ERBC, fifty years later

For more than the past fifty years Edwards Road Baptist Church has held a special place in my heart. When our grandfather Rev. O. F. Owens retired from West Greenville Baptist Church in 1962, our family sought church membership in a location closer to our east- side Greenville home. We visited several Baptist churches. They both recommended that we consider a new mission church.

So, soon we were attending what would become Edwards Road Baptist Mission, and then, later, Edwards Road Baptist Church. It was my church home in perhaps the most formative years of life, from perhaps the fifth grade through college. My life was shaped Dr. William Palmer, our first pastor, Rev. Jerry Brown, our minister of Music and Youth, and by a corps of gifted, servant hearted teachers---the Bill Normans, the Don Turners, the Lamar Franks, the Jim Leaches, the Pete Ingrams, the Ronnie Halls, the Tippy Leaches, and many more. How instrumental these people were in providing a spiritual foundation for so many young people, especially this one who later was called into ministry.

This Sunday I will be away from the wonderful congregation entrusted to my care, the Northwood Baptist Church family, to observe the fiftieth anniversary of Edwards Road Baptist Church with my dad, The Chester. It will be a day of remembrance as well as celebration, being with people from our past, renewing some valuable relationships, and being with the people who were so important in our development.

From a picnic shelter to an old house to the Lake Forest Elementary School to the current campus, ERBC has touched many lives and experienced the usual motion of churches during the past 50 years. My prayer for this week is that they remember the people who moved them through every stage, celebrate the wonderful state of the church today, and anticipate a glorious future, with glory to the Father in all.

I know Pastor Aaron Rayburn has done an incredible work leading ERBC and my only regret is that I will not get to hear him preach. Of course, Dr. Alistair Walker, who has served ERBC as interim, will bring the morning message,. That will be a treat. Dr. Walker was interim at Hampton Heights Baptist Church after my pastorate there, and is the past SCBC President who prayed over me when I was elected to lead our state convention in 2010-2011.

And, BTW, they're having dinner on the grounds, and you know how these Baptists can cook.

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