The Lord blessed TBI with a great School Opening on Wednesday, August 13. We were blessed with three and one half inches of rain the day before, but with bright shining sun all day Wednesday. The new-looking A. J. Kirkland Memorial Chapel and the TBI family welcomed a crowd of smiling, happy supporters. Everyone was well pleased with the bright new interior, the conference tables and cushioned chairs as replacements of the old folding arm desk chairs.
    We were all blessed by great messages of instruction and encouragement brought by Brethren Stephen Hill, Nolan Richey and Odis Bryan. Brother Bryan filled in for Pastor Glenn Griffith who was unable to attend because of the funeral of a church member.
    While we have just finished our first full week of classes, enrollment is not complete. There are others who have contacted us with the promise of enrolling for the first semester’s work. At the present enrollment stands at 34, eight of which are new students. While we send up prayers for more men to answer God’s call to preach His wonderful Word, we continue to do our best to help prepare those who have honored His call and are busy preparing to serve in the fields that “are white already to harvest.”
    Please accept my personal thanks for your continued support of this great mission work sponsored by Calvary Baptist Church since September of 1948. Rich rewards continue to be stored up for all of you who invest much of your prayers and offerings in TBI.
    God bless you all,
    Ray O. Brooks

    An evil is in the professed camp of the Lord, so gross in its impudence, that the most shortsighted can hardly fail to notice it during the past few years. It has developed at an abnormal rate, even for evil. It has worked like leaven until the whole lump ferments. The devil has seldom done a cleverer thing than hinting to the church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. . . .

by Raymond McAlister

    I was scanning through a book, Readings in Baptist History by Joseph Early Jr., and came across a man by the name of George Lisle. He peaked my interest and since I had never heard of him that brought on a little research. Here is some Baptist Heritage history.
    George Lisle was the first black Baptist in Georgia, and the first black Baptist churches in America resulted from his evangelism.