The Ohio Independent Baptist, November/December 1993

, Skyview Ranch bas received $10,921 towards the $12,500 needed to meet a matching gift. Toe challenge, from a forme r staff member, is for the new stab le and horse program center to be built in memory o f Dutch Wo lff. David & Lisa Marion David Marion bas been called as minister of musi c and Christian education at Faith Baptist. David and his wife, Lisa, are recent graduates of Bapti t Bible College, Clark s Summit, Pennsylvan ia. David earned a Ba~helor of Science in Bible (Church Mu 1c major) and L i sa earned a Bac~elor of Sci ence in E lementary Educauon. At Baptist Bible College, David was a member of the Chamber Singers, formed and participated in a go pel team, and was involved with a puppet team and several drama production . Besides serving as a summer mi i onary for Child Evangeli m Fellow hip, he was musi c director for the We t Lenox Baptist Church of Kingsl ey, Penn yl va- . n1a. David began hi s ministry on October 3. Senior Pastor M erl yn Jones began his 16th year on the ame day. Dougl as S. Nel on, a recent graduate of Pi l l bury Dapti st ollege in Owatonna, Minnesota, recently j oined the ~t.aff of l 1 ' irst IJaptist as youU1 pastor . Since U1eir arrival in Wellington, l )oug and hi~ wife, Il reanna, have been busy gelling Lo kno·.v ll1e youtl1 and their families, and finding out what tl1e need&are. Do.~g is t11e fi rst full -t11ne youth pastor at f· tr t 13apust, where Joel Kettennng i1) senior pastor . In response to a call from Albany Baptist, a council of pastors and messenger s from five Baptist churches, along with the pastor and people from the bost church, met at AJbany on October 5 to examine Michael T . Ro e, and recommend to the church concern– ing bis call to and fitne s for the gospel ministry. The council elected Larry Fetzer as chairman and William Abernathy, messenger from Immanuel Baptist, as secretary . In executive . session after the questioning, the council unanimou ly voted to recommend that AJbany Baptist ordain Michael T . Ro e to the ministry . The servi ce of ordina– tion was held Sunday evening, October I 0. The speaker was Professor David Warren of Cedarville College. Michael Rose i s in the United State Air Force, serving as director of the ROTC program at Ohio Uni versity in Athens. He will be l eav ing the Air Force in April 1994, and de ire _a pa toral . ministry . He ha an A soc1ate de~r~ •.n Religi on and a B .S. in Church M1n1 tne from Liberty Uni versity. Michael and hi wife, Connie, have two children. The congregation of Calvary Baptist recentl y completed an 8-wcek evangelL 1n trr1ining progran1 entitled, "Team Evange– lism." The unday evening seri e. wa a cour e in " evangel i ·1n for the 80-?0%,,wh? do not have tJ1c gift of evangelism, ai d Pa tor Robert Riedy. "Our goal was to help people see where tl1ey can fil into evange li 1n a l aJvary- h?w cv cr yo_nc can be invol ved in tJ1c cxc1tcn1cnt {>I seeing pe<)plc con1c t<> Christ. " A s p~trl of t11c cries' ho111cwork, n1e1nbcrs l 1stcd lhc people wb<> arc a part o f U1cir cvcr y– da y I ives, U1cn chose seven of Ul<>se l <> pray for . A l ;ricnd l )ay offered 1nany a ~pccial opp >rtunit y t<> invite sornconc from t11cir prayer li ~t to the church 018 news deadline January ·94 issue November 30 11 On Saturday, August 7, 13 teen and 5 leaders fron1 Northfield llaptist began a rn i ·. i ons trip to Vanleer, Tennc ·sec, to conduct a vacati c>n 13ible schc><)I for ContinentaJ Baptist Mi. si on missi onaries Ros, and Shirley l) er clicc. The team, known a t11e ·r AS(' f-orce (1-.een Amba ador Serving hri l), n1ini tercd in Sunday n1oming, evening and Wedne day prayer erv iccs, organized and taught VDS for chi_ldren age 4 through grade 6 and e tabl 1shed a puppet ministry w itJ1 the teens at Van leer. A is~'lnt Pas tor Mark Ashley report , that J 7 children prayc~ to recei ve Christ and 5 were coun. c llcd for as ·ur– ance of their alvalion. Ohio Independent Baptist is a pu hlica tion of the Ohio Association of Regula r lluptis t C hurches Editor S ta te Reprcsentali ve LarTy Fct,.cr Managing Editor [ j nda ·r1i on1as Proofreader l)chorah Bissett Technical Assistan ce Registe r ('iraphics R.andolph, New Yo rk Pl ca:-.c Ji rct: l .ill cn111111c n l..; , corrcs po ndc11<:c , ,tnJ nc,,vs Lu Ohio l11depe11dent Bapti s t P.(> Box 29 ,o'i8 Kettering, (>11 4"4 2<) 'i I , 294 029 \ ' l'ht' < >l l\ 1, puh lt .'lht·d ha nhllllhl\ I t'h/ \ 1.u . M~1y/Ju nt• Ju l) / u~ . Nln /l )t'<. ,tthl n1onthl } J.111 , A pr " t.'pl, <>..:1 h>r $ -t ($h h irt' a~n ) l ll.'I \ t'. 11 h\ lhl' <>h10 A,,ul.' t,1l1 on o t Rl·gu l,u B.iptt , l C' h lu l h '-· ' ' 27 l ,l,t 1>11 , t· l >,, )hH1 , l>ll 4"11 1'>