History of Temple Baptist Church
The following is of chronological times in history that pertain only to Temple Baptist Church.
For an inclusive chronological history that records events that happened down through the ages, including this page, Click here.
1881--January, Olaus Okerson and his family arrived in Portland.
They stayed in the Shogren family home to which they were welcomed and stayed
there until located elsewhere.
January 23, Pastor
Okerson's first preaching service in the Pacific Northwest was held in the
Episcopal Chapel on SW 5th near Oak St. in downtown Portland.
1882-- Panoramic View of the City of Portland looking East. Place mouse pointer over thumbnail picture and click the mouse button to see a full size Panoramic View. It is a large file so please be patient.
1883--April 15, The
First Scandinavian Baptist Church held
meetings in its own building at S.W. Sixth and
Caruthers.
October 17,
Rev.
Gustof Liljeroth baptized John Palmblad and two others in Johnson Creek at
Gresham. This was the first baptismal service for our church.
Mrs. Liljeroth
conducted the Sunday School. Click here to read an account of the history
of the Temple Baptist Sunday School.
1884--January 1, First Scandinavian Baptist Church of Portland (now
known as Temple Baptist Church) was organized by Gustaf
Liljeroth.
Click
here to see minutes of the meeting.
Note: From the
records of Harley Hallgren Hard times came in
1884. Railroad financial
collapse resulted in much unemployment. Work on the Portland Hotel
stopped. Some of the church members moved out of town onto farms, some
went back east. P.A. Johnson went to Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Rose went to
Michigan.
1885--October 1, Nicholas Hayland, first graduate of Bethel Seminary,
became pastor.
May, Rev. Liljeroth
went to Oakland, California where he organized a Scandinavian Baptist Church.
Recorded names of
people at church services in this year; PH Carlson, Lydia Lindblom, Hanna
_______?, Anna Moe, Annna? Pearson, Mary Moe, Ellen Nelson, Andrew Olsam, Axel
Loaderholm, David Hagg, ______ Stenstrom, Rev. Hayland, Mrs. Hayland, 3
children, Anna Youngstrom, Bernard ________?. Pastor Hayland preached to
south Portland Catholics and Jews.
1886--June 23, Women's
Sewing Society was formed. Read a historical account and see a picture of this group
taken in the early 20's by
clicking on the Women's Sewing Society Link above. Read the Constitution
of the Sewing Bee in Swedish and also translated to English.
July 3, Nicholas
Hayland was reelected preacher, unanimously, "received all the votes of
those present,-eleven in number."
1887--August 1, a new building, The
First Swedish Church of Portland on N.W. 12th near Glisan was erected
and dedicated.
August 27,
First Baptismal Service held in the 12th Street Church with Pastor Hayland
baptizing Miss Anna Ljungstrom (sister of Mrs. Hayland), Miss Anna Person, and Mr.
David Hagg.
1888--August 25th, the trustees of the First Scandinavian
Baptist Church of Portland decided to sell the property on Caruthers Street to
John P. Nelson.
September 29, The Young
People's Society was organized
with a membership of seventeen. L. Larson was the first president.
Bethel Seminary
returns to Morgan Park, Chicago, again as a separate Swedish department of the
Baptist Union Theological Seminary with Eric Sandell as acting dean.
1889--December 28, The
Swedish Baptist Conference of the North Pacific Coast was organized. It later became the Columbia Conference in 1930.
Uno
N Brauer became senior pastor.
1890--February 28, The Cedarhome Baptist Church in Stanwood, Washington was organized.
1891--Uno N Brauer
was pastor.
Rev. August Westerberg
was pastor.
1892--May, the church voted to withdraw from North Pacific Coast (Columbia) Conference.
1893--Rev. John Olander
was pastor.
E.
Hjalmer East felt the call of God to go the the Foreign Field.
1894--Rev. David Oberg
was Pastor.
See Tax
Lot information on Caruthers Street Church.
December 29, The name "First Scandinavian
Baptist Church of Portland" was changed to "The First Swedish Baptist
Church of Portland."
1895--June, the conference name was changed to the Swedish Baptist Conference.
1896--
1897--Rev. Charles Asplund was Pastor.
1898--A separate conference in Oregon was established. The conference name was then the Oregon Swedish Conference. The Mission Circle was organized to promote interest in home and foreign missions.
1899--Rev. G. A. Osbrink became the first Oregon Conference Missionary.
1900--February 14, Pastor Nicholas Hayland, our 2nd pastor and 1st graduate of John Edgren's Theological Seminary, (Bethel) passed away, in Tacoma, Washington.
1901--August 29, Olaus Okerson, died in McMinnville, Oregon.
1902--Rev. John Huggert was pastor.
Rev. Gustaf Johnson
succeeds Rev. Osbrink as missionary.
1903--
1904-- September 26, Axel Anderson and Carl V. Anderson were baptized.
1905--April 12, the 12th avenue church property was sold.
Services were held in The German Methodist church from April to September.
September 17, a new
building, The First Swedish Baptist Church at N.W.
Fifteenth and Hoyt was dedicated.
1906--Rev. Eric
Scherstrom was pastor.
Rev. Carl Axel Boberg
succeeds Rev. Gustaf Johnson as Oregon Missionary.
Mr.
and Mrs. Lundberg were the custodians at the 15th and Hoyt church.
1907--A.G. Sandblom came to
the west coast as a missionary and continued until September, 1912.
Rev. A. G. Sandblom
succeeds Rev. Boberg as Oregon Missionary.
May 30, See
the Announcement for the Yearly Banquet of the Sunday School
June 5, the Church
at Warren was organized.
Rev. A. G. Sandblom
succeeds Rev. Boberg as Oregon Missionary.
1908--July 4, See Photo of Young People's Picnic.
1909--August 19, Powell Valley (Haley) church was organized.
1910-- The Sewing Circle and Mission Circle were combined.
Philip Forsander left for Morgan Park Seminary, to become a Pastor and Naval Chaplain.
In the
spring, the blind evangelist, A. J. Freeman, and his daughter, Ester held
meetings which were used of God in the salvation of many souls.
1911--Rev. Fredric Linden was Pastor.
1912--January 28, The church at Cherry
Grove was organized.
September, Rev. August Olson
succeeds Rev. Sandblom as Oregon Missionary.
The Haley church
was dedicated. John Johnson was the first pastor from 1907-1920.
December, Mr. and Mrs. John
Milton went to Cherry Grove from Portland and bought a lot on First Avenue to
build a hotel. It was rushed to completion and ready for use in late
January the following year.
1913--The hymn "The
Old Rugged Cross" was composed by Rev.
George Bennard
1914--
1915--
1916--January 1, read the Församlings
Posten (Assembly News), our church news letter - Written in Swedish.
Rev. Axel Tjernlund served as Interim Pastor.
Rev. Gideon
Sjolander was Senior Pastor.
1917--
1918--August 16, Harley K Halgren and Louise were married.
1919--January, the church celebrated its 35th anniversary.
The church started a building fund at the suggestion of
the Young People's Society. To see extracts from the business meeting
minutes for February 4,1919, Click
Here.
1920--January, the Oregon Conference was held at this church and
a large number of delegates made a trip to Warren,
Oregon, to dedicate the
church there.
July, Pastor
Sjolander visits Sweden.
Rev. Emanuel
Bjorkquist becomes Interim Pastor.
July, Pastor Axel
Tjernlund went to be with the Lord.
August 3, Pastor Sjolander was granted 9 months leave of
absence to visit Sweden.
October 31, the
Deacon Board arranged a meeting to honor John Palmblad on his eightieth
birthday. Mr. Palmblad gave the church of $50.00 for the new church lot
that the church expected to buy. Reported by O.S. Rydman on November 20.
Rev. Emanuel
Bjorkquist succeeds Rev. Sandblom as Oregon Missionary.
Bethel Seminary's
name became "Bethel Institute".
See a photo of the church choir.
1921--January, the church began to have a service once a month
in English, for the benefit of those who do not understand the Swedish language. Gradually
the shift to English services became a reality as the church's responsibility to
minister to the neighborhood as well as the Swedish population was recognized.
Return to Centennial Quilt
November 15, the church voted to purchase property at the
east end of the Broadway Bridge near Interstate Ave on Larrabee Street.
Later the Interstate property was sold.
1922--See photo of Pastor Sjolander's Bible Class.
1923--June, The Young People's Society
celebrated their 35th anniversary. The church was then called "First
Swedish Baptist Church". See a photo
taken on the front steps of the the church at SW 15th and Hoyt Streets.
See a photo of "The
Cheerful Helpers" Sunday School Class.
See a photo of Sunday School Picnic, probably
held on July 4th.
