I I ] Dr. William E. Sanders has been named interim pastor of Boonville First Baptist Church. He v. R. J. Hogan replaces t 1e who has re igned to take a pastorate at Fo1 est City after nine years at Boonville. Dr. Sanders is a veteran or 25 years in the pulpit. He has served pastorates in Marietta, Ga., and Asheboro and is presently serving as Chaplain in the Pastoral Care ' Department, Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem. He will serve at Boonville until a permanent pastor is called. Elkin Tribune t'nleld ProgreS5 Farmville Enterprise Fairmont: Times-Messenger Forest City Courier Franklin Press Franklinton Post Fuquay Springs: Independent Gatesville: Gates Co. Index/ Gibsonville: News Graham: Alamance News Granite Falls Press Greensboro: Democrat * yj
BOONVILLE-Dr. Walter E. 1 Sanders, a chaplain with the Pastoral Care Department of / Ba tist Hospital at Winston-Salem, has been named interim pastor of Boonville Baptist Church. I Sanders delivered his first I sermon last Sunday. He is continuing to make his home in inston-salem. A graduate of Newberry College, Newberry, S. C., and Southern B a P ti s t Seminary, ouisville, Ky., Sanders has eld pastorates at Salem Bap- / ist Church, near Saluda; Mount ~ion Baptist Church, Elizabeth- na iown, Ky.; Wingate Baptist Church, Wingate; Roswell Bap-! tist Church, Marietta, Ga.; and I First Baptist Church, Asheboro. He is married and has two sons.
JO THE RALEIGH TIMES, Monday, August 7, 1967 =-==--~~~~~~~~ portrait Walter Sanders, new chaplain at Dorothea Dix Hospilal, has had an opportumty to see the necessity of proper pastoral care training from three vantage points. Chaplain Sanders nas held several parish minigtries, has been a minister for college/students and was on the staff of the North Carolina Ba tifil Hospital in Winston-Salem prior to coming Lo Raleigh. "Pastoral care is such a vital art that no seminary should graduate men without training in this field," he com men ts. Chaplain Sanders intends to follow in the footsteps of R. C h a p 1 a i n William Steininger, his predecessor at Dix, in furnishing ample oppurtunity for such study at the Raleigh hospital. Botb, the Monday class for pastors at Dix and intern program will be continued. Six week courses in the summer and winter will be offered both for seminary students and men presently in the parish ministry. "The field of p e r s o n a 1 counselling has been a real challenge to me during my ministry," he said. "I bad had little specific training in this area and realized tbe need for He feels that more and it.,, "I wanted to have a part in more the concept of t h e training seminary students "healing team" - minister, and other ministers i o physician and psychiatristis :oming popular when dealpastor al care." in with mental and emotional Training in Theology He thinks that pastoral care ill. ess. is actually "training in prac, Relationship Vital tical theology." "A strong relationship with "No medical doctor is allowed to practice without an in the patient or,the person beternship," he points out. "Why ing counseled is vital. Without should a minister be allowed this relationship, one of the to counsel widely without a members of the healing team similar 'internship' in pastoral can get very far." A native of Newberry, S. C., care?" Sanders graduated Chaplain use the He strongly opposes from Newberry ljigh chool em "'un and Newberry College h a s in 1934 which psychiatrist" 1941. While going to col sometimes been used for in worked the night shift he lege past.oral care trainees. in a nearby cotton mill to "Our object is not to train defray expenses missing only 'junior psychiatrists', bu t eight days at work while getrather to allow the minister to ting his degree. become better at his job by When he entered Southern using tools for better un- B.aptist Seminary in Louisderstanding men." v1lle, Ky., he continued the self-help program by firing two blast furnaces on the campus until he assumed.a student pastorate. The student pastorate was at the Mt. Zion Ba.P.Lit Church near Elizabethtown, Ky. He held the pastorate for seven years obtaining both a masters and doctors degree. In October, 1949, Chaplain Sanders came east to become pastor of tfae college church and chaplain of the college at Wingate Colle~e. He served in this capacity until 1954. After seven years in Mariella, Ga., as pastor of the Roswell Street B a p t i s t Church, Chaplain Sanders returned to North Carolina to become pastor of the Firsl Baptist Church of Asheboro. I Entered Program in '65 He entered the pastoral care program in 1965 when he joined the staff of the North Carolina Baptist Hospital m Winston - Salem as an intern. Chaplain Sanders is still a member of the Board of Trustees of Wingate College and is a member of the Gener al Board of Educational Commission of the Baptist State Convention. He has served as moderator in each of the five associations he has belonged to smce entering the Baptist ministry. He is also a former member of the board of trustees of Truett-McConnell College in Georgia. Chaplain Sanders and his wife, the former Miss Opal Williams of Elizabethtown, Ky., relax at home by rebuilding and refinishing antiques. They have a valuable collection of antique lamps. Two 1
Revival Begins Friday Night Revival services will begin at the Bethel Baptist Church in Union C.ounty Friday night, April II, 3nd will run through SUnday night. Evening services will begin at 7:30 and an II o'clock service will be held Sunday morning. The visiting evangelist will be Rev. Walter E. Sanders, a former pastor at Wingate. At present, Rev. Sanders is serving as director of pastoral care at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh. The public is invited to attend these special services.,,.:1.-..u.,1,. 1Y1'\.. IJvWt=tl J'fCW$ Marshall; News-Record Marshville Horne Mebane Enterprise Mocksville: Davie Co. Enterprise Monroe Enquirer Monroe Journal Mooresville Tribune *
NAME: Sanders, Walter E. DATA: Photograph SOURCE: Saturday Before the Second Sabith - The History of Meadow Branch- Wingate Baptist Church 1810-1984 by: Carolyn Caldwell Gaddy Page: 286/1756755 Gl2