BAPTIST CHURCH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 10 February 1923, Page 6

BAPTIST CHURCH.

WELCOME TO NEW MINISTER. w^como e*h°i a] SathP ring arranged to we come the Rev. and Mrs. E. It Gorw.le tt H? BaptiSt minist€r and esters' HH T? Was held in the Forti i las* evening, -ihe Rev. S. Jenkin. Baptist minister Apologies for absence were received |g«-Ms, f* The Rev. Jenkin referred to fh« growth of the Baptist Church tn Ha* «f i j ? s"! d he had wy granb^,=n^^ttc^ hS h*if«-«%« • Tne prospects S^LS^cST as bright « th* The Rev. W. S. Rollings said he had Ha^iTlt *% mIIeI to extend The naueia brethren the greetings and mittee oi the Baptist Union of New Zealand, also to tell them of the con Jdence_,n which the new minister and his wife were held. The church at Hawera was to be congratulated on jecurmg the services of Mr. and Mrs was, so fortunate as to have appointed to it a second minister m the person '•of a minister's wife. The Hawera church was able to avail itself of the I f ™^\° f M^ s-,. Gorine. who had been f,,H? ded'?at«d to service m India. Mr Goring, who had been a timf lat <? n°,f C°llege« had a litfc£ time ago offered to go to India but it was a matter of exceeding regret 'I oti?rii ISVea^ h fail€d ' alld t^doctoS | oidered him home to New Zealand and ■ warned him not to live in such I \ climate as India. He had not comt | to a climate where periodical droughts ; were common although the weather might be a httte unsettled at times. ' ta^LST' H- B^ G/ ay said he wishe<* m«n" t F°J d Of acknowledgment. 5 JftT d receiV€d a great deal of help from the members of the Bap- ;; tist Church and he acknowledged the fw ?L Ork £ hey.had don^- He thought i ;,«+•« • BaP?st Piurch was quite ■ !joi»f d m + ex^ nding their sphere of operations to Hawera, as he felt sure , there was still p l en ty to be done . The Mayor (Mr. E. Dixon) welcomed ClmrHh, the Rev. W. S. Rollings, and lithe Rev and Mrs. Goring Ho ' stressed the necessity of the member* ■i n/<; 7 c fl Jt that that *«■ * »«ak- ! ness of churches to-day. ; The Rev. A. Liversedge said he had ■ been commissioned by his church to extend greeting* to Mr. and Mrs. Goring, and the new Baptist Church. They welcomed Mr and Mrs. Goring as £. So ™i T d felt! th- at the B *-Dt^ts M Sere aP°l°gise for going. anyDuring the even in i» a most enjoyable was^^ven elocutionar^ (programme-