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Cards-
520
Reports etc. - 169
Bulletins-2, 760
Calendar of Activities-190
Miles Traveled In Promotion of the Work:
17,540
WORK DONE ON MEETINGS ATTENDED OUTSIDE THE ASSOCIATION
7 No. Of Da
Schools of Missions-Mitchell Association
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Yadkin Association 6
Revival Eaton's: Baptist Church, South Yadkin Association 8 Visitation Day, Children's Home, Thomasville- 1 State Vacation Bible School Clinic, Wingate College 3 Brotherhood Convention, Charlotte - 1 Hospital Representatives' Meeting, Winston Salem State Evangelistic Conference, Greensboro
1 Annuity Workshop, Wilksboro - 1
3
Associational Leadership Conference, Winston Salem
2
Christian Education Advance Program, Mars Hill College 1
Regional BTU Meeting, Fairplains Church, N. Wilksboro
1 Regional Brotherhood Convention, Elkin, First -- 1
Associational Missionaries' Conference, Mars Hill College
5
Respectfully submitted,
Audley B. Frazier, Missionary
Ashe-Alleghany Associations
In Memoriam
PPLE GROVE: Mrs. Cora Hart, N. 3. Ettie Miller
G FLATS: Mr. Grady Jordan, Mr. Clyde Trivette, Mr. Clyde Stykes QUE. RIDGE: Mr. Joe Spears
RISTOL: Mr. Emmett Wallace, Mrs. Ellen Johnson, Mr. Wiley Mullis UFFALO: Mrs. Ida Hodgson
HESTNUT HILL: Deacon Robert J. Gambill
LIFTON: Mr. Roy Jones, Mr. Calvin Pennington, Mr. Carl Eastridge
RIENDSHIP: Mr. Dorse P. Hartsoe, Mrs. Ennice Dixon
RASSY CREEK: Mr. Donald Denny
EALING SPRINGS: Deacon A. J. Blevins, Mrs. Cynthia Baker FFERSON: Mr. David Burkett
ANDMARK: Mrs. Sarah Ann Blevins, Mr. Wiley T. Faw, Mr. Glenn Barker, Mrs. Pearl Barker
AUREL KNOB: Mrs. Lou Edwards, Mr. Albert Parsons
TTLE HELTON :. Deacon Vincent McClure
ONG BRANCH" Mrs. Mary A. Miller
EW RIVER: Mrs. Martha Brown
BIDS: Mrs. Ellen McNeill, Mr. Milligan Faw
LD FIELDS: Mrs. Mary Jane Blackburn, Mr. R. E. Phillips, Mrs. Hazel Hartzog RION: Mr. Jesse Franklin Dillard (Church Clerk since 1911 -- last charter member) HOENIX: Mrs. Beulah Eller, Mr. Richard Mullis, Mr. Roger King
LEASANT BRANCH: Mrs. Izora Kilby Shepherd, Miss Patsy Lou Reedy LEASANT CHAPEL: Deacon Avery Elliott
LEASANT VALLEY: Mrs. Bertha Phipps, Mr. Worth Phipps, Mrs. Francis Pierce OCK CREEK: Mrs. Emma Osborne, Mrs. Effie Mahala
HREE FORKS: Deacon Robert Allen, Mr. Lafayette Lewis
ALLEY HOME: Mrs. Zora B. Church
AGONER: Deacon Charles Dishman
EST JEFFERSON: Mr. Carl F. Colvard
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REPORT ON PUBLIC MORALS
We are living in a day when public morals are at an all time low. We have only to read the newspapers, turn on the television, look at the billboards along the highways or listen to the conversation round about us to realize how far down the hill in decent Christian living our nation and the world has fallen. There was a time when alcoholic beverages was our major concern but times have changed until not only is liquor our arch enemy but narcotics, sex and self in- dulgence in vice and crime have taken leading rolls. The Apostle Paul said, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wicked- ness in high places. " (Eph, 6: 12) He who professes to know God, but is not engaged in this conflict is deceiving his own heart. It's time we as christian
leaders realized that we are at war with satan's mightiest forces and thatwe have a job to do.
