Greg and I are at home resting and recovering after the memorial and graveside service for Melvine Morgan, my darling wife, and Greg's Morgan on Tuesday, January 21, 2020.
We are blessed to have Bishop Wesley Russ, my best friend since 1964, to be staying in our home for a few days. Mevline and I met Wesley when he was a student at Emmanuel College and came to our first pastorate at the Brownville Pentecostal Holiness Church near Evergreen, Alabama for a weekend revival with a male quartet. I was so impressed with Wesley's preaching that I recommended him to my church board and congregation to be my successor when I was called to go into the Air Force Chaplaincy in 1975.
He married Janice Robinson, and they took the Brownville church to the next higher level and were there five years.
Years later, the Air Force sent me to Atlanta for a residence in Supervisory Training to become a Supervisor in Clinical Pastoral Education. He was then the pastor of the Church of the Comforter in Tucker, GA. He found a house for us to lease in Stone Mountain, and the Air Force moved our family there for that specialized education and training. We were there some 15 months. What blessed days it was to be a part of that growing church.
After Wesley and Janice went to Maryland, they pastored the Maranatha Fellowship Pentecostal Holiness Church for 28 years. Then, Wesley was elected the superintendent of the Mid-Atlanta Conference for 10 years. He was excellent in the promotion of World missions and planting churches. The Mid-Atlantic Conference is noted for giving to World Missions more per capita than any other conference in the IPHC.
After serving the Richmond First Pentecostal Holiness Church for two years, Melvine I joined their church in College Park, Maryland, and I transferred my membership as an ordained minister of the Gospel to the Mid-Atlantic Conference when Wesley Potter was the superintendent. The conference and church met a special spiritual and social need at that point in time in our lives. Melvine and Janice were the best of friends.
Melvine and I often traveled from Richmond, Virginia, to College Park, Maryland on Sundays, some 90 miles to worship at Maranantha Fellowship Pentecostal Holiness Church. We have fond memories of our association with Wesley and Janice Russ.
On Thursday night, January 23, the delegation from the IPHC met for worship at this church. Bishop Doug Beacham was the guest speaker. The service was live-streamed on facebook. It was Bishop Beacham's birthday.
It is my understanding that President Donald J. Trump will address the large marching for Life group that has grown exponentially to be a powerful statement to our nation about the sanctity of life, the protection of babies in the womb, and the mothers. May God be honored this day in Washington, DC.
We are blessed to have Bishop Wesley Russ, my best friend since 1964, to be staying in our home for a few days. Mevline and I met Wesley when he was a student at Emmanuel College and came to our first pastorate at the Brownville Pentecostal Holiness Church near Evergreen, Alabama for a weekend revival with a male quartet. I was so impressed with Wesley's preaching that I recommended him to my church board and congregation to be my successor when I was called to go into the Air Force Chaplaincy in 1975.
He married Janice Robinson, and they took the Brownville church to the next higher level and were there five years.
Years later, the Air Force sent me to Atlanta for a residence in Supervisory Training to become a Supervisor in Clinical Pastoral Education. He was then the pastor of the Church of the Comforter in Tucker, GA. He found a house for us to lease in Stone Mountain, and the Air Force moved our family there for that specialized education and training. We were there some 15 months. What blessed days it was to be a part of that growing church.
After Wesley and Janice went to Maryland, they pastored the Maranatha Fellowship Pentecostal Holiness Church for 28 years. Then, Wesley was elected the superintendent of the Mid-Atlanta Conference for 10 years. He was excellent in the promotion of World missions and planting churches. The Mid-Atlantic Conference is noted for giving to World Missions more per capita than any other conference in the IPHC.
After serving the Richmond First Pentecostal Holiness Church for two years, Melvine I joined their church in College Park, Maryland, and I transferred my membership as an ordained minister of the Gospel to the Mid-Atlantic Conference when Wesley Potter was the superintendent. The conference and church met a special spiritual and social need at that point in time in our lives. Melvine and Janice were the best of friends.
Melvine and I often traveled from Richmond, Virginia, to College Park, Maryland on Sundays, some 90 miles to worship at Maranantha Fellowship Pentecostal Holiness Church. We have fond memories of our association with Wesley and Janice Russ.
On Thursday night, January 23, the delegation from the IPHC met for worship at this church. Bishop Doug Beacham was the guest speaker. The service was live-streamed on facebook. It was Bishop Beacham's birthday.
It is my understanding that President Donald J. Trump will address the large marching for Life group that has grown exponentially to be a powerful statement to our nation about the sanctity of life, the protection of babies in the womb, and the mothers. May God be honored this day in Washington, DC.