See a photo of Men's "Berea" Sunday School Class.
1924--January 15, Pastor Sjolander resigns to accept a call to
become the General Conference Missionary.
Rev. J.
Alfred Erickson became Pastor.
1925--May 25, The Baraca Sunday School Class
held their second annual banquet at Henry Thiele's Restaurant. See
the menu and program.
See notes from annual meeting concerning the new church at
N.E. 7th and Clackamas by clicking here.
November 26, Margaret Brunander (Margaret Steel) was baptized.
1926--January, property at Seventh and Clackamas was purchased.
Click the link to read about the history of the city block the church building
sits on.
March 6, The
Building Committee recommended hiring a competent Architect to draw up plans for
a new Church Building.
April 27, The
Architect, Walter Kelly presented plans for a building that would cost $50,000.
The plans were adopted.
September 1, Walter
Kelly presented a sketch of the new church building.
September19, ground
breaking took place for the new building.
October 4, See
drawing of Front Elevation of new church
building.
1927--March 6, Sunday afternoon, cornerstone was
set in place.
June 5, last
service in the old building on Hoyt Street.
June 12, dedication
of the new church building.
Click Here to see the Invitation to the Dedication Exercises.
Click Here to see the Program For Dedication.
October 21, Friday
evening, dedication of the pipe organ. Pastor Erickson led in a dedication
of the organ, followed by a recital performed by concert organist William
Boone. The organ was built by Teller-Kent Organ Company of Eric.
Pennsylvania, It had over 1100 electromagnets, with 25 miles of copper and
silver wiring. The organ contained 1,386 pipes, the largest pipe being 16
feet long. The smallest pipe had openings the size of a led pencil.
To see photos and
text of the new church building on NE 7th and Clackamas, Click
Here.
1928--
1929--June 26-30, Swedish Baptist Temple was host the first time to the Swedish
Baptist
General Conference. The Conference was celebrating their 50th year at
Temple. Click Here to view a copy of the
conference program. (Most of it is written in Swedish)
See the schedule
for 1929 of Offices and Societies for the church.
1930--the Oregon Swedish Baptist Conference merged with the
Washington Conference to form the Columbia Baptist
Conference.
Rev. A. H. Johnson
was missionary until 1935.
1931--January 1, Due to hard times, the church stopped paying a
salary to all workers and Rev. Erickson agreed to deduct $40.00 per month from
salary for 5 months.
Gertrude Gustafson
was Temple's church historian.
May 30, Swedish
Baptist Temple held a Conference Concert 8:00 PM on Saturday. Click
here to view the copy of the original program.
1932--The Great Depression worsened. Church was in danger
of repossession.
Rev. Fredrik Linden
was Interim Pastor.
1933--Rev. Carl A. Olsson was the Pastor.
Refinancing of the
church took place.
The younger people
wanted more English in the church services. A vote was taken and members
decided to hold on to the use of Swedish rather than adopting the wholesale
usage of English in the church services. One reason may have been the
feeling that Swedish was more worshipful than English, and that the preaching
should be understandable to the Swedish majority membership. This caused
part of the congregation to leave the church. Gradually later in the1930's
the language switched exclusively to English in the services.
Radio services on KOIN were
begun-"The Scandinavian Half Hour."
Baptismal service at Temple on
New Years Eve - Mr. & Mrs. Percy Seymour, Miss Marjorie
Rydman, Miss Eileen
Johnson, Mrs.
Carl (Elsie) Ostrom and Mrs. Haroldson were baptized.
1934--The Golden Jubilee of Swedish Baptist
Temple. The
honor of being the only living charter member of the Swedish Baptist Temple at
East Seventh and Clackamas Streets, Portland, was bestowed upon our Mother,
Grandmother and Great-Grandmother, Mrs. Augusta Palmblad, when the church
celebrated its Golden Jubilee-January 1st to 7th, 1934. Click
Here to see notes written at a Palmblad clan meeting August 19, 1934. (Taken from notes compiled by Harley
Hallgren.)
February 4, Baptized at
Temple - Betty Hallgren, Margaret Anderson, David
Carlson, Astrid Johnson,
Delores Wickman.
Read a copy of the 1934
Annual Sunday School Report originally written by Helen Tjernlund, SS Superintendent.
The panorama photograph
shown below was taken of the congregation on January 7, 1934 in front of the
church as part of the Golden Jubilee celebration.
1935--Rev. Ole Larson succeeds Rev. A. G. Johnson as Columbia
Missionary.
June 7, See pictures of
the Baptist Sunday School Rose Festival Float
in the parade.
1936--Rev. C. A. Aldeen was Interim Pastor.
December 1,--First
time the minutes of Business Meetings were written in English.
1937--June 13, Temple celebrated its 10th
Anniversary in the building on NE 7th and Clackamas. See the Anniversary
Program.
Rev. V. E. Hedberg
became Pastor. He was the first
American born Pastor in the churches history.
Ned Holmgren to
Bethel Seminary. He was a pastor at various churches till 1973.
1938--January 1, Ned Holmgren licensed to preach.
July 1, Our former
pastor, Rev. John Alfred Erickson went to be with the Lord.
1939--September, Pastor Linus and Mrs. Johnson arrived with
their children Earl and Marion. Two other children were Beulah and
George. Beulah was in training at Midway Hospital, St Paul, and George was
at Bethel Junior College. Dr. Johnson came from Temple Baptist Church in
Duluth, Minnesota.
August 25, the
church held a farewell reception for Pastor Victor Hedberg.
September 1?, the
church held a welcoming reception for Linus Johnson.
October 30, the
church honored the Rev. and Mrs. Emanuel Bjorkquist and Mr. and Mrs. Gustav
Hallgren in a joint celebration of their Golden Wedding anniversaries.
Miss Helen Carlson
started at Multnomah School of the Bible as a student. Later became
instructor.
1940--October 4, the choir recommends Miss Helen Tjernlund as choir
leader.
The Conference
publication, "The Standard" was started.
1941--February 7, it was decided to use the name "Temple
Baptist Church" in all publicity.
Miss Henrietta
Carlson started at Bethel Seminary. Later married Mr. Clifford Gustafson.
For a list of men from Temple who
served in WW II Click Here.
1942--May 8, The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was
conferred on Pastor Linus Johnson at the commencement exercise of Western
Baptist Theological Seminary held at Temple.
May 22, the church
debt paid.
June, mortgage due
July 12, Sunday,
the burning of the mortgage. Click here
to read an account by Harley Hallgren of the last days of the mortgage.
October 23, name changed from
"Swedish Baptist Temple" to " Temple Baptist Church."
All services
at Temple are now spoken in English.
1943--February, See picture of group from
Temple visiting Multnomah County Poor Farm as they did from time to time.
Edgefield
Manor, as it is known today was built in 1911, served as the county poor farm where
it was run as a self sufficient operation by the residents who worked in various
forms of employment on the grounds.
Miss Lois Sorley was called from Wisconsin to assist
Pastor Johnson in visitation work
Sunday School for war worker's children was established in
the St. John's area.
Click
here for an account of Miss Lois Sorley.
June 27, The Clatskanie
Church was organized.
September 19, Bethel
Baptist Church in St. Johns was organized
1944--February 19,--Click Here
to read letter from Mrs. Bjorkquist to Harley Hallgren.
Columbia Conference accepted responsibility for the Sunday
School in St. John's. Henrietta Carlson, (Mrs. Clifford Gustafson), was licensed
for the ministry and sent to
be the first leader-pastor of this work. This Sunday School was soon to
become Bethel Baptist Church.
October 10,
Methodist Deaconess Home located near N.E. 25th and Flanders was purchased
and organized and became the Oregon Baptist Retirement Home.
See
photo of Temple Baptist Church Congregation on front steps.
1945--January 1, Temple had their 61st
anniversary dinner. See List of members who have been affiliated with the
church for 40 years
and more.
February,
Rev. William Tapper, Director of Young People and Sunday School work in the
General Conference was with us and held fine spiritual meetings.
See the Honor
Roll of names of people from our church,
members and friends, who served in the military in WW II.
April, In the
latter part, Rev. Victor Larson, a great powerful preacher, from Elim Church in
Seattle spent "Four Great Days" with us.
May and June, Bernie
Wennermark was Junior Rose Festival Prime Minister.
May, The Methodist
Deaconess Home (which became The Oregon Baptist Retirement Home) was purchased.
June 11-22, Daily
Bacation Bible School was held under the supervision of Miss Lois Sorley.
July 1, work was
started on remodeling of the Oregon Retirement home.
July 4, The church
had its annual picnic at Peninsula Park.
July, Dr. Arthur I.