The christian life is not a vacation but a vocation. We have not been called to retirement but to conflict. We are not spectators but soldiers.
The christian life is a personal conflict. "We wrestle. " We are not nursemaids but soldiers of the Cross. We cannot wear our uniform just on Sunday. We must come to grips with organized crime and wickedness daily if our young people of today rise above the moral laxity of this day.
Sad to say, but we are in another conflict, "flesh and blood. " Denominations fight one another, churches are against one another and pastors against pastors. Is it any wonder that the world has lost faith in christianity? We are neglecting prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit and inducting into our evangelistic efforts a promotional program, entertainment, names and organizations. We blow a lot of trumpets but the walls of Jericho remain standing. Instead of feeding our people with God's word and giving them a better way of life we succeed only in tickling them to death with some of our shenanigens in the pulpit, while the morals of our people drop lower and lower with each report and spiritual wicked- ness reaches from the gutters of skid row to presidential suites and royal palaces.
As Soldiers of the cross we have failed God and the world through not apply- ing our teachings and doctrines to our own personal life. As christian leaders we are under authority from God from whom we get all our orders. I believe those orders of the day are -- CHRISTIANS AWAKE -- PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD. WE ARE STILL MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
Respectfully submitted, Rev. H. M. Winkler
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THE LOTTIE MOON CHRISTMAS OFFERINGS HAVE BEEN CLOSE TO THE HEART'S OF ASHE COUNTY BAPTIST OVER THE YEARS.
BAPTISING AT TUCKERDALE BAPTIST CHURCH RUSY HART A. RUBY ELLER IN THE WATER. Roy's. N. D. Hart & Frank Tucker
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LOTTIE MOON GRAVE
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BALCONY VIEW OF LOTTIE, MOON WINDOW
CREWE BAPTIST CHURCH
P. O. BOX 94 CREWE, VIRGINIA
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SEVENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE
ASHE
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
North Carolina
1886-1963
HELD WITH
PHOENIX BAPTIST CHURCH Lansing, N. C. August 15, 1963
PILOT MOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCH
Todd, N. C. August 16, 1963
George West Rev. R. C. Ashley
Moderator
Vice- Moderator
McDaniel Harless Clerk and Treasurer
The Next Session Will Be Held With
TUCKERDALE BAPTIST CHURCH
August 20, 1964
MISSION HOME BAPTIST CHURCH August 21, 1964
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These minutes are dedicated
to the memory of
Donald A. Denny -
Outstanding Layman &
Member Of The
Executive Committee
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C. Pipes, field secretary of the Convention who works in the western part of the 2. is shown above teaching a class.
First Baptist Church West Jefferson. N.C.
R. M. A. HUGGINS and Mrs. Hug- ins display the plaque presented to Dr. Huggins for his work on the history f North Carolina Baptists.
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J . C. PIPES-M. D. HART AND CARROLL.
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A Ford that carried M. D. Hart To Ist Pastorat
Owner Mr. A. P. McClure
SUNDAY SCHOOL REPORT 1962 - 1963
The Sunday School organization of the Ashe Association has held quarterly planning meetings to enable officers, teachers and leaders to discuss and plan ways to build better Sunday Schools through and by better methods.
The supreme business of Christianity is to win the lost to Christ. This is what churches are for. It was Christ's one supreme mission according to his words. "Fo the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:19) "I am come that they might havelife, and that they might have it more abundantly' (John 10:10). Surely then the Sunday School must relate itself to the winning of the lost to Christ as an ultimate objective.
