Baptists Slate Night For Youth

oung Baptist from through-t Colum15U'S" County will con-

verge at Chadbourn Baptist Church on saturday for the an-nual associational Youth Night, Worship, fun and refreshments will be the order of the even-ing, announced the Rev. Fred Senter, the associate pastor of First Baptist Church in White-ville, Senter is in charge of youth activities of the Columbus Baptist Association.

The Columbus youth will be joined by six young men and women from High Point's First Baptist Church. They are Wal-ter Batista, a 19-year-old senior at High Point Central High school

who is a native of Cuba; Pam Marion, another senior at Cen-tral; Pam Huffman, a junior at East Forsythe; steve Hooks, a senior at Thomasville High; Bar-bara Trimnal and Sherry Smith,

The visitors will present several pantomines, and a special youth message will be delivered by the Rev, Bency Smith, minis-ter of youth of the First Bap-tist Church, High Point. Special music will be provided by the Chapel Choir of the host church, The devotional program will be followed by a fun period in the fellowship hall.

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ENTERTAINMENT for the annual Youth Night program Saturlday at Chadbourn Baptist Church will be these youngsters who are members of First Baptist Church High Point : front row, Sherru Smith, Pam Marion: Pam Huff?am; back row, Walter Batista, Steve Hooks and Lmda Marsh.

(and last) child born to Mr, and Mrs. L. s. Smith. He isagradu-ate of Asheboro High School, Nashville Technical College, and Southeastern Seminary,

Smith w s ordained at Samaria Baptist urch, Raleigh, where he wo ed as minister of educat n before transferring to Mor side Baptist Church, Co-lum s, Ga., as minister of ed-

on and youth, For the past o years he has served First

Baptist Cliurc minister of youth.

Mrs, Smith is the former Doris Virginia Hooks, daughter of H. J. and the late Mrs, Blanche Hooks of Whiteville. The Rev. and Mrs. Smith have two daugh-ters, Sherry Dona, 15, and Cathy, 13,

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Forest Hill Ba2~ch at Polo Roaaaiia15""alton Street has a new past9r, the Rev. Bency B. Smith, 53.

He succ ee ds the Rev. Northrup L. Hood, i ·ho served

· for fo ur and a half yea rs before leaving in Dec e mber to become pastor of First Baptist • Chu rch of Alachua, F1a. The Rev. Albert S. Hale, a local retired mi ni s ter, has been serv ing as interim pastor. · Sm i th c a me he re from Mount Pl e a s a nt Baptist Church in St.Ile Road, where he has been pastor since 1966. He also has served other churches in the a reas of educa-tion and youth in Columbus, Ga., Raleigh ' and High Point.

He also has s erved on the faculty or N. C. Baptist Assembly at Caswell and at Ridgec rest. He was pastor of the Elkin Tri-County Ministerial Association.

He was born in Eagle Springs and graduated from Nashville Technical College and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary at Wake Forest. He is married to the former Doris Virginia Hooks or Whiteville and they have two daughters, Sherry and Cathy.

The Rev. Ralph Cannon, director of development and denominational relallons for the N. C. Baptist Homes, Inc. , wHI be returning to Winston-Salem.

The Rev. William Poole, ex· ecutive director of the Baptist homes for the elderly, said Cannon has been working mainly in the western section of the state raising money for

BENCY 8. SMITH ••• of Eagle Springs • ••

the $1 25-million home to be built in Asheville.

But he has returned to the homes ' headquarters on Reynolds Park Road , where he has an office. He is former pastor of Southside Baptist Church here.

The Asheville home is ex· peeled to be started within a month, with completion ex-pected by mid-1979. It will be on a 21-acre site in northwest Asheville and its first unit will serve 50 people and will have an infirmary.

Eventually, the home will be expanded to serve 200 people from the Asheville area

Poole said work is expected to start next month on another project, one that is the first of its kind in the 26-year history of the Baptist ministry to the elderly . Four duplex

apartments (eight units) will be built around the lake site of the house on Reynolds Park Road. Grading began yester-day.

The units were designed by Newman Va nElten Winfree Associates, local architects, · and Davey Construction Co. will be tlie builder. The apartmen ts will cost $347,773.

Poole said each. will_incluae a living-dining room, two bedrooms, two full baths, kitchen, and carport."