Brown, physician, radio minister and scientist was with us.
July 11-15, Eugene
Johnson, Lloyd Nordstron and Harold Carlson three young men from Bethel
Seminary, gave inspiring talks, colored chalk drawings, and vocal selections.
Bethel Seminary's name becomes "Bethel College and Seminary."
August 5-12, Faith
Bible Camp was held at Columbia City Fair Grounds.
See photo of
Temple Choir.
This year the Swedish Baptist General Conference dropped the "Swedish"
designation from their official name.
October 2-7, We had
"five great days" with Rev Alphin Conrad from Ballard, Seattle.
November, A special
Thanksgiving service was held on Thanksgiving evening with Dr. Bob Jones of
Tennessee.
December 2,
Dedication of the Oregon Retirement Home and welcome for 1st
Superintendent, David
M. Anderson.
December 31, the
church had a membership of 333.
The first and
second floors including the custodians quarters were painted.
Miss Lois Sorley
was the church missionary. She did a splendid job of solicitation of new
members for the Sunday School and church. The church bulletin was mimeographed
by Miss Sorley
Mr. Earnest Hanson
was the church clerk.
Mr. Harley Hallgren
was chairman of the Deacon Board.
Merril E. Morgan
was the Secretary and Treasurer of the Deacon Board.
Hildur Strandberg
was Secretary and Treasurer of the Deaconess Board.
Mr. Ewald Anderson
was chairman of the Trustee Board.
Mr. Ernie Johnson
was Secretary of the Trustee Board.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Wennermark were custodians.
Read an account of the Scandinavian Half Hour Radio Broadcast for this year.
Mrs. Ninian
Westerlund was chairman of the Music Committee.
Mr. Arthur B.
Carlson was Director of Radio Broadcasts.
Miss Maydora
Westerlund was Treasurer of the Mission Committee. The following
Missionary speakers were heard at various meetings of the church: Rev.
Harold Hetter, of the International Christian Leper Mission, Rev. William Tapper,
Dr. Arthur I. Brown, Rev. Dan Ganstrom, Mrs. Ulrich, temporary director of the
Christian Service Men's Center, Miss Joy Ridderhoff, Mr. BN Hicks of the Anti-Liquet
League, a representative of the African Inland Mission, Rev. William Hagstrom
and Rev. Warren Johnson.
Viola Anderson was
president of the Senior Young People's Society, Maydora Westerlund was vice
president, Betty Hallgren was corresponding secretary, Phyllis Rydman was
recording secretary. The treasurer was Stanley Christiansen and assistant
treasurer was Ralph Rydman.
1946--January 12, The Baptist Youth Fellowship had its
annual meeting.
April 10, a
memorial service was held for Lt. Henry George Carr who was killed in action in
the South Pacific.
May, the decision was made to purchase property for Lake
Retreat.
Rev. Gordon Carlson
succeeds Ole Larson as Columbia Missionary.
July 4, The church
held its annual picnic at Peninsula Park.
August 9, Hildur
Strandberg's parents celebrated there 50th wedding Anniversary. See
picture of them along with friends from Temple.
The ladies
purchased and put up draperies through out the church.
The lower auditorium
was painted.
The church received
a concert grand piano donated by Mr. and Mrs. George Strandberg and Mr. and Mrs.
F. G. Salstrom.
The church received
an oak pulpit in memory of Mr. Alferd Johnson and Mr. Sven Larson, by their
wives.
A week after
Easter, Rev. Vick was speaker at special services.
August 17-25
Special Camp was held at Lake Retreat. See
Brochure from the camp.
October, Rev. Axel
Anderson from Turlock, California led us in studies from the book of Jonah.
October 20, Stanley
Christiansen and Viola Anderson were married in the church.
Western Baptist
Seminary, Multnomah School of the Bible, the Gidean's, Rev. Turnwall, Rev.
Taggaart spoke at different times during the year.
December 1, the
church had 345 members on it's records.
Seven boys and
girls were led to the Lord at Vacation Bible School.
The deacons were
invited to attend the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Loydgren.
The Trustee Board
reported that the church has been painted.
The church
purchased the residence next door on the south side of the church. Address
of the residence was 1319 NE 7th.
December 25, Temple
had a Christmas Juletta Service.
1947--June 28, Mr. and
Mrs. George Strandberg celebrated 25 years of marriage.
July 1, the church
had an anniversary celebration for Mr. and Mrs. George Strandberg.
Read an account
from the annual report about the Scandavian
Half Hour Radio Broadcast.
The house next door
to the church was remodeled for a comfortable dwelling for the Pastor and his
family.
David Carlson
entered Bethel Seminary
Rev. Earl Olson,
former pastor of the church went home to be with the Lord.
Miss Lois Sorley
left the church and moved to another mission field.
Chairman of the
Deacon Board was Mr. Joseph Westling.
Secretary/Treasurer
was Mr. Ivar Nordquist.
1948--April, a series of meetings were held
by Rev. Gordon Hasselblad.
July 10, the annual
picnic was held at Peninsula Park.
August 1, Holy Communion service at Lake Retreat.
Six hundred seventy two in attendance.
Harriet Norr
succeeds Miss Lois Sorley as Church Missionary. Miss Norr worked with
other helpers in conducting a successful Daily Vacation School and had
an average attendance of 50 children.
September, God's
Invasion Army was formed and started with 35 post high school youth.
October, A series
of evangelistic meetings were held by Rev. Edwin Swanson.
November 9, The
Boy's Christian Service Brigade was started and was sponsored by The Men's
Brotherhood. Mr. Dave Johnson was Captain, Mr. Ray Lott, Dr. Evans Nelson
and Mr. Dwight Hanson were lieutenants. There were 14 boys enrolled.
Outings were enjoyed; a hike near Mt. Hood, Eagle
Creek in the Columbia River Gorge, Frog Lake near Mr. Hood, Camp
Meriweather and a hike around Tillamook
Head.
A new 1948 Dodge 4
door sedan was presented to Senior Pastor Dr. Linus Johnson.
A children's hour
after Sunday School was just started. Children ranging from 4-9 year old
was included.
The Cradle Roll
department met in the room behind the balcony. Large plate glass windows
were placed in the wall so workers could see the services as well as a sound
system so the service could also be heard.
The mission in St.
John's Woods is shepherded by Rev. and Mrs. Glenn Nordquist.
The Senior Pastor,
Dr. Linus Johnson turned in a resignation to the church, but the church asked
him to reconsider, which he did.
Mr. Ernie Johnson
was chairman of the Board of Trustees and Mr. Norm Ryberg was secretary.
The average church
attendance was 219.
1949--Bethel Baptist Church in North
Portland, joined the Columbia Baptist
Conference.
February 29 - March 6, God's Invasion
Army visited.
Spring, Miss
Henrietta Carlson married Mr. Cliff Gustafson.
May 29, the
radio ministry was discontinued.
July 16, the annual
church picnic was held at Peninsula Park.
August, Mr. Louis
Pilbeam, the choir director resigned. Mr. Harvey Flansberg became choir
director.
Bethel Baptist Church joined the Columbia Baptist
Conference.
New Dining Hall
ready for use at Lake Retreat.
Pastor Linus Johnson went
to Sweden for two years.
Harriet Norr was
church missionary and youth director.
The church acquired
a parsonage.
Sunday Superintendent
Merrill Morgan, his wife Jane and family left Temple and resettled at Lakeside
Baptist Church in Oakland, California.
Oregon Baptist
Retirement Home Manager, Mr. and Mrs. David Anderson left for Eugene, Oregon.
Mr. Carl Ostrom was
the church Financial Secretary.
1950--Click Here to see a Oregon Journal, Mr. Fixit article written by Harley Hallgren.
1951--Herbert Lawrentz, Seminary student, serves as Director of
Youth Work
The current
Apostles Creed or An Affirmation of our Faith was adopted by the Baptist General
Conference. Click here to read a copy of it.
September 30, see
the bulletin from the Sunday Service.
1952--Perry Hughes, Seminary student, succeeds Lawrentz.
1953--May 3, With the help of Temple, Glisan Street Baptist Church was organized.
1954--August 6, The Church voted to buy their first Sunday School
Bus
Temple help start McLoughlin Heights
in Vancouver,
Washington, now known as New Heights.
November--Perry
Hughes becomes Christian Education Director.
1955--Dr. Linus Johnson visits Sweden.
July 12, Read the
note given to Harley Hallgren about the old
pulpit that was given to the church by Mrs. John Nordell that was made by her
father, PM Holst.
1956--March 2, Dr. Linus Johnson dies on way home from church.
Rev. Ellis E. Eklof, Sr., was Pastor.
