Bethel Baptist Church Records, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Pamela Strother Downs
Transcribed to text file by Lynda Weldon
Date: May 9, 2007

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attend the Destrict Meeting.  On motion Brother G. N. Strother was granted
the power to extend the privilidges of the church at Walnut Grove School
Houses.  No further business coming up, adjourned in order.
A. D. Mayo, Mod.
Willie Strother, Clerk.

Sunday May 23, 1897.
The pastor preached.  Aaron Doyl and Anna Ashworth were restored to 
membership, and Vicey Doyl and Lucinia Doyl were received on a profession 
of faith.
A. D. Mayo, Mod.
Willie Strother, Clerk.

Saturday June 26, 1897.
Rev. G. N. Strother and Pastor A. D. Mayo preached.  Mrs. ?etry Willis was
received for baptism.  Minutes of previous meeting read and approved.  The 
charge against Wm. Wilson was ordered erased from the minutes.  The church
was reported not in peace.  A charge was prederred against J. G. Strother 
and Willie Ware, and deferred for a month.  Peter Perkins was excluded.  
After confession for drinking intoxicating liquor, Critenden Perking was
pardoned.  (Part of a page torn out here makes this part of the record 
incomplete).  A resolution was then offered and adopted:  That the former . . 
be appointed as committee . . for the past records of the church . . old book
to the new one . . . that they be given the power . . any part of the old 
minutes . . . may see fit.  On motion . . . were empowered to write a . . . 
covenant and that it .  .. read and adopted at our next regular meeting.  
Pastor Mayo was granted the priviledge of changing appointment with Pastor 
J. H. Caruth.
A. D. Mayo, Mod.
Willie Strother, Clerk

Saturday July 27, '97.
Elders T. R. Neal and J. H. Caruth preached. Dinner was served. J. H. Caruth
read the sixth chapter of Galatians and G. N. Strother led in prayer. Minutes
of the former meeting were read and approved. James Ware reported that J. G.
Strother and Willis Ware had become reconciled. The committee appointed to 
write the records of the church was not ready to report, and the matter was 
postponed until the next meeting.  A. D. Mayo and Willie Strother were chosen
as Pastor and Clerk for the next year.  Fellowship was withdrawn from Wm. 
Wilson. Rasmus Stanley, O. S. Willis, G. N. Strother, John Strother and 
Andrew Rodriguez were chosen as messengers to the association, and James 
Ware, F. Perkins, Aaron Doyl, James Willis and Harvey Odom as alternates.
J. H. Caruth, Moderator pro tem.
Willie Strother, Clerk

Sunday July 25.
Elder J. H. Caruth baptized Sinai Buxton. J. H. Caruth and T. R. Neal 
preached.  Sinai Buxton was received into full fellowship of the church.
Collected $1.80 for State Mission.
J. H. Caruth, Mor. pro tem.
Willie Strother, Clerk