Word: rushford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Park T. Rushford was not pleased with his new charge, the Waldron Baptist Church, even though it was set in the midst of some of the best farm land in Indiana's fertile Shelby County, about 35 miles southeast of Indianapolis. The building was old and dilapidated when Rushford moved there in 1945, and the congregation was slipping away. The $15,000 that had been raised for a new building was nowhere near enough...
Young Pastor Rushford put his hope in the old practice of tithing, with which the Northern Baptist Convention has recently had much success. He began by setting his farmer congregation an example. Out of his own salary of $2,000 a year, he returned $200 to the church. Over & over again in his sermons he reminded his flock that tithing was the Christian standard. "We are what we are because God created us," he said, "and for our love for the Lord, tithing should only be the minimum of what...
...ball had been set rolling. Farm prices were riding high, and other farmers began to tithe. This week Pastor Rushford preached his first sermon in a bright new church, complete with a modern kitchen, social room, children's department, and a 60-ft. spire. The church cost $100,000; of this, $60,000 is already in the bank, and the remaining $40,000 is scheduled to be paid off within five years...