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Reid, Lowell Forrest Reid, and Melvin Plott Coover. On May 20th, the memberships of Ed and Ingrid Ling were transferred to the Latham Memorial Church in Huntsville, Alabama.
On June 10th, the Reverend Dwyn M. Mounger was called to serve as pastor, beginning his long association with this church. He was installed on the 8th of August, his wife Mrs. Bessie Ingram Mounger and their son Malcom Christian accepted into membership in the church, transferring from Jackson, Mississippi, shortly thereafter.
A courageous pastor, the Reverend Mounger, who was a native of Collins, Mississippi and who had attended the Columbia Theological Seminary, had been one of the state-wide committee of white clergy who had raised over $300,000 to rebuild the black churches which had been fire-bombed by segregationists protesting the civil rights movement. As he would put it, "We raised money to build new churches as fast as the people on the other side decided to burn them. We replaced the frame churches with brick ones. Brick didn't burn as fast as wood." Although severely criticized, Reverend Mounger added, "the important thing was taking a stand --letting people know that all people in Mississippi did not approve of what was going on at the time." Notwithstanding those words, he was also a peacemaker, an outstanding one.
On December 15th, two new Elders, previously elected, were ordained. They were John Landon and Jay Howe. (Jay had been the 197th person to join the church.) New Deacons were also installed: Messrs. Schweizer, Hill and McLaurin.
At the end of this year, there were 108 members on the rolls of the church. Eleven had been added by profession of faith, 15 by certificate, plus there being three losses by death during the year, 20 moved to the inactive roll and six being dismissed to other churches. There were then approximately 50 in Sunday school.
In February of 1969, the Session drove to the Gates' home to bring Mrs. Dottie Gates fully into the fellowship of the church. (She would be the 250th to join.) They also visited Mr. and Mrs. DuPreist, whom illness also was preventing from