Mims Papers Series 4.1

Guide to the Lambert C. Mims Papers

Series 4. Sub-series A. Speaking Engagements, 1969-1989. 2 cubic feet.
This sub-series contains material found within the collection that was related to the various groups or organizations – primarily church groups – that invited Mims to attend some kind function and at which he sometimes made remarks. It includes programs, invitations, or correspondence about the event. Mims frequently used the same speech more than once. At other times, he spoke off-the-cuff or gave an invocation or prayer, etc. While cross-referencing between this and the Speeches sub-series in the Mayor/Commissioner series, in most cases, will not reveal which speech was delivered at which engagement, this sub-series does give you an idea of how Mims undertook the process of creating and delivering speeches. This sub-series is arranged chronologically, when known.

Box 53

File 1 – Baptist Men’s Congress on Evangelism and Lay Involvement, Nashville, 7/3/1969
File 2 – Founder’s Day Program, Alabama Baptist Children’s Home, Troy, 7/3-4/1971
File 3 – Servicemen’s Center Rally, Pensacola Municipal Auditorium, Pensacola, 10/15/1971
File 4 – Baptist Men’s Conference, First Baptist Church, Mobile, 11/16/70
File 5 – Pilot Club at YMCA, Selma, 1/18/72
File 6 – Waterfront Rescue Mission 15th Anniversary Banquet, Mobile, 1973 [?]
File 7 – Star of the Hope Mission 66th Anniversary Banquet, Houston, 3/26/1973
File 8 – Lake Monroe Gideon’s Rally, Orlando, 10/27/1973
File 9 – Laymen’s Retreat, Malvern, Pennsylvania, 1973-1974
File 10 – TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Club Convention, Mobile, 3/22/1974
File 11 – Miscellaneous, 1974
File 12 – Greenville Baptist Association, Greenville, South Carolina, 10/12/1974
File 13 – Christian Citizenship Seminar, Hattiesburg, 10/31/1974
File 14 – Geyer Springs First Baptist Church, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2/11/1976
File 15 – National Conference on Deacon Ministry, Ridgecrest, North Carolina, 7/31-8/6/1976
File 16 – Vernant Park Baptist Church, Foley, 1/7/1977
File 17 – First Baptist Church, Gulfport, 2/13/1977
File 18 – First Baptist Church, Dalton, Georgia, 7/28/1977
File 19 – Morning Worship Hour, Mabel White Memorial Baptist Church, Macon, Georgia, 8/21/1977
File 20 – Prayer Breakfast, Daphne Baptist Church, Daphne, 9/18/1977
File 21 – Rally Day/Homecoming, Magnolia Springs, 10/2/1977
File 22 – Washington County Gideon’s Rally, Covington, Alabama, 10/15/1977
File 23 – Homecoming Services, Washington Park Baptist Church, Pensacola, 11/13/1977
File 24 – First Baptist Church, Fort Walton Beach, 2/19/1978
File 25 – "Honor the Clergy Meeting," Bay Minette Civitan Club, Bay Minette, 2/21/1978
File 26 – Lauderdale Baptist Association, Meridian, 2/28/1978
File 27 – Louisiana Baptist Convention, Alexandria, Louisiana, 3/7/1978
File 28 – Men’s Day, University Parkway Baptist Church, 3/12/1978
File 29 – Memphis Gideon’s Rally and Pastor Appreciation Banquet, Memphis, 4/8/1978
File 30 – Baptist Men’s Rally, Lubbock, Texas, 7/23/1978
File 31 – Wife’s Conference, Texas, 7/23-24/1978
File 32 – Crestview Baptist Church, Dayton, Ohio, 3/1978
File 33 – New Orleans Theological Seminary, New Orleans, 7/1978
File 34 – Sherriff’s Flotilla, Mobile, 8/26/1978
File 35 – Moss-Point Leadership Rally, Pascagoula, 10/7/1978
File 36 – Memorial Service, L. Maurice Jackson, New Hope Baptist Church, 11/10/1978
File 37 – Memorial Service, Nick Thomas, Franklin Street Baptist Church, Mobile, 12/19/1978
File 38 – West Haven Baptist Church, Knoxville, 4/24-25/1979
File 39 – Stevendale Baptist Church, Baptist Men’s Day, Baton Rouge, 1/14/1979
