Women On Mission - May 2023
Oakhill Baptist Church Time Line
We look forward to celebrating our 60th anniversary as a church in October.
This is a partial timeline of our history.
Jan. 24, 1960 Rev. C. E. Wiley, area missionary, met with 25 people in the home of Mr. & Mrs. John Hughes for the first fellowship meeting.
June 1960 Keck Ave. Baptist Church voted to sponsor Oakhill Baptist Chapel.
Sept. 1, 1960 Rev. Paul Bowles was called as first Pastor.
Nov. 1962 Rev. William Weedman served as Interim Pastor.
March 17, 1963 Rev. William Tucker was called as Pastor.
Oct. 8, 1963 Chapel organized into Oakhill Baptist Church with 68 charter members.
Sept. 13, 1964 Ground breaking for new building.
Dec. 16, 1964 Rev. Jeff Mitchener called as Interim Pastor.
April 18, 1965 New building completed.
July 1965 Rev. William Carter called as Pastor.
1970 Steve Cook, Summer Youth Director.
1970 Randy Dill, Summer Youth Director.
Oct. 15, 1972 Oakhill voted to sponsor Southwind Fellowship. Rev. James Trader was Pastor of Southwind.
1973 Garry Bailey served as part-time Youth & Music Director.
Feb. 1973 Delores Zahm came as Church Secretary.
June 1973 Tom Traylor, a student at Southern Seminary, came as Summer Youth Director. (Her served as Interim Pastor in 1974).
1973 -1974 Cindy Boultinghouse, Summer Children’s Worker.
Sept. 1974 Rev. Joe Hasson called as Pastor.
1977 Rev. Irvin Parrett served as Interim Pastor. Other Youth workers were: Brenda Keller (1976), Danny Garnett (77-79), Jim Trader (1982), Bruce Wilson (1983), David Russell (1984).
Sept. 1977 Rev. Roy Jones called as Pastor, served until Sept. 1984.
Nov. 1984 Rev. Irvin Parrett served as Interim Pastor .
March 1985 Rev. Glen Flowers called as Pastor, served until Jan. 2006.
March 2, 1986 101 volunteers participated in Good News America Bible distribution - 400 Bibles given in area.
May 1986 Rev. Randal Bratcher came as first full-time Minister of Youth and Music.
Nov. 1986 “Together We Build” campaign brought pledges of $221,746.00 - $21,746.00 above Hallelujah goal.
March 1987 Ground breaking for new educational building.
Jan. 19, 1988 Dedication of new building.
June 1991 Joe Hopkins called as Minister of Music (part-time). Also served on the music faculty at University of Evansville. Served until March 1998.
Dec. 1993 Rev. Joby Tricquet called as full-time Associate Pastor. Served until 1997.
1994 Terry Frank called as part-time Minister of Youth until 1998.
June 1994 Kathleen Qualkenbush came as Church Secretary.
January 1998 World Mission Club plan for mission giving began.
April 5, 1998 Rev. Kevin Royalty served as full-time Minister of Music and Education. Served until 2004.
May 2000 Oakhill began the Weekday Childcare Ministry with Vanessa Wagler as the Weekday Childcare Director and Amy Dassel as the Assistant Director.
Both ladies served until 2004.
Oct. 2000 Paul Hollis served as part-time Minister of Youth until 2001.
Feb. 2004 Lisa West, Weekday Childcare Director - presently serving.
Oct. 2004 Jason Woolsey came as Minister of Music - served until 2014.
Jan. 2006 Retirement of Rev. Glen Flowers.
May 2006 Rev. Alan Scott came to serve as Senior Pastor - presently serving.
March 2007 Rev. Bryan Gotcher came as Minister of Students & Education - presently serving as Senior Associate & Children’s Pastor.
2011 April Sharp came as Children’s Ministry Director - served until Dec. 2018.
Oct. 2011 Polly Todd came as Administrative Assistant. Presently serving as Administrative Assistant of Finance and Facilities.
Feb. 2016 Pastor Nick Scott came as Pastor of Spiritual Development - served until Dec. 2020.
Feb. 2016 Pastor Jared Mitchell came as Pastor of Worship - served until Feb. 2020.
Oct. 2016 Pastor Brian Van Doren came as Student Pastor - served until 2022.
June 2017 Shirlene Kilgore came as Personal Assistant to Lead Pastor & Ministry Coordinator - presently serving.
Jan. 2019 Cheryl Rollow came as Administrative Assistant - served until Sept. 2019.
Feb. 2019 Pastor Leonid Marsan Rodriguez came as Hispanic Church Pastor - presently serving.
Sept. 2019 Jen Church came as Administrative Assistant of Students and Worship. Presently serving as Communications Coordinator and Worship Ministry Assistant.
June 2020 Pastor Derek Niffenegger came as Pastor of Worship - served until Feb. 2022.
Aug. 2021 Molly Morris came as Children’s Ministry Assistant - presently serving as Student Ministry Assistant.
July 2022 Michaela Jones came as Children’s Ministry Assistant - presently serving.
Aug. 2022 Pastor Evan Gray came as Pastor of Worship - presently serving.
Women on Mission will meet next on Thursday, May 4th in the Grace classroom at 1:00 pm.