Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...columns, Dirks wrote about Camano's little frame church and two of the people who kept it going-Sunday-school Teacher Mrs. Mertie Best ("a saint in a house dress") and Pastor Walter Jerome Wheeler. "How much nicer and more convenient it would be, say," he wrote, "if a church were located closer at hand. Perhaps in a grove of hemlocl where the cleared land descends toward the blue channel water; somewhere, wher the kindly Sunday-school teacher would not have so far to go . . . Last night th Farmer [Dirks] could contain himself m longer. He visited Mr. Wheeler...
...from Saône (see above) to San Antonio, but pastoral problems are similar the world over. William Stuart McBirnie, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, doesn't have to resort to high-diving to keep a roof over his congregation's head. But his success has been as notable, in its way, as Father Simon's. Though his church was started only two years ago with 94 members, it now has 929. Trinity Baptist has built a $56,000 fellowship hall, a $6,500 youth building, a $17,500 parsonage and a goo-capacity amphitheater...
This week 31-year-old Pastor McBimie hung out the welcome sign to San Antonio for his regular Wednesday-night Bible lectures. A member of the congregation had staked Pastor McBirnie and his wife to an extensive tour of the Holy Land, and the pastor came back loaded with color slides and notes, from which he has been making carefully constructed, well illustrated lecture-sermons. Topics, announced as much as four months in advance, include such eye-catchers as "Where Did Cain Get His Wife?"* and "The Lost. City of Edom and Obadiah's Strange Message...
...Pastor McBirnie ("Brother Mac" to his congregation) left the well-established South Fort Worth Baptist Church (membership: 1,000) to join Trinity Baptist's founders before they had so much as a place to worship. He is glad he came; so is his congregation. Said he last week: "I caught the vision and enthusiasm of these people. I knew they meant it when they said they were building one of the great churches of the South...
...company for God. It was to be a place in which there would be no more Italians or Americans or Germans, Lutherans or Calvinists or Episcopalians-only Christians. It started in the head or the heart of a young Florentine, Tullio Vinay. He was an Italian Protestant, a Waldensian pastor...