File 40 – Southside Baptist Church, Baptist men’s Day, Ramada Inn, Dothan, 1/28/1979
File 41 – Brotherhood Breakfast, First Baptist Church, Prattville, Alabama, 2/4/1979
File 42 – First Baptist Church, Huntsville, 2/11/1979
File 43 – Deacon-Pastor Conference, Johnson City, Tennessee, 2/22/1979
File 44 – Multiple Engagements, Columbus, Ohio, March-April 1979
File 45 – Greystone Christian High School Commencement, 5/29/1979
File 46 – Carlisle Avenue Baptist Church, Louisville, 7/1/1979
File 47 – Santa Rosa Camp of Gideon’s Rally, Milton, 10/13/1979
File 48 – Gideon’s Banquet, etc., Greenville, Alabama, 10/20/1979
File 49 – Calvary Baptist Church, Columbus, Georgia 10/28/1979
File 50 – Beverly Points Baptist Church, Birmingham, 11/7-9/1979
File 51 – Metro Church Program with Richard Hogue, Oklahoma City, 11/11/1979
File 52 – Baptist Men’s Day, Pisgah Heights Baptist Church, Cincinnati, 1/20/1980
File 53 – Baptist Men’s Day, Phenix First Baptist Church, Phenix City, 1/27/1980
File 54 – Baptists Men’s Day, Grace Baptist Church, Baton Rouge, 2/3/1980
File 55 – Colquitt County Baptist Association, Moultree, Georgia, 2/4/1980
File 56 – Louisiana State Pastors’-Deacons’ Conference, First Baptist Church, 2/8-9/1980
File 57 – Christian Women’s Club Women Meeting, 3/20/1980
File 58 – E. Moss Point Baptist Church, Moss Point, 4/9/1980
File 59 – Baptist Men’s Prayer Breakfast, Blue Ridge Baptist Church, Wetumpka, 4/13/1980
File 60 – Deacon Appreciation Day, Immanuel Baptist Church, Elizabethtown, Tennessee, 5/24/1980
File 61 – National Deacon Rally, Nashville, 6/8/1980
File 62 – "God and Country" Service, Dauphin Way Baptist Church Mobile, 6/29/1980
File 63 – Brotherhood, Pensacola, 8/18/1980
File 64 – Baptists Men’s Rally, Alexandria, Louisiana, 9/8-9/1980
File 65 – Perry County Baptist Men’s Rally, Beaumont, Mississippi, 10/25/1980
File 66 – Brotherhood Comm. (Southern Baptist Convention), Memphis, 10/31-11/1/1980
File 67 – Deacon Banquet, Germantown Baptist Church, Memphis, 12/12/1980
File 68 – Baptist men’s Rally, Bessemer Baptist Association, Bessemer, 1/16/1981
File 69 – Brotherhood Dinner, Montgomery, 1/16/1981
File 70 – Men’s Day, Mansfield, Louisiana, 1/17/1981
File 71 – Annual Baptist Men’s Day Breakfast, Tuscaloosa, 1/25/1981
File 72 – Pastor and Deacons Banquet, Lakesville, Mississippi, 1/27/1981
File 73 – KY Baptist Pastors-Deacons-Wives Conference, Cedarmore, Kentucky, 1/31/1981
File 74 – Baptist Men’s Day, Southside Baptist Church, Greenville, Alabama, 1/31/1981
File 75 – Baptist Men’s and Wives Banquet, Port Author, Texas, 2/7-8/1981
File 76 – First Baptist Church, Port Author, Texas, 2/8/1981
File 77 – Baptist Men’s Day, Columbus, Mississippi, 2/21-22/1981
File 78 – Gideon Rally, Pike County Gideon’s, Troy, 2/13/1981
File 79 – Baptist Men’s Day, First Baptist Church, Ormond Beach, Florida, 2/27-28/1981
File 80 – Pastor Appreciation Banquet, Pensacola Gideon’s, Pensacola, 3/14/1981
File 81 – Annual Retreat, Tampa Bay Baptist Association, Tampa, 4/24-25/1981
File 82 – Stonehouse Church, Hattiesburg, 5/16/1981
File 83 – Southern Baptist Convention, Knoxville, 6/9/1981
File 84 – Baptists Men’s Rally, Clinton, Mississippi, 8/21/1981
File 85 – Carey Baptist Association, Lake Charles, 10/16-17/1981
File 86 – Parkway Baptist Church, Lexington, 10/23-24/1981
File 87 – Pastor-Deacon Retreat, Lake Yale Baptist Assembly, New Orleans, 11/21/1981
File 88 – Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast, Hattiesburg, 11/24/1981
File 89 – Faith Fund Rally, Fort Walton Beach, 12/8/1981
File 90 – Baptist Men’s Day, Sardis, Alabama, 1/13/1982
