Around the State_71403

Posted: 7/11/03

Around the State

Kyle Reese, pastor of First Church in San Angelo, recently received the doctor of ministry degree from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, Ill.

Anniversaries

Clear Fork Church in Weatherford, 145th, June 8. Randy Edwards is pastor.

Southwest Church in DeSoto recently honored Kay Cox for 47 years of teaching Sunday School. Pastor Bruce Smilie and Benny Mayo, minister to senior adults, made the presentation.

Charlotte Watson, fifth, as minister of missions/member assimilation at First Church in Georgetown, July 1.

Pam Emmert, fifth, as minister of children at First Church in Georgetown, Aug. 1.

Retiring

F.M. Byford, as minister to older adults at Paramount Church in Amarillo, June 30. He has served the Amarillo church 18 years. His prior service includes eight years as minister of education at First Church in Sapulpa, Okla., and 25 years as pastor of various Oklahoma churches. He celebrated 50 years of ministry last January. He will continue to live in Amarillo.

Frankie Rainey, as pastor of Crestmont Church in Burleson, Aug. 31. He will teach at Howard Payne University, where he previously taught for 14 years. He has served the Burleson church 10 years. He was pastor of other Texas churches 22 years before going to HPU.

Norman and Gunita Harrell, as International Mission Board missionaries. They are on their final stateside assignment in Benbrook. The Harrells have served as missionaries 35 years, 32 of which were spent starting churches in Portugal. Prior to serving in Europe, the couple served as North American Mission Board workers in Alaska two years. He also was pastor of Chisholm Church in Terrell from 1967 to 1971. They will retire officially in December. Until then they can be reached through First Church in Benbrook.

Deaths

Bernie Ash, 81, in Alice May 15. She was the wife of Texas pastor Joe Ash, who died in 1987. They lived in many Texas towns while ministering, including Nacogdoches, Orange Grove, Hebbronville and Houston. She was active in WMU on both the church and associational level. At the time of her death, she was a member of West Main Church in Alice. She is survived by her son, Joe; daughter, Karen Bishop; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Caleb Morgan, 19, June 18 in Temple after an automobile accident. He recently completed his freshman year at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and was serving as minister of music at Grace Temple Church in Waco. He is survived by his parents, Mary Jane and Bud Morgan, and sister, Hannah Morgan.

Orba Lee Malone, 82, June 27 in El Paso. An El Paso attorney, Malone was an active Baptist layman. At age 31, he became the youngest person ever elected to the Baylor University board of trustees. An early advocate of racial integration, he led in Baylor's admittance of the first black student/athlete in the Southwest Conference in 1964. Malone was such an ardent Baylor loyalist, his blood was once drained into green and gold buckets during a kidney removal nine years ago, family members recalled. He also served as a board member of Wayland Baptist University from 1982 to 1995 and the Baptist Standard from 1966 to 1978. He also served as chairman of the Christian Life Commission of both the Southern Baptist Convention and the Baptist General Convention of Texas. He also was a founding director and vice president of the board of trustees of the Lee and Beulah Moor Children's Home from 1957 to 2003. As an attorney, he helped hundreds of families in the adoption of children. He was a member of First Church in El Paso. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Peggy, in 1989. Also preceding him in death were his son, Paul and brother, R.C. He is survived by his wife, Lillian; sons, John, David and Dan; daughter, Carol Lorence; step-daughter, Laura Hoffman; brothers, Dawson, Doyle and Bill; sisters, Lucille Bailey, Evelyn Wood, Lecia Carroll and Ann Chaddick; and 11 grandchildren.

Licensed

Antonio Saenz to the ministry at Iglesia Emanuel in Bastrop.

Ordained

Keith Johnson to the ministry at First Church in Valley Mills.

Wally Wellborn to the ministry at Walnut Springs Church in Walnut Springs.

Steve Gunter to the ministry at Immanuel Church in Paris.

David Tankersley to the ministry at Center City Church in Goldthwaite.

J.T. Marsh as a deacon at West Park Church in Pecos.

Events

The Best Family will be in concert at Oran Church in Graford July 27 at 6:30 p.m. Wayne Livingston is pastor.

Revivals

Dogwood Hills Church, Woodville; July 20-23; *evangelists, The Cherrys; interim pastor, Bob Elliott.

East Cisco Church, Cisco; July 20-25; *evangelist, Herman Cramer; *music, Ernie Overstreet; pastor, C.P. Floyd.

Bethel Church, Plainview; *evangelists, The Cherrys; pastor, Q.D. Bevel.

*vocational evangelist