John Rhodes

I took over the pastorship of the lovely little Baldwin Park, California, church re­cently. The building was quite new, and I found that the congregation were still using tem­porary folding chairs. This energetic congre­gation had raised…

[In this article Elder Rhodes acts as a reporter for a number of men who held evangelistic campaigns last fall. It represents the combined ideas of Charles Hall, Daniel Legitt, Dan Reynolds, Daniel Guild, Bill Henry, Robert Greiner, and the…

The Work of a Deacon

JOHN D. RHODES Pastor-Evangelist, Southern California Conference

Some have the misconception that "now that the church has elected me to the work of a deacon I will have little to do." This idea is,…

I have just returned from a wedding. An other worker performed the ceremony, which was an excellent example of beautiful and sacred dignity. All participants cooperated with practiced ease as the pastor gave his kindly counsel and then led…

Have you ever wished that your elders and deacons would go visiting on their own initiative? Have you honestly admitted how hard it is for you, even as a trained minister, to go out into the parish alone to visit? Perhaps you need to go back…

[EDITORIAL NOTE. John D. Rhodes, of the East Los Angeles church, recently submitted a copy of some valuable information used in his church revival and visitation program. In his training of established church members to help the pastor in looking…

ABOUT a year and a half ago I attended my first Bill Gothard lecture on Basic Youth Conflicts. I saw this man hold people spell bound for a full week. I realize that, while the man is deeply spiritual, he has no apparent external charisma.…

PRAYER meeting attendance at the Long Beach Seventh-day Adventist church was running about average with most other large churches I had heard of. On some occasions we were fortunate in having as many as 10 percent of our membership present.…