![]() On the first Sunday in October, the church had a record attendance of 500. Several months later, the church bought another bus. A few weeks later, on Easter Sunday, the bus attendance was 88. The head of the junior church program met me in the church parking lot and asked me what he was supposed to do with all the children. Several church members helped me with this task. I went to work aggressively canvassing Montpelier in search of new bus riders. On average, the bus brought in 15 or so riders. My responsibility was to build up the bus ministry which consisted, at the time of one bus. In March, Stuckey asked me to become the church’s bus pastor - an unpaid position. Pastored by Jay Stuckey, a Toledo Bible College graduate the church was affiliated with the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches (GARBC). In February 1979, Polly and I started attending Montpelier Baptist Church. Montpelier Baptist Church, Montpelier, Ohio In February 1979, unemployed and with Polly six months pregnant, we dropped out of college and moved to Bryan, Ohio. In the fall of 1976, at the age of nineteen, I enrolled at Midwestern Baptist College, Pontiac, Michigan to study for the ministry.The text I preached from was 2 Corinthians 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. Bruce Turner helped me prepare the sermon. I preached my first sermon for the Trinity Baptist Church high school youth group in 1972 at the age of fifteen.I was called to preach at Trinity Baptist Church in 1972 at the age of fifteen.I was baptized at Trinity Baptist Church in 1972 at the age of fifteen.I made a public profession of faith at Trinity Baptist Church, Findlay, Ohio in 1972 at the age of fifteen.Bruce is in the third row, the eighth person from the left. Polly is the first person in the first row from the left. Freshman class, Midwestern Baptist College, Pontiac, Michigan 1976. While I gave him a brief rundown of the churches I pastored and what happened to them, I thought I would turn my email into a blog post. He also asked a question about my mother’s suicide, an offensive question I did not answer. My gut told me that the aforementioned letter writer was just curious or nosy, so I decided to answer his question. While I am well-known in this area, I am sure there are more than a few people who don’t know anything about me. This was PROOF, at least for this reason-challenged Christian, that I was lying. One man told anyone who would listen that he knew someone who lived in northwest Ohio when I pastored two different churches, and he had never heard of me. They question if I pastored when and where I said I did. Yes, even after I’ve been blogging for sixteen years, there are Evangelicals who doubt that I am telling the truth. Do they really want to know or are they part of a small group of tin-hat Christians who think that my story is a lie. When I get questions like this, I have to consider what is the person’s motive for asking this question. I don’t know what I missed as there are hundreds of ‘google’ links.” Sorry if you feel I wasn’t trying hard enough. “Regarding the churches you pastored and started, do they still exist today or have they changed their names ? I could not find any of the church’s personal websites. ***** SINGER, J.Bruce Gerencser, Somerset Baptist Church, 1987 Kings Sleep Shop, LLC Appellee DECISION AND JUDGMENT Decided: Ma***** Robert W. IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO SIXTH APPELLATE DISTRICT WILLIAMS COUNTY Earl Snyder Appellant Court of Appeals No.
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