Ellsworth Community College - Web Yearbook (Iowa Falls, IA)

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. ,v 1 , fly' gi i f E. l QWWH H ,, churches in Linn Grove, and the pastors wanted the team to come but the people did notg they did not receive the team very well and were cool and indifferent, but later they liked the meetings and urged the team to remain longer. It was a stormy week, but the church in which the meetings were held was Hlled every night, and the team received the very best of treatment. Much good re- sulted from the meetings and fourteen joined the church on confession of faith. There were two teams in 19123 one consisted of Reuben 'Trickey and joseph Harris, who went to Pleasant Prairie, where they assisted the Rev. Mr. Brown of Sac City in a meeting. The other team comprised Benjamin Trickey, VVilliam Hoffman and C. Ira Gordon, they held eight meet- ings at Elm Grove in Calhoun Countyj a placelnine miles southwest of Rockwell Cityg of the work here one member of the team reports: l'It' was a country neighborhood and the people were not troubled with religion so much but that they. appreciated it. Others report that at both places house calls were made, personal interviews were held and public meetings conducted. The territory covered was about five stjuare imiles. Both communities were well pleased and helped the team petlsonally, besides paying their expenses. Eight conversions were reported from the Pleasant Prairie neighborhood and thirteen from Elm Grove. Many a farm boy has been led to attend school and college by coming in contact with college men composing the Gospel Teams. - Y ' The team for 1913 was made up of William Hoffman, Walter Hoffman, Ray Tidman and Paul Reynolds, who held services at Blencoe in western Iowa. They report that nine persons made the decision for Christ. Of the work at Blencoe a member of the team has this to say: It seemed that every man caught the spirit of co-operation. Every morning and before every meeting the team met for prayer and meditation. It was prayer that made the efforts of the team a successfl The team for 1914 was as follows: VVm. Krieg, Ray Tidman, Reuben Trickey, Roy Ganfield and Paul Reynolds. They were also well received by the good people of Blencoe, who remem- bered the good work of the team the former year. As a result of this second stay at Blencoe six people were added to the church. The men of the team made many calls, played games with the boys and went hunting with the young fellows of the community, and left a clean-cut impression of stalwart Christian young manhood. The team for the holiday season of 1915 was at Greenville, a village near Spencer, Iowa, it was composed of Reuben Trickey, Roy Ganfield, Will Krieg and George Mauss, who held meet- ings for nine days in the Congregational church. The team enjoyed participating in the Christ- mas exercises. A spirit of worldliness in the town made the work difficult, yet the meetings were well attended and great good was accomplished. The work of the Gospel Team leads to efficiency in Christian social service and puts theory and sentiment to the test of real life. It fosters teamwork and has a reciprocal humanizing and spir- itualizing effect upon the workers themselves. In this, the day when lay workers everywhere are praised and encouraged, such work is a fitting product of the collegesg with its vision, inspiration and spiritual uplift it is a prophecy of the more efficient church of the future. A perusal of the above account will reveal the fact that seventeen men have done the work in the five years. Of this number Ralph' Collis, Benjamin Trickey and Paul Reynolds are now in theological seminaries preparing themselves for the ministry, meanwhile continuing their active work among the people. 147 -i.....,,,,,,?,,4,