The Ohio Independent Baptist, July 1966

r- - .. VOL. 38, No. 9 Your State Missionary Rev. Earl D. Umbaugh Report on Churches 1 /1e Oberlin Ca/var)' Baptist Churc/1 had their first birthday on May 9th and have had a full-time pa tor si nce la t July. They are averaging over 50 in the Morning Wor hip ervice, The Ohio Independent Baptist 40 in Sunday chool and 45 in the unday Evening ervice . Eighteen h ,1ve n1ade profe sion of faith in hri t, ix have been baptized and the church now has 29 n1ember . A bu ine s man, in a recent te tin1ony meeting aid, ' l think we all ought to give prai e tonight for tho e who are re pon ible in bringing the pastor to Oberlin. It i becau e of hi faithful witne ing that I have come to Chri t. ' The church i now organized and had their Recognition Council at the Fir t Baptist hurch, Elyria Ohio on June 7th. In Cincinnc1ti, a week-night Bible class is being taught by Mr. Howard hort in an attempt to draw together a large enough nucleu to tart Sun– day Services. The cla es are u uall y held on Tue day night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Wothe Apartment 21, 10857 harondale Road, Pray for thi work. A WORD from the EDITOR . • 0 Thi pa t ~eek we a ked our ircu- lation Manager , Mr. tu art Chaffe to give us the total number of tho e ub cribing to the Ohio Independent Baptist. He gave u the following report which is cat1se for rejoicing. A · of Dccc111bcr l , there were 887 paid sub~criptions. By the first of January. 65 new subsc riber~ had been added to ot1r list. In Fel1ruary we gained 88 111ore. In March - 7 5. April- 161 May-141 and by June 1 another 88. e are writing this on Ju11e 11 ancl alre,1(ly thi s n1c)nth (bc– cau e of the conte t ) we have re– cei ed 225. A carcfti l addi 11g of the e figtirc v. ill gi, 1 c ) 'OU a t Lal of l 730. 1 11 i i ti r total n ti 111 l1e r (> f ttl) er it, r . Actt1,1lt~,, eacl1 111011t l1 \\'e s n ut 1857 COJl ie of < ll r Il1fl!' ,11111c. 11 1 e a, e s 111c indi, icltial , a \\'ell a cl1u1cJ1 , \\ll rcceiv 111orc tl1a11 a j I gle c I'> • " 11 i 1 the l )J' l' do i n g a 11 d 1 t J 111 ar c I Ll i n o t11 ' • J n a I t t er f 1 111 J 1 • I d 111 11 I 1 oil 02 J3 a t I Str t , li11, , 111 "' 111 t Ii t I 11 '1 11 , l 11 t 111U US U I Cl J b I SI fl l ] , o. 1. o doubt there are other like him. We appreciate hi continued 1 aithfu lne through the year . Thi bring u to thi thot1ght. We \\Ould like to run an article entitled. HLooking Back. ' After all. the 0.1.B. i now in it~ 38th year! It wot1ld prove, J an1 ure, a thi11g of interest to go throtigh the file and bring to light so111c i ntere ting f ,tct s of the ·~ye - ter) 1 Cars .., In order to cio a thorough job on th1 • \\ e stanc.l in need of back issue ·. l f you've any arou 11d • . . ar1y'th i ng prior lo 1965 . . . a11d arc wit I ing to 11art with then1 , wc Vv tile.I apJ)rcciatc having th 111 . c tt1all) , the 0.1.13. itself ha no cor11r)letc ftlc of l',ack copies. l .J ~ .. r, S ~ I .. I{ t RO 1 0 ! l1ot1t tl1e \ 11S J{ 11' 11() ( ..11 S ,v l1acl to r tl1e )'Ot111g JJeo1,le. I ll c ,, in11 rs art: l1ci11g notifietl a11tl \\ill 1) gi,e11 tl1cir lie ,v~ck at ca11111. 111 ' , , 11 l1t1 r 11~ l1 all , t1r1g 11 OJ)lc i,1t rt:stcd 11 ot1gl1 to tak~ 11ar1. l l1c:s ,, r nlJI tt lJtdi11 O\ r _()() I ,) \\ Sltl) ril,,)r. r1}11 I ,,l1at \\lltll }1,1, 11 , J'lJ' 11 d l1 all ift t)r a l1t111 Ire I · J1tll 1 () ']) rdl d I JULY, 1966 At Bro,..v ,zsville, 0/1io , another group of folk have been gathering each week. The e are fine piritual people with a burden to ee a trong. ·piritu– al, evangeli tic work tarted in their community. There are eight rural town hips in the outhea tern Ohio area that could be reached throt1gh uch a church. In East Toledo, your tate Mi - ionary n1et for the fir t time with a group that are anxious to e tabli h a new work. Thi endeavor i being pon ored by the Emmanuel Bapti t hurch, Toledo and other churche of the North Bethel A ociation. TJ1e 11el-v church at Vienna con– tinue to grow! The people are zealou in their hou e to hou e vi itation work. In the fir t nine n1onth of their exi tence they have een 39 profe ion of faith. There have been 3 2 baptized. The church i now eek– ing land upon which to build. A. 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