Newsmakers: December 2006

NAMED: Jarrell Gibbs, chairman of the board of trustees for York College, York, Neb. Gibbs is an elder at the Hot Springs Village, Ark., church. The Campus Ministry United Board, Mango, Fla., appointed new board members recently. They are Lynn Stringfellow, campus minister for the Bay Area church, Mango; and Wes Woodell, Marvin Crowson and Bill Richardson; foreign and domestic leaders for the Downtown church, Searcy, Ark. They join board members Matt Carter, campus minister for the Manhattan, Kan., church; Donnie Dillon, campus minister for the University church, Gainesville, Fla.; Kerry Cox, campus minister and Robert Cox, pulpit minister for The Crossings church, St. Charles, Mo.
MINISTER MOVES: Jack Wilhelm retiring from the Mars Hill church, Florence, Ala. Ronney Wheeler to the Gold Canyon church, Apache Junction, Ariz.
NEW ELDERS: Timm Slater and Gedney Grotzke to the North Bend, Ore., church. Ted Clark, Bob Wood and Phil Roe to the Harpeth Hills church, Brentwood, Tenn. Bob Ice and Ken Pence to the San Jose church, Jacksonville, Fla.
BIRTHDAYS: 100th: Irene Sandlin, Decatur, Ala. 93rd: Foy Bailey, Clovis, N.M. 91st: Dorothy Prater, Millport, Ala. Cynthia Mitchell, Centerville, Tenn. 88th: Sammye Elrod, Centerville, Tenn. 87th: Nellie Kalosis, Centerville, Tenn. Ross Duke, Clovis, N.M. 86th: Ray Bell, Clovis, N.M. 85th: Charles Ed Sutton, Hesperia, Calif. Tommie Bates, Centerville, Tenn. 81st: Emily Sutton, Hesperia, Calif.
ANNIVERSARIES: 73rd: Foy and Grace Bailey, Clovis, N.M. 72nd: Lowell and Odessa Davis, Austin, Texas. 70th: Bill and Pauline Reed, Lawton, Okla. Aubrey and Dorothy Gateley, Russellville, Ark. 64th: Gordon and Bimmie Findlay, Kerrville, Texas. 63rd: Cullen and Mary Lou Thomas, Edmond, Okla. 60th: Ralph and Margaret Casey, Franklin, Tenn. Jim and Saranell Roberts, Richmond, Texas. Charles Ed and Emily Sutton, Hesperia, Calif. Eugene and Evelyn Perry, Beamsville, Ontario, Canada. 58th: Orvel and Lila Rozzell, Clovis, N.M. 56th: Jack and Helen Boren, Edmond, Okla. 51st: Bob and Charlene Geries, Clovis, N.M.
Dec. 1, 2006