Rev. H.B. Camp Accepts Call to California Calvary Baptist Pastor to Fill Oakland Pulpit - Will Read Resignation Sunday After five years as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, one of the largest Protestant Churches in New Haven, the Rev. Harold B. Camp has accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Oakland, California, and will read his resignation during the services of Sunday morning. The time when the resignation is to take effect will be determined by Mr. Camp and announced at that time. Mr. Camp is not only among the youngest ministers in New Haven, being still in his early thirties, but has also been one of the most strikingly successful and he will now occupy one of the most important Baptist pulpits in the country. He first received a call to the Oakland Church last Spring but refused it at that time. Later he was persuaded to visit the church and to preach from its pulpit for three weeks, when the parishioners were so pleased with his work that a long correspondence followed. Has Membership of 2000 The Oakland Church has a membership of 2,000 people, but a constituency of fully 5,000, being one of the outstanding churches in a vicinity which boast a total population of a million and a half. One of Mr. Camp's most recent predecessors there was the Rev. John Whitcomb Brougher a nationally known Baptist clergyman, president of the Northern Baptist Convention, and now pastor of Tremont Temple in Boston. Converted at 23 Mr. Camp was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick, and started his career as a theater manager. At the age of 23 he became converted to religion and at once began to prepare himself for the ministry at Arcadia Academy, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, graduating later from Arcadia College in 1923; and from Newton Theological Seminary in 1925. During his college and seminary courses he assumed the responsibility of various pastorates, and was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Natick Mass., during his work at Newton Seminary. During his pastorate at Calvary the morning congregations have more than doubled, while he has instituted a series of People's Services on Sunday night which have taxed the capacity of the auditorium, about 1,400 seats, while often as many as 400 have been turned away. He has organized the church thoroughly, paid off all debts, placed the property in good repair, and introduced a number of markedly successful innovations. --- [Return to 9/15/1930](1930_09_15.md) <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/d/1xpydiie4B88-loEvrq-TKmTqvaykrULf">