Historical February 1981 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
The Rev. Samuel R. Binch was installed as pastor of the Delmar Baptist Church, 6195 Washington Avenue, at the morning worship service at 11 a.m.,Sunday, January 25.
He comes to Delmar Baptist Church from a pastorate at Mahomet, Ill. and is the seventeenth pastor to serve the 103-yearold Delmar Baptist Church. Dr. Max Morgan was in the eighth year of his ministry at Delmar Baptist Church when he died suddenly last February 8 of a heart attack. Dr. Alfred J. Jeffries, Peoria, Ill, has been serving as interim senior pastor for the past year.
The installation address was given by Dr. Ralph Beaty, Springfield, Ill., regional minister of the American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region. Assisting him in the service was: Dr. G. Leland Melson, moderator of Delmar Church, and Dr. M. Bryant Thompson, chairman of the board of deacons; the Rev. Elizabeth C.S. Barron, interim associate minister of the church; the Rev. Fred L. Adams, area minister of the Great Rivers Region; and the Rev. Edward T. Walsh, Jr., director of Baptist Student Ministries of St. Louis, representing the St. Louis Metro Baptist Association.
A native of Toronto, Canada, the Rev. Binch is an honors graduate of William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo., and the Divinity School of Yale University.
Following his graduation from Yale in 1958 he served as minister of the First Baptist Church of New Haven, Conn., for five years, during which time he was a lecturer at Yale Divinity School.
From 1963 to 1974 he was director of the Baptist Student Foundation at the University of Illinois and pastor of the University Baptist Church of Champaign.
He was a television newscaster and a newspaper columnist during his ministry in New Haven, Conn., and in Champaign, Ill.
He has also studied at Mansfield College, Oxford, England, and was a member of the First Ecumenical Theological Seminar in Rome, Italy.
The Rev. Binch is married to the former Betty Jane Wilson.
They are parents of three children.
Originally published in The Paper, February 1981.
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