The Ohio Independent Baptist, April 1967

How Important Are They? { ..A- Round 5at /e :lJi:1cu:1:1ion) Recently a groi1p of pastors of the u·est Morialz Fellowship (Colutnbus area) held a most interesting discus– sion regarding Daily Vacation Bible .Sc/100/s. They set up a tape recorder a,1d ,nade a recording of their en– tire 111eeting. In this article, we have listed only son1e of their more per- 1inent remarks. It is quite interesting to note the wide variance of opinion 0,1 the part of these men. Perhaps YOU as a reader might J1ave sor11ething you would like to sa.v. We solicit your comments. How i111portant do you feel Daily Vaca– tion Bible Schools are? Our only re– q1,est is that your replies be as brief as possible. We reserve the right to edit lengthy replies, printing only t/10,;e renzarks which we feel are most vital to the q1,1estion. Space is at a pre 1rzit1111! THOMPSO : ..Our own attempts to follow up prospects di covered through DVB have not resulted in reaching one new family." ' 'The Sunday doing what DVB on to do.' ' chool should be is being called tip- " l ...et~s split DVB classes, the saved and unsaved 1n eparate classe ." BOSWORTH: "A survey of results of DVB over the past ix years in our churche.~ h as revealed an average total cost of I 09.()0 per chool. We averaged IO deci ions for alvation each year." '" \Ve have reached new families, " 'e have been ab1e to follow up those a,,ed in n1ost case , we have seen po itiv , fruitful result ." "l..,et n1e read fro111 a book en- 1i1 led,'• acatio11 Bible chc>ol 1t1id " by Ho111 r l.... Jrice, page 15 to illu- trate wh}' 111e " ' uld do awn}' \.\i4J1 8 - \'A/ ha,,e tbe building . We l1avc tJ1e cl1urcl1 111 mbc-rs, we J1av tJ1e teacl1i11g fore . \\'~ have th 11 nc}' t car t r tl1e co t . Wl1a t lack \>\e ) t? V..'e 1, ck co,1 oration. \'-/ lac ' J iritual ,jg r. \\'r:. l~ ck in ur I 1 e t 1 c11ild1 n. \'\' r un- " Jll~ng p 111 • \ ' arc u11\\ 1 illi11g o do tJ " 1 n .. ar )' . . . t t i J, niz ; u1\\illi11g t ; un \ illJng t tu , an I ur I ; un ilJj 11g, · OHIO IND PENDf: BAP IS eems at time , to do much except talk of our perils, of our crime wave of our spiritual ignora:ice, and find fau lt and criticize." "None of us question the need for reaching children for Chri t. If we can do it 1hrough DVBS then in my opinion it is worthwhile." 'The value of reaching one or two new f an11lie certai nl y off el the tact that you have to b'1by it for fot1r or f 1ve oth rs." ..1~here is a definite valt1e in D B through contact\ th pastor can n1ak ,,vitt1 tl1e children. hey need to kno~ their p,t tor to have cor111dcnc 1n hin1 and hare tl1e1r 11 ds with hir11 ." 'l l1erc ,trc \ f •t)t1 s t th~ St111da}' Sch I ir1 D\' B• . It d v I 1>s t~ach- c1 , it tlisc{)V rs 11 Vt' t ,tcl1 ·rs it r a l1e 11 \\' fa111ilir:.s." OJ)cJ1 for t 11 ll a I \ f rl is n " J r . It cl1t1rct1 ." • \VI rl oht1 r }1 . It gt) I \\ill ' J t i 11 t I t n I l1 flt ,, 11 a,, t n 111 t - I le sa, I i 11 , 11 va11 •cl ist i ing in our church, yet we have averaged JO per year in our DVBS. The co t of an evangeli tic meeting i . u ually con iderably more also." 'I cannot ee where we can say that the co t is too high in either time, effort or money if we can see ouls saved con i tentl y through DVBS." • . \ .. ... P R I : • " I take the po ' il1on that the D\ B t\ a 'v\ a te of t1111 ttnd n1one\ " " 111 ten ve,1r " I hav'-= et t ' t: a,1 inc1c,lie in "'ttnd,l) cl1ool t)l ht11ch rt t t c n tJ , n cc a rt d 11 e ct 1 e " t 1 l t l) 1 D\ BS." ·· h ~ Cl)"t t)f \ 1 BS fl)f' t,v ,, \.~ek, Ct)tllti be better i11v st lt in g ,lt r:.c1t1ip111 ·nt t"t r _ \\ t!l"ks f St111\I, hl )l ) • " • '"J }1 11 l } f r~a i11g t111da alt llllc 11 \\ ittl tl1 i11g 111 s pc 1>1 f. r t, ti 11 , , 11g Ii 111 , r k." f in.. 11 ll l' ti h- • • l I- (Conti nu d on pa 11) APRIL 1967 PAGE