He said occupancy is ex-·pecled on OcL 1 and there

· already is a waiting list. .,.. Ultimately, Poole said, the

home hqpes Jo have 18 of these ;""" uruts. They are planned for in-

dependent retirement living for people "who are not ready to come into group facility, where the average age is 80," Poole said. The minimum age will be 65.

When ready to leave the apartments for the group facility, Poole said, these peo-ple will have automatic ad-mission. Apartment dwellers will have access to full health care.

Poole said the trustees hope to construct more residential or group living facilities on the Reynolds Park Road campus and lo enlarge nursing care facilities or build a separate skilled nursing care unit which could be used by residents of the six homes and by the com-munity.

"We need to double our current capacity of 75 people in the skilled and intermediate care unit," he said, "as the present unit barely takes care of our residential population for the five homes" throughout the state .

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ALLEGHANY BAPTIS T ASSOCIATION / 0 7.,,).- 9

SPEAKER 1972 - JOHN T. WAYLAND

John T . Wayland is a .l\1issourian and a graduate of William Jewell College, Southern Baptist TheologicalSemi-

nary, 'lnd Yale Univers ity. He has served as pas tor of the fo l-lowing churches: First Baptist Church , :.lonroe, Nor th Caro lina ;

· Temple Baptist Churc h, Durham, f North Carolina; Pimlico Baptist Church , Baltimore, Maryland , and Firs t Baptist Church, North Wilkesboro , North Carolina (1947-1953). He was a chaplain in the United States Navy during World War II and served as pro-fessor of Christian Education at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary at Wake Forest, North Carolina, 1953 to 1972 . On August 1, 1972 , he came to Wilkes Com-

J OHN T. WAYLA ND munity Coll ege as Director of Division of General Studies .

SPEAK ER 1972 - BE NCY C. SMITH Rev. Bency C. Smith was born

to L. S. Smith in Eagle Springs (Moore County), North Carolina, on May 6, 1924. He graduated from the Asheboro High School in 1941 , from Nashville Tech in 1949, and Southeastern Seminary in 1961.

He is married to the former Doris Hooks of Whiteville, N. C., in 1946. They are the parents of two girls : Sherry born in 1950, and Kathy born in 1952.

He has served as educational director at the Samaria Baptist Church, Raleigh, N. C., and Morningside Baptist Church ,

BENCY C. SMITH

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Columbus, Georgia; youth director at First Baptist Church, High Point, N. C., and as pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, State Road, N. C., for the p as t six years.

VISITORS RECOGNIZED

Sloan Guy, Wake Forest University Ralph Gentry, Elkin Association Rev. Bency Smith, Mt. Pleasant Church, State Rd., N. C. Rev. Willi am K. Poole-Director, Homes for the Aged Rev. Jimmy Hynsen, Dept. of Evangelism, Raleigh, N. C. Dr. John T. Wayland, Director ofDivisionofGeneral Studies,

Wilkes Community College , Moravian Falls, N. C. Calvin S. Knight-Director, Denominational Relations, N. C.

B aptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, N. C. Mrs. Calvin S. Knight, Winston-Salem, N. C. Parker McLendon, Supt. of Mills Home Mr. and Mrs. Walter T aylor-Yadkin Association, States-vill e , N. C.

Messengers, 1972

Belview: George Shepherd, R. S. Warden, Myrtle Jones, Margaret Edwards.

Chestnut Grove: George Taylor, Kyle Watson, Mrs. Nora Watson.

Laurel Springs: Mrs. T. S. Moxley, Van Miller, Mrs. Lena Taylor, Mrs. E. W. Shepherd.

Liberty: Mrs. A. 0. Joines , Mr. Andrew Cleary, Mrs. Mac Cleary, Mrs. Velma Vaughn.

Mount Carmel: Jinny Gillespie, Neil Harris, James D. McKnight.

New Hope: Frank Roupe, Greek Halsey, Huston Wyatt. Osborne Memorial: E. C. Minnich, Ray Parlier, Harry

Young, Herbert Osborne, Bays Parsons, Dennis Osborne.

Pine Fork: Rex Wyatt, Johnnie Bryant, Posie Pruitt, Jimmie Wooten, Mrs. Boyde Bryant.

Scottvill e : Martha Owens , Bill Ward. Sp..ir ta , First: \\illic Busic, Clayton Fendor, Jess ie Hill,

Ann ?-. ichols, Marjorie Arn1entrout, Joyce Moxley.

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