The Heritage News

Fall 2016 Edition

Sixth Year at Hopewell

With sincere thankfulness and great expectations, the tenth year of classes have begun at Heritage Baptist College.

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As we start this sixth year on the Hopewell Campus, we are thrilled at the wonderful potential. Improvements in facilities, remodeling, and added décor continue to transform the Hopewell School building. Thank you to all those who help.

We continue to raise money and work toward the building of the new dormitory. Requirements by the state and county have slowed the initial construction, but we keep pressing forward. A Bible College does need buildings, but that is not the focus.

This came home to me a few days ago, as I watched four of our “preacher boys” talking before chapel. I thought to myself, “I wonder how the Lord will be using them in 10 years from now?” With a strong Bible foundation taught by dedicated instructors, these students will have every advantage to succeed.

The goal of Heritage Baptist College continues to be: Training Young Men and Women to fulfill the Great Commission.

The President's Perspective

President Russ Dennis, Jr.

As a young man, he had been sent to Christ’s College, Cambridge in preparation for pastoral ministry.

That had all changed decades before, and now at 50 years of age, Charles Darwin was about to launch his most famous work. That fall, On the Origin of Species was released for sale on November 24, 1859. Darwin’s ideas of natural selection became the foundation of evolutionary biology.

But throughout 1860, it was not Charles Darwin’s book that stirred England.

Published within that same year, was a work called Essays and Reviews which was a collection of articles written mainly by liberal ministers. The work was shocking and heretical, as it voiced a view of higher criticism by prominent ministers. The writers suggested that the literal interpretation of the Bible should be abandoned. Any miracles not in line with the laws of nature should be regarded as myths, and the new found theories of science should be considered. The book was widely read. In the first twenty months after Essays and Reviews was published, that book sold more copies than Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species would sell in its first twenty years (Reel, Monte. Between Man and Beast. New York: Doubleday. 2013. p. 80ff).

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England’s great Biblical heritage had been attacked, and the slow removal of Godly influence in the British Isles had begun.

How often we imagine that it is the forces outside of Christianity that are the deadliest enemy, only to realize that some within the walls can cause the greatest harm to the truth.

Meet Our Student

Heritage Fall News 2016

A godly heritage is of lasting reward, and even though its benefits may skip a generation or two, it can never be minimized.

James Bullock, Jr. owned a successful barbershop in downtown Indianapolis. He was a faithful Christian and shared his witness to his friends and customers. In the 1960’s, many Christians, including those associated with Heritage used his shop.

His great-grandson, Ryder Bullock, enrolled this fall as a freshman in the pastoral program. Ryder was saved at ten years old at Thompson Road Baptist Church, where he was active in Sunday School and Awana. Although the whole family did not faithfully attend church, others encouraged Ryder in his spiritual walk.

Ryder’s goal was to study Journalism and to be a writer. However, at age 16, while at summer youth camp, Ryder felt the call to preach and surrendered to the Lord’s Will.

Ryder looks forward to using his writing and preaching talents for God.

Heritage Baptist Bible Fellowship

Heritage Baptist Bible Fellowship

The friends and alumni of Heritage Baptist College spent much time and prayer in considering the need: Bible colleges are closing, some Bible colleges are weakening their position, and others are going a different direction altogether. Baptist fellowships are following the same paths. Pastors are looking to find a group of preachers with which to fellowship that hold the Bible sacred, while still getting along with each other.

The alumni association, and not the college administration, came to the conclusion that a fellowship of pastors, missionaries, evangelists, and Christian educators was needed at this time.

Heritage Baptist Bible Fellowship

On August 15, 2016, the Heritage Baptist Bible Fellowship held its first meeting at Heritage Baptist College. A nice group of preachers with their wives attended, and the meeting was filled with good preaching, prayer, singing, and a time of fellowship. Several states were represented.

For the first year of the Fellowship, Dr. Tommy Trammel (Ohio) is the Fellowship’s moderator, and Dr. Harry Strachan (Ohio) serves as the vice moderator.

Christian fellowship is not the only reason for the founding of Heritage Baptist Bible Fellowship. HBBF was also started to promote Heritage Baptist College, a training institution where preachers can safely send their students to receive honest Bible training. Starting churches and helping missionaries are some of the other reasons for our new fellowship of preachers.

May the Lord bless the Heritage Baptist Bible Fellowship and its leaders with great wisdom and direction as they follow Christ.

Fall Banquet

Heritage Fall Banquet

Friends of Heritage Baptist College are invited to attend this year’s Fall Banquet. Please set aside two hours for some great food, music, and fellowship. Seating is limited, so please call today for your reservation.

Date: Friday, November 4, 2016

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Place: Hopewell Campus

Speaker: Dr. David Price

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