IX. CONCLUSION
While the records of the church make the recounting of its ministries appear the
center, in reality, the ministries provide a framework which, from the earliest
days to the present, has rested upon a foundation of active and committed lay
members of the congregation who ARE the church. Without such committed people
as Antes Ruhl, Melancthon Brown, Malcom and Margaret McFadyen, Maggie and Homer
Porter, Lu and Orin Rugg, Ash and Mabel Johnson, and Cousie Fox, to name just
a few, the ministers could not have succeeded as they did. As they have repeatedly
observed, Whatever success I have had in this church was due to you.
Charles Parker Connolly
once observed, The supreme practical aim of our people has been to be wise and
to be loving. It seems that it will be even more important to be wise and loving
in the future than it has been in the past. . . Our church has a glorious mission.
Leading
Women in the Church (July 1919)
