The Ohio Independent Baptist, April 1967

(Concluded from page S) "Almo~ t all new contact at DVB ere already in another church and eturned to their church after DVB "as over. ., "The great amount of time build– ng up to the chool it elf to my way of thinking i not ju tified by the esult ." ..Tt1e major teaching re pon ibility as put upon mother with you ng :hi1dren. Older mother worked. randmother aid they were too lid ... ··oVBS turns out to be a baby itting agency fo r the homes of the . " :ommun1ty. "Our heavie t attendance i alway n Pre- chool and Fir t Grade. The >ne who hould really get the Word tnd the benefit of the chool are the oung people and they refu e to ome." hThe mo t ardent upporter of )VBS are usuall y tho e who don' t . . . . ', >art1c1pate 1n 1t. '"Everything that i going on in 1VBS is already going on in ome :.ther department of the church. ' "Children who come to church egularly are getting a good training n the Bible through the various de– >artment~ and youth organization as ell as the preaching ervices and Nedne day night ervices and if their ,arents are on the ball they will be etting daily training at home. " " nless DVB erve a unique ob- ective that no other department of he church i doing, it i a wa te of d ,, 1me an money. ·1 would recommend that DVB e topped because I do not feel that he re ults warrant it as far a my wn personal experiences are con– erned ." H<JMPSO : •• J here I another n1ethod of reach– ng the unchurched children, that 1 n1e Bible tud y lasse\ for hildrcn." '" I qJ1 ink the e do a b >tter j b than )\IB l,ecau yoL1 have the children 1 cla e r gLJ larl y 1 r n longer •n gt 1 o J 1 i 111 e." ~ ) : "" 'e Light to r1111inc llr h ur ch ) ar t i 1 " ' t: a r I' t I t t i 11 g ur l1ard 1 , i,1 tile riglll lir ctil>l1 111 ut unn cc ur )' d LtJ)Jicati 11 ." "J dre, I g, ~ h 1 it i r ." I I Jl t nt a l }1 , 11 J ' J pr - JI jf an t I ( )1 } HE O 10 I D P BAP IS don\t they are going to he brandecl apo. tate, or whether they really are o ld on DVB becau e it i, effective and they feel they could not get along without one in their church. " HI do not believe my church would be going backward if we di continued DVB . I believe there are other way which we could devel op to get the Word out." ' A great deal of energy i ex– pended pointing to the e two tra– tegic week of the year. If thi kind of effort were put forth con i tently through the whole year we would ee ome amazing thing happen in our churche ." "It seem we ju t aim for these two grea,t week and after the well i over every,th ing get back to norm– a l again." " f don t think DVB i do,ing the job it i uppo ed to be doing. Thi may be here y in our Regular Bap– ti t circles but this i how I feel. ' • 4 J don't think DVBS should be the acred cow of Spring and Sum– mer work ; other thing wi l.l get far more mileage and be far more ef– fective as far as the Lord' work is concerned. BOSWORTH: The thing I am que tioning i if DVBS i dropped will anything be put in it place? I am convinced that in mo t case it would not. " HEvery empha i we can put upon the teaching of the Bible to boy and girl i ti ll not going to be enough. The little bit that we get to them, even though we would emphasize al l the other area of our churohe ' mini try, doe n't ju ti fy dr pping DVB.. which i doing a j b that need to he done .' ' CA TERBURY: " T decided that T wou Id interview per onally as many of the child ren 1n the older cla e in our 1966 DVB a I had time to ee. Brethren, I had the joy of my life. If you have found DVB a time of dread, but like to win oul to Chri t, I ugge t you try thi . We baptized ix thi. pa. t year out of DVB ." WILLIAMS : " I f we take any area of our mini - try and anal yze it we can grow dL - couraged. ' ' " I have pent a lot of hour calling in home where I have been utterly f ru trated becau e of TV\ crying children, etc. I never taught a DVB cla yet when I did not feel at the end of the week th at there had been po itive re ult. and la ting accom– pli hment . ' BILLINGTON: uEach to hi own cal ling. I per– onall y do not believe that I was called to conduct DVBS. ,, " I have had ix DVB chool in olumbu and ix of them were un– ucce fu l as far a I am concerned." ' 4 J can not at thi moment recall hav ing one oul won to C'h ri t in , i yea r through DVBS.' ' Good Mission Proiect The Ladie Mi ionary ciet of the Fir t Bapti.. t Chu rch f ii n1et Feb. 1 t f r a day of ewing, bu.. i– ne , prayer and fell w hip. Their Mi ionary C'u pboard i a pr ject whi ch they keep we]( fi lled. and di . .. pen e to n1i i narie \\ h i it then1 . t ' itor are invited l) i, pe t the " upboard.' ' Mrs. At flr.(ft11 e1 B<1rre tt , ~ t'< \'. Thousands of communi ties - ... ov in the U. S. A. wit h no Gospel Preaching Chu rches. ~/, /'-./'-.-,/J Fellow hip 0£ Bapti ts £0 • 1 :a11e 0 • • • MEET THE NEED I TO • Bo 455 lyrla, Ohio FA -1224 A PRIL 1967 PA 11