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https://www.ebay.com/itm/394529302191 The link above is of the booklet, Let's Baptize More Converts, with a picture on the cover of Bro Hyles baptizing in the '64 auditorium

The opening post tells of the '75 Pastor's School...which would've been the first held in the new & expanded auditorium. We had been meeting at the Civic Center for 6 months for the Sunday's services and the church had no problem filling the new auditorium for Sunday services & Pastor's Schools...

For those who remember and loved Mrs. Ruth Bartell, you'll enjoy this ladies' devotional/blog as written in 2013 by a former FBC staff lady: "She walked right by my open office door that particular winter day. It wasn't unusual in a large downtown church to see something similar on a regular...

While teaching at HB’s junior high school in 1980-81, Don Boyd, too, said that weeks had passed by without him sinning. Students thought he had sinned just then…the sin of lying.

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The majority of baptisms from the list of largest bus ministries from the 70's came from the bus ministry, too. Discipleship definitely wasn't a priority. I remember when Bob Gray was having 10,000 annual baptisms in Longview (TX) and they never needed to enlarge their auditorium. You'd think...

Upon Phil's HAC graduation, he was immediately hired as a teacher at Hammond Baptist Grade School in the late 70's. Many of Bro. Hyles' hires were questionable, at the least. This hire was a complete failure from the beginning and his employment at HBGS was very short lived. Scores of parents...

Don Kidd...... would he have been a "B" Sunday School teacher for Mrs Helton in Primary I? There was a Primary I teacher named Kidd who would've been in HAC in the early to mid 70's, around the time that the church auditorium was being enlarged..."A" Sunday School & Sunday church services were...

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10223621603558039&set=pb.1529626721.-2207520000&type=3 The link above is a picture of Ms Hayes that her daughter posted a few months ago. Her daughter taught English at HAC in the mid-late 80's, too. She was an excellent English teacher, along with...

Reading of "covered up for many"....I find it odd that the Personal Evangelism instructor in the 70's and 80's chose to do what was right and approach the pastor of possible "appearance of evil" and the Pastor threatens the staff of termination if friendships with that family continue. That...

the link above is the 50th Commencement....at the 1hr40min mark is where Mrs Colsten is honored and presented with an honorary doctorate.

Another lifetime record?.....I wonder if there's ever been a Pastor to have baptized more people than Bro Johnny?..... When the Fisk's moved to accept a pastorate ('78 or '79), Bro Johnny took Bro Fisk's duty of baptizing; he baptized all of the converts for a number of years, and then he and...

Joy's high school principal, Larry Staab, is still there. Jamie Lapina was in high school with Joy and sang in the same Strength and Beauty singing group. HBHS teachers from the 70's are still in the church and may still teach at HB (Sharon Lewis and Gail Merhalski). Mrs Colsten was Joy's...

Yes...Eddie Lapina is still on staff. Joy's high school principal, Larry Staab, is still there. Two high school teachers from the 70's, Gail (McKinney) Merhalski and Sharon (Blythe) Lewis are still in the church and may still teach at HB. Jamie (Junkens) Lapina was a classmate with Joy and is...

The Meadows were directly north of the tracks from the church....many HAC families lived there in the 70's and 80's. I believe that Renaissance is the newer name for the same complex