J an. 30. Two new churche. are tinder way in the Akron area - Port age I ake Bapti t and Victor Bap t i t. Another New Church OL1r attendance ha been averaging between 18 and 23. The weather has been very bad. We have had ick– ne s among our nun1ber, but we are not di couraged . \Vhen the church fir t met on December 12th we had a our gue t peaker Rev. Ray Doan. ince it wa the Holiday ea on, we a ked him to peak for u for everal , unday . At the end of thi time there wa a unanimou vote ca t to call him a our Pa tor. The Rev. Ray Doan Family \ e "''ould like to introduce yot1 to the Portage ake 13aptist hurcf1 of Akron, Ohio. After several n1onth~ of plar1ni11g, and r11id-\\ 1 eek services. ,tn ,ttlS\\'er to pr,1ycr "a evider1ced and we had ot1r first .. Ltr1day service~ on J eceinlJer 12th, 1965. 1 he fir t i tJr1<.lav the ervice wa held i11 th home .; oi r. & 1r . oc.ld, a we could not obtain the school 11lou e ~, v\ e1 e g ing t • r11e~t ir1 ttntil the ne ·t .. unday·. lier~ v. ere 23 in at tendanc . '] lie ne t fot1r ~ u11d,t)' · \\e net in tl1e ell 1, a11d 111 n the l~ord op 11cd lht; d or f r u to ol,tai11 1t1~ u of tl1c )Ventry )' . .A. 1 11 n 1 \\\ a to ur ad, 1 ant ag l>otl1 1in1e\\' tsc ~l11d fi- 11a11c1all). I l al aff rd l ti 111 r cla roor11 pac . l1ur 11 f t}1 are, , c.ind t11 r 1ri 11d Ila\ t1 el 1Jcd 111:J ug11 tl1e1r gift a11d 1,ra r . n J nu~11 )' 1 ~t l1 , 1 ~6) tv\erllt} t\\ 1> 1,l i cl1ur }1 as 1 t d 111 taking , c 11 a f ti I a . }11 }iundrt:d nin l)'- ur 11 111e ......... c IJ d up n I II v-.111g the a11,, th r \\a , 11n f 11 "11ip 11 11 tl l1u1 h . d»lici tt J LI nc 11 I \ t: d ' I 1 p rt \\ I g I 11. Pa tor Doan come to Ll from the Fir t Bapti t ("ht1rch of Greentown hip. He i n1arried to the former haron Ri chard . They have three little children. Br - ther Doan love the Lord and ha a real burden for oul . At the pre ent time it i nece ary that he engage in ecular en1plo 1 n1ent. \ 'J../'e a k that y u pra) ~ ith u that we might grow nt1n1erically and financial!; and thu be able to call hirn a t1r f t1ll-t1111e pa tor. We no\\ have four faithful fan1il1 . and a fe\\ others attc11ding 011r -crv1ce . Our offering h~lve U\'erageu be– twec11 35.00 and 45.00 per t1nda 1 ht , n1all gr up recenll) pt1rcha ed their h 1 n1n books , nti ottering pl te~ t th1 t1n1e \\. e \.\ ot1ld like t e pre \ ur tn 't:re thanl'> to Ilev. ,tntl 11r l~i1rl l 111baugh tor the11 untiring l!fft)fl', 111 }1clpi11g ll\ get tt ,vork ta1 ted ill th1':> ,11e,1. ~hoLt1(i tl1cre be a11\ 1 \\ ho \\ onder it th \\ 01 k of st art 1 ng nc\\ chLtr cht:" 1, \\ <)rt h,, hilt:, \\ t" 1n\ 1 tc ) ot1 tu c n1e anti , t':)it Lts al J>t11 t,tge L al-t! Iler 1111t tt to shL)\\ ) 1 0u tllat ,,·h1cl1 the l... ,J1 ti l1as llo11c. \\ 1 0 , k tl1at )' Ott pra ' J r thi~ \\Ofk. Hebron Women 's Missionary Union 11 1 \\' 0111cn ' Ii i 11 r 11i \11 tl1 l I l r 11 J-1 tl- l )\\ lltJ> \,ill l\lc t llt la , 1\1>1il J tl1 , l 10:0 .n1. Ill Ille tii1g i t l1t:: 11 Id at tl1c ' 1tl1 i ld. ll., 1)ti:s t. lllll" 11 , J lt l 8_ l n (i . I i l'.'; n ){ , d , l 1 1 11 a 11 .l 1 r . \\Jll. Va 11 d rg1 tt11l , 1\J1i , 11 . 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