The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-08-14
BRECKENRIDGE
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
Meets With Walnut Grove Church
Wednesday, August 20, Near
Lodiburg-.Big Preparations
For The Meeting Hospitality
Open To All.
FIFTEEN CHURCHES LISTED.

The tenth annual meeting of the
Breckenridge Baptist Association will
be held with the Walnut Grove church,
near Lodiburg. August $3.50. The fif-
teen churches that affiliate with this
body will select their messengers and
prepare their statistical letters to the
Association during the month. One of
the best meetings in the history of the
Association is contemplated.
Walnut Grove is noted for their open
hospitality and will make bountiful
provision for the entertainment of the
Association.
The officers of the Association are /:
Rev. J. j. Willett, Hardnsburg, Mod
orator, and Mr.. w. {. Norman, Glen
Dean, Clerk. Rev. ]. F. Winchell will
preach the Introductory sermon. The
standing committee to report are as fol-
lows: Foreign Missiops-J. J. Willett,
Chairman; Home Missions-J F.
WiDchell, Chairman; State Missions
c. X. Shepherd, Chairman; District
Missions, J. Duggins. Chairman; Min
listers Aid-M. p. Compton, Chairman;
Temperament. T. Lewis, Chairman;
Schools and Colleges-T. H. Norman,
Chairman; Orphans Home-F. H
McGhee, Chairman; Sunday Schools
]. b. Herndon, Chairman; Obituaries
Andrew Crawford, Chairman; Digest
of Church Letters-H. b. Head, Chair
man; Order of Business-W. G. Moor
man, Chairman; Religious Literature
e. B. Gatlin.
The Walnut Grove church was con
stituted in 1918. 1t is not known who
its early pastors were. William Head
served as pastor about twenty five
years and was followed by Elder ID.
Dowden, who was pastor for number
of years. Rev. E. B. Gatlin, who
graduated from the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary last May, is the
present pastor.
The Goshen Association, from which
the churches in Breckenridge county
were dismissed TO form the Brecken
ridge Association, is one of the old as.
sociations of the State, having been or
gained in 1917, perhaps at the Goshen
church at Glen Dean, from which church
the association took its name The
Goshen Association has been generally
prosperous. In 1910 it numbered 81
churches, aggregating 1860 members,
6S1 of whom had been baptised during
the year. In 1914 it dismissed 9
churches to go into the constitution of
the Daviess County Association. InI
1877 it had grown until it numbered 80
churches with 3,05S members But
this year it dismissed Ii churches to go
into the organization of the Blackford
Association. During the first 30 years of
Its history there were baptised into the
fellowship of its churches 1886 con-
verts.
The oldest churches of the Goshen
Association now in the Breckenridge
Association, are: Goshen, constituted
in 1893 with J. H. l.. Norman as its
first pastor New Hope and Pisgah
churches, constituted in 1913, and Wal
nut Grove, constituted in 1918. The
Cloverport church was constituted of
eight members. by James II. L. Moor
man William Norman and Charles
Polk, in 1929. Among its early pastors
were: ]. H. L. Norman, J.H. Brown,
William Head, A. ]. Dye, ]. II. Spen-
Ger, ID. Dowden, William NJ. Burn, A.
J. Miller and II. T. Hampton.
The membership of the churches
composing the Breckenridge Associa-
ton, according to the last annual report,
was 1854. One of the weaknesses of