Author: Carolina Baptist Association

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-14

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780483091283

Excerpt from 1976 Annual of the Ninety-Ninth Annual Session of the Carolina Baptist Association, North Carolina: Held With Etowah Baptist Church and Mount Moriah Baptist Church, October 25-26, 1977 He graduated from Mars Hill College, entered Wake Forest College to study law, but God had other plans for him: He made his decision to enter the ministry while there. He was appointed as a State Missionary in Bland County, Va. In 1902. He served as pastor of the Clear Fork Baptist Church besides the other duties on the field. Three churches were organized under his leadership while serving there. After seven years he resigned and returned to his native state. He went to serve the Fairview Baptist Church in Buncombe Association where he served eight years as pastor. During that time a new edifice was built. Then he went to serve the Barnardsville Baptist Church in Barnardsville. He served other smaller churches part time during this time. Forks of Ivey was one of these churches in Madison County. This was where he preached his first sermon when he started preaching in 1899. Later he came back to the Fairview Baptist Church where he served five more years. Reverend Phillips became the pastor of the 'east Flat Rock Baptist Church in the Carolina Association in 1925. He served this church until retiring in 1963. It had a membership of 219. Missions gifts (home foreign) was only In 1962 the membership had grown to 453 and the offering to missions had grown to During his pastorate, a new building was completed. Before-his retirement, he led the church in building a new pastorium for the pastor and family who would be his successor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.