___ Andy Addis, a graduating master of divinity student at Southwestern Seminary and pastor of Handley Church in Fort Worth, has received the LifeWay Pastoral Leadership Award. The award is presented by LifeWay Christian Resources in recognition of outstanding achievement by a graduating divinity student.
___ Darren Middleton, associate professor of religion at Texas Christian University and a member of Broadway Church in Fort Worth, recently was awarded the 2001 Honors
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PRIMERA IGLESIA MEXICANA in San Antonio recently held a noteburning ceremony celebrating the repayment of a loan to the Baptist Church Loan Corporation that enabled the church to purchase the facilities previously owned by Manor Church. Pictured are Noah Rodriguez, church administrator; Charles Pruett, president, Baptist Church Loan Corporation; Pastor Alfonso Flores; Charles Price, director of missions for San Antonio Association; and Rolando Rodarte, president of the deacons at Primera.
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Faculty Recognition Award for outstanding contributions to the intellectual life of the university.
___ Three Hardin-Simmons University faculty members recently received 30-year service pins. They are Joe Alcorta, professor of Spanish and coordinator of minority studies; Dan Cooper, professor of sociology and social work and director of international studies; and Robert Hamner, senior professor of English and humanities.
___ Don Williford has been re-elected as president of the Hardin-Simmons University faculty. Susan Roehrig was named vice president, and Don Taylor was re-elected secretary.
___Events
___ Trinity Church in Vidor will present the Martin Family in concert May 19 at 7 p.m. Call (409) 769-2843 for more information. Mike Richardson is pastor.
___Anniversaries
___ Tom Henderson, 10th, as pastor of Heights Church in Temple.
___ McDonald Memorial Church, Orange, 70th, May 5-6.
___ Calvary Church in Orange, 50th, May 6.
___Deaths
___ Joe Carl Johnson, 82, April 13. Johnson was director of missions for the Baptist Convention of New Mexico from 1960 until 1966. He began his ministry in 1940 as a pastor in Texas churches. After serving as an Army chaplain in the Pacific from 1944 until 1946, he returned to Texas and was pastor of Hebron Church in Hebron and Pecan Heights Church in Dallas. In 1949, the Foreign Mission Board appointed him and his wife, Colene, as missionaries to Brazil, where they served for six years. In 1956, they began 10 years of service in New Mexico. In 1966, he began 19 years of service with the Home Mission Board. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
___ Gladys Casimir, 99, April 18 in Fort Worth. She was a member of First Church in Calvert since 1940. She taught the same women's Sunday School class for almost 60 years. She was president of Woman's Missionary Union four times and served six times on pastoral search committees, once as chairperson. She often taught the mission study book for the women of Robertson Association. In 1997, Baylor University presented her with a 75th anniversary diploma commemorating her graduation in 1922. Although she had no children, she helped rear her nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Louis, in 1949. She is survived by her nephews, James Leo Garrett, John Jenkins Jr., Richard Stearns and Thomas Jenkins; nieces, Corabeth West and Nancy Wilson; 14 great-nieces and nephews; 22 great-great nephews and nieces; four stepgrandchildren; eight stepgreat-grandchildren; and numerous stepgreat-great-grandchildren.
___Licensed
___ Benny Baker to the ministry at First Church in Sudan.
___Ordained
___ Jerry Eckhart to the ministry at Union Center Church in Rising Star.
___ Kerry Drake, Don McMillon, Keith Roden, Drexel Tipton and Robert Waggoner as deacons at College Heights Church in Plainview.
___Revivals
___ Graham Street Church, Paris; May 11-13; *evangelists, George and Dorthea Couch; interim pastor, Floyd Woodard.
___ First Church, Paris; May 13-16; evangelist, Ken Smith; pastor, Randall Perry.
___ Lone Willow Church, Cleburne; May 13-16; *evangelist, Herman Cramer; music, Ernie Overstreet; pastor, Tony Towater.
___ Cotton Flat Church, Midland; May 13-18; *evangelists; Murlyn Keller Family; pastor, Pete Campbell.
___* vocational evangelist
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