MS-309 Dayton Area Baptist Association at WSU Special Collections & Archives

MS-309 Dayton Area Baptist Association

Introduction

The Dayton Area Baptist Association records were accessioned into the Wright State University Special Collections and Archives on October 18, 2001. They were donated by Jean Lay.

The papers in this collection date from 1949-2000, and fill 12 Holliger Boxes and 169 file folders. The collection is arranged in 20 series as follows:

Series 1: Executive Committee/Board of Trustees 1957-1993

Series 2: Ohio Baptist Convention 1967-1992

Series 3: American Baptist Churches of Ohio 1963-1997

Series 4: American Baptist Churches in the USA 1968-1995

Series 5: Camps 1968-1996

Series 6: Dayton Area Baptist Women’s Association 1988-1992

Series 7: Churches 1955-1999

Series 8: Committees 1963-2000

Series 9: Financials 1949-1995

Series 10: Office 1967-1995

Series 11: Organizational Documents 1952-1996

Series 12: Ministers 1971-1996

Series 13: Missions 1968-1995

Series 14: Church Development 1973-1997

Series 15: Dayton Christian Center 1951-1992

Series 16: Hunger Coalition 1980

Series 17: Obscenity Laws 1973-1974

Series 18: Carl Mandley Foreclosure 1985-1991

Series 19: Rev. Robert Hight Retirement 1995

Series 20: Frank Ver 1969

There are no restrictions on the use of this collection

Biographical Sketch

The Dayton Area Baptist Association (DABA) was formed in 1964 by a merger between the Upper Miami Baptist Association and the Dayton Baptist Union. In their 1965 yearbook, the association defines its purpose as:

-To promote the cause of Jesus Christ through the cooperation and fellowship of local Baptist churches identified with the association.

-To extend the interests of the Baptist denomination.

-To advance the work of the Dayton Christian Center.

-To develop new churches and support existing churches.

-To cultivate mutual fellowship among its churches.

The association is still active. Membership includes participating Dayton area Baptist churches, the Ohio Baptist Convention and the American Baptist Convention. The association’s active mission is the Dayton Christian Center, located on West Riverview Ave. Its purpose is to provide a Christian environment in which neighborhood residents an come to meet for fun and fellowship, for sharing and learning, for discovery and growth; to be an advocate for those who are forsaken and oppressed; and to encourage and give hope to those who have become disillusioned.

Scope and Content

The Dayton Area Baptist Association records are organized into 20 records series.

Series 1 contains Board of Trustee and Executive Committee records, including correspondence, members lists, reports to the board, meeting sign-in sheets, and minutes and agendas from board meetings.

Series 2 contains the Ohio Baptist Convention’s records, including its constitution and rules, correspondence, newsletters, announcements, resolutions, and papers regarding their interest in draft amnesty from the Vietnam War.

Series 3 contains the American Baptist Churches of Ohio’s records regarding the Baptist Youth Fellowship and Campus Ministries as well as manuals for associations, correspondence, organizational charts and other general office documents.

Series 4 contains the American Baptist Churches in the U. S. A.’s records regarding Bacone College, National Ministries, World and Nation Councils of Churches, and World Mission Support.

Series 5 contains pamphlets and programs from camps Judson and Kirkwood.

Series 6 contains the Dayton Area Baptist Woman’s Association’s constitution and prayer chain.

Series 7 contains 30 folders, each representing a different member church containing papers such as correspondence and membership applications.

Series 8 contains files on committees and include records kept by the respective committees such as reports and records on the goals and activities of the committees. The Fall Rally Committee’s are the most extensive in this series.

Series 9 contains the financial records of the organization, including receipts and disbursements, annual reports, financial statements, treasurer’s reports, budgets, monthly worksheets, and church contributions, as well as one file labeled correspondence and communication.

Series 10 contains general office documents, including papers on the activities of administrative coordinator, Mary DiNofa, calendars, correspondence, mailing lists, information on president turnover, a brief history on some member churches, and the original papers on a Panasonic Typewriter.

Series 11 contains organizational documents, such as membership applications, DABA Banner history, constitutions, directories, statements of goals, brochures, information on the general board and election district #3, maps, newsletters, and yearbooks.

Series 12 contains records on ministers, including ordinations and ordination procedures, the Minister’s Council, mailing lists, and papers on Dinners for Ministers.

Series 13 contains records of missions, including Baptist Home, Harvester’s Chapel, telemissions, and associational, local and state mission funding. The Dayton Christian Center is organized in series 15 as its own record series.

Series 14 contains Church Development program records, such as papers on the “Campaign for New Churches and New Church Development,” the “Capital Funds Campaign,” and “Impact for the Future.” The Springboro and Huber Heights property acquisitions and creation of new churches in these areas have the most extensive amount of material and information in this series. The Rev. Lee Anglin and wife Carol are prominently mentioned in the Huber Heights papers.

