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White Oak Missionary Baptist Church Sets First Services In New BuildingServices will be conducted todav in the new White OakwtMissionary Baptist Church building which was built on top of the basement structure where services have been held since Aug. 16, 1964. The Rev. Leo Lambert, Soak Creek, is the church pastor.Sunday school begins at 10a.m. and worship services areheld at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.! After these meetings, parking Today after the 11 a.m. service became a problem, so Mr. and there will be a baptismal ser- Mrs. Joe Pilkington, owners of vice and at 7:30 p.m. a revival!the White Oak Grocery and will begin with Mr. Lambert as local postmasters, offered theirthe speaker.home as a meeting place be*VID:lo hinger.55THE CHURCH buildin gi cause of the paved area in front valued at approximately $50,000 of the store which could be used with the addition of the las a parking area. The newly lauditorium, was p a r t i a 11 y I formed church met there from financed by four building fund! March until August, when the offerings given on Easter Sun*; basement was built, day, Christmas, Homecoming! GROUNDBREAKING took Sunday, and Thanksgiving for ; lace on Mav 5i 1%4 and ac. the past two vears. • * r..,1.Last Easter Sundav the goal; c°rd,nS „tor ■f5' ■was set for $1,000 but a„; almost all of the men ,n ftlnteunsolicited check from an areai Oak helped construct the base-businessman for $1,000 was sent; m _ m ,june-by letter, pushing the total to' Keith Radford, then an owner $2,228 for thst offering, Mr.;of Radford and Radford Con* Lambert said. : tractors, volunteered three orWaldo Jackson, formerly the ^oltr days work by him and area missionary from the! crew ^ necessaryRaleigh Baptist Association,; material were ready and local recently suggested writing let-; would carry blocks and ters to sister churches and! m*x mortar, several individuals and church ( Instead of the estimated three groups have responded, ac-j days, the 40 feet by 60 feet cording to Mrs. Alma Pilk- [ structure, with more than 2,000ington, treasurer.blocks, was built in one cight-New furniture, which arrived hour day. Later, members of this week, was purchased by the church did all of the inside donations from the congregation work and put the roof on the and funds for a new piano were structure. All of the furniture raised by pledges received was donated by area churches, during one service. i THE FOUNDERS of theORGANIZATIONAL meetingsto form the church began at the end of 1963 and were held in the homes of Mrs. Mildred Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Z. E. Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. Worthy Harris, where the founders met with their first pastor, the Rev. Bill Nunn, and decided to buy land, and at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hunter, where the church was formally organized in February, 1964.church include, Joe, Alma, and Sally Pilkington, Ed and Lena Hunter, Otis Plumley, Hershel and Donna Rakes, Mrs. Mildred Harris, Mrs. Z. E. Boyd, and Rbeo Plumley, ali White Oak area residents, and Worthy and Nell Harris, Shady Spring.Former church pastors are the Rev. Bill Nunn, Westwood Drive, the Rev. Darrell Hamm, Nimitz and the Rev. Clifford Burk of Odd.
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Post Herald and Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Sun, Jul 01, 1973
Page 11
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