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Article: Woodlawn Baptist Church: celebrates50 years.
- Article from:
- The Lima News (Lima, OH)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2006
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Byline: Adrienne Mauk
Feb. 18--LIMA -- Ruby Shawler saw a notice in the paper about a tent revival and decided she needed to go. It was 1954. Something clicked. "When I saw those people and met them and everything, I knew," she said. Shawler, who will be 88 next month, found her church home in Woodlawn Baptist Church. She is a charter member and has been Sunday school secretary since the beginning. "I'm old-fashioned. ... I guess the Lord must have given it to me," Shawler said. "I just had this feeling later that that's what the Lord meant for me to do." The church began with prayer meetings held in homes. It organized and was officially brought into the fold of ...
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