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About 350 people joined together to celebrate 100 years of the
Wesleyan Church at Miltonvale Kansas. The church is
named after one of it’s great pastors described by Dr. Wayne Caldwell as
“the kindest most gentle man of God that we ever remember from our early
days of ministry in the Kansas Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist
Church.”
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service at 10:00 am was a worship time
with emphasis on God’s blessing on the past, present, and expectation of
the future. Rev. Ray Gilbert a former pastor wrote a poem for the
occasion and read it for us. Dr. Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma
Wesleyan University gave congratulations and spoke of the ministry of
Miltonvale Wesleyan College and Church through the years and the merging
of MWC with Bartlesville College in 1972 and now making up OKWU. Our
District Superintendent spoke giving us the challenge to be God’s “sent”
ones. Our ministry is before us to reach other by Christlike living.
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295 a wonderful dinner in about an hours time. The fellowship was
wonderful. At 2:00 we celebrated memories,
enjoyed wonderful special instrumentals, the Garlow/Campbell choir, and
a solo. Rev. James Flick, also a former pastor, had also written a poem
for the occasion and read it for us. The service closed with the song
we began the day with:
To God Be the Glory. The
day closed with a beautiful reception in the fellowship hall.
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will be long remembered as a day of gladness and celebration as everyone
rejoice in God’s blessing on Miltonvale
Wesleyan College and Church for 100 years expecting the best is yet to
come. |
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