Roberta Semple Salter

Brant Baker was very interested in preaching in the places where Amiee Semple Mcphearson had preached. He wanted to learn as much as possible and may have spoken with Amiee's daughter, Roberta.

Roberta was born September, 17, 1910 in Hong Kong.
She passed into the presence of the Lord on January 25, 2007. She was 96.

Monday, Jul. 11, 1927- TIME

"In Hammond, Ind., one day last week and again in Chicago, a 16-year-old girl tried out as a professional evangelist. She was Roberta Star Semple, daughter of Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson, prosperous Baptist evangelist of Los Angeles. Roberta was beginning her career at a younger age than did her mother. But she had her mother to help her.

Roberta Star Semple is tall; has a soft voice and a clear laugh. She does not know men. Aimee Semple McPherson has been careful to keep men out of her daughter's ken. The girl, however, does know people. On the platform of the Chicago Coliseum, which Mrs. McPherson hired at $1,000 a day to tell about her notorious kidnaping of a year ago (TIME, June 7, 1926 ), the daughter last week followed her mother. She held her audience's attention, put them in a mood of sanctity, but she took no money from them. Mrs. McPherson did that, after her own sermon. Later, the two, with a dramatic troupe from their Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, set out to work towards Manhattan where they would arrive for the fall and winter evangelistic season."

Monday, March 16, 1931- TIME

"Married. Roberta Star Semple, 19, daughter of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and the late Missionary Robert Semple; and William Bradley Smyth, 23, purser of the S. S. President Wilson; in Singapore. Purser Smyth met Evangelist McPherson and her daughter at the beginning of their world tour (Jan. 20), was instructed to give them "special attention." He became Miss Semple's fiancé in Shanghai (Feb. 16). "It is a pure love match," said Evangelist McPherson, "I give it my blessing." Said Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, grandmother of the bride: "I got married when I was 15. Sister [Mrs. McPherson] went to the altar when she was 17, so Roberta, being 19, waited much longer than either of us."

(Note: They divorced 3 years later)

Groomed from an early age to succeed her mother, Roberta lost a dispute over church management and was removed from the organization's leadership in 1937. While Roberta showed signs of being anointed to minister like her mother, she never yielded into it. Perhaps this dispute ultimately quenched the call of God upon her life.

According to Daniel Epestein the biographer, Roberta possessed many of her mother's gift's, including a "brilliant smile." She led the children's service at many revivals, was host of a radio program and called herself "Aunt Birdie" in a youth colume for the church newspaper. She accompanied her mother on crusades around the world.

After the dispute with her mother, Roberta went to New York to be a guest on an NBC radio program called "Hobby Lobby," which featured celebrities and their hobbies. She was subsequently hired as the show's researcher and in 1941 married its music director, Harry Salter.

Roberta never walked in her calling, she gave up the ministry that was destined for her. Satan often uses internal church disputes to quench the calling upon people in the ministry.

Few know that Brant Baker's mother argued with him over church administration and money. She at times appeared to be trying to take over his ministry. After he passed into heaven she attempted to revive the ministry in Long Beach with out success.

1 Thessalonians 5:12-14
12And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
13And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.