Elyria Baptist marks first anniversary in downtown Elyria
The Rev. Jim Gordon leads Elyria Baptist Church at 276 Washington Ave as it celebrates its first anniversary. The church, born when about 120 people left College Heights, funds a food program, a deaf ministry, bus outreach, Jolly 60s for seniors, and a hot meal program, stressing service to all regardless of denomination.
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Jim Gordon
Elyria Baptist Church
Gordon
College Heights Baptist Church
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Elyria
First Baptist Church
Washington Ave
Second Baptist Church Celebrates 50 Years in Elyria
A history of Elyria's Second Baptist Church from its 1933 founding by 46 black Baptists to its 50th anniversary celebration. The piece highlights penny drives funding the original lot, basement and auditorium completion, growth to about 400 members, and community outreach including scholarships and nurses' guild. It quotes charter members and Pastor Rev RJ Gordon on faith and service.
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Second Baptist
Thompson Hall
Oberlin Road
Second Baptist Church of
Elyria
Bucey
RJ. Gordon
God
Prisons and Pathways to God in Delp's Meditations
The excerpt discusses modern man's crisis of sensing or knowing God. It argues that inner spiritual standards collapsed, shaping a world of broken conditions. Three paths are proposed: preach divine order, restore human order, or reform life conditions toward a new man, with emphasis on education toward self reliance, moral responsibility, and God oriented renewal.
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