{"id":1862,"date":"2025-02-16T10:49:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T15:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/?page_id=1862"},"modified":"2025-02-16T10:49:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T15:49:49","slug":"rc-oliver","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/?page_id=1862","title":{"rendered":"RC Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Served North End &#8211; 1953-1957<\/p>\n<p>RC was born in 1918 in Kentucky. He started preaching at age 16 in<br \/>\nDetroit.  He was married to Ginny Oliver and they had two children-<br \/>\none a preacher.  He served churches in five states and held gospel<br \/>\nmeetings in at least 15 states. His only located work in West Virginia<br \/>\nwas at North End from 1953-1957.  While here he held a debate on<br \/>\nbaptism at the City Park pavilion, with more that 2,000 present on the<br \/>\nlast night.  In 1965 he began teaching at Freed-Hardeman College.<br \/>\nHe later came out of retirement to be North End\u2019s assistant minister<br \/>\nin the 1990\u2019s.  He died in 1998 and is buried, along with his wife, at<br \/>\nMt Olivet cemetery in Parkersburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Served North End &#8211; 1953-1957 RC was born in 1918 in Kentucky. He started preaching at age 16 in Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1862"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1863,"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1862\/revisions\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}