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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1952
Page
10
A church program at the First Baptist Church gathers juniors aged eight through early teens each Sunday. Leaders Mrs Doraig Dewslass and Olive Pr.lips oversee activities to foster service and skill building, with attendee numbers noted as growing.
The First Baptist Church in Elyria built on Washington Avenue occupies land once known as Evergreen Point. The article traces the 1856 purchase by Horace and George Starr and subsequent ownerships leading to the church site, noting riverbank improvements and historic bridges and a 1913 flood impact.
For the first time in church history the First Baptist Church choir will wear robes. Mrs Vance Shaw chairs the music committee which approved the robe plan. Mrs W C Swancott and Mrs Dons HR Kaatz lead the robe making group with 35 to 40 choir members.
Miss Olive Phillips, native of Rockford Illinois and Moody Bible Institute graduate, is the new efficient secretary at First Baptist Church Elyria. She arrived last December and has quickly immersed in church work amid active building plans and Vacation Bible School duties.
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