Can someone please tell me...?!

[Bishop1]

Now We Have



Norman Wagner
[1988]

George Helmuth
[1996]

Rex Shields
[an older photo taken in the 50's]

Robert Bayer Family
[photo taken in the 60's]

[Steve Epley]

Originally Posted by Bishop1

Now We Have



Norman Wagner

George Helmuth

Rex Shields
[an older photo]

Robert Bayer Family
[photo taken in the 60's]

Did you hear Elder Shields is very sick??????????????? And that is an OLD picture indeed.

[Bishop1]

Robert Norris
{Brazilian Missionary in the 60's}

Ron Lovins Family
[Dyersburg Tn]

W E Gamblin
[1988 Orange Tx]

Walter Mangun
[Photo taken in '57]
[Anthony's Granpa of Plymouth In]

[Sherri]

Originally Posted by Bishop1

Now We Have



Norman Wagner

George Helmuth

Rex Shields
[an older photo]

Robert Bayer Family
[photo taken in the 60's]

Oh no....that woman has bangs cut!!! That was pretty common in those days.

[SDG]

Originally Posted by pelathais

I both agree and disagree. Sorry to say that. But you have to look at the motivation for the "3 steppers" to bring in the PCI. The PCI was a very effectively run and financially solid organization; not that the PAJC was in trouble or anything. The PCI was just doing a much better job at missions for a group of its size. They were far out-doing (is that a word?) the PAJC in just about every way despite only being 1/3 the size.

If I add the idea of "game theory" to your excellent thought, I think RW and SheltieDad could probably have a field day.

I will contend, without any justification and without any reasonable support - that the PAJC "crowd" does in fact earnestly love the PCI gang (and I don't think you meant to imply otherwise).

What we need is a better basis for merging. Love and the fact that the "other guy" has his act together in missions doesn't necessarily mean we will continue to love. RW and ShaggyDad need to come up with a better way to work out the almost M.A.D. like game theory problem of the merger. How do we set up the chess board so that one meme doesn't dominate?

First, why does it dominate? Because the "3 stepper" program must bite and devour the "1 stepper" plan just to survive? Given this setting, the "1 steppers" had better wake up and realize that their survival is at stake. Perhaps competing organizations would allow us to once again observe the "invisible hand of the market" and we'll all subscribe to the PCI.

I will now further contend - without any reasonable proof - that even the most acidic "3 steppers" are secretly "1 steppers" at heart. I say this based only upon my relationship with a few of the feistiest ones that I know of. In every private conversation I've ever had, these guys will confess that they are really pushing so hard with their public statements in order to "raise the bar" to a higher level than what they really expect people to follow.

The whole "all trinitarians are automatically lost" and the "dress up like a Muslim in a burka" stuff is just hyperbole. Pigeon hole one of these guys and mano e mano they will state that they are really following a strategy here of hype. It's the same game that the prosperity preachers play but on a different field.

Push the bar up so high that no one can reach it because wherever the bar is- people will always come up just a little short. Tell the girls to wear skirts to their ankles if you want them to cover the knee. It's that type of thinking. Remove that “strategy” from the game and people will suddenly become more reasonable. Then it’s just overcoming the natural carnality that plagues mankind – but we’ve got that whooped already, don’t we?

POST OF THE WEEK

[Old Paths]

Originally Posted by Bishop1

Now

Here's Some More - - -


John Adkison

L E Brisbin

Manuel Gaxiola

Morris Golder

Bishop1

On post 97 John Adkison name should be for the SECOND preacher.

Thanks for the pics.

[Bishop1]

Originally Posted by Sherri

Oh no....that woman has bangs cut!!!
That was pretty common in those days.

NOPE

LOL

The 50's Style was to comb the hair forward,
then fold it back
thus giving it that "Bangs Look" -

Bishop1

[Bishop1]

Originally Posted by Old Paths

Bishop1

On post 97 John Adkison name should be for the SECOND preacher.

Thanks for the pics.

YER RITE AGIN !


By the way
60 years ago Bro Gaxiola was in the first
class of the Pentecostal Bible Instute in
Tupelo -
Bro Soper sent 10 students in 2 cars to
the Beauty Hill Church for the services
on Saturday and Sunday --

Manuel Gaxiola was the third preacher on
that saturday night when I received the
Baptism of the Holy Ghost-
He got so excited when he heard me Praising
and Worshiping the Lord in fluent spanish -

He was talking with my Grandmother and found
out that I did not know how to speal spanish -

My, That Was 60 years ago --


Bishop1

[Bishop1]

1966 John Hattabaugh

1955 Billy & Bobby McCool

1958 Steve & Nell Barley

1957 Evangelist 'Bishop1'

[Bishop1]

Here Are Some More Oldies -



Photo # 1 -
The Webb Evangelistic Party August 1939
C Hubert Webb with the Guitar, Mother Webb,
Bishop A G Webb, Coy and Cornelius Webb -


Photo # 2 -
Rex Dyson
{1933}

Photo # 3 -
1st Baptismal Service in Walnut Mississippi
June 1930 {Dad with his hands raised}

Photo # 4
6th Baptismal Service in Walnut Mississippi
July 20th 1930 {Dad with hands on his hips}
A Total of 117 were baptized in that 8 week Meeting
with a Church Building Errected -