My Story #102 -- On Our Way

 

My Story #102

On Our Way
Pastor Ronnie Wolfe

Now it is time for the quartet to begin their travels to sing and preach at different churches and represent Lexington Baptist College (LBC). Bob Jones was the "speaker" for the quartet, and the others in the quartet just sang what he told us to sing. We had practiced quite a few songs, so we were pretty much ready to sing a few songs before a message was preached. We always enjoyed meeting new people and fellowshiping with people we had known for a while.

We got on our way in a Volks Wagon Bug squeezed in like sardines. The boys involved in this first quartet were Bob Jones, Deman Brubacker, Bob Carpenter, and Ronnie Wolfe. We followed a previous quartet who sang for one year including Larry Robbins, Ed Kittle, Bob Jones, and Warren Hartman. They could really sing well, but three graduated from LBC and broke up as a quartet.

One of the first churches that we visited was Winton Place Baptist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, where Kelly Campbell was pastor. Bro. Campbell was a good pastor and preacher. We had good friendship with him for several years before his death. Cincinnati and surrounding areas became places of often visits by our quartet, then called The Bluegrass Boys Quartet.

Addyston Baptist Church is another church near Cincinnati that we visited many times, first while Bro. Melvin Gecks was pastor and then while Bro. Rex Hensley was pastor, then while Bro. Greg McDaniel was pastor and now Bro. David Pitman is pastor. Our visits there began yearly for a number of years, and we always received a blessing by visiting there.

This group of men who made up The Bluegrass Boys traveled together for approximately five years; then Demas Brubacher and Bob Carpenter graduated from college at LBC and went on for further education.

Now, what shall we do? What is the next step for The Bluegrass Boys? We shall see in the next installment. 

 -->To be continued<--