140 Years of Jesus in Idaho Falls

  The pastor of the Idaho Falls Baptist Church in 1925, Waldo Maring, put the following announcement in The Idaho Falls Daily Post of April 18 of that year: Attention, Baptists! Rev. W. J. Maynard, who was once a member of the local Baptist church and has served as a missionary in Africa for many years, will speak at the Baptist church tomorrow, probably at the evening service. All members of our church, and other people who are not obligated elsewhere, are urged to hear this man of God, who is sure to bring us a message from “the front trenches.” [1] Who were Rev. W. J. and Nina Maynard?   When were they called by the Lord to go to Africa, how long did they serve there and what did they do? William grew up on a plantation in Frederick County, Maryland. [2]   William was one of eleven children of Howard G. and Sarah Maynard. [3]   He was the second youngest, three years older than his brother George. By 1908, William and his wife Nancy, known as Nina, were l...

By ANNA NEWBY, Idaho Falls pastor and evangelist, from the Bible Standard Overcomer, December, 1930, pp. 5 & 15 It was a day long to be remembered, thrilled at dainty sheets of mirrored waters, snowcapped mountains bathed in lurid gold-crimsoned at sunset, listening to the mighty rush of Yellowstone's rivers, climbing to the crest of the hill for a better view of a thundering cascade that tumbled in mighty shimmering sun-kissed falls and dropped down the mountain side. The hours were spent standing over tiny mud volcanoes, getting as close an inspection as we dared of the chocolate pots, thumb paint pots, carefully stepping along the walks leading over thin-crusted and slippery but brilliantly colored terraces, listening to the Black Growler Geyser standing offish-like to see what would happen at the Dragon's Mouth, delighted to see the Minute Man Geyser tease the air with his busy regular spittings and other companionate hot water mysterious maneuvers too numerous to menti...