July 24--Mr. Frank
Voth ordained.
1957--Gordon Johnson was Youth Director.
June 26-30, Temple Baptist
Church was host the second time to the 86th Annual meeting of the Baptist General
Conference. The picture below is of the attendees to the conference taken
on the front steps of the church.
This picture was copied from the July 12, 1957 issue of the "Standard".
June
29,-- There was a Men's Brotherhood (of the Baptist General Conference) Banquet
at the Multnomah Hotel in the Rose Bowl at 1pm.
1958--April 6, Easter Sunday - See the Bulletin
for the Easter Program, Easter Service and schedule for the rest of the
week.
April 6, With the help of Temple,
Calvary Baptist
Church near West Linn was organized.
Mrs. Dale (June) Peretti
was appointed church organist.
1959--January 18-25, Temple celebrated the
75th anniversary of the church since founded in 1884. See the Anniversary
Program.
July, dedication of Johnson Lodge at Lake Retreat.
November, See photo of
Temple Choir.
1960--Rev. David G. Danielson
was Pastor.
1961--Mr.Robert Wagner was Youth Pastor.
The Office/Gym
Addition was built. Architect was Lawrence Supove.
1962--Jim Spicklemeier
worked with the youth during the summer.
Click
Here to see pictures of ground breaking ceremony.
Miss Marjorie Olson
was church office secretary and Missionary Visitor.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Gordh (Edith) celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
November 30, the
youth center or Christian Education Wing on south side of Temple was dedicated (includes classrooms, gymnasium, custodian's
apartment.)
1963--March, "Lift" program of General Conference
was instituted and stimulated missionary and general giving.
May, Mr. Harley
Hallgren was chairman of the Deacon Board with Mr. Mandy Strandberg
Vice-Chairman, Mr. Bert Johnson, Secretary and Mr. Ray Green, Treasurer.
May 15-18, The
Columbia Baptist Conference convened in Portland for the annual meeting.
June, Jim
Spicklemier, a Bethel student serves as Youth Pastor. At the end of the
summer season he left for New York for training with the Peace Corp.
June 30, Rev.
Ned Holmgren brought the morning message and former pastor Ellis Eklof Sr.
preached at the Sunday evening service.
July, Miss
Georgianne Obinger was severely injured in a swimming accident.
July 14, Mrs. Carl
V. Anderson (Lydia Nystrom passed away. She was a member for 67 years
(January 25, 1896.)
July 15-19, Daily
Vacation Bible School was held for children for children from ages 4 to
13. Average attendance was 80.
August 2, Mr. Axel
Anderson was voted to be honorary deacon.
August 6, Robert
Wagner ordained.
September 15, Harold
"Bud" Malmsten came to Temple after graduation from Bethel
Seminary and was designated Minister of Music and Director of Young
People. It was decided that his official title be "Assistant to the
Pastor."
October 29, Mr.
Abdon Lundstrom passed away. He is survived by his devoted wife, Mrs. Ruth
Lundstrom.
1964--Temple Baptist Church is 80 years old.
Click here to view part of the souvenir
program.
January 10, Temple
held its anniversary dinner and was attended by some 350 guests. Dr.
Virgil Olson of Bethel College and Seminary was the special speaker of the
dinner. Dr. Olson is Historian for the Baptist General Conference and a
cousin to Pastor Dave Danielson. Mrs. Velma Rydman and Mrs. Minnie Rydman
were especially honored having been members since 1903. The theme of the anniversary was,
"To God Be The glory, Great Things He Hath Done!"
See 1964 photo of
Church
Lay Leaders.
January
19-26, Missionary Conference was held with Rev. Carl Lachler from Brazil, Rev. Marvin
Lindstedt from the Philippines, Rev. S. Lindberg and Rev. Dale Bjork from Japan.
January 22,
Mrs. George Nelson (Ester Salstrom) passed away after a long illness.
May 14-16,
Pastor Danielson was elected Moderator for the 75th Anniversary meeting of the
Columbia Baptist Conference which was held at the Central Baptist Church of
Seattle.
Pastor Dave
Danielson was senior Pastor with Bud Malmsten assistant to the pastor.
During this
time 1734 people have been added to out fellowship. This is an average of
21 people per year.
The number
this year was 30, or 9 above average.
Mrs. F. G.
Salstrom was recording secretary.
Evelyn Smith
was Financial Secretary.
1965--Mr. Dale Peretti was chairman of the Christian Education
Board and Mr. Bert Johnson was Sunday School Superintendent.
January, 23-28 The
Annual Missions Conference was held with Rev. Francis Sorley of Japan, Miss
Arlene Coleman from Ethiopia, Rev. Gil Anderson from Ethiopia, Miss Margorie
Malm of Ethiopia, Rev. Don Goldsmith from Brazil, Rev. Gerald Osbron of the
Philippines, Miss Grace Swanson of Assam, and Miss Betty Person of Assam.
Young men in the
military include: Bob Davis in Germany, Mark Hagey in Kentucky, Gary Huff in
Texas, Mike Herdner in Alaska, Ron Wright in Texas, and Ric Bailey in
California.
Len Johnson, Greg
Anderson and Klaus Siemienic are all attending Bethel, the most ever from
Temple.
May 16, Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Johnson celebrated 50 years of marriage.
May 30,
Memorial Day Weekend, 52 of our members formed work teams and helped make needed
repairs to the buildings at Lake Retreat Campground.
August 15-20, Daily
Vacation Bible School was held at the church. Dr. C.W. Slemming of England
spoke.
September 20, a
group of ten members of God's invasion Army arrived to begin a two week
visitation program with our church members.
Mr. and Mrs.
Henning (Josie) Johnson were custodians.
Missions week
included Dr. Paul Finlay of Bethel College, Rev. Wesley Lindblom of the Columbia
Conference, Rev. Francis Sorley of Japan, Miss Arlene Coleman of Ethiopia, Miss
Margorie Malm of Ethiopia, Rev. Irwin Bjelland of the Philippines, Bill and
Grace Anderson of Ethiopia, Miss Grace Swanson of Assam. Miss Betty Person, of
Assam and Rev. Gerald Osbrom, of the Philippines.
December 31, New
Years Eve a slide show was presented before the Watch night Service called
"Temple: 1965, A Year in Review."
1966--June, Bethel Baptist Seminary in Stockholm Celebrated 100 years. Rev
Gustaf Liljeroth was graduate.
Dave Danielson was Senior Pastor
Bud Malmsten was
the Assistant Pastor
The Christmas Choir
appeared in new choir robes.
December 22, Arthur
B. Carlson died.
Exterior of the
church building was painted.
1967--January 15-22, World Missions Week brought 4 missionaries
to Temple: Rev. Herman Tegenfeldt - Ragoon, Burma, Rev. Clem Walbert -
Japan, Rev. David Sperry - Ethiopia, Rev. Nils Friberg - Brazil. The
Rev. Cliff Gustafson represented the Columbia Conference.
May – At the
annual meeting the church voted to sell the parsonage and apply the proceeds to the building loan for the Youth Center.
May 28—A
reception was held at the Oregon Baptist Retirement home to honor the retirement
of Mr. and Mrs. Walferd Johnson, the homes administrators. Mrs. Linus Johnson stepped in during the summer as Supervisor.
September—Mr.
and Mrs. Reuben Ronne and Karry Sue were welcomed to the Oregon Baptist
Retirement home as administrators.
Mr.& Mrs. Gary Davis (Kathy) went to Spain as missionaries under Greater Europe Mission.
Summer--Miss Sharon Smith went to Ethiopia as a BGC missionary nurse.
May 17-26--The Billy Graham Crusade was held in Portland .
Mr. Bert Johnson was the Sunday School Superintendent.
51 young people from Temple attended Lake Retreat Bible Camps, Dr. Ceilous Williams scheduled two busy evenings for camp physicals.
July 8--Annual Sunday School Picnic was held at Blue Lake.
Mrs. Onis Watson was Superintendent of the Junior High Department
Sunday _School attendance averaged 240 this year.
1969--Okerson Lodge construction was started at
Lake
Retreat.
Gary Davis and
family went to Spain as missionaries under Greater Europe Mission.
October 21, Mr. and Mrs.
Mandy (Hildur) Strandberg celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. See a
picture or drawing of the church that was presented to them.
1971--June 6, Mrs. Josie Peterson from Birmingham, Alabama
became the first Negro member of Temple.
September 6, Okerson Lodge dedicated at Lake Retreat.
Some time during
the fall season the former church on Caruthers Street was tore down to make room
for a gas station.
December 31, Pastor
Danielson gave his final sermon as Senior Pastor on New Years Eve.
