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Eastside Baptist Church 50th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2012

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Special Project of the Southland Oral History Project

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

ARONSEN, Gwenith Dawn (Gwen) interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box 1
Identifier: H0175
Overview This interview was undertaken as part of the celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of Eastside Baptist Church in 2012. In this interview Gwenith recalls family history, memories of school days, and involvement with the Hawthorndale Baptist Church. She tells of marriage, family, their first home and the building of their second home at Wallacetown. Paul Aronsen recalls the building of Yarrow Street.
Dates: 2012

CRISP, Lois Fay interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box 10
Identifier: H0174
Overview This interview was undertaken as part of the celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of Eastside Baptist Church in 2012. In this interview Lois recalls, describes and explains her life’s experiences of growing up in Richmond Invercargill. She covers her childhood, employment, marriage to husband Noel, their family and their involvement in the Baptist Church.
Dates: 2012

IRWIN, James interviewed by Rebecca Amundsen

 Record Group — Box 17
Identifier: H0173
Overview This interview was undertaken as part of the celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of Eastside Baptist Church in 2012. In this interview James talks of his early life and education. Before going into the Ministry in 1968 when he went to the Baptist Theological College in Auckland. He recalls his first church and then his shift to the South in 1979. He goes on to talk of the amalgamation of North Invercargill and Glengarry Baptist Churches.
Dates: 2012