File 91 – Baptist Men’s Day, N. Highlands Baptist Church, Hueytown, 1/16-17/1982
File 92 – Baptist Men’s Day. Marion, Mississippi, 1/24/1982
File 93 – Baptist Men’s Banquet, First Baptist Church, Lucedale, 1/26/1982
File 94 – Cullman Gideon Rally, Cullman, Alabama, 2/6/1982
File 95 – Tennessee Baptist Convention, Brentwood, Tennessee, 3/12-13/1982
File 96 – Pastor Appreciation Banquet, Florence, 3/19/1982
File 97 – Palm Sunday Morning Service, Main Street Baptist Church, Hattiesburg, 4/4/1982
File 98 – Coffee County Gideon camp Rally, Enterprise, 5/1/1982
File 99 – E. Moss Point Baptist Church Men and Ladies Meeting, Moss Point, 5/11/1982
File 100 – Mobile Baptist Sunlight District Convention, St. Peters Baptist Church, Mobile, 5/18-21/1982
File 101 – Brotherhood Men & Wives Dinner, Memorial Baptist Church, Citronelle, 8/21/1982
File 102 – Fifth Annual Pastor Appreciation Banquet, Pell City, Alabama, 9/25/1982
File 103 – Gideon’s Pastor Appreciation Banquet, Pell City, Alabama 9/27/1982
File 104 – Deacon’s Retreat, First Baptist Church, Memphis, 10/1-2/1982
File 105 – Deacons, Pastors, and Wives Conference, Illinois Baptist State Association, 11/14-15/1982
File 106 – First Baptist Church, Memphis, 11/28/1982
File 107 – Men’s Breakfast, McIlwain Memorial Presbyterian Church, Pensacola, 1/7/1983
File 108 – Baptist Men’s Day, Temple Baptist Church, Hattiesburg, 1/16/1983
File 109 – Baptist Men’s Day, Arlington Heights Baptist Church, Pascagoula, 1/23/1983
File 110 – Baptist Men’s Banquet, First Baptist Church, Lucedale, 1/25/1983
File 111 – Lay Speaker for First Baptist Church, Cullman, Alabama, 1/30/1983
File 112 – Pastors, Deacons, & Wives Conference, Monroe, Louisiana, 2/4-5/1983
File 113 – Deacon’s Rally, Crestway Baptist Church, Birmingham, 2/12/1983
File 114 – Gideon’s Pastors Banquet, Hattiesburg, 2/19-20/1983
File 115 – Pastors Banquet, Anniston Gideon’s, 3/19-20/1983
File 116 – Jasper Camp of the Gideon’s, Baptist Men’s Day, Jasper, Alabama, 4/1/1983
File 117 – Whitewater Baptist Church, Elba, Alabama, 4/15-17/1983
File 118 – Elmore Gideon’s Pastor Appreciation Banquet, Prattville, Alabama, 5/13-14/1983
File 119 – Funeral of William Bryant Easley, 5/24/1983
File 120 – Rocky Creek Baptist Church, Lucedale, 6/12/1983
File 121 – "God and Country Day" Service, Waynesboro, Mississippi, 6/24/1983
File 122 – Patriotic Service, Eastside Baptist Church, Cullman, Alabama, 7/3/1983
File 123 – McIlwain Memorial Presbyterian Church, Pensacola, 8/3/1983
File 124 – Eighth Avenue Baptist Church, Hattiesburg, 8/7/1983
File 125 – Thirty-Eighth Avenue Baptist Church, Hattiesburg, 9/4/1983
File 126 – Monroe County Camp of Gideon’s, Monroeville, Alabama, 9/18/1983
File 127 – First Baptist Church, Biloxi, 9/25/1983
File 128 – Pastor Appreciation, Waynesboro, Mississippi 8/6/1983
File 129 – Deacon’s and Wives Banquet, First Baptist Church, Lucedale, 11/22/1983
File 130 – Convocation on the Laity, New Orleans Seminary, 12/8-9/1983
File 131 – First Baptist Church, Slidell, Louisiana, 12/11-15/1983
File 132 – Men’s Day Service, Southside Baptist Church, Talladega, 1/22/1984
File 133 – Northside Baptist Church, Pensacola, 1/29/1984
File 134 – Pastors, Deacons, and Wives Conference, First Baptist Church, Lake Charles, 2/3-4/1984
File 135 – Ellicot Stone, Dedication of Marker, Mount Vernon, Alabama, 2/20/1984
File 136 – Kushla Assembly of God, 2/26/1984
File 137 – Baptist Men’s Day, Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Enterprise, 3/18/1984
File 138 – Gideon’s International Pastor’s Appreciation Banquet, Montgomery, 4/16/1984
File 139 – Graduate Seminar Presentation, National Emergency Training Center, Emmitsburg, Maryland, 5/17/1984
