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Volume 49 Issue 3 THE BIBLE METHODIST ISSUE 3 | VOLUME 49 | 2017 From the EDITOR Rev. G. Clair Sams Editor [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER Rev. Deron Fourman 990 S. Wonnell Rd, Port Clinton, OH 43452 [email protected] It is with hesitation that I submit much of the material GRAPHIC DESIGNER for this issue. It is by recommendation that we highlight Shane Muir the resignation of Heartland’s Regional Conference [email protected] President. The next issue will highlight the 26 years Walter PRINTING & CIRCULATION Hedstrom served as Conference President of the Alabama Country Pines, Inc. Regional Conference. www.countrypinesprinting.com The missions pages of this issue highlight the Mission’s Director and Mission’s Committee’s appointment of The Bible Methodist is published four times Marika Herrer to the Philippines. You will also read of an a year. It is the official publication of the assembly and church plant. Bible Methodist Connection of Churches. G. Clair Sams Subscription price: $10 per year Editor BIBLE METHODIST NOTE FROM THE CONNECTIONAL CHAIRMAN: CONNECTION OF CHURCHES This has been a year of transition for the Heartland and CONNECTIONAL CHAIRMAN Alabama Conferences. Conference Presidents Clair Sams Dr. Michael Avery and Walter Hedstrom both stepped down this summer at 3739 Moorhill Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45241 their respective annual conferences. Each man gave many [email protected] years of dedicated and excellent service to the Bible MISSIONS DIRECTOR Methodist Connection. In honor of their service this issue Rev. Timothy Keep and the next will be dedicated to them respectively. 4473 Forest Trail, Cincinnati, OH 45224 This issue is dedicated to Clair and Melba Sams. Clair and Melba have given their heart and soul to the work of ALABAMA CONFERENCE PRESIDENT the Heartland Conference and Camp, the Bible Methodist Rev. John Parker Connection of Churches and to the advancement of the 40 Skyview Lane, Pell City, AL 35125 [email protected] Conservative Holiness Movement in general. They are known all across Bible Methodism for their leadership, GREAT LAKES CONFERENCE PRESIDENT professionalism and “classy” behavior. The Church owes Rev. Blake Jones them a huge debt of gratitude. This issue is one small way Box 5, Cedar Lake, MI 48891 we wish to pay that debt. HEARTLAND CONFERENCE PRESIDENT Rev. Chris Cravens Michael Avery 16346 TR 166, Arlington, OH 45813 General Connectional Chairman [email protected] MY DEEPEST APOLOGY Please forgive the Editor for mis-labeling an article in the last issue of The Bible Methodist. The article Faithful in Battle was written by Le Ann Davison not Linda Davison. – The Editor 2 The Bible Methodist // Issue 3 // 2017 Tributes To The Sams FRIENDS AND FAMILY HONOR THE SAMS FOR THEIR YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE. The Big Sky Country of Montana service of the tent meeting and nev- All of Clair’s early education was gave Bible Methodism one of its fin- er went back to their former church. in Caldwell schools through the 11th est leaders when Gordon Clair Sams, The whole family became charter grade. In his senior year, the family Jr. was born on October 10, 1946. His members of the newly formed de- moved to Middleton, ID, and it was parents, Gordon, Sr. and Julia Sams, nomination. in Middleton where he graduated left Montana three years later and Most of Clair’s “growing up” years from high school. moved to Caldwell, ID in search of a were in Caldwell. In their early Music was always a central part of church that would provide the spiri- Caldwell years his family lived on Clair’s family’s life. He took piano, tual nourishment that Gordon want- a very small farm. Clair and his sis- violin, guitar and voice lessons. He ed for his family. They found that in ter raised lambs, calves and chick- played in the band and sang in the the Caldwell First Nazarene Church. ens. The Sams were working people school choir through junior high and In 1955 a group of laymen, con- and there was always something to high school. Symphonies and Classi- cerned about the direction of the do. One summer, after they moved cal music concerts were a big part of Nazarene church, started a prayer into town, his mother could not find the family entertainment. meeting to find God’s will for their enough work to keep Clair busy, so Clair and three other boys from his future. The prayer group decided to she had him dig up the lawn, clear church formed a quartet. They sang hold a tent revival that ultimately it of everything and then replant the together at