WHO YIELDED HIS LIFE

In 1935, the church saw a need for additional space for Sunday School and church services. Church minutes from April 21 of that year tell us "Pastor was given the power to appoint (sic) a building committee to start a building fund to construct some Sunday School rooms. The following was appointed: C. R. Boyles, C. L. Stone, D. M. Creed, Lessie Nichols, Fannie Odell, Mary Edith Snow as a building committee." The addition, the south wing, was added in 1935. Three years later, there was more need for space due to the growth in attendance of the Sunday School and the church services. A new wing was added to the north end of the church in 1938.

The church met in conference on July 3, 1935, for the purpose of electing a new pastor for the coming year. They voted to call the Reverend Richard Day to serve.The church made unusual progress under the Reverend Day with a number of members being added to the church roll as well as the building being undertaken. Also, with the nations' economic recovery, the church's gifts were greatly increased to all association objectives. The church continued this progress, with several changes in church administration, under the leadership os the Reverend Lunsford Cook, who served as pastor from May 26, 1940, until June, 1943. Under the Reverend Cook's tenure, and on motion by Carl Snow, Calvary first voted to use the budget system that many of the missionary Baptist churches were using. The church first began meeting twice a month in August, 1940. Also, in 1942, the church voted that the pastor's salary should be 70% of the offering.