Kenneth L. Cober

COBER, Kenneth Lorne. b. Dayton, Ohio, 12 July 1902; d. Penney Farms, Florida, 21 September 1993. Born the son of missionaries, Cober was raised in Puerto Rico. He was educated at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, New York. He held pastorates at First Baptist Church, Canandaigua, New York, and Lafayette Avenue Baptist Church, Buffalo, New York; then served as executive director of the Division of Christian Education for the American Baptist Convention (1953-70). His numerous published works include Teaching Seniors (with Esther Stricker, 1940), Evangelism in the Sunday Church School (1955), The Church’s Teaching Ministry (1964)...