church and soon were birthed a new denomination called grass. In Jr. High and High School singing in local revivals. Clair sang the Bible Missionary Union (later he worked “bucking” hay in the bass. (It’s whispered that he was as named the Bible Missionary Church). summer and in a livestock auction good as George Younce). The Sams family attended the second during the school year. During the Middleton years, The Bible Methodist // Issue 3 // 2017 3 Clair’s dad started his own business as a mechanic. Clair 25¢ a piece for this work. (She loves to iron to this day!) worked with his father in the business until graduation At Chandler High School, Melba served as class secre- from high school. tary in 11th and 12th grades, was a member of the Nation- After graduation in the fall of 1965 Clair left for Bible al Honor Society, and Head Student Librarian. She also Missionary Institute in Rock Island, IL. During his first volunteered as a Math tutor in the Chandler Elementary year of Bible School Clair got serious about serving the School. Lord. He felt God was calling him to preach but did not Melba graduated from Chandler HS in 1965 and left for see how he could do that since he could hardly get five Rock, IL in September to attend the Bible Missionary In- words out as a testimony. stitute. There she fell in love with a tall, handsome young Also that fall he met and fell in love with a pretty girl man from ID. His name was Clair. from Oklahoma. Her name was Melba. Clair was so bashful that he actually asked Melba for Melba Jean Meek was the first of four children born to their first date while walking away from her. He either E. B. and Dorothy Meek on April 19, 1947 in Sherman, TX. assumed the answer was yes or she shouted yes loud At the age of 18 months her parents moved from East- enough for him to hear because they did take that first ern Texas to West Texas seeking better employment in date! Melba found Clair more interesting than books and the oil boom. Clair got over his bashfulness because they were married Melba’s parents were not Christians when she was born June 9, 1967 in Little Rock, AR. They recently celebrated and life was not easy. But a little Nazarene church in town 50 years together. had some people who were concerned about sinners and The young couple returned to Rock Island to begin invited them to the revival. God spoke; they responded; a new year of school. Clair’s struggle with his call to and the family’s direction was forever changed. preach was so serious that they dropped out of school Melba started first grade in Odes- and moved to Little Rock, Arkan- sa. School ignited a deep desire in sas where he prepared to enrolled her for books and learning. Through- in a Jr. College – intent on taking out her 12 years of elementary and a different direction with his life. high school Melba attended 13 differ- This story was playing out during ent schools. Even with this continual the height of the Vietnam War. In change in her life, it never affected early spring of 1968 Clair received her desire for academic achievement. his draft notice and was told to re- In 1955 several families in their port for a physical. He passed the church felt a desire to be a part of physical and was told to report for a more conservative church. One of basic training at a certain date. At the families had heard that a new the same time the church in Little group had just started in Idaho and made contact with Rock started revival. One night during an altar service this group. As a result, the small group of five families Clair went off in a corner by himself to settle his call to formed a Bible Missionary Church in Odessa. preach. He told the Lord he had to know if he was “tru- In the fall of 1956 Melba’s father began to feel the call to ly called” and made this statement to the Lord: “Lord if preach. So the next Spring at the age of ten Melba moved you keep me out of Vietnam, I will preach.” About three to God’s Bible School where her father enrolled as a stu- weeks later Melba came home from work and found in dent. The school had a one room elementary school in the mail a letter from the Selective Services. The letter the old 10-weeks Building on campus. She went to school simply stated that his services were not needed by the there for one semester only because her father moved to United States military and that he had been reclassified Beulah Heights, KY that summer to pastor a church. The H-6. No one has ever heard of that classification and he following years included moves to KY, WV, PA, OH, OK, has never heard from them again.
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