Upcoming Autumn Banquet
Heritage Baptist College will host the Annual Fall Banquet at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, November 1st. This year, we will again have the Fall Banquet on the Hopewell Campus, and the food will be catered by Gray Brother’s Cafeteria.
We look forward to hearing Dr. Harry Strachan of Ashland, OH speak that evening. Dr. Strachan pastors the thriving Calvary Baptist Church, where the Lord has blessed with many souls saved and a growing ministry. Dr. Harry Strachan will spiritually feed your heart and soul.
Come and enjoy his message, along with a night of good food, Christian music, and great fellowship. Please call Heritage Baptist College to make a reservation. (317) 738-3791 or (317) 246-8915.
Heritage Baptist Bible Fellowship – Fall Meeting
Pastors and Christian workers gathered at Grace Baptist Church in Fountain Square (Indpls), IN on October 7 & 8 for the fall meeting of the Heritage Baptist Bible Fellowship. We were introduced to some wonderful preachers and we saw many old friends. The various speakers each brought forth an excellent message from the Word.
We want to thank our host, Pastor Rick Stone, his wife, and his church family for hosting this fine meeting.
The Winter HBBF meeting will be in Webster, Florida on January 6 & 7 at Faith Baptist Church where Brother Emery King is the pastor.
The Teen Event
A special youth outreach is planned for this fall at Heritage. On Friday, November 8th at 7:00 p.m. the college will present “The Event.” This will be a Fall, fun time with a spiritual emphasis.
The evening will be jam packed with fun activities which include the inflatable slama jama basketball game, 3 on 3 Competitions, Hayride, and Bonfire.
Brother Justin Surface, pastor of the Blue River Baptist Church in Edinburgh, IN will be the speaker. Brother Justin graduated from Heritage in 2010, and he served as a successful youth pastor for several years. He will be a blessing to your young people. Both teens and college age are invited.
Let Your Light Shine
America was in darkness 90 years ago. The date was October 21, 1929.
In an exact restoration of his Menlo Park, NJ laboratory, created by Henry Ford, sat the 82-year-old inventor, Thomas Edison.
The whole event was called “Light’s Golden Jubilee,” marking the 50th anniversary of the invention of the incandescent light bulb. Who’s Who in America attended the daylong celebration: Orville Wright, Madame Curie, Walter Chrysler, Will Rogers, and even the newly elected president, Herbert Hoover.
Americans had been encouraged to turn off their lights, as Edison and his oldest living assistant, Francis Jehl, began the recreation of the discovery of using electricity to produce light. The reenactment was carried live by over 100 radio stations and on short wave. Americans sat in the dark listening to their radios, as radio announcers Graham McNamee and Philip Carlin provided a moment by moment description of the proceedings. As Edison’s invention came to life, the announcer spoke out “It lights!” At this point, electric lights were switched on all over the nation to illuminate the darkness and dramatize the impact of Thomas Edison’s invention. (Watts, Steven. The People’s Tycoon. New York: Alfred Knopf. 2005. p. 401,402)
In the “Sermon on the Mount,” Christ talked about light: Ye are the light of the world and Let your light so shine before men. The Bible likens our testimony and witness to shining even into eternity: And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. Daniel 12:3.
Today the world needs this light of the Gospel, and we must not quit in sharing.
Edison, the celebrated inventor, was famous for this quote: Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Ready for Your Appointment?
On October 25, 1999, high above Memphis, TN, an Air Force F-16, piloted by Chris Hamilton, caught up to Learjet N47BA. The Learjet was hundreds of miles off course. As the Air Force pilot visually inspected the plane, the iced over windows revealed the tell-tale sign. The pressurized cabin had failed, and all on board the plane were incapacitated, and probably dead. The small jet continued flying across the central United States, escorted by military jets. Over South Dakota, the plane which had been on auto-pilot, ran out of fuel. The crash occurred in a farm field near the community of Mina, SD at 12:13 pm local time. There were no survivors.
One of the six people on board Learjet N47BA, was the famous golfer, Payne Stewart. Payne Stewart was known for his colorful dress with knickers and a tam-o-shanter cap.
For most of his career, Stewart was regarded as a cocky competitor. But not long before his death, his friends began to see a change in the famous golfer. The influence began when his children returned from a Christian camp. Several of the Christian golfers on the PGA Tour began witnessing to him, along with a Baptist preacher. Eighteen months before that fateful flight, Payne Stewart accepted Christ as his Savior.
When Stewart played in the U.S. Open in June of 1999, his 10-year-old son asked him to wear a WWJD (What Would Jesus Do) wrist band. When Stewart won the tournament and held the trophy, all the world saw his open testimony.
Twenty years ago, Payne Stewart met his appointment (Heb. 9:27). What a loving God we worship that saved this energetic golfer just in time, securing him an eternity in heaven.