The Ohio Independent Baptist, October 1972

On Our Front Cover ... 1s a pi_cture of the Temple Bapti t C hurch , 1148 Gallia Street , Port mouth , Ohio. Here 1s where the 45th Annual OARBC Conference will be held. An interesting program has been arranged! The theme for the con~erence i~ uPreach the Word !" (11 Timothy, Chapter four) . The Conferenee Chairman will be the C hairman of our Counc il of Ten 1 ~ev. Lynn Rogers. M.usic .will be under the direction of Mr. R aymond A . Wil ~ ~1ams, Youth and Mus~c Di.rector at .the Temple Baptist Church. F eatured speaker 1s to be Dr. ~rnest P1cker1ng Pre~1dent, Baptist Bible College of Pennsylvania . There w1!l be .other speaker t~cluding Rev. B. F. Cate (T almadge), Rev. Donald Loomis (Nile ) , Mr. Lou Nichols (Marietta), Mr . Clifton Miller (Cleve– land), Dr. J ames T. Jeremi ah (Cedarvill e), Rev. R a lph Burns (Westl ake), Rev. Homer Graven (Ashland ), Rev. James G rier (Ceda rville), Rev. Gerald Smelser (Cleveland ) and Rev . John Strong (Pa inesville ). Added to the above, reports will be given by repre entatives o f our three camps, our State Missionary and the editor of our State 1nagazine- THE OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST. It will be a time of rich fellowship. Plan on attending. Your heart will be blessed ! Your OARBC State Missionary · Our State Missionary, Rev . Earl Umbaugh, has been working hard on our Debt Free Camps program. Rev. Norman Bosworth and others have been working along with him. A "full report" will be given at the State OARBC meeting in Portsmouth this month . He has continued with his work of establishing churches. In fact, new ones have been started at Carrollton, Mari– etta and Cr aigsvill e, West Virginia. Working wi th Rev. Don Winters (Me– mori al Bapti st Church , Columbus), Broth~r Umbaugh spent a full day explor ing the potenti al of beginning a new work at Logan . • The Word Of life THE OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST - 1 .... He Faithfully Served His Lord Members a nd fri ends of the First Baptist Church in Medina ( Rev. R. Kenneth Smelser , pas to r ) feel greatly the loss of a very dear brother in Christ- Mr. Ray Folk . In writing us concerning Bro ther Folk, P as tor Smelser sa id , "Although most active in the G ideons, a work that he dearl y loved , yet , he alway was careful to put his c hurch in the right place. He was a man who dearl y loved the Lord and His work. He wa a fa ithful officer in the church and a lmost never missed any of the Board meetings. We ca n onl y rejoice in hi present reward. " ESTABLISHING BAPTIST CHURCHES WHERE THERE WERE NONE - United State and Ca11,1da VOL. 45, NO. 1 OCTOBER, 1972 Now Pastoring Lorain Church Rev. James McCoy The Emmanuel Baptist Church of Lor a in has called Rev. J ames McCoy to be their new pastor . He began his ministry in Lora in on August 27 th . Bro ther McCoy preached his first sermon in a German POW camp on Easter in 1945. He was rai ed in Illi– nois and at one time was a member of an Evangelical Uni ted Brethren church . He graduated from one of their schools. However , because of lhe extreme liberalism in this group , he left it. He served as the assistant pas tor in a Baptist Church in St. Loui s, Missouri . H e also pastored two churches in Illino is . Prior to coming to the Lorai n church he pa tored the Columbus Road Bapti t Church in Quincy, Ill inois . He has had further tr ai ning both at the Columbia Bi ble Co llege a nd at the Moody Bi ble In- titute . Rev. and Mrs. McCoy have four children . T hey are looking to the Lord to bless the work to which He ha called them in Lorai n. We are happy he i now a part of our OARB fel– lowship. AVAILABLE FO R . .. Pu lp it Supp ly and or Sermons in Song REV . GEO RGE P. Z INN Rou te 3 , Huber Road No rwa lk , Oh io 44857 Tel (4 19) 668-8072 OCTOBER, 1972 3