  Committed to the Lord  Hayes marking 50 years as a minister
October 8, 2011 Loretta Johnson - Religion Editor ( , Minot
Daily News  BOTTINEAU Back in the mid-1950s, a young Michigan
man just out of school was undecided what his future would hold.
He was clueless.  He had grown up on a 160-acre farm. He knew
the corn needed cultivating and that the cows needed to be
milked. He loved the farm but more than the soil was being
cultivated.  His mind was in a stir. It was late June and a
decision had to be made. What did the future hold for this young
man named David Hayes?  Article Photos  Terry Goehring,
administrator of Good Samaritan Society in Bottineau, left, and
the Rev. David Hayes review some paperwork Sept. 26 in
Goehring’s office. Loretta Johnson/MDN  The answer came when he
was cultivating the field of corn. He decided that he was going
to go to Bible school and that school would be the Grand Rapids
Baptist Theological Seminary and Bible Institute. Hayes started
his studies there in September 1954.