Since mid-September the Delmar Baptist congregation has been getting acquainted with its new minister, Dr. Max Morgan, an able, energetic person who very much wants to carry on and increase the church’s neighborhood ministries.
Although a native Missourian Dr. Morgan has not lived in the state since graduating from William Jewell College. He is also a graduate of Eastern Baptist Seminary in Philadelphia and has had pastorates in West Virginia, New Jersey, Seattle, Topeka and Wichita. He comes to Delmar Baptist from the First Baptist church in Wichita, a large downtown church which had severe internal problems when he came, but is now flourishing. He was in that church from 1963 until he came to Delmar Baptist.
When asked what he hopes to accomplish in his new post, he says he sees in it three basic challenges; the neighborhood ministries (which he hopes to carry on and expand), students, and retired people. He feels the situation here is somewhat like the one faced in First Church at Seattle, which is on the edge of the inner city and near high rise apartments. Under his leadership it became a neighbor- hood center with a gym and other facilities much used by the neighborhood. He is especially pleased that the Delmar Baptist Nursery School has no tuition charge and now has an enrollment of sixty children.
While in Wichita he was very active in community affairs. Besides heading various church-connected organizations, he was chairman of the Red Cross Board and president-elect of the Community Planning Council.
Dr. and Mrs. Morgan have four grown children, all now away from home. The Morgans live at 11153 Queensway Drive near Creve Coeur.
Originally published in The Paper, October–November 1972.
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