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Women On Mission - May 2023

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Oakhill Baptist Church Time Line

We look forward to celebrating our 60th anniversary as a church in October.
This is a partial timeline of our history.

Jan. 24, 1960     Rev. C. E. Wiley, area missionary, met with 25 people in the home of Mr. & Mrs. John Hughes for the first fellowship meeting.
June 1960           Keck Ave. Baptist Church voted to sponsor Oakhill Baptist Chapel.
Sept. 1, 1960     Rev. Paul Bowles was called as first Pastor.
Nov. 1962           Rev. William Weedman served as Interim Pastor.
March 17, 1963 Rev. William Tucker was called as Pastor.
Oct. 8, 1963       Chapel organized into Oakhill Baptist Church with 68 charter members.
Sept. 13, 1964  Ground breaking for new building.
Dec. 16, 1964   Rev. Jeff Mitchener called as Interim Pastor.
April 18, 1965  New building completed.
July 1965            Rev. William Carter called as Pastor.
1970                      Steve Cook, Summer Youth Director.
1970                      Randy Dill, Summer Youth Director.
Oct. 15, 1972   Oakhill voted to sponsor Southwind Fellowship. Rev. James Trader was Pastor of Southwind.
1973                      Garry Bailey served as part-time Youth & Music Director. 
Feb. 1973            Delores Zahm came as Church Secretary.
June 1973          Tom Traylor, a student at Southern Seminary, came as Summer Youth Director. (Her served as Interim Pastor in 1974).
1973 -1974       Cindy Boultinghouse, Summer Children’s Worker.
Sept. 1974          Rev. Joe Hasson called as Pastor.
1977                      Rev. Irvin Parrett served as Interim Pastor. Other Youth workers were: Brenda Keller (1976), Danny Garnett (77-79), Jim Trader (1982), Bruce Wilson (1983),                                    David Russell (1984).
Sept. 1977         Rev. Roy Jones called as Pastor, served until Sept. 1984.
Nov. 1984          Rev. Irvin Parrett served as Interim Pastor .
March 1985     Rev. Glen Flowers called as Pastor, served until Jan. 2006.
March 2, 1986 101 volunteers participated in Good News America Bible distribution - 400 Bibles given in area.
May 1986          Rev. Randal Bratcher came as first full-time Minister of Youth and Music.
Nov. 1986        “Together We Build” campaign brought pledges of $221,746.00 - $21,746.00 above Hallelujah goal.
March 1987     Ground breaking for new educational building.
Jan. 19, 1988   Dedication of new building.
June 1991         Joe Hopkins called as Minister of Music (part-time). Also served on the music faculty at University of Evansville. Served until March 1998.
Dec. 1993         Rev. Joby Tricquet called as full-time Associate Pastor. Served until 1997.
1994                    Terry Frank called as part-time Minister of Youth until 1998.
June 1994        Kathleen Qualkenbush came as Church Secretary.
January 1998 World Mission Club plan for mission giving began.
April 5, 1998   Rev. Kevin Royalty served as full-time Minister of Music and Education. Served until 2004.
May 2000         Oakhill began the Weekday Childcare Ministry with Vanessa Wagler as the Weekday Childcare Director and Amy Dassel as the Assistant Director.
                                Both ladies served until 2004.
Oct. 2000         Paul Hollis served as part-time Minister of Youth until 2001.
Feb. 2004         Lisa West, Weekday Childcare Director - presently serving.
Oct. 2004         Jason Woolsey came as Minister of Music - served until 2014.
Jan. 2006         Retirement of Rev. Glen Flowers.
May 2006        Rev. Alan Scott came to serve as Senior Pastor - presently serving.
March 2007   Rev. Bryan Gotcher came as Minister of Students & Education - presently serving as Senior Associate & Children’s Pastor.
2011                   April Sharp came as Children’s Ministry Director - served until Dec. 2018.
Oct. 2011        Polly Todd came as Administrative Assistant. Presently serving as Administrative Assistant of Finance and Facilities. 
Feb. 2016        Pastor Nick Scott came as Pastor of Spiritual Development - served until Dec. 2020.
Feb. 2016        Pastor Jared Mitchell came as Pastor of Worship - served until Feb. 2020.
Oct. 2016        Pastor Brian Van Doren came as Student Pastor - served until 2022.
June 2017       Shirlene Kilgore came as Personal Assistant to Lead Pastor & Ministry Coordinator - presently serving.
Jan. 2019         Cheryl Rollow came as Administrative Assistant - served until Sept. 2019.
Feb. 2019        Pastor Leonid Marsan Rodriguez came as Hispanic Church Pastor - presently serving.
Sept. 2019     Jen Church came as Administrative Assistant of Students and Worship. Presently serving as Communications Coordinator and Worship Ministry Assistant.
June 2020      Pastor Derek Niffenegger came as Pastor of Worship - served until Feb. 2022.
Aug. 2021      Molly Morris came as Children’s Ministry Assistant - presently serving as Student Ministry Assistant.
July 2022       Michaela Jones came as Children’s Ministry Assistant - presently serving.
Aug. 2022      Pastor Evan Gray came as Pastor of Worship - presently serving.

Women on Mission will meet next on Thursday, May 4th in the Grace classroom at 1:00 pm.

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Women On Mission - April 2023

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On October 6, 1963, Oakhill was constituted as a church. Bonnie Boultinghouse Beckham shared her memories of these early days. Bonnie is a charter member. How did we start coming to Oak Hill Baptist Church? {I was a child of eight years of age, so my memories are different from those of an adult}. We had always attended Sunday School and church at the Rescue Mission. When the church sign was placed in the yard in front of the house and little garage on Oak Hill Road, Dad told Mom that we should visit and see if it would be a place where we could worship together close to home. Dad also noticed several people he knew going into the church when he would pass on his way home from work. So, one Sunday we visited and before long we joined the church. I remember our family being baptized at Keck Avenue Baptist Church to become members. I think I was eight years old. Sunday School classes were held in the house, and worship was in the white concrete garage-type building. The kids met in the house and the adults split up in the corners of the Chapel for class. As more people joined the Chapel and it became able to stand on its own, we became a church instead of a Chapel. I remember that day as a long service with many visiting pastors and missionaries from the area encouraging us to become a leader in the community for Christ. As we continued to grow, it became evident that we needed to build. The property surrounding the house and garage was purchased and plans were started for a larger church building. I remember a committee of people from the Sunday School board coming to the church with suggestions for how to plan the layout for the new church. Many wanted to build right in the middle of the hill but the developers pointed out how we need to build at the top of the hill so we could grow. The day we turned over the ground to start building was a great day! Dad and other men of the church gave their time, talents, and money to the building of the church. I did not know until much later that Dad along with several others had enough faith to put their homes up for collateral for the loans to build the church. These men spent many hours finishing the inside of the church, building cabinets, tables, painting, and anything else that needed to be done. As time drew closer for the opening of the new building, I remember going to the church along with other families to clean and get ready for the big day. As children, we had worked to give our allowance and chore money to build “our” new church. We were so proud of our new building. I have been at this church for over 60 years. God has blessed the vision of that small group of believers so long ago. They would be so overjoyed with the way Oakhill has continued to follow God's call and direction. God continues to bless our church with members that are willing to use their talents to glorify Him.

Women on Mission will meet Thursday, April 6th at 1:00 pm in the Grace Classroom. All ladies are invited to join us.

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