A Note of Interest

    Doris and I were married in December 1946. Four months later, we moved to Ashland where I began a ministry as Youth Director of the Pollard Baptist Church. In September 1947, we left Ashland and moved to Chattanooga, TN, where I attended Tennessee Temple College and pastored the Oakwood Baptist Church. April 1950, we returned to Ashland and I served 18 months as the Assistant Pastor at Pollard under Bro. Don Wells. Bro. Wells resigned the church in September 1951; and October 10, 1951, the congregation called me to be their Pastor. The Lord kept us at Pollard four years while we studied his word and learned more of the mercies of our covenant God. In September 1955, the 13th St. Baptist Church began its ministry in the Putnam Jr. High School auditorium, where we met for one year while this present building was being constructed. “In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” (2 Thess. 5:18). How thankful we are for the multitude of his mercies, and in his fear do we worship our Lord.