Series 15 contains the records of the Dayton Christian Center, including by-laws, financial records, reports to the board, the real estate contract for its West Riverview Ave. property, papers on flood control, and other general documents.

Series 16 contains one folder on the Hunger Coalition from 1980.

Series 17 contains one folder of documents on obscenity laws from 1973-1974.

Series 18 contains one folder on the Carl Mandley foreclosure.

Series 19 contains one folder on the Rev. Robert Hight’s retirement.

Series 20 contains the 1969 Last Will and Testament of Frank Ver.

Container Listing

Series I: Executive Committee/Board of Trustees
Box	File	Description	Date

1	1	Correspondence	1979-1983
	2	Members	1984-1989
	3	Reports to Board of Trustees	1968-1993
	4	Sign-in Sheets	1982-1990
	5	Minutes/Agendas	1957-1969
	6	Minutes/Agendas	1970-1971
	7	Minutes/Agendas	1972-1973
	8	Minutes/Agendas	1974-1976
	9	Minutes/Agendas	1977-1979
	10	Minutes/Agendas	1980-1981

2	1	Minutes/Agendas	1982-1983
	2	Minutes/Agendas	1984-1985
	3	Minutes/Agendas	1986-1987
	4	Minutes/Agendas	1988
	5	Minutes/Agendas	1989
	6	Minutes/Agendas	1990-1991

3	1	Minutes/Agendas	1992
	2	Minutes/Agendas	1993

Series II: Ohio Baptist Convention
Box	File	Description	Date

3	3	Amnesty from Draft	1972-1973
	4	Area Ministers	1983-1988
	5	Constitution and Rules	1990-1992
	6	Correspondence, Newsletters, Announcements Conferences, Resolutions	1967-1990

Series III: American Baptist Churches of Ohio
Box	File	Description	Date

	7	Baptist Youth Fellowship (BYF)	1982-1989
	8	Building Dedication	1992
	9	Campus Ministries	1968-1993
	10	Communication System	1995-1997
	11	Correspondence	1977-1986
	12	Directories	1984
	13	Manuals for Associations	1963-1968
	14	Organizational Chart	1985

Series IV: American Baptist Churches in the USA
Box	File	Description	Date

4	1	Bacone College	1988
	2	National Ministries	1985
	3	World Council of Churches/National Council of Churches	1986-1989
	4	World Mission Support	1968-1995

Series V:Camps
Box	File	Description	Date

	5	Judson, Kirkwood	1968-1996

Series VI: American Baptist Churches in the USA
Box	File	Description	Date

	6	Constitution, Prayer Chain	1988-1992

Series VII: Churches
Box	File	Description	Date

	7	Calvary	1973-1999
	8	Canaan	1973-1995
	9	Central	1978-1991
	10	Church of the Carpenter	1988-1995
	11	Christ Baptist	1973-1985
	12	Colorado Avenue	1987
	13	Dorothy Lane	1965-1992
	14	Faith in God’s Way	1979-1995
	15	First Dayton	1968-1991
	16	First Springfield	1984-1992
	17	First Xenia	1972-1992
	18	First Yellow Springs	1981-1992
	19	Judson Baptist	1976-1989
	20	Linden Avenue	1974-1986


5	1	Memorial	1973-1991
	2	Omega Baptist	1995-1996
	3	Pleasant Grove	1984
	4	Shroyer Road	1969-1995
	5	Spinning Road	1955-1991
	6	St. John Missionary	1975-1984
	7	Third Street	1968-1988
	8	Trininty	1973-1988
	9	United Missionary	1978-1995
	10	Zion	1984-1985

Series VIII: Committees
Box	File	Description	Date

5	11	Board of Christian Education Banquet	1992-2000
	12	Christian Education	1967-1994
	13	Church Program and Outreach	1968
	14	DABA Study Committee	N.D.
	15	Division Meetings	1970-1972
	16	Fall Rally	1981-1992
	17	Fall Rally	1993-1994
	18	Fall Rally	1995-1996
	19	Finance	1971-1993
	20	Implementation	1981
	21	Long-Range Planning	1978-1980

6	1	Mission Fair	1979-1983
	2	Mission Fair	1984-1989
	3	Pastoral Relations	1968-1993
	4	Personnel	1982-1990
	5	Reorganization	1957-1969
	6	Singles Support	1970-1971
	7	Spring Rally	1972-1973
	8	Task Force on Inactive Churches	1974-1976
	9	Urban Strategies	1977-1979
	10	Youth Committee	1980-1981

Series IX: Financials
Box	File	Description	Date

6	11	Correspondence/Communications	1974-1992
	12	Receipts and Disbursements/Monthly Worksheets	N.D.
	13	Annual Reports, Financial Statements, Receipts and Disbursements, Treasurer’s Report	1951-1964
	14	Annual Reports, Financial Statements, Receipts and Disbursements, Treasurer’s Report, Budgets	1965-1969
	15	Annual Reports, Financial Statements, Receipts and Disbursements	1970-1971
	16	Annual Reports, Financial Analyses, Budgets, Church Contributions	1972-1973
	17	Annual Reports, Monthly Financial Analyses, Budgets,Church Contributions	1974-1975
	18	Annual Reports, Monthly Financial Analyses, Budgets,Church Contributions	1976-1978

