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David & Sabrina Freeland
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Philip & Mary Gowen
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Jarred Parnell
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Around the state
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Five missionaries with ties to Texas have been appointed by the North American Mission Board. David and Sabrina Freeland will serve as missionaries in Norfolk, Va., where he is a church planter intern and pastor of New Hope Baptist Church. His previous ministerial experience includes terms as minister to married adults at Harvest Church inWatauga and evangelism intern at First Church in Euless. Philip and Mary Margaret Gowen are church planting
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DON DUREN, minister of activities at Park Cities Baptist Church of Dallas and volunteer with the Texas Baptist Recreation Association, and Don Phipps, owner of Sports Distribution of Dallas, pack donated jerseys that will go to help start youth softball teams in a sports evangelism effort led by Fred Sorrells in Zimbabwe, Africa. Phipps, a member of Jupiter Road Baptist Church of Garland, donated a half-dozen boxes of Major League Baseball replica jerseys. (Photo by Melody Loggins)
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missionaries in Bedford, Mich., where he is a church planter intern and pastor of an unnamed mission. For the past year, he has served as associate pastor for Westland Heights Church in Fort Worth. Jarred Parnell has been appointed as a US/C-2 missionary, serving as director of Gano Baptist Center in Houston.
___Anniversaries
___ Bill Sanders celebrated his fifth anniversary as pastor of Chicota Church in Chicota July 16.
___Retiring
___ Oleta Browning after 35 years as senior adult coordinator and education secretary at Grace Temple Church in Dallas. She also served as church media library director for many years.
___ Bill Gartner after 11 years as pastor of Big Bend Church in Terlingua.
___Events
___ Southern Praise, a gospel group from Northlake Church in Garland, will be in concert at 6 p.m. July 30 at Cedar Heights Church in Cedar Hill. An offering will be taken. Nursery available.
___Deaths
___ Manny Flores Jr., June 29 in Abilene. Flores was professor of economics and management emeritus for the Hardin-Simmons University School of Business. He served the university from 1980 until his retirement in 1990. He was the first director of graduate studies for the school of business.
___ William Key, seven weeks old, July 12 in Nablus, Palestine. The son of missionaries Micah and Cara Key, he died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. His grandparents are Mike and Marsha Key, longtime missionaries to Togo, West Africa, and Bill and Deana Blackburn of Kerrville. William's older brother is 17 months old.
___Licensed
___ Richard Hollingsworth at Timber Crest Church in Waco.
___ Jeremy Hollingsworth at Timber Crest Church in Waco.
___ Trent Jones at Martindale Church in Martindale.
___ Paul Cockrell at Martindale Church in Martindale.
___Ordained
___ Cory Fothergill to the ministry at Timber Crest Church in Waco.
___ Joe Woods to the ministry at San Gabriel Church in Thorndale.
___ John Hadden to the ministry at Casa View Church in Dallas.
___ Jim Burton to the ministry at Leesburg Church in Leesburg.
___ Tom Crawford to the ministry at Westwood Church in Tyler.
___ J.C. Story and Eddie Bob Vantresse as deacons at South Prong Church in Waxahachie.
___ Jimmy Mack Murray as a deacon at Whispering Meadows Church in Dayton.
___ Eddie Icenhower as a deacon at County Line Church in Harleton.
___ Charles Garcia, Ross Hardwick and Lynn Sandell as deacons at First Church in Lytle.
___Revivals
___ Pleasant Valley Church, Amarillo; July 29-Aug. 3; preacher, Micah Caswell; music, Shelly Witherspoon; pastor, Dana Moore.
___ Cuthbert Avenue Church, Midland; July 30-Aug. 2; *preachers, Larry and Freida Sinclair; pastor, Don Knight.
___ Crestview Church, Georgetown; July 30-Aug. 2; *preacher, Jon Randles; music, Kevin Monds; pastor, Dan Wooldridge.
___ First Church, Rockport; July 30-Aug. 3; preacher, Bryan Padgett; music, David Quinones; pastor, Walter Knight.
___ First Church of Swan, Tyler; July 30-Aug. 3; *preacher, Jason Brown; *music, Charlotte Brown; pastor, Abner Bryan.
___ First Church, Amherst; July 30-Aug. 3; *preacher, Herman Cramer; *music, The Cherrys; pastor, Mike Butts.
___ Forest Glade Church, Mexia; July 30-Aug. 4; *preacher, Gary Newman; *music, Ernie Overstreet; pastor, James Evans.
___*vocational evangelists
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