Not only is this winning of the lost to Christ an all important task, it is also a most attractive task. The soul winning preachers and teachers are always attractive and never lack for hearers; and just as the throngs pressed upon Jesus when he was here, so today will people attend upon the ministry of the soul- winning preacher and Soul-winning teacher. Likewise, the soul-winning church will be a popular church and the soul-winning Sunday School will draw the multitudes into its membership
The Sunday School is an outreaching agency; its business is to bring into it membership both those who are saved and those who are lost. Let us consider anew the commanding and pressing importance of soul-winning through the Sunday School I am grateful to those who have served with me in the Sunday School organizatio of Ashe county this Associational year. May we go out this new associational yeal as those who followed the Apostle Paul on one occasion, a band of people with God touched hearts.
Respectfully submitted, W. E. Burchett
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION REPORT
This report is being written after the meeting of the association for incorporatio into the minutes, therefore it has neither been approved nor disapproved. It is present ed to you in the hope that it will be read and that it may help you to see your schools as the important instruments in the Kingdom of God they are.
Implicit in the very foundation of the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ is th
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necessity of "knowing." Before the sinner is converted he must know himself to be lost and in need of salvation and that his hope is to be found in Jesus Christ. If the church is to be and do what Christ commissioned it to do it must know its message, something of how that message is to be applied in concrete life-situations and how Christ meets our deepest needs.
If our churches are to meet their responsibilities they must have leaders both in the pulpit and out of it who are able to think through the problems of life that confront us to solutions that honor Christ and extend His kingdom. Here is where our schools enter into the picture.
Some years ago our Baptist people sponsored and, to some degree at least, supported a system of education on both the high school and college levels. As the years have passed the state, through the public school system, has taken over the task of education on the high school level, and to a great extent on the college level as well. Our churches are left free, for the most part, to concentrate their efforts in their educational programs on the college and university levels. This, we feel, is a blessing with the limited resources our churches provide for this purpose.
In North Carolina we have seven colleges owned by our Baptist State Convention. Three of these schools, Chowan, Gardner-Webb, and Wingate, are two-year colleges and four, Campbell, Mars Hill, Meredith and Wake Forest, are full four-year colleges granting the basic academic degrees. Two of them, Campbell and Mars Hill, are just emerging as senior colleges, while Meredith and Wake Forest have enviable records of many years service behind them. Wake Forest also grants graduate (M.A.) and professional degrees in law and medicine.
All of these colleges are facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities. With the greater college population and emphasis on education they have more applications for admission than they can meet, and with the advent of the "community college" movement in North Carolina they face the challenge of excellence in education. They must be better schools than their competition or they cannot exist.
Our schools have many needs, some of which we are only dimly aware. Three are here emphasized that are inter-locked. First, our schools need financial support. They must provide adequate buildings and equipment for a sound instructional pro- gram and these things cannot be had without money with which to pay for them. Some of this money is provided by Baptists through the Co-operative Program, special Christian Education Day offerings, direct gifts to the school of the donor's choice, but much of it comes from non-Baptist friends and foundations, endowments, and from the alumni of the school. Second, our schools must have capable Christian faculties. A university has been defined as Mark Hopkins (the teacher) on one end of a log and the farmer boy (the student) on the other, and let it be emphasized that nothing can take the place of the teacher. However, in our stiffly competitive world the salary scale for our teachers must be considered. Before we criticize the teacher who takes a better paying salary we should ask just how much we have sacrificed for these schools. Third, our colleges need our prayerful and sympathetic concern. We are too prone to make quick judgments about issues, reports and conditions that (ome to our attention regarding our schools. We need to realize that the admin- istrators, teachers, trustees and others who have responsibilities in the schools are closer to the problem than we are and that they are just as concerned about the cause of Christ and just as consecrated to Him as we are, and they deserve our prayers and support as co-laborers in Christ's Kingdom.
Perhaps a word is due in this report about the Fruitland Baptist Bible Institute. It is not a part of our Christian Higher Education System, but rather a part of our State Mission Program. It is not a college nor a seminary but a Bible institute whose
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purpose and program is a ministry to preachers who have entered the ministry too late in life to take advantage of our college programs. It is doing an excellent work as we know from the Fruitland men in our midst.
