Bethany Receives Visit from Dwight Poundstone
April 25, 1960, Volume 29, Number 5 — 6 pages (from page 69-79)
Presbytery of California Hosts OPC General Assembly June 12, 1960 Dwight H. Poundstone visits churches of Presbytery of California from Oregon to Southern Cal to prepare readers for 27th General Assembly of OPC.
See 6 Page Scanned Handout.
Southward to Stockton [from Oregon south through the Redwoods]
We have seen pictures of the redwoods, but for some reason we are overwhelmed by their size. Once we are through the redwoods we turn inland again in order that we may drive through Sacramento, the California state capital. We are also thinking of the next church we want to visit - Stockton, which is just a few miles south of the capital.
This is one of the newer churches of the Presbytery, having been received in March 1959, about five months after the group’s first meeting, at which eleven people (six of them children) listened to the preaching of Presbytery missionary Coray. We talk to their pastor, the Rev. Jack Miller, and learn that they are meeting in a Seventh Day Adventist building in an older neighborhood which has few children and young people. We are pleased to learn that in spite of several problems the church is growing steadily, and now has twenty-two communicants and eighteen baptized children on its roll. This is one of the works that are partially supported through the Presbytery. The others are the churches of Sunnyvale and La Habra. We are told that a member of this church, Jack Julian, D.D.S., who practices in Sonora, is praying about the start of an O. P. C. in Toulumne County. If all of our churches had several such members, we'd really begin to grow!
From Stockton we must go west again in order to visit our churches in the San Francisco Bay area.
Location: In Preparation For 27Th GA Of OPC