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THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 3
MAY 2016
church is saved
better decisions
BY ALAN GROVES AND LAURA AKINS | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
BY BOBBY ROSS JR. | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
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Bobby Ross Jr.
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Helping church
leaders make
Blessings flow
as Pearl of a
IN ANNAPOLIS, MD., a Church of Christ adopts midshipmen
as they navigate the rigorous U.S. Naval Academy.
HOPE NETWORK MINISTRIES works
with elders and ministers to
improve processes and outcomes.
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DALLAS — The church doctors are in.
Actually, Jon Mullican and Grady
King — co-leaders of Texas-based
Hope Network Ministries — prefer to
think of Hope’s 18 ministry partners
as fitness coaches.
“Mentoring Leaders, Guiding
Churches” is how Hope characterizes
its work in mentoring, consulting,
interim ministry and marriage care.
Lynn Anderson, a longtime preacher
and author who served congregations
from Canada to Texas, and his wife,
Carolyn, founded the nonprofit in 1996.
“We are well acquainted with the
challenges of leading a church,” says
Hope’s website. “Many of us have
lines on our faces and scars on our
hearts from years of trusting God in
the trenches of church life.”
Mullican, minister of church
development for the Highland Oaks
Church of Christ in Dallas, and King,
senior minister for the Mansfield
Church of Christ in Texas, discussed
church conflict and communica-
tions in a recent interview with The
Christian Chronicle.
READTHE INTERVIEW, Page 11
sound of slamming
doors as their superiors pace the corri-
dors of Bancroft Hall, the largest single
dormitory in the world. Plebes have
approximately six minutes to shave,
get dressed, make beds and brush
their teeth before morning workout.
Nearly every waking minute is con-
sumed with briefings, trainings and
BOBBY ROSS JR.
Grady King and Jon Mullican serve as
co-leaders of Hope Network Ministries.
■ osh Story remembers his
I two-month introduction to the
I United States Naval Academy
in Annapolis, Md. — known as
plebe summer — as the most
challenging thing he’s ever done.
“Plebe summer is
something difficult
that you are proud
you did,” said Story,
a midshipman from
Brentwood, Tenn.
It’s also “one of those
things you don’t want
to do again,” he added.
New recruits, or
plebes, wake each
f*-- •'
additional workouts. Students get only
30 minutes of free time to memorize
the plebe handbook, fold clothes or
write letters to family.
Except for Sundays.
“Sundays were everything,” Story
__ said. “It’s your only day
pr that you get some time
| j away from training.”
—1 3 That’s when Lt
I Cmdr. Kevin Jackson,
a member of the
H w Annapolis Church
■ of Christ, and fellow
Christians arrive
photo provided “on the yard,” as the
Josh Story with his adopted parents lush, green campus
day at 5:30 a.m. to the Bobby and Candice Keaton. is known, to feed and
sing hymns with the
students. They encourage the plebes
to persevere as they learn to navigate
“through the paths of the sea,” words
from Psalm 8:8 seen on campus —
inscribed on the tombstone of Matthew
Fontaine Maury, a Navy lieutenant in
the 1800s who dreamed of a school to
See ANNAPOLIS, Page 13
U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY CHAD RUNGE
Midshipmen watch a flyover from the Pukin' Dogs of Strike Fighter Squadron 143 during
a graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
M Hawaiian honeymoon
■B sounded perfect, so
Neil and Carolyn Myers
decided to fly for the first
time.
Taking off, they were a
little apprehensive.
“We just held hands and
said, ‘Lord, you may be
taking us, but we’re coming
Neil Myers
v *■ joked.
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mention
that — by
the time the
couple got
around to a
honeymoon
— they
were in
their mid-70s and had been
married for 57 years?
Their trip came a year and
a half ago, but it brought
an experience they won’t
soon forget. “I’m thoroughly
convinced the Lord had
a hand in this,” said Neil
Myers, a retired preacher
who serves as an elder for
the West Walker Church of
Christ in Carbon Hill, Ala.
What made their island trek
so memorable? Not the sand
or the waves. Not the tour
of historic Pearl Harbor. Not
even the travel at 35,000 feet.
Rather, the couple’s intro-
duction to the Church of
Christ at Pearl Harbor — a
close-knit congregation that
has served an estimated 3,000
military personnel and their
families over the last 60 years
— made a lasting impression.
‘We spent the Lord’s day
with them,” Neil Myers said.
“We were impressed with the
worship. It was very spiritual,
and the lessons were good.”
See PEARL HARBOR, Page 4
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‘through the paths of the seas’
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