The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 72, No. 2, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 1, 2015 Page: 5 of 34
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Across ire Hator
FEBRUARY 2015
SPOTLIGHT
Gunshot victim improves
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PHOTO PROVIDED BY TERRY RUSH
Al Hrabosky, left, inducts minister Terry Rush into
the St. Louis Cardinals'Legends Camp's Hall of Fame.
THE CHURCH SEEKS funds to help with the family's
mounting medical expenses. Donations may be sent to:
Powell Church of Christ, 749 Highway 14A, Powell, WY 82435.
OREGON
GRESHAM — Brian Simmons has a bit of a
commute to make it to Sunday worship.
For more than eight years, Simmons has
served as the preaching minister for the
Metro Church of Christ in the Portland area.
But when he accepted a position as a
communications professor at Oklahoma
Christian University this past fall, he moved
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three weekends per month.
On a typical Sunday, he
attends a meeting of elders
and ministers at 7 a.m.,
teaches Bible class at 9 a.m.
and preaches at 11 a.m. “It’s
an odd arrangement, but it’s
been successful thus far,”
said Simmons, who lives in
Portland during the summer.
1,500 miles away. However, he flies back
and forth to preach at the Metro church
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Simmons
PHOTOS BY CHRIS PATTON
In Texas, a Winterfest baptism
Minister Kraig Deming hugs Haley
Powell, 15, after baptizing her in a Texas
hotel swimming pool. Haley was part of
a group from the New Hope Church of
Christ in Edmond, Okla., that attended
the recent Winterfest youth rally in
Arlington,Texas, which drew about 4,000
teens and sponsors. At right, Christian
spoken word poet David Bowden uses
his talents to focus attention on God.
The Oklahoma Christian University
alumnus is known for warning against
lukewarm Christianity and encouraging
believers to pursue God recklessly.
FLORIDA
JUPITER — For 32 years, Terry Rush has
made an annual pilgrimage to the St. Louis
Cardinals’ training facilities to attend the
team’s Legends Camp and minister to
fellow players and coaches.
At the most recent camp, Rush — who
preaches for the Memorial Drive Church
of Christ in Tulsa, Okla. — became just
the sixth person inducted into the camp’s
Hall of Fame.
St. Louis broadcaster and former player
Al Hrabosky presented Rush with the
honor.
“Hrabosky told the crowd that he
was the inspiration for about 50 of my
sermons,” Rush told the Memphis (Mo.)
Democrat newspaper.
“I was very honored as only five other
campers have received this,” the 67-year-old
minister said. “The camp continues to be
extremely exciting, even as I get older and I
try not to pull a muscle just suiting up.”
TENNESSEE
FAYETTEVILLE — The Howell Hill Church
of Christ started 2014 with 20 members
and ended the year with 70 in attendance,
preaching minister Tim Hall said.
“We reached out to our community,” Hall
said. “Our members invited their family
and friends. We visited people who visited
our worship services.”
When a tornado struck the community
in April 2014, the church decided to give
$250 to every family that suffered a loss.
“Then came help from other churches,”
Hall said. “We were able to touch even
more lives. We ended up giving away thou-
sands, and God just kept blessing us.”
OKLAHOMA
TULSA — The Crosstown Church of Christ
serves as a Red Cross shelter and housed
22 people in its activity center after a
recent motel fire that killed one man.
Several victims attended the congrega-
tion’s Sunday morning worship assembly,
minister Robert Prater said.
“We are collecting money, clothes and
other supplies for (the victims), including
toys for kids and notes of encouragement,”
Prater said.
POWELL, Wyo. — Eleven-year-old Aaron
Horner’s condition is improving after he
suffered a self-
inflicted gunshot
wound blamed
on bullying at his f
middle school,
Powell Church of I
Christ minister Ek
Gerry Parker said. MJ
Aaron’s family !
attends the Powell
church, which
has joined thou-
sands of people
across the nation photo provided by gerry parker
in praying for the Aaron Horner, 11, is pictured
boy’s recovery, with his mother, Yarti.
Parker said.
“He is now responding in ways no one
thought possible,” the minister said.
THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 5
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