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In about 1923 Elder Walter H. Howard and Elder Osborne conducted a “tent effort” evangelistic series in Framingham.  They were assisted by Elder W.E. Bement as tent master and Music Director.  The meetings were not well attended, but they were not a failure.  Only one person joined the church.  That was Mrs. Henry Ellis, a neighbor of David Hartman whose mother brought to the meetings.

Benjamin H. Harman was the local elder of the Framingham Church during most of these years.  In 1925 the Harman family moved to South Lancaster to enroll their other son in church school.  Since there was no other leadership in the Framingham church at the time, Benjamin H. Harman was asked by the Southern New England Conference president to continue his leadership there.  He drove from South Lancaster to Framingham every Sabbath for two more years to conduct Sabbath services and preach.  Occasionally someone from the conference or the college would come to preach.

Several of the preachers who cam occasionally were Elder Joseph Schnetzler from the conference, Elder N.H. Sounders, also from the conference, Elder E.E. Miles of the Miles Bindery, Elder Clifton Taylor, and from Atlantic Union College would come Professor J. Norman Clapp.  Occasionally theology students from A.U.C. would come to get experience in preaching.  One of the outstanding student preachers was J. Stanley Hull.