February 10, 2003
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Mark & Cara Phillips
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Bryan & Joanna Compton
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Jeremy & April Langley
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Charles & Karen Clark
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Russ & Kyleen Bare
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Chris & Jill Willeke
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___ Golden Triangle Association is seeking donations to help pay expenses for its Opportunity Camp. The camp is for boys and girls who have broken the law, have special problems or needs, or come from difficult life situations. More than 75 percent are unchurched. A suggested scholarship is $80, but any amount will be accepted. For more information, call (409) 898-8797, ext. 21.
___ A church history seminar will be held Feb. 22 at the Caprock-Plains Area office from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Alvin Petty will discuss such issues as Baptist beliefs about the Holy Spirit, the church, the Bible and government in light of the history of the Protestant Reformation.
___Appointments
___ Fifteen people with Texas ties were among the International Mission Board missionaries appointed Jan. 24, including:
___ Mark and Cara Phillips will conduct student ministry in Eastern Africa. At the time of the appointment, he was Baptist Student Ministry director at Tarleton State University in Stephenville. They previously served as Internatio
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Bev Anderson
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David & Lydia Garza
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nal Service Corps two-year volunteers in Eastern Africa from 1996-1998. They have three children--Caitlynn, 8; Laurynn, 6; and Benjamin, 2.
___ Bryon and Joanna Compton will serve in Southeast Asia and Oceania; he will serve in a communications/media ministry and she will do outreach through the community and home. They have served as apprentice missionaries in Thailand the last three years. They are members of First Church in Burleson. They have one child--Haley, 2.
___ Bev Anderson will serve in Southern Africa in a community outreach and development capacity. Born in Wichita Falls, she has been an ISC volunteer in Malawi the last three years. She has four adult children.
___ Jeremy and April Langley will serve in Middle America; he in student ministry, she through home and community outreach. He was born in Fort Worth and is a former Christian radio disc jockey in Plainview. They have been ISC volunteers in Cambodia the last two years. They have two children--David, 2; and Ethan, 1.
___ Charles and Karen Clark will serve in eastern South America; he in evangelism and church planting and she through home and community outreach. They were 10-year residents of Dallas, leaving in 2000, He is a graduate of Houston Baptist University. They have three adult children.
___ Russ and Kyleen Bare will serve in western South America as evangelists and church planters. Both native Texans and graduates of Hardin-Simmons University, they served as career missionaries with the IMB in Venezuela from 1991 to 1999. Since that time, he has been a language strategist for a Washington church association. They have four children--Alaina, 16; Mirike, 15; Katelyn, 10; and Aujaleen, 3.
___ Chris and Jill Willeke will serve in central and eastern Europe, where he will be a strategy coordinator. He is the former pastor of Bonnaventure Church in Fort Worth. They have one child--Chris Jr., 5.
___ David and Lydia Garza will serve in western South America as evangelists and church planters. He has served a number of Texas churches including Primera Iglesia in Fort Worth as associate pastor and Primera Mision in Kilgore as pastor. Native Texans, the couple also served in Ecuador as ISC volunteers the last two years. They have three children--Sarah, 13; Raquel, 10; and David, 7.
___Anniversaries
___ Charles Easley, 15th, as pastor of Heights Church in Alvin Feb. 1.
___ Herb Pedersen, 10th, as pastor of Longbranch Church in Midlothian.
___ Jake Vaughn, fifth, as pastor of East Delta Church in Lake Creek Feb. 8.
___ Casey DuBose, 10th, as pastor of Alamo Heights Church in Port Lavaca Feb. 14. The churchwill celebrate his tenure with a luncheon after the morning service Feb. 16.
___ New Home Church in New Home, 95th, Feb. 16. The celebration will take place the following Sunday, Feb. 23. Former pastor Paul McClung will preach, followed by a catered lunch. Afternoon services will begin at 2 p.m., led by former music director Gary Campbell. Former pastors Morris Pruitt and Leo Cole also will participate. For more information, call (806) 924-7711. Jarrell Rial is pastor.
___ Primera Iglesia in Bastrop, 100th, Feb. 28-March 2. The festivities will begin at 7 p.m. Friday with Guadalupe Peña, Raul Morales, Pastor Harold Welch and Nancy Bulak speaking. Choirs from local churches will perform. Saturday will begin with a continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m., followed by a tour of the church at 9 a.m. A second celebration will feature music and begin at 7 p.m., with Dorothy Cadwallder, Louise Ray Tyler and Welch speaking. Sunday will be an old-fashioned dress-up day, Tyler and Welch speaking. A catered barbecue lunch will follow the morning service at the high school--adults, $6 and children under 12, $3. Make reservations by calling (512) 303-0894.
___ Larry Howie, 20th, as music minister at Calvary Church in Rosenberg.
___ Jim Lane, 10th, as pastor of Memorial Church in El Campo.
___Deaths
___ Glenn Roenfeldt, 74, Jan. 24 in San Angelo. He was pastor of churches in Lubbock, Roscoe, Wellington and Colorado City, and an Arizona church. The last 10 years of his ministry were as chaplain at Baptist Memorials Center in San Angelo. He also served Hillcrest, Immanuel, Lakeview, Belmore and Harris Avenue churches in San Angelo as interim pastor. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Billie; son, Roger; daughters Jeri Cargile and Carla Green; five grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; three great-grandsons; brother, Cecil; and sisters, Joyce Ray and Fara Redding.
___ Ernest Duncan, 78, Feb. 4 in Arlington. Duncan had been a pastor in New Mexico, as well as Texas churches in Pendleton, Cedar Creek, Troy and Grand Prairie. He was pastor of Fairview Church in Grand Prairie more than 39 years and was pastor emeritus following his retirement in 1991. He also was chairman of the Executive Board of Dallas Association; chairman of the Executive Board of the Baptist General Convention of Texas; chairman of the board of trustees for Texas Baptist Children's Home; and interim pastor for several Dallas-area churches. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Nois, in 1996. He is survived by his wife, Ruby; daughters, Gwen Pebworth and Gail Cato; step-daughters, Ann Butler and Debbie Butler; four step-grandchildren; brother, T.Z.; sisters, Helen Jones, Freida Slone, Mary King, Ila Mae Smith and Maud Thorp.
___Events
___ Doole Church in Doole will celebrate the renovation of its building Feb. 16. Brady Association Director of Missions Roy Epperson will speak. Bob Gauer is pastor.
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