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Show In between their efforts of proselyting and conducting Bible studies at Panguitch Lake, Baptist missionaries Wallace Keck and Dale Clayton assist at local Community Baptist Church as part of Panguitch City Ueautification Week. Baptist Missionaries Working at Lake Area PANGUITCH LAKE For the first time, two Baptist missionaries are spending nine weeks at Panguitch Lake where they are proselyting, directing Bible studies and offering Sunday vespers services. Their spare time this week was spent helping Pastor Jim Townsendatthe Community Baptist Chruch in Panguitch as a part of Panguitch Cleanup Week. Dale Clayton, 22, Oklahoma City, Okla. and Wallace Keck, 20, Bella Vista, Ark. arrived June 9 and are staying on the Ken Edwards property at the lake. Clayton who attends Central State University at Edmond, Okla. and is majoring in public relations hopes for a bi-vocational career in missionary work and public relations. Keck, a fisheries and wildlife major at Arkansas Technical University at Russellville, Arkansas would like to combine a part-time mirastryrwith-employmenUas- a ranger. Usually they spend approximately half a day proselyting and the balance of the day in study, preparing for Bible study classes held on Tuesday evenings at the Edwards cabin or for Sunday services held at the amphitheater at Panguitch Lake Forest Service campground. They were assigned to Panguitch Lake by the Southern Baptist Convention at Atlanta, Georgia. The costs of their assignment are borne by the Utah-Idaho Baptist Association which also provides them with a small stipend. They also invest in their own missions. the Southern Baptist Convention is supported by 35,000 member churches with some 22 million members nationwide. There are approximately 3,000 full time missionaries and another 1,000 summer missionaries who serve for eight to 10 weeks each summer. |