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Town’s gas explosion
kills Alabama elder
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dered an outstanding service to Quail and to
the people there. He is being missed greatly,
but we know he’s going to continue his great
work in Midland. He maintains contact with
the staff and a lot of the members. He’s very
interested in what’s happening at Quail.”
For Quail it seemed everything happened
at once. In September, John Pickens, adminis-
trative and membership minister, had resigned
to return to a career in business. After White
resigned in October, Todd Mead, youth minis-
ter, resigned in December to accept a position
in family ministry with the Metro church,
Ovedo, Fla.
Longtime Associate Minister James Cail,
who served Quail Springs for 28 years in var-
ious roles, also resigned. “He felt with all of
the changes, this was the time for him to step
down,” McGinn explains.
BRIDGEPORT, ALABAMA
A n explosion caused by a gasaccu-
mutation under several historic
xV. buildings in downtown Bridgeport,
Ala., left an elder of the Edgefield
church, Stevenson, Ala., dead and a
member of that church severely injured.
The tragedy, which occurred in late
January, killed elder Ted Cloud, 67, and
injured member Lewis Payne. Two
other men were killed and four others
injured in the explosion which
destroyed a city block in the town of
2,300 people. Workmen were on the
scene at the time working to find the
source of the leak.
“This would be bad anywhere, but
we’re just a little town,” said Roger
Comstock, minister of the Bridgeport
church. Comstock helped preach Cloud’s
funeral.
As the result of this tragedy and an
ongoing interest by the Bridgeport
church in grief recovery programs, the
Bridgeport church conducted a prayer
service for the community and partici-
pated in post-trauma sessions with the
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Centerspread
Hurricane relief:
'Many have said they were going focome, but Iglesia de
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OKLAHOMA CITY
t came as a surprise, Ronnie White’s deci-
I sion to leave the Quail Springs church
JLafter 22 years as its minister. Quail
Springs, formerly the Village church, was his
first and only pulpit in a career which bound
him tightly to the happinesses*and heartbreaks
of the congregation which grew from 300
members to 1,165 under his preaching.
But says elder Fred McGinn, “Ronnie’s
been approached by many churches in the
past, but he never thought it was the right
time. But Golf Course Road Church of Christ,
Midland, Texas, had some special needs Ronnie
could help with.” That’s the way the elders
accepted it, he says, when White came to them
last October and said he had accepted the
position in Midland.
But letting White go wasn’t easy. McGinn
says, “Ronnie served at Quail for just a little
more than 22 years, and he and Marsha ren-
ng arffote for details of hurricane relief aid.
A Model for Transition:
When a beloved longtime minister feels called to a new church,
how do those left behind cope? Quail Springs offers one model
chronicle
AN INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPER FOR MEMBERS OF CHURCHES OF CHRIST / VOLUME 56 / NO. 4 / APRIL 1999
A Publication of Oklahoma Christian University
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CHOLUTECA. HONDURAS
a gratifying statement, don't you think? — “ ... Iglesia de Cristo (Church
/\ of Christ) is the only group to do what they said they would do.” These
xIk were the words of a city official in Choluteca. Honduras, as he observed
the efforts being made by members of the church to restore his city from the
devastation it suffered from Hurricane Mitch.
What have churches of Christ been up to in Honduras that prompted such a
eulogy? For one thing, construction was begun in January on the first of many
homes by a work group of 46 people from the United States. Coordinated by the
Spring Woodlands church, near Houston, Texas, this project has continued to
move ahead, with 24 houses completed with slab floors and sturdy construction
throughout. Russell Logan, Spring Woodlands elder and designer/builder for the
construction program, said, “We should build at least 250 homes.”
A high level of response was called for because 4,000 homes in the
Choluteca area alone were destroyed. Among Choluteca families losing every-
thing were 27 families that were members of the church. In all of Honduras
more than a million people lost their homes in the “greatest disaster of the last
200 years,” as proclaimed by the United Nations.
In addition to Spring Woodlands, many other churches and individuals have
participated in efforts to rebuild Honduras. Congregations have rallied to produce
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fatal heart attack. He was enroute home in
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