Newsmakers, May 2015

HONORED
Ron and Doris Bever for 50 years of service by the Britton Road Church of Christ in Oklahoma City. 

Ron and Doris Bever at a homecoming event in Oklahoma City. (OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY) NAMED Overman
Michael Feltner, dean of Seaver College at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.

Lee Fletcher, chief development officer for Predisan Health Ministries, a medical mission to Honduras.

Jeff Langham, assistant state superintendent of education for the Alabama Department of Education. Langham is a deacon of the Landmark Church of Christ in Montgomery. Ala.

Jura Lazar, managing director of Croatia for Christ, a church-supported ministry.

Misty Overman, head of school for Alabama Christian Academy in Montgomery, Ala.  
Honored
Mel Hailey with the 2015 Dean Gerald Wilson Award for Excellence in Pre-law Advising, given annually to one pre-law adviser in the U.S. Hailey teaches in the department of political science at Abilene Christian University in Texas. 
NEW ELDERS
David Durgin, William H. Searcy, Freeman Stanfield and Bob Williams, the Westside Church of Christ in Rocky Mount, N.C.
NEW MINISTERS Collins
Matt Collins, youth minister for the Jefferson Avenue Church of Christ in Cookeville, Tenn.