1972--January 16, Stanley Christiansen
passed away.
February 13, Pastor Eric Lindholm
began as Interim Pastor.
June 27, Pastor
Lindholm and Mrs. Lindholm celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary.
September, Dick Weins
arrives at Temple to be Senior
Pastor.
1973--Extensive remodeling program was undertaken to update the
entire church facility. The completion of this project has resulted in a
beautiful sanctuary and functional classrooms for the church school. See Architects
color presentation of church building with proposed additions and
improvements.
James Gallatin and
Bud Malmsten were serving with Pastor
Weins.
James Gallatin
begins Bus Ministry
Gary Nyquist hired
as Director of Music.
May--Annual
Business Meeting:
New Constitution adopted,
One Board of Deacons in charge of all activities of the church, now known as the
Elder Board.
Voted to remodel building at a cost of $200,000.
June 10-12, Bus
Conference, attracted participants from about 100 churches.
June, Bob Lott was
special Summer Youth Director
August, Gary Davis
family home on furlough from Spain.
September, Bob Lott
leaves for Bethel Seminary.
September 16,
Pastor Weins' 1st Anniversary as Pastor.
Pastor Buds' 10th Anniversary
Gary Nyquist begins Ministry of Music.
November 4, Rev.
Alf Engebrettsen joins staff as Visitation Pastor.
1974--January 1, ninety years since the church was organized.
January 28, Mrs.
Velma Rydman, Senior member on Anniversary date, died. She was an member
for 70 years, Sunday School Teacher, and Church organist.
February, Dr. Bror
Lundgren with Mrs. Lundgren has been serving as Interim Pastor while the church
is looking and praying for a successor to Pastor Wiens. In January, Dr.
Lundgren closed his work with the Central Baptist Church of Tacoma after 34
years of fruitful ministry; and in the Providence of Gad was therefore available
to help us for a time.
March 27, Mrs.
Victor Carlson was honored at the Oregon Baptist Retirement Home on her 80th
birthday.
March 31, first
anniversary of the Bus Ministry
427 riders on the buses
823 attendance at Sunday School
April,--we celebrated our 90th Anniversary.
At the same time we hosted the 85th annual Meeting of the Columbia Baptist
Conference.
Former pastors Ellis E. Eklof, Sr (1956-59) David Danielson (1960-1971 and Eric
Lindholm (1972 were with us and helped Pastor Richard Wiens,
Associate Pastor Bud Malmsten and Pastor Jim Gallatin with celebrating
“90 years of God’s wonderful grace.”
At the banquet at the Coliseum, the 25th
Anniversary of our “daughter church” Bethel in St. Johns was also
celebrated.
Special guests at the
banquet included Mr.& Mrs. Allan Bussey….he is the grandson of the pioneer
missionary, Rev. Olaus Okerson who started our church and other churches of the
Columbia Conference. Also Mrs.
Signe Stone Ball, daughter of charter members Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stone, Mrs.
Emily Palmblad Magnuson, Mr. Albert Palmblad, daughter and son of charter
members Mr. and Mrs. John Palmblad.
May 19, Temple held
its 90th Anniversary Program in the Fellowship Hall in the basement. See
the program
July, Gary Nyquist, Director of Music, left for
Bethel to finish school.
September, last
part, Jim Gallatin left us to become pastor of the Evergreen Baptist Church in
Tacoma.
October 20, Pastor
Weins resigns.
The Strands, our
custodians, left us and the Henning Johnson' stepped in on a temporary
basis. The new custodians are Mr. and Mrs. Winn Goddard.
The custodians
apartment was officially converted to Sunday School space.
The old part of the
building has been waterprooffed and now ready for painting.
The Sunday School
has had a high attendance of 500.
The Deaconess
honored Miss Mable Dahlgren on her 80th birthday.
The church went through a major remodel. Fisher Wallin and Long were the
Architects. The new stair tower was built, the old "rick-rack"
and plaster was removed above and in back of choir loft and vertical oak was
installed plus the hide-a-way projector screen, the doors in back of the
sanctuary were removed and relocated, removed the small exterior door on the
front of the church on the south end, removed the stairway on the south end of
the foyer.`
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1975--February 16, Bror Lundgren
arrived as interim pastor with great blessings to the church.
February 27,--The
30th anniversary dinner for the Oregon Baptist Retirement Home.
March 7,--the
ground breaking for enlarged facilities of Calvary Baptist Church of Cedar Oak
Park, West Linn, Oregon.
May 28, --Mark
Johnson, Bethel College senior and the Student Body President, was licensed to
preach and went to spend the summer to assist our former pastor, Rev. David
Danielson in Bellingham, Washington.
This year some remarkable
widows went to be with the Lord--
Mrs. Velma Rydman, Sunday School Teacher, Church Organist, and faithful wife of
O. S. Rydman.
Mrs. Ellen Milton, 96 years old, more than 60 years a member of this church, one
of the founders of the Oregon Baptist Retirement Home, faithful in hospitality
and in encouraging many in the Lord's work.
Mrs. Mary Danielson, 91 years of age and a member of this church more than 50
years. Many times hospitalized because of fractures, never really
well, spending her time outfitting hundreds of dolls for children's homes and
memorizing Christmas pomes. A few months before her last brief illness,
someone visiting her said, "Mary, it is always so nice to visit you because
you never complain!" She answered, "I don't have anything to
complain about."
September
2,--Pastor Prinzing and family arrived at Temple.
October 31,--Pastor
Bud left for Loma Vista Baptist in Spokane, Washington.
November, decision
made to move the churches offices from the rooms behind the sanctuary to the
vacated custodians apartment when renovated.
The ladies of the church started a
quilting group. Click here to read an account
and view some images.
Read a copy of the Temple
Teleios: A monthly news letter that was published a short time. This
is volume 1 Issue 3.
1976--April 19, Lenus Peterson died.
June 6, Jacob Gordh
died. He was a member of Temple for 64 years.
June 11, Pastor Ed
Mitchell was ordained at Temple.
July 21, Harley
Hallgren died. He was 84 years young and was an active member 66 years.
September 2, Dr. F.
G. Salstrom died at 75. He was a member for nearly 60 years.
September 27, Dr.
Bror Lundgren died. He was 72.
Temple helped start
Southwest Hills Baptist Church in
Beaverton.
November 19, first
service at Southwest Hills Baptist Church - Dan Peterson is Pastor.
During the Summer
and Fall seasons new main doors were installed on the church and the exterior
was painted.
The Church
office move was completed.
1977--Easter Sunday, the evening
service; Corrie Ten Boom was the guest speaker.
June, Lloyd Rekstad
and family came to Temple and joined the staff as the Director of Music.
June
3, Temple hosted a 50 Year Celebration for the
completion of the building. See the program
for the Banquet
September, Temple
hosted the Family Focus Seminar (Focus on the Family). Over 1,300 people
attended.
November, Deacon
Board voted to purchase the Chi Alpha Youth House.
December, The church purchased a parcel of land near the church, the initial use
was to park the church buses.
December 15, work
started on the chapel-house for Southwest Hills Baptist
Church
Temple
has helped start some churches in the Portland Area in the past and is
continuing to do so today. For a list of these churches: Click
Here
1978--March 15, Dave Parker hired as Director of Evangelism and
Adult Ministries.
October, Temple began Temple Sonshine with eight children from three years to
fifth grade.
39 new members
joined the church this year
Pastor Prinzing was
asked to deliver the commencement address at Bethel College
In the spring
Pastor Prinzing was selected as the special guest speaker Pastor to minister for
one week to the Bethel Seminary students.
Dave
Parker was in charge of Evangelism and Adult Ministries
Terry Hollister was
Director of High School Ministries:"
Temple had its first Craft Fair in December. A birthday party was included honoring Bill Steele on his 82nd
Year.
1979--May, the church purchased a home on the
North West corner of NE Sixth and Clackamas for use in its youth ministries.
(Chi Alpha House)
June, the youth house located
was purchased.
Bob Lott called to be Assistant Pastor.
Lloyd Rekstad was
Director of Music “Serve the Lord
with gladness; come before his presence with singing.” Psalm 100:2
Russ Jensema was in
charge of Junior High Ministries
The Deacon Board
felt it was necessary to update our membership rolls this year which resulted in
releasing 70 members. Most had
found fellowship in other churches.
Dr. Evans Nelson
was
the Church Moderator.
The
front steps to the church were tiled giving them a non slip surface.
1980--January 1, Read an account of an experience
by Karen and Terry Whitehill.
January 21, Our Christian Education workers attended the annual Christian
Leadership Conference in Seattle.
January 30, Bill Steele died.
