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  1947 Minutes of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association

  Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association

  The fifty-eighth session of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association was held at New Zion Baptist Church in Henrietta, NC. Rev. Fred L. Howell served as lead moderator and delivered the Annual Address. Includes a historical report on the development of the Association. Along with the Mt. Peace, Gold Hill, and Friendship Associations, they compose The Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention in Western, NC. A certificate of ordination was given to Bros. James S. Davidson, Phillip Roberts, and B. T. Sanders. Life membership to the Association was awarded to Bros. D. A. Cornwell, Lee Costner, and J. W. Watkins.

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  1946 Minutes of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association

  Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association

  The fifty-seventh session of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association was held at Eskridge Grove Baptist Church in Shelby, NC. Rev. Fred L. Howell served as lead moderator and delivered the Annual Address. Gethsemane Baptist Church is received into the Association. Includes list of appointed committees along with names of all committee members: Enrollment, Finance, Elections, Temperance, Education, Resolutions, Missions, New Churches, Obituary, Revision of Constitution, Corresponding Messengers, Appropriates, and Time and Place. Includes revised constitution as of September 1946. Minute book concludes with a Historian's Report, Rev. William M. Ellis, detailing the development of the Association dating back to 1967.

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  1943 Minutes of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association

  Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association

  The fifty-fourth session of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association was held at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Bessemer City, NC. Rev. F. L. Howell served as the lead moderator and delivered the Annual Address. Minute book includes a list of all ordained and licentiate ministers within the association. includes list of messengers, non-ordained representatives from member churches, which includes both ministers, laymen, and laywomen within the church congregations. Women messengers include Mmes. Minnie L. Hunter, Birdie Goins, Brite Webber, Gertrude Degree, Delia Wilson, Elizabeth Moon, Tiny Lee Lockard, Annie W. Ramseur, and Miss Beatrice Briggs. Women held committee membership and lead parts of the worship service during the associational meeting. The Committee on Publicity recommended to the body that the proceedings of the meeting be reported to the following: The Baptist Informer, National Baptist Voice, the Pittsburg Courier, and the Carolina Times.

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  1942 Minutes of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association

  Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association

  The fifty-third session of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association was held at Long Branch Baptist Church in Grover, NC. Training School/Institute in Spindale is promoted. Rev. F. L. Howell served as lead moderator and delivered the Annual address. Minute book includes lists of the Ordaining Council, Appointed Committees, Associational Enrollment, and Lifetime Members. This session includes a revised Associational constitution and rules of order. Bros. O. B. Burson, A. B. Beil, and Roger W. Corry were ordained into the ministry.

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  1940 Minutes of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association

  Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association

  The fifty-first session of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association was held at Providence Baptist Church in Lincolnton, NC. The Moderator's Address was given by Rev. F. L. Howell. Dr. Yancy C. Elliot welcomed the Association on behalf of the white, local churches. A special collection was made to donate to Shaw University. Union Baptist Church, Edwards Chapel, Mount Zion, and Mount Pisgah were received into the Association. The Education Committee recommended to the body that each church send two students (a boy and girl) to the Western Union Academy, Bible Institute, in Spindale, NC as well as sending students to Shaw University.

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  1937 Minutes of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association

  Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association

  The forty eighth session of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association in 1937 was held at Friendship Baptist Church in Gastonia, NC. The official manuscript of the meeting was lost, therefore an outline of session is given. New Zion Church is received into the Association.

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  1936 Minutes of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association

  Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association

  The 1936 meeting of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association took place at Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Earl, NC. Rev. W. A. Roberts served as lead Moderator and delivered the Annual Address. The report on education expressed regret at the closing of the Western Union Academy. Minutes include a revised constitution and rules of order for how the body will govern. The Committee on Temperance addresses associational perspectives on alcohol use. The Committee on Obituary reports on the number of deaths within the Association's member churches since the previous session.