Respectfully submitted, Report prepared under the" direction of the Executive Committee
In Memoriam
APPLE GROVE
OLD FIELDS
John Miller BALD MOUNTAIN
Mrs. 'Virgie Baker PHOENIX
Mrs. Tom Holman
Mr. J. W. Barr
BAPTIST HOME
Mrs. J. W. Barr
Mr. Frank Lewis
Mr. Van Yates
Mr. W. J. Sturgill
Mrs. Lessie McNeil
BEAVER CREEK
Mrs. Grace Goodman
James Patrick
Mrs. N. R. Reedy
BETHEL
PLEASANT CHAPEL . Mrs. Mary Greer.
Mrs. Mae Trivette
BIG FLATTS
Mr. Russel L. Toliver
BLUE RIDGE
PLEASANT VALLEY
Mrs. Mary Hamby
Mr. E. W. Phipps
Mr. Hoyt De Board
BRISTOL Mrs. Venie Bullins CLIFTON Mr. Charlie Gilly
SABBATH HOME R. Carson Thompson
SMETHPORT
FRIENDLY GROVE
Mrs. Mollie Ashley
Mr. Edd Taylor
STURGILLS Mrs. Amanda Spencer
FRIENDSHIP
THREE FORKS
Mrs. Effie Witherspoon
Mrs. Lura Lewis
HEALING SPRINGS
Mrs. M. C. Grace
LANDMARK
WELCOME HOME
Mr. Millard F. Denny
Mr. Marshall Dixon
MIDWAY
Mr. Joe Medley
Mr. Eugene Shatley WARRENSVILLE Mrs. Margaret Ashley WEST JEFFERSON
MISSION HOME
Mr. Sidney Grogan
MOUNT OLIVE
Mrs. Arthur Barker
Mr. Dean Phillips
Mrs. Della Oliver
Mr. Leonard Shepherd
Mr. Elisha Poe
NEW RIVER Mrs. Emma Jane Hanes OAK HILL Mr. G. W. Blevins
PLEASANT BRANCH Mr. N. R. Reedy
PLEASANT HOME Mrs. Alice Thompson
Mr. Gene Beshears
TUCKERDALE Cynthia Andersons
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SEVENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE
ASHE
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
North Carolina
1
1886-1964
Held With
TUCKERDALE BAPTIST CHURCH
LANSING, N. C. August 20, 1964
MISSION HOME BAPTIST CHURCH
FLEETWOOD, N. C. August 21, 1964
eorge West
Moderator ev. R. C. Ashley Vice-Moderator L. Barker, Jr. . Clerk uy T. Shatley
Treasurer
The next session will be held with Sturgills Baptist Church August 12, 1965 South Beaver Creek Baptist Church August 13, 1965 I80
In Memoriam
BALD MOUNTAIN Mrs. Thomas Holman Mrs. Maggie Ham BAPTIST HOME Mr. Joe Potter
BEAVER CREEK Mrs. Nora Darnell BETHEL Mr. Joe E. Johnson BLUE RIDGE
Mrs. Mary P. Church . Mrs. Martha P. Walker Mr. D. J. Church Mrs. Dann Eller BRISTOL Mrs. Martha Johnson Mrs. Mattie Johnson Mr. Columbus Combs
BUFFALO Mrs. Louise Trivette Potter CHESTNUT HILL
Mr. Glenn Sheets
GLENDALE SPRINGS
Mrs. Mary Ellen Miller GREEN'S CHAPEL Mrs. Lillian Cole HEALING SPRINGS Deacon F. M. Jones
Deacon Carl Blevins
Mr. W. T. Little
Mrs. Lena Blevins Mr. Ray Barker Mr. A. L. Cox Mr. Leff Gaultney Mr. Hester Blevins
JEFFERSON Mrs. Almedia Ann Baker Mrs. Reggie Eller LANDMARK
Mrs. Minnie Faw Mrs. Lucindia Ham Mrs. Lura Coe Mrs. Gerlie Blevins
LAUREL KNOB Mrs. Mabel Wilcox
LITTLE HELTON Mr. Caroll Testerman Mr. Frank Porter
NEW RIVER
Mr. Lintie Joner Miss Elsie West Mrs. Opal Gover ORION Mrs. Lena Bowers Bare Mrs. Maude Yates PHOENIX Mr. Lee McNeill Mrs. Mary Mullis Deacon E. C. Eller Deacon Fred Waddell PILOT MOUNTAIS Mr. A. T. Parker PLEASANT BRANCH Mr. Claborn Kelly PLEASANT CHAPEL Mrs. Ethel Campbell PLEASANT HOME
Mr. Claude L. Blevins PLEASANT VALLEY Mrs. Florence Taylor Mr. W. N. Ballou ROCK CREEK Mrs. Oma Roark ROUND KNOB Mrs. Mary Ann Miller SABBATH HOME Mr. Glenn Hamm STURGILLS Rev. R. L. Dolinger Mrs. Ella Waddell THREE FORK Mr. Edd Johnson TUCKERDALE Mr. Elmer Stevens, Sr.
