SAYSF Bible Church, Lexington Park, MD

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SAYSF Bible Church in Lexington Park near the southwest tip of Maryland, has its roots back in 1935, when Gould M. Brown began an assembly meeting in his home in New York. Newly saved, he studied the Bible to see what the Lord would have him do, and came on his own to New Testament principles of meeting. Upon meeting E.C. Hadley, he learned of the brethren. It was then that he established Parkside Gospel Hall in Milford, NY. During this period, Theron Davidson met and married Mr. Brown’s daughter Barbara, and Theron Davidson joined in the work with Mr. Brown.

Mr. Davidson was a Naval Officer in World War II, and was sent after the war to the Patuxent Naval Air Test Center, adjacent to Lexington Park. The Davidsons began camp work at St. Mary’s City in 1946, and when 17 persons were saved as a result, they purchased 13 acres of nearby land to be used for full-time work for the Lord. They built a home and began an assembly there in 1951, calling it the Lexington Park Christian Assembly. After a chapel was constructed on the property, and because of Pentecostal confusions, they took the name SAYSF Bible Chapel. When they learned that local people thought of a ‘chapel’ as an insignificant church, they changed the name to SAYSF Bible Church (SAYSF stands for ‘Seek and Ye Shall Find’).

The assembly of about 500 has had dozens of men in leadership, including at present Tom Hanrahan, Dick Jordan, and Peter Dobson. SON-KISS Ministries, which provides construction assistance to assemblies, is one of the many outreaches of SAYSF Bible Church.

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[edit] Also See

Frostburg Gospel Hall, MD

Eastern Gospel Hall, Baltimore, MD

Hillendale Bible Chapel, Baltimore, MD

Glad Tidings Chapel, Baltimore, MD

SAYSF Bible Church, Lexington Park, MD

South Potomac Church, Accokeek, MD

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Robert L. Peterson

Dan H. Smith, Ed.D. President, Emmaus Bible College

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Questionnaire Responses

Asheville Gospel Chapel, anonymous, undated but after 1994

Historical Sketch of the Sanford Chapel, anonymous, undated, but after 1989

Brief History of Graham Bible Fellowship, anonymous, undated, about 1990

Letters of Interest, January 1944, p. 25; July 1946, p. 16; December 1949, p. 18; November 1953, p. 3; March 1954, p. 12; June 1959, p. 11; March 1975, p. 5

Uplook, October 1989, p. 357

History of Cherrydale Bible Church, in The Cherrydale Messenger, fall 1997

Hampton Roads Community Church, mid 1990s

Grace Gospel Chapel: Historical Sketch of Assembly, 1998

Letters of Interest; November 1946, p. 34; December 1946, p. 30; October 1966, p. 9

Letters of Interest, July-August, 1972, p. 22

25th Anniversary Celebration of the New Hampshire Avenue Gospel Chapel, 1989

Letters of Interest, Oct. 1952, p. 13; March 1953, p. 18

Letters of Interest, August 1948, p. 22

Looking Backward, by Mary A. Harry, January 1946

Waynesburg Bible Chapel, undated

History of Indiana Gospel Hall, 1988