[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 15738]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              TRIBUTE TO POCAHONTAS REGULAR BAPTIST CHURCH

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                            HON. TOM LATHAM

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 22, 2008

  Mr. LATHAM. Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Pocahontas 
Regular Baptist Church of Pocahontas, Iowa, on celebrating their 50th 
anniversary as a congregation.
   Beginning in 1955, a group of Baptists began meeting together in 
Rolfe, Iowa where study classes and evangelical meetings were held in 
preparation for a new church community in Pocahontas. In January 1958, 
the Pocahontas Regular Baptist Church was organized. Later that year it 
was officially received into the General Association of Regular Baptist 
Churches.
   The first services and meetings were held in the Farm Bureau 
building until 1961, when the first church building was raised. The 
church building was the former Methodist Church from Havelock, Iowa. 
The congregation continued to grow, and in 1978, it was decided to 
build a new church to accommodate the growing congregation. A new 
church building was completed and dedicated in 1981 and remains the 
congregation's church today.
   Pocahontas Regular Baptist Church has been an integral part of the 
surrounding Pocahontas community, and for this I offer the congregation 
my utmost congratulations on a prosperous history. It is an honor to 
represent all the parishioners and the current Pastor, Tim Kuhn, in the 
United States Congress, and I wish them continued success, grace, peace 
and celebration as a community.

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