VALLEY HOME Mrs. Jennie Howell Mrs. Ida Phillips WAGONER Mrs. Pheba Coldiron Deacon Dewey Jenkins Deacon Albert Barker WEST JEFFERSON Miss Ellen Myers Mrs. John A. Weaver, Sr. Mrs. Coy Woodie Miss Ruth Watson Mr. Fred Greene
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REV. R. L. DOLINGER
DEDICATION
These minutes are dedicated to the memory of
E. C. Eller
Joe Johnston Rev. R. L. Dolinger
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Mr & Mrs. Joe Johnston
DIRECTORY
Associational Directory
Moderator George West, Grassy Creek, N. C. Vice Moderator Rev. R. C. Ashley, Warrensville, N. C.
Clerk F. L. Barker, Jr., West Jefferson, N. C.
Treasurer Guy T. Shatley, Jefferson, N. C.
Superintendent of Missions Rev. Lynn M. Powers, West Jefferson, N. C.
Sunday School Superintendent Rev. R. R. Campbell, West Jefferson, N. C. Training Union Director William F. Eller, West Jefferson, N. C.
W.M.U. President Mrs. C. E. Lindsey, Jefferson, N. C.
Brotherhood President. Guy T. Shatley, Jefferson, N. C.
Chairman of Evangelism W. T. Brackett, West Jefferson, N. C.
Moderator of Ministerial Conference R. C. Ashley, Warrensville, N. C.
Director of Music Committee Mrs. Cecil Shoaf, Warrensville, N. C.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
3 year term:
2 year term:
1 year term:
Onley Burgess, Jefferson, N. C. Bobby Bare, Healing Springs, N. C. Eddie Duncan, Jefferson, N. C. Rev. G. C. Burkett, Chairman, Jefferson, N. C. B. W. Miller, Lansing, N. C. Rev. R. R. Campbell, West Jefferson, N. C. Rev. J. H. Gentry, West Jefferson, N. C. Paul Hopkins, West Jefferson, N. C. Rev. Frank Tucker, West Jefferson, N. C.
COMMITTEE ON NEW CHURCHES
Rev. W. E. Denny, Crumpler, N. C. Rev. Frank Tucker, Warrensville, N. C.
Rev. R. C. Ashley, Lansing, N. C.
D. C. Severt, West Jefferson, N. C. James Vannoy Walter Poe
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Rev. R. R. Campbell, West Jefferson, N. C. John Goodman, West Jefferson, N. C.
Jack Miller, West Jefferson, N. C.
Richard Neaves, Crumpler, N. C. Roby Swift, Jefferson, N. C.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Guy T. Shatley, Treasurer, Jefferson, N. C. Rex Blevins, Grassy Creek, N. C. Sanford Howell, Fleetwood, N. C.