February 29, Martha
C. Larson died.
March
2, Peter John Carlson died.
April 25, Terry Hollister called to be full time Director
of Youth Ministries.
May, The
Mother/Daughter Luncheon was held. Annie Hastey and Rich Shimomura
presented a skit based on the Lord's Prayer.
May 27, Hershel Loy
passed away.
This year
sixty-nine people
joined the church, 29 by baptism and 40 by letter.
Summer, Fourteen
High School and College students for SMT (Summer Missions Team) ministered three
and one half weeks in Baja California, Mexico.
August, The women had a mini-retreat at Lott's cabin. Kathryn Dixon was
the speaker.
August 19, Mabel
Dahlgren passed away.
September 11,
Christmas in September meeting was held
October 5,--200th
anniversary of the Sunday school.
October 8, Members
of the choir traveled to Tacoma to attend an all day choral workshop sponsored
by the CBC (Columbia Baptist Conference.)
Bob Lott, wife
Debbie, and son Jeremy were welcomed into the congregation. Bob was hired
as assistant Pastor. Bob was ordained by Rev. Bud Malmsten.
December, Dave
Parker and family were appointed by the board of World Missions as missionaries. The Parkers served in Yemen, Nice, France and then in the Ivory Coast.
December,
The Temple Choir and the Sonshine choir presented a concert at the Lloyd Center.
Terry Hollister was our Youth Pastor.
Don Van Polen
presented a multimedia presentation called, "Autumn Across America".
Temple was invited
to the sixtieth anniversary of Warren Baptist Church.
Temple held a
twenty-four hour "Day of Prayer" again this year and experienced seven
Lenten services with Darrall Imhoff, Neil Lomax, Kirby Brumfield, Bill Johnson,
Gordon Shadburne, Mike Donahue and Gary Randall.
One of the
highlights of the whole year was the double ordination service for Terry
Hollister and David Parker.
The renovation of
the "Youth House" (Chi Alpha House) has become a fine resource for our
young people and a facility which has proved to be a great blessing.
Margaret
Steele (Mrs. Bill) was the Historic Secretary for this year.
1981--January 7, Dave Parker and Terry Hollister were ordained.
January, We hosted our annual church music workshop led by Mr. Dale Wood.
There were approximately 120 church music directors in attendance.
April 15, Ministry
Expansion fund raising started. Consisted of adding Sonbeam Day Care
Center, new Sunday School space, and support for missionary, Dave Parker and
family.
May, The Temple Sonshine
presented a musical production, "The Enchanted Journey."
August, Temple hosted twenty-two young people from Japan for several days.
November, Temple hosted a
missions conference, the theme of which was "Go And Tell This People"
featured Dr. Clarence Bass from Bethel College, the George Chalmers' from the
Philippines and the Richard Young's from Argentina and Dave Parker.
December 11, 6:30 PM
(Friday) The church had a farewell dinner for the Parkers.
December 13, 11:00 AM
(Sunday) Commissioning Service for the Parkers. Rev. Herb Skoglund,
Executive Secretary of the Board of World Missions, and other invited guests
took part in the service.
December 13, 6:00 PM
(Sunday) Children's Christmas Program. The entire evening was devoted to
a portrayal of the "The Christmas Story" in word and music by the
children of the church.
December 20, 11:00 AM
(Sunday) Rev. Joseph A Ryan, Regional Director of World Vision, International,
was the speaker. Rev. Ryan, at that time was serving in Central and
South America visiting the many mission fields.
December 20, 6:00 PM
(Sunday) Annual Choir Concert. Our Adult Choir sang traditional
Christmas Carols and excerpts from The Messiah.
December 24, 9:00 PM
(Thursday) Christmas Eve Service. This hour-long service has been a
highlight for many each Christmas. The freshness of the Christmas Story
became apparent as we re-lived the Gospel Narrative of the Birth of Christ.
December 27, 11:00 AM
(Sunday) The Chalmers Family was in charge of our evening service. The
family provided special music and George and Nancy's son Dan, will speak.
Dan and Carla have been appointed as missionaries of the Baptist General
Conference the week before.
December 31, 10:15,
(Thursday) New Year's Eve Service. The evening service began with a time
of fellowship in the Lower Auditorium and the service concluded with a Communion
service and prayer.
Six young men have completed seminary training and move out into areas of
Christian service. Jim Wright, Tom Grove, Mark Johnson, Jim Heritage,
Terry Hollister, and David Parker.
1982--March, The Lower Columbia Conference
Spring Rally for the Women's Missionary Society was held at Temple.
May, The
children's musical, "Come Messiah, Come", was presented during this
month.
June, Arlene
Peterson represented Temple at the Association of Church Mission Committee in
Minnesota.
June 17-24,
The Summer Missions Team took advantage of this time to minister her in the
Portland area. The first week was spent training and the second week was
spent teaching the neighborhood children about God. The team ministered
through Bible clubs in two church homes.
July, Many women of
Temple met at Evelyn Lott's cabin on the Lewis River for a mini-retreat with an
inspiring talk given by Dixie Sylvester.
July 4, The
all-church picnic was held at Columbia Park. The Singles Class was in
charge. Eating, singing, and playing games were enjoyed by all.
September 3-6, The
third annual "Labor Day' Weekend was held at Fort Stevens, on the Pacific
Coast just south of Warrenton, Oregon. All the campsites were filled and
everyone enjoyed a fun weekend. Eleven AM services were held at Temple and
also at Fort Stevens.
October, The women
of Women's Mission Circle met for our "Christmas in October".
Linda Coffman spoke on "Women Helping Women" which the ladies said was
encouraging.
November, the
Annual Missions Conference held at Temple was the highlight of the year.
Joe Ryan served as chairman for the conference, which the theme was, "Every
heart without Christ is a mission field, and every heart with Christ is a
missionary."
November 7,
Peter Larson, conference missionary in Mexico spoke to a combined Sunday school
during Missions Week.
From the 1981-82
Annual Report--Our Lenten Services experience a great attendance this year than
last. On the seven Wednesday noons before Easter, we were inspired by the
following: Musical groups from Grant High School, a Pro Football Player, a
president of two different Bible seminaries, an attorney, a biblical dramatist
and television personality, and a television reporter/news anchorman.
Dr Fred Prinzing
was Senior Pastor
Bob Lott was
Assistant Pastor.
Terry Hollister was
Youth Pastor.
Ray Green started as Temple's Business Manager.
A new sign was installed in front of the church building.
New choir robes
were purchased. The choir has 40 to 45 people participating each week
during the year which included 20 to 22 men.
Evening service
attendance almost requires the balcony.
The Deacon Board
was expanded to five more deacons.
The church fiscal
year was changed to coincide with the calendar year.
All the church
choirs took part in a Christmas Concert at the Lloyd Center.
1983--February 10, Pastor and
Anita Prinzing left for a five-week trip to Japan and the Philippines.
Thirty Conference pastors and some wives were there to hold meetings and to be
an encouragement to missionaries in the field.
August, marked the
beginning of the Post Seminary program at Temple. The two men chosen for
this program were Mitch Klein and Rich Murphy.
August 28,
The church witnessed the ordination of Steve Feriante into the Gospel Ministry.
September 11,
The church witnessed the ordination of Rich Murphy into the Gospel Ministry.
Fall, ground breaking for three story addition on West
side or back of the Church. Click here
to see photos of ground breaking ceremony.` Construction started as we watched
during the year. The church anticipated great things and an added outreach
to the community as we looked forward to opening a daycare center for nearly one
hundred children. We will have a kitchen and dining area on one floor and
planned to have class rooms on another.
The church sold bonds in the amount of $300,000.00 to
complete phases I&II of the ministry expansion program for the expansion to
the church on the west side
Mitch Klein
and Rich Murphy were chosen for the Post Seminary program
Church
adopted a 3 year ministry expansion program to begin June 1,1984
February 10,
Pastor Prinzing and Anita left for a 5 week tour of Japan and Philippines to
visit missionaries including Ken Tbayashi in Tokyo, Yutaka
Yoshiki in Osk, Jill and Dave Beeler in Bagiuo City, George and Nancy Chalmers
in Calbayog, Western Samar and Roy and Jean Nelson in Cebu City.
May, For
Women's Missionary Society this month, they had their annual Mother and Daughter Luncheon.
The church
had a “World Outreach Conference” with the Roy Nelson’s from the
Philippines and the Donald Goldsmiths from Brazil.
Because of
over crowding the church went to two worship services on Sunday mornings.
Dave and
Marjorie Parker are our very own missionaries in the Ivory
Coast.
The
Dave Danielson’s are conducting a ministry in evangelism in many areas of the
United States.