File 140 – Graduate Seminar on Contemporary Issues in Emergency Management, Emmitsburg, Maryland, 5/17/1984
File 141 – Parkway Assembly of God, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, 6/10-11/1984

Box 54

File 1 – "God and Country Day," Cherry Street Baptist Church, Atalla, Alabama, 7/1/1984
File 2 – Press Club [location unknown], 7/13/1984
File 3 – Brotherhood, Woolmaker Baptist Church, Biloxi, Mississippi, 7/26/1984
File 4 – Grand Opening of McRae’s in Springdale Mall, Mobile, Alabama, 8/1/1984
File 5 – Christian Community Awards Banquet, Alabama Interdenominational Seminary, Mobile, Alabama, 8/4/1984
File 6 – Alabama District of Kiwanis International, 66^th Annual Convention, Mobile, Alabama, 8/4/1984
File 7 – Graduate Seminar on Contemporary Issues in Emergency Management, Emmitsburg, Maryland, 8/16/1984
File 8 – National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 9/5/1984
File 9 – Layman’s Sunday, Eastern Valley Baptist Church, Bessemer, Alabama, 9/9/1984
File 10 – The American Legion 1984 National Leadership Workshop, Mobile, Alabama, 10/19/1984
File 11 – Annual Volunteer Recognition Luncheon, Mobile Infirmary, Mobile, Alabama, 11/9/1984
File 12 – Dale County Gideon’s Pastor Appreciation Banquet, Daleville, Alabama, 11/10-11/1984
File 13 – Charles A. Tunstall, 36^th Annual Appreciation & Fiftieth Ordination Service, Stone Street Baptist Church, Mobile, Alabama, 7/27-29/1984
File 14 – Baptist Men/Ladies Night Banquet, First Baptist Church, Graceville, Florida, 12/16/1984
File 15 – Deacons, Pastors, and Wives Banquet, Lamar Baptist Association, Purvis, Mississippi, 1/10/1985
File 16 – Baptist Men’s Day, First Baptist Church, Beaumont, Mississippi, 1/27/1985
File 17 – National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, DC, 1/31/1985
File 18 – Louisiana State Pastors, Staff, Deacons, and Wives Conference, Alexandria, Louisiana, 2/1-2/1985
File 19 – Gideon’s Rally, Mobile, Alabama, 2/2-3/1985
File 20 – Baptist Men’s Day, First Baptist Church, Purvis, Mississippi, 2/10/1985
File 21 – Governor’s Prayer Breakfast, Greater Cantonment-Ensley Ministerial Association, Pensacola, Florida, 2/17/1985
File 22 – New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, New Orleans, 3/7-9/1985
File 23 – Men’s Fellowship Breakfast, Magnolia Springs Assembly of God, Hurley, Mississippi, 3/17/1985
File 24 – Family and Friends Day, Springhill Avenue Baptist Church, Mobile, Alabama, 3/31/1985
File 25 – Jackson Gideon’s Pastor’s Appreciation Banquet, Jackson, Tennessee, 4/16/1985
File 26 – Pre-Fourth of July Celebration, First Baptist Church, Mobile, Alabama, 6/30/1985
File 27 – Temple Baptist Church, Gideon’s International, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 7/21/1985
File 28 – Blount County Gideon’s Pastors and Wives Fellowship Banquet, Oneonta, Alabama, 9/21/1985
File 29 – Father and Son Banquet, Immanuel Baptist Church, Columbus, Mississippi, 1/10/1986
File 30 – Men’s Day, First Baptist Church, Hamilton, Alabama, 1/26/1986
File 31 – State-Wide Deacon’s Rally, Moffett Road Baptist Church, Mobile, Alabama, 2/15/1986
File 32 – Baptist Men’s Day, Immanuel Baptist Church, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 2/24/1986
File 33 – Coffee County Baptist Association Men’s Retreat, Mariana, Florida, 4/4-5/1986
File 34 – Fifty-Sixth Annual Convention of the Research Officers Association, Mobile, Alabama, 4/25-27/1986
File 35 – Homecoming Service, Poplar Springs Baptist Church, Megargel, Alabama, 5/25/1986
File 36 – Gideon Event, First Baptist Church, Mason, Ohio, 7/1986
File 37 – Fellowship Baptist Church, Chunchula, Alabama, 7/6/1986
