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Posted: 11/24/03

Around the State

Appointments

Eleven missionaries with Texas ties have been appointed by the North American Mission Board:

bluebull Joe Buck, who considers San Antonio his hometown, was appointed as a two-year resort missionary in Jackson Hole, Wy. He previously was a counselor for Laity Lodge in Leakey.

bluebull James and Claire Collins serve in Reno, Nev., where he is a church starter. He is a Howard Payne University graduate, and she is a University of Texas graduate. They previously served four years as missionaries in Mexico with the International Mission Board. They have three children, James, Marissa and Eleanor.

bluebull Kristi Dodd was appointed as a two-year multihousing church-starting missionary in Odessa. She works with Mission Odessa, a ministry of First Church there that includes apartment ministry, jail ministry and other outreach efforts.

bluebull John and Angela Herrington serve in Omaha, Neb., where he is a church starter. A Texas native, he previously was pastor of Lakepointe Community Church in Conroe and was pastor of a Nebraska church for 13 years. She also is a Texas native and a graduate of Baylor University. She was an instructor at Montgomery County Community College in Conroe, a lecturer at the University of Nebraska and a public school teacher in Arlington. They have four children, Heath, Emily, Seth and Megan.

bluebull Michelle Kendrick is a two-year missionary at the Baptist Center in Houston.

bluebull Heather Jo McIver is a two-year collegiate evangelism missionary in Syracuse, N.Y. She grew up in Spring and is a graduate of Dallas Baptist University.

bluebull Dominic Menard, a Texas native, is the collegiate evangelism missionary in Carbondale, Ill. He previously was a youth minister in Baytown.

bluebull Jamie Morgan works in collegiate and resort ministry in Ocean City, Md. A two-year missionary, she considers Glenn Heights her hometown. She previously was a youth intern at Southwest Church in DeSoto. She also has served as a student missionary in Keller, Australia and Malaysia.

bluebull Derek Yan, who considers Grand Prairie his hometown, is associate pastor of Solid Rock Fellowship, a new church in Edmonds, Wash. He previously was a pastoral intern at Rosen Heights Church in Fort Worth.

Anniversaries

bluebull Stephen Bailiff, fifth as youth minister at First Church in Navasota.

bluebull Robert Sea, 10th as pastor of Chinese Church in Lubbock, Nov. 1.

bluebull Domingo Chapa, fifth as pastor of Getsemani Church in Tahoka, Nov. 6.

bluebull S.W. Keeton, 10th as pastor of MacKenzie Terrace Church in Lubbock, Nov. 28.

Death

bluebull Joseph Underwood, 86, Oct. 15, in Richmond, Va. Born in Rising Star, he began preaching at age 15 and was ordained as a minister at 18. He began his vocational ministry at a local country church while a student at Baylor University. He and his wife, Mary Lea, were appointed as missionaries to Brazil in 1943 by the Foreign Mission Board. He resigned his appointment in 1953 to become the pastor of a New Mexico church and later worked in the offices of the state convention there. After six years, he moved to Richmond, Va., to serve as a consultant in evangelism and church development with the the mission board for more than 20 years. He retired in 1981. He is survived by his wife; sons, Wyatt, William and Charles; daughter, Judy Webb; brother, W.R.; sister, Elizabeth McAnelly; and seven grandchildren.

Ordained

bluebull Donald Sheffield to the ministry at Friendship Church in Doddridge.

bluebull Uli Baumert, Mike Causey and Steven Graf as deacons at Windsor Park Church in DeSoto.

bluebull Curtis Guidry and Terry McDaniel as deacons at Memorial Church in Baytown.

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