Paul A. Childers

FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PRIMITIVE OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINISTERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN: Paul A. Childers was born on May 3, 1898, to Dolly Campbell and William Wesley Childers. He married Beatrice Peters on October 3, 1920, and they had three children, J. E., Juanita, and Sue Childers. On September 13, 1930, Brother Childers joined Friendship Church in Ringgold, Georgia, and was baptized. He was ordained as a deacon on September 6, 1938, with Elder Lee Hanks serving as Moderator. On April 13, 1941, Elder Childers was ordained into the full ministry of the gospel by the following presbytery: Elders Roy Mitchell, W. C. McMillan, W. R. Abernathy, and J. W. Dempsey as Moderator. Elder J. W. Dempsey was the Pastor of Friendship Church and Elder Childers served as Assistant Pastor. Elder Childers became the Pastor of Friendship Church in 1953. On December 12, 1964, the church called Elder Ralph Howell as Pastor and requested that Elder Childers be an "honorary pastor for as long as he lived." Elder Childers died on January 11, 1970, after a long illness.