The First Baptist Church of Ipswich will have a new opportunity for entertainment on Sunday evening, July 15. The movie “Heart of a Shepherd” will be shown in the church at 7 p.m.
“Heart of a Shepherd,” a biopic on South Dakota native and Christian Worship Hour pastor Dr. Harold E. Salem.
The film describes Salem’s call to ministry in 1943, transition to TV ministry in 1979 and his continued work at age 96 to reach 90 percent of the earth from a production studio in Aberdeen.
Salem began serving the First Baptist Church of Belle Fourche in 1944, accepting the call to First Baptist Church of Aberdeen in 1958 where he served for 52 years.
In 2010, he resigned from First Baptist to commit full time to the Christian Worship Hour, which he founded in 1979 telecasting the worship service live on KABY-TV in Aberdeen.
The Christian Worship Hour was founded to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, offering a worship service to those who are housebound, to win the lost to Christ, to minister to the lonely, the elderly, and the shut-ins, and to nurture the saved in their daily walk with the Lord.
Salem has preached in more than 70 churches in the US as well as services in Canada, England, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
Today, the program reaches homes via TV, radio, Internet and DVD. The program still consists almost entirely of a sermon preached by Salem and a few worship songs. The broadcast airs on more than 50 stations and satellite networks around the world.
A free-will offering will be taken.
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