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By SUZANNE R. STONE Staff writer
CLEARWATER -- After 54 years in the ministry, the founder of Lakeside Baptist Church is handing over the reins to a new generation.
The Rev. Bill Reese has retired as Lakeside's senior pastor at age 76. The church's new pastor, the Rev. Tad Marshall, led his first worship service last Sunday, May 4. Reese's retirement Sunday will be on May 18, with a special retirement service at 10 a.m. at the church, located at 4319 Jefferson Davis Highway.
"We need a fresh set of legs, and my legs are not fresh; they're very old," Reese said.
Reese was ordained in 1952 at age 20 at Second Baptist Church in Augusta. His first posting was later that year to Hollow Creek Baptist Church in Jackson.
"They hadn't had a person saved, born again, in two years. We had over 100 saved and baptized the first year I was there, went from 29 people to over 200 in a year and a half," he said
He founded Piney Heights Baptist Church in a tent in Langley, with 121 people there for the first service in March of 1954. Reese stayed at Piney Heights for 37 years, a tenure that included a 30-year career preaching on radio and television.
He asked United Merchants to sell him the 30-acre property at the third business intersection in Aiken County that would become the home of Lakeside Baptist Church, and was told the parcel was not for sale. When the company went bankrupt a few years later in 1986, the company's lawyers called Reese with an asking price.
"I will say this: we had the money to pay for it, and we paid for it. We paid for the land in just a matter of weeks," Reese said. "We've been here 20 years on this property. We have a worldwide mission program, we built the biggest Baptist churches in Russia, we've put the King James Bible in the Portuguese language and after 10 years it's a best-seller. We put 'Strom's Concordance' in the Spanish language. We own a printing press in Russia where we print our own Bibles, and we're the largest distributor of Bibles there. We support over 100 missionaries at churches all over the world."
Reese and the congregation began talking about a new pastor after he was in a car accident some five years ago, and his injuries called for a long recovery. However, Reese has no intention of giving up his ministry. He plans to continue with the church as pastor emeritus, working on missions and personal counseling, as well as spending time with his wife Mrs. Fannie Reese, who has been the church's piano player, organist and music director and founded the Bible Quiz and the Melody Chorale.
"I did not have to resign here. My church has been wanting me to find a pastor. I've been their leader now for 54 years, I'm 76, my health hasn't been good, hasn't been bad. I do more counseling now than I've ever done in my life, and the church wanted me to find the preacher for them, they didn't want to be a pulpit committee," said Reese. "That was put on my shoulders, I began to look, and I asked other preacher friends of mine who have preacher sons. I knew Brother Tad Marshall, I knew of him, I knew his daddy 35 years ago."
Marshall, age 45, is a native of Charlotte, N.C. The son of an evangelist, he has been in the ministry since he was 18, serving as assistant pastor for 21 years and pastor for four and a half years at a church in Siler City, N.C. He and his family, wife Pat and son Tyler, moved to Aiken County in February.
I hadn't seen him in years, but he had been here to churches when we had revival meetings. I asked him to come over, told him about the church, and he said 'I am honored to even be considered,'" Reese said. "I consider Brother Tad Marshall out of all the hundreds of preachers I know all over the country, the finest, the sharpest, most energetic young preacher to lead this church. He's just the man God sent in, and we're honored that God had led him here."
Said Marshall, "I was extremely excited as well as overwhelmed with the potential and possibility. Brother Reese has done a fantastic job, the Lord has used him in a mighty way here at Lakeside all these years, and for me to be considered to lead the church now was an extreme privilege for me. But I'm enthused about the fact that I believe great days are ahead for Lakeside."
Contact Suzanne Stone at sstone@aikenstandard.com.
5/11/2008 12:26 AM
0 comments on this story E-mail this story to a friendBy SUZANNE R. STONE Staff writer
CLEARWATER -- After 54 years in the ministry, the founder of Lakeside Baptist Church is handing over the reins to a new generation.
The Rev. Bill Reese has retired as Lakeside's senior pastor at age 76. The church's new pastor, the Rev. Tad Marshall, led his first worship service last Sunday, May 4. Reese's retirement Sunday will be on May 18, with a special retirement service at 10 a.m. at the church, located at 4319 Jefferson Davis Highway.
"We need a fresh set of legs, and my legs are not fresh; they're very old," Reese said.
Reese was ordained in 1952 at age 20 at Second Baptist Church in Augusta. His first posting was later that year to Hollow Creek Baptist Church in Jackson.
"They hadn't had a person saved, born again, in two years. We had over 100 saved and baptized the first year I was there, went from 29 people to over 200 in a year and a half," he said
He founded Piney Heights Baptist Church in a tent in Langley, with 121 people there for the first service in March of 1954. Reese stayed at Piney Heights for 37 years, a tenure that included a 30-year career preaching on radio and television.
He asked United Merchants to sell him the 30-acre property at the third business intersection in Aiken County that would become the home of Lakeside Baptist Church, and was told the parcel was not for sale. When the company went bankrupt a few years later in 1986, the company's lawyers called Reese with an asking price.
"I will say this: we had the money to pay for it, and we paid for it. We paid for the land in just a matter of weeks," Reese said. "We've been here 20 years on this property. We have a worldwide mission program, we built the biggest Baptist churches in Russia, we've put the King James Bible in the Portuguese language and after 10 years it's a best-seller. We put 'Strom's Concordance' in the Spanish language. We own a printing press in Russia where we print our own Bibles, and we're the largest distributor of Bibles there. We support over 100 missionaries at churches all over the world."
Reese and the congregation began talking about a new pastor after he was in a car accident some five years ago, and his injuries called for a long recovery. However, Reese has no intention of giving up his ministry. He plans to continue with the church as pastor emeritus, working on missions and personal counseling, as well as spending time with his wife Mrs. Fannie Reese, who has been the church's piano player, organist and music director and founded the Bible Quiz and the Melody Chorale.
"I did not have to resign here. My church has been wanting me to find a pastor. I've been their leader now for 54 years, I'm 76, my health hasn't been good, hasn't been bad. I do more counseling now than I've ever done in my life, and the church wanted me to find the preacher for them, they didn't want to be a pulpit committee," said Reese. "That was put on my shoulders, I began to look, and I asked other preacher friends of mine who have preacher sons. I knew Brother Tad Marshall, I knew of him, I knew his daddy 35 years ago."
Marshall, age 45, is a native of Charlotte, N.C. The son of an evangelist, he has been in the ministry since he was 18, serving as assistant pastor for 21 years and pastor for four and a half years at a church in Siler City, N.C. He and his family, wife Pat and son Tyler, moved to Aiken County in February.
I hadn't seen him in years, but he had been here to churches when we had revival meetings. I asked him to come over, told him about the church, and he said 'I am honored to even be considered,'" Reese said. "I consider Brother Tad Marshall out of all the hundreds of preachers I know all over the country, the finest, the sharpest, most energetic young preacher to lead this church. He's just the man God sent in, and we're honored that God had led him here."
Said Marshall, "I was extremely excited as well as overwhelmed with the potential and possibility. Brother Reese has done a fantastic job, the Lord has used him in a mighty way here at Lakeside all these years, and for me to be considered to lead the church now was an extreme privilege for me. But I'm enthused about the fact that I believe great days are ahead for Lakeside."
Contact Suzanne Stone at sstone@aikenstandard.com.
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