About Wayne Hinton

SUMMARY

I have a varied life-long religious experience. Maternal grandparents were Baptist. Paternal grandparents were Methodist. Parents began taking us to the local Methodist Church. At a very early age, I left the evening service telling my mother that I would see her at home. Our discussion centered on my feeling that I was not learning anything. With her approval, I proceeded to attend a wide variety of organizations – Episcopal and Lutheran were quickly dispensed. I finally settled on the local Christian Church and even gave my first sermon at a Sunday Night Youth Night Program. While I had several friends there, it still did not seem right. After approximately one year, I started at the Baptist Church and found a home for about 8 years. The youth program was terrific and I was very fond of the preacher.

In the fall of 1962, I began my college experience at Centre College of Kentucky. It is a Presbyterian college in Danville, KY. I made religion my minor and learned much about the Old Testament, the Holy Days and the history of the Bible. One professor dealt with the Sabbath to Sunday question by saying that the churches could not go back due to financial dangers. He pointed out clearly that the Sunday has no Biblical basis for special worship in the Bible. From 1966 until 1985, I vacillated between Baptist and Presbyterian Churches dependent mainly upon which one I liked the best in the area where we lived at the time. (We moved 13 times for business reasons).

In 1985, I began studying the Sabbath and Holy Days. I copied by hand every Bible verse I could find into my PC-1 computer. I had started studying only the Sabbath and soon found the Sabbath to be inseparable from the Holy Days and restarted my research. In 1989 I attended my first Church of God, International service in New Orleans and began a regular Sabbath observer. My wife, Nita, soon joined me. I began giving sermons there April 6, 1991. When we moved to Fairview in 1993, I began giving sermons at the Arlington CGI on May 15 and continued until March 2, 1996.

On March 23, 1996, three of us met at our home and the Fairview Church of God was born. We have now had a maximum attendance of 46 and still have room to accommodate more. To date, I have given over 600 “presentations”. Most of them are sermons, but there are some Bible Studies included in that number. No topic is taboo, and I have notes on every topic I have covered.

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