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University Church in Fort Worth will provide noonday concerts April 17-20 at the amphitheater at the Tandy Center downtown in observance of Holy Week. The church hopes the concert will be a respite for those working on the cleanup of the buildings recently damaged by a tornado. Music groups will come from various churches in the
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FIRST CHURCH IN TROUP has three generations of the Evans family serving as deacons. Pictured are Glen Evans, Greg Evans and Philip Evans. The potential deacon in the front of the group is Drew Evans, the fourth generation of the contingent.
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community. There is no admission charge and people are urged to bring their lunches. Mark Woods is pastor.
___ Lakeland Church in Lewisville is sponsoring a series of luncheon speakers April 17-21 that will focus on the events of Holy Week. The luncheon series is titled "Eight Days That Changed the World," and will feature Jeff Williams of First Church in Denton, Rick Spleth of Creekwood Christian Church in Flower Mound, Dan Lancaster of HighLand Fellowship in Lewisville; Donny Forson of His Rain Ministries in Lake Dallas and Tim Stevenson of Crossroad Bible Church in Bartonville. Each service will begin at 11:45 a.m. and go until 1:15 p.m. Lunch is $3, and a reservation is required. To make lunch
reservations or for more information, call (972) 436-4561. Ben Smith is pastor.
___Anniversaries
___ Salvador Treviño has celebrated his 15th anniversary as pastor of Primera Iglesia Mexicana in Brownwood.
___Deaths
___ Coy Lee Pierson, 88, March 31 in Stephenville. An emeritus Southern Baptist missionary, she and her husband, Abel, were appointed by the Foreign Mission Board as missionaries to Mexico in 1944. They founded and directed a Baptist residence home for students attending state and federal schools in Chihuahua City. In 1958, they transferred to serve at the Mexican Baptist Theological Seminary in Torreon. In 1962, she became associate director of Woman's Missionary Union literature at the Baptist Spanish Publishing House in El Paso. The Piersons retired in 1974. She was preceded in death by her husband and a son, Dexter. She is survived by her daugher, Joy Campbell.
___ Orene Moseley, 97, April 1 in Tyler. She was the mother of retired pastor Kelly Moseley; Iva Nell Knight, wife of Walker Knight, former associate editor of the Baptist Standard; and Jack Moseley. She was a member of Dixie Church in Tyler for 59 years and a great-great-greatgrandmother.
___Licensed
___ Albert Byrom at Oak Ridge Church in San Antonio.
___Ordained
___ Eddie Goodnight and John Huey as deacons at North Euless Church in Euless.
___Revivals
___ Eastern Hills Church, Garland; April 19-23; speaker, Gary Hearon; *music, Connie and Allison Ware Family; pastor, David Hall.
___ First Church, Lolita; April 23-26; speaker, Jay McCurry; music, Jamall Badry; interim pastor, Travis Holland.
___ Faith Church, Princeton; April 23-26; *speaker, Jonathan Hewett; *music, Wes James; pastor, Stan Fike.
___ Big Thicket Church, Kountze; April 23-26; music, Curtis Bryan; pastor, Alvin Tomlinson.
___ Parkway Baptist Church, Lake Rayburn; April 23-26; speaker, Joe Constantine; *music, Sam Craig; pastor, Jim Turner.
___ Dickens Church, Dickens; April 23-26; *speakers, Bill and Vicky Murphy; pastor, John Truett.
___ Immanuel Church, Winnsboro; April 23-28; *speaker, Gary Newman; pastor, Danny Suiter.
___*vocational evangelists
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