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CHAPTER 4: THE STORMS
1966 saw one person added to the church's rolls by profession of faith, one on reaffirmation and 13 by certificate. There was a loss of two by death and three by transfer. Moreover, a pulpit committee chaired by Max Dossett at first voted to call a minister who declined, then settled on the Reverend Malcom A. Bonner, a recent seminary graduate. The latter was on November 6th, at which time, also, a church budget of $16,162 was agreed to.
Prior to this, on May 21st, John Middleton, Jay Howe, Robert Warner and John Klock were elected Deacons. Furthermore, Mrs. Mac Canaga had led the Vacation Bible School, and, on July 24th, the debt to the Presbytery was retired with the help of a grant from the Commission on Church Expansion. John McPhail was in charge of Sunday school that year; because there were only two youths in the church, the Session acceded to a request that they meet with the youth of the Long Beach Presbyterian Church.
The pulpit committee was dissolved on December
5,	1966, and the Session then had its first meeting with the new pastor, Reverend Bonner. His wife, Mary, would be the 210th person to have her name put on the membership rolls of the church.
The next year, Ingrid Ling was approved by the Session as the new organist and choir director. However, others of the so-called "newcomers" in and to the church were thought to be causing "problems" in the church, or so it was alleged. In part, this was because they simply were "new" to the area and not totally familiar with all the nuances thereof.