File 38 – Gideon Report, Olive Baptist Church, Pensacola, Florida, 8/10/1986
File 39 – Gideon Rally/Banquet, Salem Heights Baptist Church, Columbus, Mississippi, 8/16/1986
File 40 – Gideon Event, First Baptist Church, Eufaula, Alabama, 8/24/1986
File 41 – Pastor’s Appreciation Banquet, Demopolis, Alabama, 11/1/1986
File 42 – Men’s Breakfast, Graceland Baptist Church, Memphis, Tennessee, 1/16/1987
File 43 – Morning Service, First Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2/1/1987
File 44 – Baptist Men’s Day, Germantown Baptist Church, Germantown, Tennessee, 2/1/1987
File 45 – Gideon Event, First United Methodist Church, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, 2/8/1987
File 46 – Northport Gideon’s Pastor Appreciation Banquet, Northport, Alabama, 4/26/1987
File 47 – Rotary Club, Greenville, Alabama, 6/11/1987
File 48 – "God and Country Day," Woodlawn Baptist Church, Augusta, Georgia, 6/28/1987
File 49 – Georgetown-Eufaula Patriotic Service, Georgetown Baptist Church, Georgetown, Georgia, 7/1/1987
File 50 – Pastor Appreciation Banquet, Baldwin North Camp Gideon’s, Bay Minette, Alabama, 8/21/1987
File 51 – Judson Baptist Association, Pastor’s-Men’s Retreat, Forest Hill, Louisiana, 8/21-22/1987
File 52 – Brotherhood Retreat, Baptist Convention of Maryland,/Delaware, Sandy Cove, Maryland, 9/18-19/1987
File 53 – Pastor Appreciation Banquet, Pascagoula and Moss Point Gideon’s, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 10/8/1987
File 54 – Revival, Brookstown Baptist Church, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 11/1/1987
File 55 – Alabama Gideon’s State Convention, Montgomery, Alabama, 11/13-15/1987
File 56 – National Fellowship for Baptist Men, First Triennial Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee,
11/20-22/1987
File 57 – Jackson Community-Wide Thanksgiving Service, First Baptist Church, Jackson, Alabama, 11/24/1987
File 58 – First Baptist Church, Summerdale, Alabama, 1/17/1988
File 59 – Baptist Men’s Day, Florida Boulevard Baptist Church, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1/24/1988
File 60 – Pastor Appreciation Banquet, Fort Walton Beach Gideon’s, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, 2/5/1988
File 61 – Gideon’s, First Baptist Church, Picayune, Mississippi, 3/13/1988
File 62 – Pastor’s Appreciation Banquet (Gideon’s), Pensacola, Florida, 3/19/1987
File 63 – Revival, First Baptist Church, Hamilton, Alabama, 4/3-6/1987
File 64 – Laymen’s Revival, Riverside Baptist Church, Mobile, Alabama, 4/17-20/1988
File 65 – Annual Senior Adult Day, First Baptist Church, Opp, Alabama, 5/1/1988
File 66 – Bethel Assembly of God, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 6/26/1988
File 67 – First Baptist Church, Opp, Alabama, 7/12/1988
File 68 – Lay-Led Revival, Ridgecrest Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, 10/5/1988
File 69 – Laymen’s Rally, Bude Baptist Church, Meadville, Mississippi, 3/20/1989
File 70 – Various Speeches and Occasions, 1970-1971
File 71 – Various Speeches and Occasions, 1972
File 72 – Various Speeches and Occasions, 1974
File 73 – Various Speeches and Occasions, 1975
File 74 – Various Speeches and Occasions, 1976-1977
File 75 – Various Speeches and Occasions, 1978
File 76 – Various Speeches and Occasions, 1979
File 77 – Various Speeches and Occasions, 1980
File 78 – Various Speeches and Occasions, 1981-1982
File 79 – Various Speeches and Occasions, 1986-1987
File 80 – Speaking Engagement Lists, 1968-1976
File 81 – Speaking Engagement Lists, 1976-1980
File 82 – Miscellaneous, 1969-1970 (1 of 2)
File 83 – Miscellaneous, 1969-1970 (2 of 2)

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