August 5, 2002
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_ Seven people with Texas ties were commissioned as global missions personnel at the recent Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly. Ann and Nick Skipper will serve as CBF envoys, doing local missions in Texas. Angel and Jason Pittman will serve poor and homeless people in Detroit, Mich. Ana Marie and Scott Houser will serve as career missionaries in southern Africa, working with street children, people with AIDS and refugees. Another missionary, who cannot be named for security reasons, will work with women in North Africa.
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| A TEAM of 12 adults from First Church in Georgetown, in cooperation with Texas Partnerships, recently traveled to New York City to serve alongside North American Mission Board missionary Taylor Field at East 7th Baptist Grafitti Ministries. One of the mission team members was Lew Richardson, above, who tutored children. The team also coordinated a volunteer appreciation banquet, helped with nursing home visitation, dinner preparation and serving, and Bible study. Several clean-up projects also were undertaken, including stripping and rewaxing the sanctuary floor, laying tile, cleaning upholstered chairs and painting. |
___Anniversaries
___ Doug Hennings, 25th, as minister of music at First Church in Bowie.
___ Sammy Carr, 10th, as pastor of First Church in Columbus.
___ Jayson Hart, fifth, as minister of music and youth at First Church in Slaton, Aug. 3.
___ First Church in Cotton Center, 75th, Sept. 1. A catered lunch and program will follow the morning service. For more information, call (806) 879-2301. J.D. Templeton is pastor.
___Retiring
___ J.C. Smith, as pastor of Adams Memorial Church in Jasper, after serving the church more than 23 years. He has been in the ministry 52 years. He is available for supply preaching at (409) 384-3980.
___Events
___ Fairlie Church in Commerce named B.J. Ring pastor emeritus in recognition of his 32 years of service June 23.
___ Mision El Calvario, a mission of First Church in Crosbyton for 46 years, was constituted as a church and renamed Calvario Community Church July 7. Scott Parrish is pastor of Calvario, and Lester Griffin is pastor of First Church in Crosbyton.
___ Al Staggs performed as Dietrich Bonhoeffer at First Church in Amarillo July 21. He performed the play "A View from the Underside" again Aug. 3 at the Caux International Christian Arts Festival in Caux, Switzerland.
___ Baptist churches in the San Saba area and First Church in Universal City are joining together to hold a San Saba Crusade Aug. 9 at the town's civic center beginning at 6 p.m. The event is designed to be an area-wide evangelistic event, with a free barbecue and concert by country gospel singer Clifton Jansky to follow.
___Deaths
___ J.P. Allen, 89, July 7 in Fort Worth. Allen was pastor of Broadway Church in Fort Worth from 1963 to 1970. He also served as chairman of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, chairman of the Executive Board of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, and as a trustee of Southern Seminary. Following his retirement from Broadway, he was a vice president for research and response for the Southern Baptist Radio & Television Commission, where he directed a telephone counseling program. After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, the National Broadcasting Company selected Broadway to be featured in a nationally televised Sunday worship service during which Allen preached on "A Nation in Grief." The broadcast was interrupted by the fatal shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. He also was a professor at Golden Gate Seminary from 1979 to 1987. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Dottie. He is survived by his wife, Elaine; daughter, Trish Asmus; stepson, Robert Douglass; stepdaughter, Melanie Brooks; brother, Eugene; four grandchildren; and one great-grandson.
___ Lola Mae Daniel, 99, July 13 in Austin. An educator for more than 70 years, she taught at every level from kindergarten to university. During her career, she served schools in Texas, Taiwan and China. She taught and served as dean of boys at San Marcos Baptist Academy. Summers were spent working with Billy Graham and his team and doing mission work with the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in Alaska. Her years in Taiwan were spent teaching as a missionary of the Foreign Mission Board. After reaching maximum age for service to the board, she returned to China as a Mission Service Corps volunteer. In her late 80s and early 90s, she served her alma mater, Howard Payne University, as a resident missionary, counseling students for seven years before returning to Austin to teach English to Mandarin-speaking Chinese students at the University of Texas. She was a member of Hyde Park Church in Austin.
___ Annie Belle Scarbrough, 93, July 27 in Amarillo. She was the mother of long-time Texas pastor and retired director of missions for Big Spring-Lamesa Association Harold Scarbrough. She is survived by her sons, Wes and Harold.
___Ordained
___ Doyle McGehee and Ricky McKinney as deacons at Golden Avenue Church in Bay City.
___Revivals
___ Bethel Church, Rockport; Aug. 11-14; evangelist, Rudy Hernandez; pastor, Pablo Garza.
___ White Tail Country Church, Woodville; Aug. 11-15; *evangelist, Paul Cherry; *music, Ernie Overstreet; pastor, Dick Postlethwaite.
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