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Edward W. Bauman (1927-2021), United Methodist minister, writer, producer and educator, earned his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Boston University Graduate School. Bauman began his church career in 1951 as a probationary minister with the North East Ohio Annual Conference. By 1952, he was appointed beyond the local church to attend school. In the following year, North East Ohio ordained him as an elder in full connection. The Utica church became Bauman's first pastoral appointment from 1954 to 1956. The next year saw Bauman appointed as a chaplain to American University in Washington, D.C., a post he would keep until 1960 when he started teaching at Wesley Theological Seminary. He continue to teach full time at Wesley until 1965. During this time period Bauman moved his clergy credentials from North East Ohio to the Washington Annual Conference in 1958. In the Spring of 1965, the Washington area bishop appointed him to Foundry Church where he served as senior pastor until his retirement in 1991.

Bauman was an excellent communicator and in 1979 Time magazine recognized this fact by naming him as one of the most outstanding ministers in the United States. Part of this recognition by time centered on his weekly Sunday morning WMAL-AM radio broadcasts which spanned more than thirty years. Radio, however, was not the only medium by which the public could listen to Bauman’s sermons. His career in television and film lasted thirty-five years (1958-1992). Televison stations across the United States broadcasted his shows from WMAL-TV studios. The films, which were based on the televison shows, were shown by military chaplains on bases or ships around the world.

Audiovisuals were not the only medium by which Bauman reached out to the public. He wrote eight books. The titles are The Life and Teaching of Jesus, An Introduction to the New Testament, God’s Presence in My Life, We’re Spreading the Good News, John’s Gospels in the Modern World, Beyond Belief, Intercessory Prayer, The Bible and New Life for the Church and God of Our Fathers and A Study Guide for the Film and TV Course. Other forms of ministries outside the local parish and after retirement included a variety of retreats and church renewal seminars.

In 1993, Bauman headed to Calcutta, India, to spend time working with Mother Teresa with a focus on her Home for the Dying located in Khaligat. The experience made such a lasting impression that Bauman started to work with hospices in the Washington, D.C. area upon his return.

Later Bauman would serve as an associate minister at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. The Washington National Cathedral named him a member of the Associate Faculty of The College of Preachers.

Samuel H. Baumgartner (1860-1936), an Evangelical Association minister of the Indiana Conference, was born March 2nd, 1860, near Vera Cruz, Indiana and died in 1936. He married Kessie Keipper in 1886.

Baumgartner was licensed as a preacher on probation in April 1887 at Rochester, Indiana, ordained as a deacon in 1889, and an elder in 1891. He served for twelve years in six fields, namely, West Point (Bipus), two; Rochester City, one; Kendallville and Avilla, two; Ft. Wayne First, four; and Wabash, two. Baumgartner was appointed Secretary of Conference by Bishop J. J. Esher in 1891 and consecutively for the following nine times.

In 1899 the conference elected him presiding elder, an office in which he served eight years on the Elkhart and Ft. Wayne districts. In 1907 and 1908 he served First Church in Indianapolis. From 1909 to 1922, he again served as presiding elder on all presiding elder districts of the conference. In 1923, Baumgartner resigned as presiding elder to become solicitor of funds for the liquidation of the debt on the Old Peoples Home, and in 1927, completed forty years of active service to the Evangelical Church.

Arthur Linn Becker (1879-?), Methodist missionary, was born in Ray, Indiana on May 12, 1879. His parents moved to Reading, Michigan prior to his fifth birthday. He graduated high school in 1899 and enrolled in Albion College that same year. Becker became interested in foreign missionary work in his senior year. He graduated from Albion College in 1903. Becker was then appointed to Korea by the Methodist Episcopal Mission Board in 1903. His first responsibility as a missionary was as an educational missionary in Pyeng Yang.

Becker traveled to Tokyo, Japan, in 1905 where he met and married Louise Ann Smith, the daughter of a Methodist minister. Becker brought his wife back to Pyeng Yang. They had three children, two daughters and a son. Two of their children were born prior to the family's visit to the United States in 1910. Their second daughter was born after the family moved to Seoul.

Becker assisted in the foundation of the Chosen Christian College, now Yonsei University, in 1918. He was involved in the administration of its policies and curriculum from its establishment to his retirement.

Due to World War II, the Beckers were forced to evacuate. They were reassigned to Lucknow Christian College in India where Becker served as a physics instructor. The Becker family later returned to the United States and settled in Michigan where they retired. They were recalled to Korea in 1946 after World War II. Becker served as the President of Yonsei University during the Korean War from 1950-1953.

Dr. and Mrs. Becker returned to the United States to reenter retirement in California. His wife passed away in 1961. In 1965, Becker moved to Frasier Meadows Manor in Boulder, Colorado in 1965 with the help of his granddaughter, Mrs. Claud Morel, a resident of the town. He spent his time transcribing details of his experiences with assistance from his daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Becker McCune, during the summer of 1974.