B. F. Cook, West Jefferson, N. C.
Lloyd Witherspoon, West Jefferson, N. C.
PLACE AND PREACHER COMMITTEE
W. E. Denny, Chairman, Crumpler, N. C. Frank Tucker, Warrensville, N. C. Reeves Jones, Crumpler, N. C. Lawrence Goodman, Alternate, Todd, N. C.
MISSIONS COMMITTEE
B. W. Miller, Chairman, Lansing, N. C. R. R. Campbell, West Jefferson Paul Hopkins, West Jefferson, N. C.
Onley Burgess, Jefferson, N. C. Eddie Duncan, West Jefferson, N. C.
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REPORT OF ASSOCIATIONAL MISSIONARY
Type of Work Done In the Churches:
Sermons preached
36
Sunday School Classes Taught;
16 7
Visual Aids Presented
8
Vacation Bible Schools Conducted
13
Vacation Bible Schools Promoted
9
Devotionals
16
Revivals
1
Ordinations Services
1
Mission Studies
2
Baptist. Training Unions Organized
1
ASSOCIATIONAL PROMOTIONAL EFFORTS: Meetings
Forward Program of Church Finance Clinic, Friendship
2
Ashe Music School, West Jefferson
5
Seminary Extension Classes (Help promote taught two classes
Associational W.M.U. Leadership Conference, Friendship
1
Associational Hymn Sings
4
Associational W.M.U. Mission Study Clinic
1
Ashe "M" Night, West Jefferson
1
Preachers' School, West Jefferson
5
Laymen's School, West Jefferson
4
Vacation Bible School Clinic, West Jefferson
2
Annual W. M. U. Meeting, Warrensville
1
Others Efforts Used to Promote the Work (Both Associations)
Conferences: Individual 580, Group 22, Committee 38
Mail sent out: Letters 778, Cards 343, Reports 49, Bulletins 2292, Calendar of Activities 200.
Miles traveled in Promotion of the Work: 19,986.
Work Done or Meetings Attended Outside the Association:
No. of Days
Three Schools of Missions-South Yadkin Three Forks
West Chowan 6
Associational BTU Officers Meetings, Winston-Salem 1
3
Associational Missionaries Conference, Greensboro
1
Associational Missionaries' Workshop, Salisbury 3 Homes for Aging Representatives' Meeting, Winston-Salem 1
Brotherhood Officers' Meeting, Hickory 1
State Vavation Bible School, Fruitland 3
Region VII Training Union Convention, Taylorsville 1
1
Southern Baptist Convention, Miami Beach, Fla. 4
Associational Missionaries Conference, Southport 4 Respectfully submitted, Audley B. Frazier.
REPORT ON BAPTIST HOSPITAL
I trust that this may be a challenge to every Ashe County Baptist to take a close look at the work being done by our Baptist Hospital at Winston- Salem.
1959 was a busy year with births 1,895.
Diagnostic X-ray films-111,680.
X-Ray examinations-38,257.
X-Ray therapy treatments-6,325.
Operations-7,267.
