Newsmakers, December 2016

HONORED Stafford North, center, recognizes Marvin and Dot Phillips at Oklahoma Christian University’s Lectureship. Lewis Hale, Robert Oglesby and Marvin Phillips, with the Christian Service Award from Oklahoma Christian University, recognizing more than 50 years of full-time ministry work by each.

Stan Granberg, executive director of Kairos church-planting ministry, as Outstanding Alumnus for Harding University College of Bible and Ministry in Searcy, Ark. Billie Silvey, member of the Culver Palms Church of Christ in Los Angeles, with an archive of her writing at Abilene Christian University’s library in Texas.

RECOGNIZED Harding University’s 2015 Petit Jean yearbook, with a Pacemaker Award, the highest honor given by the Associated Collegiate Press.

Faulkner University in Montgomery, Ala., with the 2017 Military Friendly School designation by Victory Media.
NEW MINISTERS Kenny Wright Jr., left, follows his father, Ken Wright Sr., as minister for the New Iberia Church of Christ in Louisiana. Kenneth (Kenny) Wayne Wright Jr., minister for the New Iberia Church of Christ in Louisiana. He succeeds his father, Kenneth (Ken) Wayne Wright Sr., who served the congregation for 17 years.

Tim Burroughs, minister for the Calhoun Church of Christ in Georgia.