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Plan reception for Rev. Gibbs
ALTAMONT — A retirement reception for Rev. Floyd Gibbs and his wife, Betty, will be held . from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12, at the Christian. and Missionary Alliance Church on Gun Club Road.
Rev. Gibbs was an associate "and interim pastor at Pineview Community Church in Albany, an associate pastor at Carman1 Road Alliance Church twice interim pastor at Westerlo Baptist Church and founder of the Altamont CMA Church.
Rev. Gibbs opens Alliance Church ALTAMONT - Pastor Floyd Gibbs, former interim pastor at First Baptist Church of Westerlo, has opened a Christian and Missionary Alliance Church at the American Legion Hall on Altamont Blvd. Services opened Sept. 18 with 30 at church and 24 attending Sunday school. Gibbs served as a C&MA missionary to the Philippines for 30 years, returning to Knox in 1982 to take care of his elderly parents. He has also served as associate and interim pastor Of Pineview Community Church and as a pulpit supply minister.
Gibbs was invited to his new post by Pastor Thomas Peck of the Carman Road Alliance Church of Schenectady, who established the Altamont church.
The C&MA, founded in 1887, has 2,000 churches in the U.S. and Canada and 11,429; in 51 countries around the world.
- Altamont Enterprise - Thursday, October 27, 1988
Rev. Floyd Gibbs, who has served as interim pastor at the Baptist church for the past nine months, has terminated his commitment there as of last Sunday. A farewell reception for him and Mrs. Gibbs was held at the close of the Sunday evening service. Rev. Gibbs will serve as pastor of the newly formed Christian and Missionary Alliance Church in Altamont. Mrs. Edwin (Alberta) Dubisz, sister of Rev, Gibbs, and a missionary in Burkina Faso, is home on furlough at the Albert Gibbs family home in Knox.
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