I watched until almost midnight Friday evening the television coverage of the winds of Hurricane Harvey that Fox News provided.
Melvine, Greg, Stephanie (now deceased) and I lived in Houston and San Antonio on special assignments the Chief of Air Force Chaplains assigned to me.
We purchased a home in Fondren Park in southwest Houston. I remember how it floods there. Our street was like a river on one such occasion, and boats came up and down in front of our home. The raging waters never got to our home for which we were grateful.
Our second assignment was to Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center where I helped to establish the CPE Program (Clinical Pastoral Education) in the hospital that continues to this day. It was from that assignment that I was called by the leadership of the Pentecostal Holiness Church to become the third president of Southwestern College. I was required to resign my regular officer commission as an Air Force chaplain to go to Southwestern College. I was blessed by Chaplain, Major General, Henry Meade, Chief of Air Force Chaplains who allowed me to resign, wavered a three-year commitment because of Air Force Scholarships, and allowed to be transferred into the Air Force Reserve as a chaplain with my same rank.
Texas is dear to our hearts. My father, Hugh Henry Morgan, was born in Denison, TX, on December 12, 1884, six years before the birth of Dwight D. Eisenhower in the same Texas town. When we lived in Houston we used to drive by the oil refineries to our church when James and Thelma McDowell were planting a P. H. Church. Those were wonderful days as I was doing an internship in Clinical Pastoral Education at Herman Hospital a teaching hospital for the University of Texas Medical College.
Let us pray that Hurricane Harvey will be weakened and that the Words of Jesus, "Peace be still," will calm it down and stop it in its tracks.
Let us pray for the safety of the people, and the protection of homes, businesses, and property.
Nothing is impossible for our God.
Melvine, Greg, Stephanie (now deceased) and I lived in Houston and San Antonio on special assignments the Chief of Air Force Chaplains assigned to me.
We purchased a home in Fondren Park in southwest Houston. I remember how it floods there. Our street was like a river on one such occasion, and boats came up and down in front of our home. The raging waters never got to our home for which we were grateful.
Our second assignment was to Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center where I helped to establish the CPE Program (Clinical Pastoral Education) in the hospital that continues to this day. It was from that assignment that I was called by the leadership of the Pentecostal Holiness Church to become the third president of Southwestern College. I was required to resign my regular officer commission as an Air Force chaplain to go to Southwestern College. I was blessed by Chaplain, Major General, Henry Meade, Chief of Air Force Chaplains who allowed me to resign, wavered a three-year commitment because of Air Force Scholarships, and allowed to be transferred into the Air Force Reserve as a chaplain with my same rank.
Texas is dear to our hearts. My father, Hugh Henry Morgan, was born in Denison, TX, on December 12, 1884, six years before the birth of Dwight D. Eisenhower in the same Texas town. When we lived in Houston we used to drive by the oil refineries to our church when James and Thelma McDowell were planting a P. H. Church. Those were wonderful days as I was doing an internship in Clinical Pastoral Education at Herman Hospital a teaching hospital for the University of Texas Medical College.
Let us pray that Hurricane Harvey will be weakened and that the Words of Jesus, "Peace be still," will calm it down and stop it in its tracks.
Let us pray for the safety of the people, and the protection of homes, businesses, and property.
Nothing is impossible for our God.