Open Bible College - Onward Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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QV V XQXC3 Q OXQQEOV 40 xc? 60 -Q SCHOOL SONG The Open Bihle Institute if rmzrchifzg along. Stztmzfr hott doth flee fly we Jhozzt 1'edemptio11'r Jong. By ,Dwyer and faith and fruit in Gott' We COHQZIQI' every foe, few: it ozfr victory A5 ozzzuartf we shall go. Domzing the helmet of mlwztiofz, Clotheti in the armor of the Lord, Trzzitixzg the Jwom' of the Spirit, WE,7'6 out to ,breach GOD'S WORD. Star by star the service Hag of O.B.l. has continued to grow, until at the present time we have twenty former students represented on our Roll of Honor. To those who have gone forth from out midst, leaving family, friends, and the comforts of home, in the defense of all those things we cherish, we ptayerfully dedicate this issue of the r'O7ZZL'lZi'61i.H Birchmeier, LarVal ..........USA Bradshaw, Herbert ............ USM Cater, Forest, .................... USN Clark, Roscoe M. ...........r.. USA Clark, Walter R. ................ USA Cooper, John G. ................ USA Crooks, Keith ........ Gay, Milo ........... 2 .........USA .........USA 'ff ounehfit is xx 4:42-sw 11, H. L fn.. SERVFQQHF' ti' .. Mgr.: Portwood, James Redmond, James Reem, Dorothy .. .,.....USN WAAC Richards, Lotus ....,.. ....... U SN Jacobs, Howard M. ............ USA Simons, James ...... ........ U SA Jarvis, John M. ....,.......,... USA Shumstn, John .......... ......, U SN Morken, James A. Owings, Harold .. ........USN ......USAC Vestal, Eugene . Welshcmns, Leonard .,.....,.. USA

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REV. AND MRS. JOHN R. RICHEY Prerideuf Elllgfiflhf and C0-Fofmder HISTORY OF O.B.I. Witlm a burden for souls and a vision for trained pastors and teachers, john R. and Louise H. Richey began classes in the First Church of the Open Bible at Nineteenth and Crocker, in Des Moines. Through the years the enrollment grew, until a new building was needed. No structure which was suitable to meet the need of the school could be found. Finally, at the Annual Convention of 1938, the founders again took the leadg they presented the idea of building our own building, and gave the initial donation. The spirit of God moved, and in that one meeting ample funds were raised to begin the work. Through depression and prosperity, prayer and sacrifice, working and giving, O.B.I., students and faculty members have carried on the building program, until today the hrst floor unit of our building stands equipped and paid for--a 317,000 dollar memorial of the grace of God. The Open Bible Institute not only has made progress finan- cially, but the Lord has blessed our school spiritually as well. A God-given faculty, and students with consecrated talent and a genuine burden for souls, comprise the real O.B.I. In a brief history like this, one cannot tell the qualities and characteristics of the students, their trials and victories, their joys and triumphs, which go to make up the ever growing spirit of the Institution. We anxiously await the time when the Lord, Himself shall unfold tot us the completed story of the actual growth of the Open Bible Institute and its far-flung outposts. Until that time we shall faithfully occupy till He comes. We shall take the burning of the mortgage and the estab- lishment of the new Victory Building Fund as tokens of even greater spiritual conquests as we march ONWARD to glorious VICTORY in CHRIST JESUS. Co Ogqafv 1' ,fc-aaa: 9 s L . . 4 f 4' .!f1q74'22Eiz1f j' ' , . 'f ,af:?::'gr53:5g3gE- j Z f?f:f'Q1 iii? f ' E Jigfz -33? ' 3