October 27 Today in OPC History

On this day in 1905, John Davies was born in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. John attended the Mission House College in Sheboygan, later to be known as Lakeland College, and he graduated in 1929 with his B.A. His studies then took him to Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1932 with a Master of Divinity. He was ordained by the Milwaukee Presbytery of the PCUSA on June 21, 1932 and served various PCUSA congregations as Stated Supply until 1936. In 1934, at age 29, he married Hermima TeKulve and they had seven children: John, Janice (Fenstad), Beth (Forbes), Helen (Custard), David, Rachel (Shaw), and Rebecca (Stokes). On July 30, 1936 he was received and enrolled as a minister at the first meeting of the new Presbytery of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan of the PCA/OPC. He worked diligently as a missionary to the Stockbridge and Menominee Indians, serving as the Pastor of the Old Stockbridge Presbyterian Church until 1954. In that year he left Wisconsin to minister at Calvary OPC in Wildwood, New Jersey, where he continued until 1971. He also served as an Associate Pastor for First OPC in Portland, Oregon, laboring at a mission work in Glenwood, Washington. Davies remained active in ministry until 1984, and passed to glory on April 4, 1986.