August, The Women's Missionary Society held their Mini-Retreat at Lott's
Cabin. Approximately fifty women were present for a delicious luncheon in
beautiful weather.
August
28, Steve Feriante ordained into the Gospel Ministry
September 11,
Rich Murphy ordained into the Gospel Ministry.
October, For Women's Missionary Society this month brought us "Christmas in
October." Diane Penner spoke of her experiences as a short-term
missionary to Japan.
November, For
Women's Missionary Society this month the women on the Lower Columbia Conference
met at Glisan Street Baptist Church.
The Sunbeam
Day Care opened for the first time.
The new ministry expansion building at the NW corner of the lot includes Day
Care, elevator, new church nursery, new future kitchen and dining room on second
level. William Keefer was the Architect.
Don Van Polen presented his multi-media presentation, "The Four
Seasons."
Fourteen of
our young people traveled to Kansas City "83" for a time of spiritual
inspiration and Christian growth.
The "SMT"
Summer Missions Team traveled to Alaska during which they held daily vacation
Bible schools and youth retreats in various churches. There were
twenty-three including leaders and sponsors in this group.
The
Centennial Quilt was presented at the Fall Kick Off Banquet. See 1984
Because
of the crowding in single worship services, the church staff and the Worship
Committee have cooperated in starting two morning services, thus we cut down on
crowding and also allow more opportunity for involvement such as ushering and
serving communion. We also changed the type of bread we use during
communion `to cut down on preparation time.
1984--New Years Eve, Sunday morning service,
Pastor Dave Danielson ministered to us and a Swedish Choir helped remind us of
our heritage. Recognition was
given to the for following longest-term members: Edith
Gordh, Helen Hallgren, Gerta Salstrom, and Flavia Westerlund.
January 8, the resolution pertaining to double Sunday morning services was
adopted and to begin on this date.
March 25, Sunday evening, the Temple Sonshine and Chi-Alpha Singers presented the production, "What's New Corky?"
April, --Rich Murphy left Temple to go into Chaplains training in Rhode Island. Later his family joined him in Arizona where he began his duties as a Navy Chaplain.
April 15,--A new house of worship for Southwest Hills Baptist Church opened on Palm Sunday.
April 15,--At Temple: The church holds an Open House for the new ministry building at the conclusion of the 11:00am service. The second and third story were uncompleted at this time.
Early Spring, The name Sunbeam Day Care was chosen for the child development center.
April 18, --Senator Mark O. Hatfield spoke at the Lenten service.
George Orwell was mistaken, especially at our church!
June 1, The ME 11 program started under the direction of Mr. Bill Hammerbeck.
June 9,--Mr.Mitch Klein and Miss Debbie Meis were married in a beautiful ceremony at the church.
A Centennial Quilt designed and manufactured by the ladies of the church under the leadership of Edith Ryberg, and presented to the church to commemorate the first 100 years. Fran Maynard composed song and lyrics corresponding to the quilt squares with depicted stages in Temple's development and ministries.
Read an article from the Oregonian Newspaper about the Centennial.
June 24, Temple celebrated its 100th anniversary commemorating service under God with a dinner at the Red Lion.
June, Temple and
Lower Columbia Conference hosted the 106th annual meetings of the Baptist
General Conference. Executive Board meetings at Temple on June 18 and June
20. The Conference itself was in session at Jantzen Beach Red Lion from
June 20 to June 29.
June, SMT '84 This year was set aside for the team of high school and college
students to be in charge of the children's ministry (150 children in elementary
grades) during the Baptist General Conference Annual Meetings at the Jantzen
Beach Red Lion complex.
July 1,--Mr. Fred
Johnson began serving as Director of Child Development.
July 24, official
dedication of Southwest Hills Baptist Church.
August 8, --Mr. Norm Ryberg passed away and went home to be with the Lord while sitting in church at Sunday morning service.
August 23, Gerda Salstrom, wife of Dr. F.G. Salstrom passed away.
August 26, the nursery was in its new location on the ground floor of the new addition on the West side of the church.
September 1-3, The annual campout at Fort Stevens State park was held over the Labor Day weekend with over 200 campers attending.
September 4, Sonbeam Daycare Center opened its doors with a limited number of students. (The name Sonbeam Day Care was chosen as the name for the child development center in early spring of this year.)
September 7, Dick Wiens, former pastor of Temple, was the guest speaker at our Fall Kickoff Banquet.
September 20, The Sonbeam Day Care Center officially opened and provided service for five children.
October 22, The annual church roller skating party was held at the Oaks Park Roller Rink in the evening.
November 21, Thanksgiving Eve, The Love Loaf ingathering was collected at the Great Family Gathering.
December 24, Ellen Wright, wife of Stan Wright passed away.
Bob Lott (Minister of Evangelism and Discipleship) and Debbie turned in their resignation to move to Tacoma, Washington.
Dave Parker and family accepted a call to Sylvan Way Baptist Church in Bremerton, Washington.
Fred Johnson was licensed to preach.
Mitch Klein was licensed to preach.
Mark Manfredi was recommended for admission to Western Baptist Seminary.
Rev. Terry Hollister was recommended to a Doctor of Ministry program at Western Baptist Seminary.
Ruth's Kitchen was completed as was the new dining room which was to be called The "Upper Room". John Pumphery was Architect.
A note from the 1984 Annual Report: (Bob Lott was assistant pastor and wrote a page from his desk in the report.) "Since writing this report, Debbie and I have turned in our resignation at Temple to move up to Tacoma. We will miss the people here at Temple very much and have dearly love these past five and one half years."
The retired persons joined together under Don Slater for fellowship and mutual help. Trips were planned to places of interest and monthly potlucks held for social enrichment.
Ken Kornelis began providing counseling services for the church.
Dave and Marge Parker had to return from the Ivory Coast and had to return to the States due to health reasons. They are now in a pastorate at Sylvan Way Church in Bremerton, Washington. 1985--February, Assistant Pastor, Bob Lott asked his father Ray to ask Ray Green and Don Slater to go to Modesto, California and visit with the churches in the area and check out their programs for Retired People. See October 11.
February 13, Temple accepted the challenge of sponsoring new Conference work in Bend, Oregon. Rev. James Wright accepted the challenge to head up this new work. In the spring they left their church in Nevada to start the new work in Bend.
March 31, the ordination of Mitch Klein.
April--Bob Lott resigned to join Central Baptist in Tacoma as Minister of Youth and Single Adults.
April --Dr. Jack Bergeson retired as Executive Secretary of Columbia Baptist Conference after serving 15 years.
April 11, Agnes Johnson passed away.
June—Temple hosted the “Tone of Life Choir” from the Baptist Union of Sweden. Members of this group come from the Stockholm area and had joined together to sing in association with the choir of (Swedish) Bethel Seminary.
June 22, Anna Heppner passed away.
August,--Rev. Terry Hollister and Debbie resigned from the church staff to become church planters in Billings, Montana. Their work was much appreciated and they are missed by the church body.
August 4, Hazel Brenneke passed away on this date.
September1, over Labor Day weekend: The all-church Labor Day Fort Stevens Camp-Out had over 200 participants.
September 24, Ruth Johnson, wife of Dr. Linus Johnson, former pastor of Temple went to be with her Lord.
October 11, --The Keenager group at Temple was organized. See a letter written by Ray Lott.
November 24,--The Temple Historical booklet, “Temple Baptist Church – The First Century”, written and compiled by John Pearson, was made available to the church.
December 8, Don Van Polen presented his multi-media program entitled, "Footprints of the Reformation." Don photographed the actual sites where these historic events took place and presented these dramatic scenes with narrative on three giant screens in the church sanctuary.
December 1,The Chi Alpha House was vacated and the young people moved into the church basement. The house was sold as part of a package, which enabled the church to purchase the parking lot on the south west corner of the block the church is located on.
December,-- Rev. Mitch Klein accepted the call to be the pastor of Cedarhome Baptist Church, Stanwood, Washington.
December 14, Hanna Johnson passed away.
December 29, A Great Family Gathering Homecoming tribute was held in honor of Mitch and Debbie Klein as they concluded their ministry with the church to begin serving as Pastor of Cedarhome Baptist Church in Stanwood, Washington.
December 30, William Nestlen passed away.
John Anderson and Mark Manfredi stepped in to take the space of ministry for the youth.
Don Strandberg had to vacate his position as church moderator because of length of term ran out.
Pastor and Anita Prinzing took a sabbatical from the pulpit. They attended the BGC annual meetings in Wheaton, Illinois, then flew to Rome for an 18 day seminar at the Waldensian Seminary. After they toured the great cities of Europe for 2 ½ weeks.
