The Ohio Independent Baptist, August 1967

t VOL. 39, No. 9 , AUGUST 1967 7, ~ ~ ~...__,~---;-,,lt.w On Our Front Cover ·s a pictitre of Bible Baptist Church , li,/11cl1 is located at 5819 W. Cl1apel Road i11 ort/1 Madison, Ohio. Rev. Roland P. Globig is its present pastor a11d has been for the past eleven rears. Tlz is lo,·el)' new stritcture was 011/v recent/\' constructed . I t is a . . beauti/Ltl building. Rev. Roland P. Globig he Bible Baptist hu~ch in orth \1 adi on formerly dedicated its new ,uilding on unday. April 30th. Gue t ~peakcr for the occasion was Rev. A. Donald 1offat, ditor of The Ohio independent Bapti t. Others partici– pating in the program were Rev. :>rt 11 . Garlich of Huntsburg, Rev. 1arvin A. Werbeach of cw Lyme Rev. John .. trong of Paine ville and 1 f:or111er men1ber, Jtcv. Daniel rown. Al o_ co111n1ent were r11ade 1l) 1r. e rgc.:: ~ chaefer, the cont rac- or 1r. Milton V..'. 1riffe , Mr. Del- o rl . H a) 11e a11d I a tor 1 lol,ig p c1al 11 u ic f r 1t1e occa io11 \.\.'a ;>r 111ed 1, 1rs. Daniel Br w11 and I 1e11' l1oru oJ tlie c liurch. lore han 225 J> r 011 alt oded t}1c J , ,ic ~. Brief Hi tory 13 a Ill 1 t 11 u 1 11 11 1, d J ls annJ ra1) tlr ) l JJ t J gar112 fJr t J aw 1 J rH OHIO I O 0 IS 11, I t111J f nin AP I members. The fir t meeting was held in a Jog home in Madi on where the church met until August 1819. The fir t pa tor, Rev. Alvin Hyde wa called, ordained, and in tailed at thi time and the meeting place moved to the Town Hall where the church met until its own hou e of worship was completed at the corner of North Ridge and Hubbard Road in orth Madison in Augu t of 1835. The building, known a the ' Bell Meeting Hou e ' becau e of the bell u ed to announce ervice and other event in the community, wa de troyed by fire in 1889 and rebuilt on the same ite and dedicaced in 1891. Only the pulpit and the bell were alvaged from the fire. The bel l wa reca t and hung in the new bui lding and the pulpit wa u ed until January of thi year when new pulpit furniture wa in- talled. Both the bell and original pulpit are ti ll in the po e ion of the congregation. The fat her of Robert Inger oll, the noted infidel, wa at one time pa tor of the orth Madi- on church and it wa under hi min– i try there that young Inger oll re– belled again t the go pel me age and took up hi infidelity. Temporary· Closure The church clo ed it door ten1por– ari ly 10 J 925 due to lack of fund and n1all attendance but wa reacti– va ted 1n 1934 a the orth Madi on C o n1n1t1nity hurch. The leveland Mi ion upervi ed ervice there un– til 1938 when the Rev. Gerald Wag– ner became pa tor. In December 1953 the church wa reorganized a the Bible Bapti t Church under the leadership of pa tor Ben H. Garlich. now in Huntsburg, Ohio and affili– ated with the General and Ohio A - ociation of Regular Bapti t Church– e . In 1960 it wa in trumental in helping to organize the orth Ea t Ohio A ociation. An exten ive building program wa conducted by the church in 1957 which more than doubled the pace available for service , but when thi . too, became inadequate and parking pace wa limited, the p ropert y \V a , old to the ibarco Corporation a the ite of an Atlantic ga tation. It wa vacated in Augu t. 1965 and for four month the congregation n1et in a large one-room tore building un– til the pre ent building wa ready for LJ e. The fir t ervice \,\ta held in the new church on Decen1ber 9. 1965. The Church Today The new f ac ilitie , located on 3- l 3 acre in a trictl 1 re idential ar a near Lake rie, p rn1it an nl ,1rged progran1 for both unda)-' hool and chur h. The und ay chool i ft1lly depart n1 en tali zed \.\ it h . e\ en dep cl rt - n1ent and 20 cla e anti rea hed an all-tin1e high in att ndan e of 290 on 1a 1 14th. ltendan e a\eragcc.i 2 19 dLtring the n1onth )t pr1l. ' 'W D die t Thi Hou e, 0 lord . . .' ' AU US 1967 PAGE