July 1 Today in OPC History

On July 1, 1954, the Committee on Christian Education announced that Miss Dorothy Partington had been secured as a full-time writer for Great Commission Publications. In its publicity material, the CCE stated that Miss Partington was a member of the Grace Orthodox Presbyterian Church of Westfield, New Jersey, and had received her Master’s degree in education from Harvard University. Prior to accepting the position, Miss Partington was an Instructor in Religious Education at Gordon College of Theology and Missions.

Over the next thirty-five years Dorothy Partington Anderson Barker would become the most prolific writer of Christian Education materials in the history of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Her 1956 two-volume book, Bible Doctrine: A Workbook on the Westminster Shorter Catechism, is still in print, and many of her lessons are still used in the GCP Sunday school rotation. On June 18, 2018, at the age of 91, Dorothy died and went to be with the Lord in Glory.

Picture: C. John Miller and the then Dorothy Anderson working on GCP materials in 1964.