ORDAINED
By G. W. S. Ware
Nov. 4, 1936
Ordain means to invest with ministerial functions.
Extracts from the minutes of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Catoosa County, Ga.,
Dec. 15, 1849, Robert Ware was ordained. Elder R. C. Cain was moderator. The ordination
prayer was led by Elder Thomas McDonald. The charge was given by Elder James Wilson. Feb.
15, 1850, the Church called Elders G. W. Slover and Robert Ware as co-pastors. Feb. 15,
1851, Slover and Ware resigned, and Robert Ware was elected pastor by all the church, and
accepted care of the church.
Aug. 18, 1866, Louis J. Ware (son of Robert Ware) was elected church clerk. Louis Ware
and John Brawer were elected messengers to the Coosa Association and get a letter of
dismission. Saturday, Feb. 18, 1867, no conference owing to the death of "our
esteemed brother, L. J. Ware". Sunday, "the funeral of L. J. Ware was preached
by the pastor, Elder K. M. Stansberry".
May 20, 1877, G.W. Ware joined by letter
Oct. 21, 1877, G. W. S. Ware dismissed by letter. He returned to Florida. He is the
youngest son of Robert Ware.
G. W. S. Ware was ordained to the ministry of Jesus Christ the second Sunday in July,
1887, by Providence Baptist Church, Union County, Florida. Rev. B. R. Mosely, pastor, Rev.
S. S. Proctor, Rev. J. J. Clark, son-in-law of Robert Ware, made the ordaining councill.
In five years, I was pastor of my home church; in nine years, Robert Ware was pastor of
his. He flashed like a meteor seven years; I have plodded as a plodder forty-nine. He may
have done more for God in seven years than I have done in fifty, and still at it. I am
glad I am his son, that he was a preacher, and that I am one; that the Eternal City is
just beyond, over the horizon, where Jesus is seen as he is, 1 John 3:2; Rev. 1:13-18.