7	1	Annual Reports, Monthly Financial Analyses, Budgets,Board of Trustees Finance Committee, Church Extension Accounts	1979-1981
	2	Annual Reports, Monthly Financial Analyses, Budgets,Church Extension Accounts	1982-1984
	3	Annual Reports, Monthly Financial Analyses	1985-1987
	4	Annual Reports, Monthly Financial Analyses, Budgets	1988-1990
	5	Annual Reports, Monthly Financial Analyses, Budgets	1991-1993
	6	Annual Reports, Monthly Financial Analyses, Budgets	1994-1995
	7	Associational Mission Fund	1984-1990

8	1	Auditor’s Reports	1949-1971
	2	Chart of Accounts	1992
	3	Real Estate Taxes	1992-1993
	4	Stocks, Bonds, IRS, CD’s	1964-1993

Series X: Office
Box	File	Description	Date

8	5	Administrative Coordinator	1974-1992
	6	Calendars	N.D.
	7	General Correspondence/Communication	1951-1964
	8	Mailing Lists	1965-1969
	9	President Turnover Information	1974-1992
	10	Typewriter—Panasonic	N.D.

Series XI: Organizational Documents
Box	File	Description	Date

	11	Applications for Membership	1978-1979
	12	Banner History	1992
	13	Constitutions	1964-1992

9	1	Directories	1987-1989/90
	2	Directories	1990/91-1992/93
	3	Directories	1993-1996
	4	General Board/Election District #3	1974-1994
	5	Maps	1982-1985
	6	Newsletters	1968-1994
	7	Officers/Committee Members Lists	1981-1995
	8	Statement, Goals, Brochures	1988
	9	Yearbooks	1952-1981

Series XII: Ministers
Box	File	Description	Date

10	1	Dinners for Ministers	1987
	2	Minister’s Council	1985-1992
	3	Ordinations	May 1971-Mar. 1990
	4	Ordinations	May 1990-Oct. 1996
	5	Ordination Procedures	1980-1987
	6	Mailing Lists—Ministers’ Churches	1991

Series XIII: Missions
Box	File	Description	Date

10	7	Baptist Home	1968-1969
	8	Harvester’s Chapel	1982-1995
	9	Local Mission Funding	1988-1990
	10	Telemissions, Associational Mission Fund, State Mission	1986-1995

Series XIV: Church Development
Box	File	Description	Date

10	11	Alive in Missions	1981-1989
	12	Campaign for New Churches/New Church Development	1973-1991
	13	Capital Funds Campaign	1982
	14	Central	1980
	15	Church Extension	1974-1988
	16	Church Partners	1979
	17	Closing Documents	1981
	18	Correspondence	1979-1983
	19	Funding Our Future	1980-1984
	20	General/Family Life Conference	1988
	21	Greater Dayton Council of Churches	1992-1993
	22	“Grow by Caring”	1984-1986
	23	Guidelines	1981

11	1	Huber Heights	1978-1989
	2	Huber Heights	1990-1993
	3	Huber Heights Survey Information	1986
	4	Impact for the Future	1990-1992
	5	Metropolitan Churches United (MCU)	1977-1989
	6	Miami Baptist Association	1987-1989
	7	Morrow-Gordon & Byrd (note/mortgage)	1979-1983
	8	Proposals	1978-1986
	9	Publicity	1981
	10	Reports and Communications	1979-1985
	11	Springboro Property	1978-1980
	12	Springboro Property	1981-1997
	13	Springboro Property /Real Estate, J. R. Remick	1980-1981
	14	Springboro/Ohio Bell/Easement and Answer Waiver/Service of Summons	1986-1988

12	1	Survey Information	1980-1984
	2	Team Members	1983-1993
	3	Trinity Baptist/United Missionary Baptist	1975-1979

Series XV: Dayton Christian Center
Box	File	Description	Date

12	4	Board of Direction/By-laws	1964-1991
	5	Documents	1951-1992
	6	Financials	1960-1967
	7	Flood Control	1987
	8	Real Estate Contract for 1346 W. Riverview	1991
	9	Reports to Board	1966-1981

Series XVI : Dayton Christian Center
Box	File	Description	Date

12	10	Documents	1980

Series XVII :Obscenity Laws
Box	File	Description	Date

12	11	Documents	1973-1974

Series XVIII : Carl Mandley Foreclosure
Box	File	Description	Date

12	12	Documents	1985-1991

Series IXX : Rev. Robert Hight Retirement
Box	File	Description	Date

12	13	Documents	1995

Series XX :Frank Ver
Box	File	Description	Date

12	14	Last Will and Testament	1969