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* Gordon Reager 1931
* David L. Roy 1910, 1912, 1934, 1939, 1951, 1956
* Bill Seale, Jr. 1998* Gary Sharp 1998, 2000
* John Slabaugh 1967, 1979
* James N. Smith 1979
* TIG 1979-9-14: Indiana Gospel Hall explores tabernacle: "The Indiana Gospel Hall, located at the corner of Fifth and Locust streets, will be sponsoring teaching sessions centered on 'The Wilderness Tabernacle' of the Old Testament beginning Sunday. The meetings will be held daily Monday through Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 6 p.m. for two weeks with John M. Slabaugh, Akron, Ohio, as the instructor. The teachings will not only explain the prophetic significance of the tabernacle but will have visual impact as well with a detailed, scaled model of the tabernacle."
==1990's==
===1998===
The Indiana Gazette (TIG) did a half page report and promotional on July 25, 1998 in the religion section with regard to tent meetings put on by Bill Seale, Jr. and Gary Sharp. The article was written by Randy Wells, and included two good-sized pictures of the 2+ week event.
* TIG 1998-7-25: Evangelists spread gospel at tent meetings
"The mid-summer evening air under the big tent was warm and muggy. On Thursday, the sides had to be let down to hold out the rain. But Gary Sharp assured the people gathered there, "This is the best place you can be." For at least the next two weeks Sharp and Bill Seale, Jr. are spending their evenings in a field along South Sixth Street Extension near Indiana, just south of the entrance to Indiana Hospital. They're delivering "the good news of the gospel" to anyone willing to join them for an hour under the big tent.
A generation or two ago, such tents were a much more common sight, especially in the South. Evangelists moved into town for a few weeks, set up the canvas and led rousing religious revival services, punctuated with professions of renewed faith.
Seale and Sharp are careful not to conjure up some of the connotations connected with those old tent revival services. They avoid the term revival. They refer to their services simply as gospel meetings or gatherings. They've met people who expected the tent services to involve "a lot of yelling, a lot of disorder with people falling down the aisles." "We're not like that," Seale said.
Seale is a former registered nurse at Indiana Hospital. Sharp, of Ontario, Canada, was once a marketing manager for an engineering firm. They both left their secular jobs because those occupations didn't leave them enough time for what they felt was a more important calling: "A desire to see the gospel go out to communities here and all across the country and in Canada", Seale said. There is not so much a need to start new churches, Seale added, but a need to see souls saved.
Now the two men are evangelists, full-time "commended workers" from their assemblies, or congregations. The tent meetings in Indiana are sponsored by the assembly of Christians worshiping at the Indiana Gospel Hall at the corner of South Fifth and Locust streets.
Since 1971, Sharp has traveled around Canada and the midwestern United States, leading the non-denominational gospel meetings. The formula is fairly simple. They travel into new territories spreading the gospel, much the same as did the early Christian apostles in the Bible's New Testament. "We're not claiming a halo", Sharp is quick to add. "But we attempt to keep as close to the Biblical example as we can." "We just preach the word of God... that's all," Seale added.
Guests are welcomed at the door of the tent and given a Bible and hymnal to use during the meeting. The tent has electric lights, a public address system and comfortable lawn chairs. Typically, the one-hour gatherings begin with hymn singing, followed by a prayer and then messages from both men based on biblical scriptures. "The gospel is basically good news", Sharp said. "But like jewelry on display in a store, the gospel is often presented against a black background. That background is man's sin."
At a brief gathering with local key supporters before each meeting, Sharp and Seale decide what the subject matter should be for that evening. They often try to speak to the audience's needs. "We're just simply presenting the word of Christ, in hope that people who hear it will have something they didn't have before", Sharp said. He emphasized that he and Seale are sharing a gift they already enjoy. "What I'm presenting to you, I have received myself," he said, paraphrasing the apostle Paul from Corinthians 1.
But in this day of televangelism, is a tent meeting still practical, still effective? Both men answer yes without hesitation. Some people who won't enter a church building will sometimes come to a meeting in a more informal setting, Seale explained. And Seale noted that skepticism has stained the work of some televangelists, partly because of their frequent pleas for money to support their efforts. At Sharp's and Seale's tent meetings, a collection plate is never passed. "No collections? That's unique," Sharp said.
There are many Christians around the country interested in seeing the gospel go out, Seale said, and they financially support the work he and Sharp are doing. There are dozens of established churches in the Indiana area, but the two men feel there is still a place for their style of evangelism. "We're bringing a different method", Sharp explained. "They're saying, 'Do something, and you'll be good enough for heaven.' We're saying something has already been done... the message we're bringing is that the work is done."
"We preach the gospel because we're on the way to heaven", Seale added. "It's of grace, not by works." At Thursday's meeting, Sharp asked the guests, "Why is there an uncomfortableness about the thought of meeting God?" It's because of sin, he told them, then assured them that Christ, as an arbitrator for man, has already paid the penalties for man's sins.
Response to the first week of gospel meetings in Indiana has been positive, according to Seale, with guests ranging from teens to people in their mid-70's. The meetings are held on Sundays from 6 to 7 p.m. and on Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Next week Sharp and Seale will do double duty, teaching a vacation Bible school with singing, Bible stories, crafts and refreshments from 10 a.m. to noon for children 4 and older. The two evangelists are encouraging all Indiana-area residents to join them for an evening in the tent. "Just come one night", Seale said. "Just come and hear once."
===1999===
* TIG 1999-8-7: Indiana County area churches schedule vacation Bible schools: "Gospel Hall, Indiana, will hold vacation Bible school Monday through Friday from 10-11:30 p.m. (sic).
The theme for this year's school is 'Amazing Miracles of the Bible'." There was a misprint in the paper that advertised the services from 10-11:30 p.m. Faith Baptist Church, Indiana Church of Christ, Calvary Evangelical Free Church, Hebron Evangelical Lutheran Church & Indiana Gospel Hall each had their own VBS programs for that week, independent of one another, and Ferguson Bible Church, Hope Lutheran, & Bethany Chapel (Marion Center) held VBS previous weeks.
==2000's==
*** 1960's: [https://www.newspapers.com/image/541790874 1962-1-30], p. 15; [https://www.newspapers.com/image/541785203 1963-7-5], p. 5; [https://www.newspapers.com/image/541359495 1964-2-22], p. 13; [https://www.newspapers.com/image/542319384 1967-2-3], p. 17;
*** 1970's: [https://www.newspapers.com/image/542700810 1971-4-30], p. 16; [https://www.newspapers.com/image/544194041 1973-10-6], p. 6; [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522601929/ 1979-7-9], p. 3; [https://www.newspapers.com/image/18123325 1979-9-14], p. 14;
*** 1990's: [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526369575 1998-7-25]; [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526390388 1999-8-7], p. 18;
*** 2000's: [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526400829 2000-7-29], p. 6; [https://www.newspapers.com/image/534848353 2008-8-18], p. 5;