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6
5
Baptist State Convention, Greensboro
Region VII Brotherhood Meeting, Wilkesboro
Church Study Courses Taught
ASHE MISSIONARY BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
PROGRAM ASHE MISSIONARY BAPTIST ASSOCIATION 1961 Session
BUFFALO BAPTIST CHURCH
August 17, 1961
Morning Session
Rev. Frank Tucker
9:00 Worship, Song, Scripture, Prayer
9:15 Organization and Business
1. Seating of Messengers
2. Adoption of Program
3. Reception of Visitors and New Pastors
4. Appointment of Committees
9:30 Business Session
1. Report of Executive Committee Rev. G. C. Burkett
2. Report of Associational Missions Audley B. Frazier
3. Report of Treasurer McDaniel Harless
4. Report of Finance Committee Rev. R. C. Ashley
5. Election of Officers for next session
10:30 Congregational Song
10:35 The Churches and the Ministry Rev. John Goodman
1. Report of Ministerial Conference
2. Report on Pastors' Salaries and Ministerial Retirement-
Rev. W. T. Whittington
10:50 Service Commemorating 75th Anniversary of Ashe Association- Ira T. Johnson, Rev. M. D. Hart, A. D. Goodman
11:20 Music
11:30 Associational Sermon Rev. G. L. Denny Alternate: Rev. Frank Tucker
12:00 Recess for Lunch
Afternoon Session
1:15 Worship in Song and Prayer
1:25 Report of Committee on Constitution
2:00 The Churches and Benevolent Services
1. Report on Children's Homes Rev. Lee Waddell
2. Report on Hospital Rev. J. Herman Gentry
3. Report on Baptist Homes for Aging Mrs. F. L. Waddell
2:45 Our Churches at Work
1. Sunday School Report Rev. Arnold Bell
2. Training Union Report D. C. Severt
3. W. M. U. Report Mrs. Ralph Parsons
4. Brotherhood Report Guy T. Shatley
5. Music Committee Report Mrs. Cecil Shoaf
3:30 Miscellaneous Business Adjourn
WAGONER BAPTIST CHURCH August 18, 1961 Morning Session
9:00 Worship, Song, Scripture, Prayer Rev. A. E. Sells
9:15 Miscellaneous Business
1. Report of Nominating Committees (1) Election of Officers for all Organizations
(2) Election of Executive Committee
2. Report of Committee on Place and Preacher
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ASHE MISSIONARY BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
MUSIC COMMITTEE REPORT
Our Associational Hymn sings of the fourth Sunday of the first month of each quarter were held this year at the Warrensville, Old Fields, Wagoner, and Bald Mountain Baptist churches.
Much enthusiasm is shown by those who attend. They find the meetings 'o be both inspirational and instructional.
Our greatest need is for larger participation.
Respectfully submitted,
Mrs. Cecil Shoaf,
NEWS TO ASHE BAPTIST CHURCHES
What ? The Ashe Baptist Association meeting at the Pleasant Home Bap- tist Church, August 14, 1959, voted to authorize the Executive Committee to build or buy a house for the Associational Missionary. (This house would be owned by the Ashe Baptist Association and occupied by whoever is employed by the Association as our missionary).
Why ? The Association has seen the need to provide a house for our mis- sionary and for the past four years has done this by renting a house. We are spending approximately $600.00 a year for rent. It seems wise to build a house and save the money we are paying for rent. We can also provide a more adequate and suitable house by building a house. (We recommend this house be a brick veneer, be at least three bedrooms and have an Associational Office in the house).
How? I. The Executive Committee of the Ashe Association proposes the following plans for securing the estimated amount of $5,500 to buy the materials for the house:
1. Each church is requested to give on the average of $2.00 per resident member. This may be given as follows. (1) One fourth to one half be given as soon as possible. (2) The remaining amount to be given a part each year for three years.
2. As soon as the house is occupied the money in the budget allocated for rent to be applied on the remaining indebtedness on the house.
II. The Executive Committee further proposes that we use as much free labor as possible to build the house.
We desire the cooperation in this endeavor of every church, pastor and individual member.
Sincerely, G. C. Burkett, Chm. A. P. Howell, Sec., Your Executive Committee.
Therefore the Executive Committee selected the following persons to act as a building committee for the association and also to serve as Trustees of the association:
D. C. Severt, Chairman, Rev. G. C. Burkett, Sec. of Associational Building Fund, Lloyd Witherspoon, Sanford Howell, Paul Hopkins.
As of August 18, 1960 this committee reports the following activities. Four lots have been bought between Jefferson and West Jefferson on Mid- way Heights for $1120.00. One-fourth of this amount was paid down and the balance is to be paid in one, two, and three years. The grading for the foun- dation has been done, batter boards have been set ready to dig out for the footers. Four hundred and fifty blocks to go in the foundation are now on the lots. Also we have a little more than $300.00 on hand to begin the build- ing.
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