While looking through a file of my Grandfather’s sermons I ran across this interesting flier.

My Grandfather, Richard Yoder, would often reuse paper when he would put his sermons together, and I have found many interesting things on the back of sermon outlines.

This one is interesting because it was for a Gospel Campaign at the first church he preached for full time. This would probably have been in 1953 as my Grandfather started preaching there in 1953 and actually moved to What Cheer, Iowa in 1954. If this is the case the meeting started on a Monday evening.

The Evangelist, Raymond E. Lyon, later became the preacher at What Cheer when he switched pulpits with my Grandfather who then started preaching in Frytown.

I have many memories of the Lyon family as our families have been friends for several generations.

Here are Raymond and Grace many years later.

Here I am getting ready to perform my duty as ring bearer in their daughter’s wedding.

So many memories from a left over meeting flier that my Grandfather used to write a sermon on. The sermon is four pages long and each page is on the back of the same flier.

I know that someone will ask what the sermon was about, so here are the details. The title of the sermon was Why do you attend Church ? ? ? with a text of Acts 2:42-47. The date is given as Sept 27 with a place of What Cheer which is why I determined above what year the meeting flier was from.  September 27 was on a Sunday in 1953, so he must have picked up any left over fliers from the meeting to use for his future sermon notes.

I know that in 1953 two men from What Cheer had gone to the Midwestern School of Evangelism in Ottumwa and asked for some help from Brother Hunt. Perhaps Raymond Lyon first preached a meeting for them and my Grandfather started preaching for them afterwards.

Steven

Ww/RI