As originally designed, the nursery was too small to accommodate the children enrolled. After many hours of discussion and planning, the nursery was finally remodeled in the Fall.
1986--February
16,--Mr. Clifford Beeler died.
February 28,--Elsie
Ostrom died.
February,--Pastor
and Anita lead a tour to Israel, several Temple members went along.
March 15,--the
women of the Lower Columbia Conference has their Spring Banquet at New Heights
Baptist Church in Vancouver, Washington, with Anita Prinzing as speaker.
Spring,--Awana
program begins.
Morrie Brask
retired as head usher.
April, Dr. Fred
Prinzing announced his resignation effective July 31. Lloyd Rekstad became
involved in the pastoral functions of the ministry.
April, -- For12
months in 1984-85, Karen and Terry Whitehill, members of Temple
Baptist Church, Portland, Ore., toured Europe on a 11,OOO-mile bike trip. Now they are back in Europe again, this time on a yearlong walk from
Paris to Jerusalem. Read about the trip as it appeared monthly in the
Standard as the trip progressed.
April 1,--John
Anderson became Temple’s Minister of Christian Education.
May, Music leaders and sponsors took the Sonrise Edition to Puyallup for a short
weekend tour which included an evening at Lake Retreat.
June, Tom Kornelis
and Paul Strandberg accepted the position of co-chairmen of the Building
Committee.
June 18, --Summer
Missions Team traveled to Camp Big Horn in St. Regis, Montana with Mark and
Deena Manfredi
June 29,-- Fortieth
Anniversary of Lake Retreat Baptist Camp.
July, Music Camp
was held. The highlight was the musical production, "Its Cool to be
in the Furnace." The theme of the performance was teach the young
people the value of trusting God through every circumstance.
July 27,-- Farewell
Sunday for Sunday for Pastor and Anita Prinzing
July, Pastor Prinzing left Temple to take a position as
Professor of Theology at Bethel.
July 22,--Dr.
Robert Anderson accepted the call to be Temple’s interim pastor. His duties began the first Sunday in September.
October 1, Dick and
Bev Young missionaries from Argentina shared about their ministries.
November 8,--Edith
Gordh died.
December,--Temple, the Columbia Baptist Conference & Baptist General Conference helped
format the Philippine Baptist Church in Portland.
February 3, A Swedish smorgasbord was held at Temple. Menu included Lutfisk, Kroumkaka, Kottbullar, and Spritsar See a website with many delicious Swedish recipes
May 10, John Anderson ordained.
June 15, Mike Pinkerton became Director of High School Ministries.
August, Lloyd Rekstad left for a new ministry in Yacaipa, California after 10 years and Director of Music.
Fran Maynard (Malmsten) took over as Director of Music from Lloyd Rekstad.
Computerization of church records was begun.
Morrie Brask retired after 25 years as Head Usher.
ME-3 (Ministry Expansion Third Phase) Fund raising Program started.
October 25, the American Filipino Baptist Church was organized.
November 30, Dr. Robert Anderson resigned as Interim Pastor to teach at Western Theological Seminary.
Work crews began construction on the second floor of the three story project on the west side of the church building. Finishing was done to the kitchen, trim around the windows were set, a dropped ceiling was installed, flooring was laid, and a dividing wall was installed among other things accomplished.
1988--Tony Nimis was the staff youth leader.
May, a Junior
Olympics was held at Lake Retreat.
Efforts were made
to complete the second floor of the new building.
The church enlisted
the help of Olan Mills to
provide a new color pictorial directory.
John Pearson was
the church historian.
June 19, A loving
farewell was given for Fred Johnson, Patti and sons David and Brian who joined
the staff of Hinson Memorial Baptist Church as Christian Education Director.
July 17, Rev.
Harold and wife Jamie Carlson our interim pastor for six and one half months
were honored on this day.
Pastor Steve Roy , with wife Susan and children,
Andrew, Beth, Lydia candidated at Temple from Wednesday, April 20 to Sunday,
April 24th. The following week the church voted to extend the call for
Senior Pastor.
July 24, Pastor Roy
began his ministry at Temple.
October 23, John
Anderson and wife Kim were honored at a commissioning service. They will
enter a church planting ministry with the BGC at Crystal Lake, Illnois.
November 18, Popcorn with the Pastor, Those who planned to attend were
asked to write or speak verbally questions of the Pastor on the Bible, theology,
ministry programs, future plans of the church.
Deschutes Bible Church in Bend,
Oregon, was welcomed into Columbia Baptist Conference at the annual meeting
in Olympia, Washington.
1989--February 20, a recommendation was made
to extend a call to Mike Pinkerton to be the Associate Pastor for Nurturing
Ministries.
March 5, The church
congregation voted to extend a call to Mike Pinkerton to be the Associate Pastor
for Nurturing Ministries effective June 1, 1989.
March 23—the first event in use of
the “Upper Room”; Maundy Thursday
communion service.
Sunday, May 7, 6:00 PM the
second floor
Dining Room was dedicated
Steve Roy
was the senior pastor, with Mike Pinkerton as Associate Pastor for Nurturing and
Terry Tharpe as Associate Pastor of Outreach.
The new kitchen
that servers the second floor dining room was
named “Ruth's Kitchen” in honor of Mrs. Ken (Ruth)
McCarthy.
June 1, Began as
Associate Pastor for Nurture Ministries.
June 4, Mike Pinkerton was
licensed to preach as per certificate signed by Pastor Steve Roy. See May 11,1990
August--Filipino-American church conducted Daily Vacation Bible School at Temple
AWANA program
reviewed and Ratified as church ministry for boys and girls.
October 1—Terry
Tharpe called to become Associate Pastor of Outreach Ministries.
Deschutes Bible Church
disbanded following failure to find a pastors leadership.
December 1,--Flavia
Westerlund died.
1990--May 11, was the official date on the License from Multnomah County for Pastor Mike to preach. Return to 1989
1991--Tony Nimis was High School Director
Temple
was blessed with the ownership of the parking lot on the Southwest corner of the
block.
It was obtained through the trade of other property and a lease back
arrangement for the use of parking during the weekday.
This allowed the church to obtain the property with no out of pocket
costs.
The small kitchen
in the lower level east of the fireside room was remodeled. John Pumphery
was the architect.
December 7,
Floie Davis
died and went to be with the Lord.
1992--May 14-17, The 103rd Annual
Meeting of the Columbia Baptist Conference was held at Temple. See the
February-April front Cover of the Conference
Call.
October 11, Pastor Mike was
ordained for the ministry at Temple.
Mr. Ray Green was the Church
Administrator.
December, Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Green (Hazel) celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. A large
reception was held in the Upper Room.
1993--August, Terry Tharpe and family moved to serve a church in
Poulsbo, Washington
Tony Nimis was High
School Director in until June.
Fran Maynard (Malmsted)
was Director of Music.
Summer Mission Team
trains in the running of a Daily Vacation Bible School in Lebanon, Oregon, and
then spent two weeks running their own VBS in Mehama and Woodburn, Oregon.
Dean Longfellow was
Director of High School Ministries.
Ron and Leta Kriens
home on furlough from Indonesia earlier than expected, when the
Indonesian government terminated its relationship with Summer Institute of
Linguistics.
1994--Pastor Roy left Temple.
Twelve new members
were added to the Temples roll, two by
baptism, ten by letter.
July 31, Ron Kriens
family leaves for Indonesia
The
Hope Vietnamese Baptist Church was started.
1995--June, Paul Flood joined the staff.
July 1, Pastor Mike
began his first
year as Interim Senior Pastor
September 4, Mandy
Strandberg passed away.
Gary Shank
served
as Interim Associate Pastor
Jon Christian
(church moderator) left for Wisconsin
Don Green was voted
to the job of Church Moderator.
Temple welcomed
twenty-three new
members were welcomed this year.
Computer system in
offices completed.
Mortgage on the
building paid off for addition on West Side of Church.
See photo of
Board
of Elders - Deaconess
1996--June 9, Pastor Mike Pinkerton was called as Temple's
Twenty Third Senior Pastor. He accepted the position that day.
November, Gary
Shank leaves for a pastorate at Immanuel Baptist Church in Monmouth, Illinois.
Church building was
painted and sound system and heating upgraded.
1997--Art Greenleaf was Associate Pastor. He devoted 25%
of his time as Chaplin to Portland Fire Bureau.
April 3, Ruby Brugh,
Hildur Strandberg and Dagmar Walthinson were honored by the Deaconess at Viola
Christenson's house for their age. Ruby was 91,
Hildur was 90,
Dagmar was 90.
1998--Mike Pinkerton was Senior Pastor. Pastor Mike visited Ghana, West Afric