The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 68, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 1, 2011 Page: 19 of 35
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CURRENTS
20 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
JANUARY 2011
The year in quotes
2010
COMPILED BY BOBBY ROSS JR. | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
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MIKE LANE, retired Northern Alabama baseball
coach, on Washington Nationals slugger
Josh Willingham, a member of the Cross
Point Church of Christ in Florence, Ala.
A battered office chair sits among the remains of the Delmas 28 Church of Christ in Port-au-
Prince after the Jan. 12,2010, earthquake that claimed more than 230,000 lives. A class of
nursing students was studying in the building when the quake hit. A doctor who cared for
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“If the New Orleans Saints can win
the Super Bowl, then the church in New
Orleans can grow”
ERIC DISHONGH, Saints'season-ticket holder and minister of the
Hickory Knoll Church of Christ in Harahan, La., a New Orleans suburb.
“I usually preach from a script. It would
be nice if I could get a teleprompter like I
have at the TV station.”
CHASE GALLIMORE, Texas minister
and TV news anchor.
“These are kids that
need that second chance.
And I am the king of
second chances. All of us
are — Jesus died for all of
our sins.”
JIM MORRIS, "The Rookie"and
member of the Kerrville Church of Christ
in Texas, on his work with Arms of Hope's
children's home in Medina, Texas.
“We used to spend a lot of time
talking about bricks and mortar, paint
and parking lots, but we decided to
spend the majority of our time dealing
with people, not things.”
CRAIG IfMEt, elder of the Park Plaza Church of Christ
in Tulsa, Okla., on the congregation's growth.
BILLY BLAKENEY, minister of the Foreman Church of
Christ in Arkansas, on a 3-year-old boy killed along
with his mother, Leslie Jez, 23, by a flash flood.
“I learned about Jesus, God and the
Bible. Praise be to the Lord.”
RU RU, a Taiwanese student in Arkansas, on her
experience with the "FriendSpeak" ministry.
“I’m sorry, but men just
really don’t know what it’s
like to be a girl, especially
not a teenage girl.”
JANNA BETH HUNT, team member
for RA VE Ministries, which focuses on
issues of concern to teenage girls.
“He’s the real deal. He’s one of those
guys that I would always take our play-
ers to and say, This is the way that you
behave.’”
ometimes, a quote says it all.
From heartwrenching natural
disasters to inspirational
■ faith journeys, The Christian
Chronicle captured the news in
Christians’ own words during 2010.
Here are the Chronicle staff’s
favorite and most memorable quotes
of the year:
“You look for that extra
grandma at church or
those extra aunts and
uncles that are going to
help you raise your kids
when your husband is
gone and you need some-
body else to give you a
break.”
CINDY COLEMAN, wife of an Army
soldier and member of the Lakeview Church of Christ in Tacoma,
Wash., on the support her family receives when
her husband deploys overseas.
“We’re not in the
condemning business.
We’re in the saving business.”
PHIL SANDERS, a speaker for the "In Search of the Lord's Way"
television ministry, during an areawide campaign
and gospel meeting in Parkersburg, W. Va.
“Kaden was the sunshine of everybody’s
life.”
“There’s certainly the
disaster that goes beyond
the disaster.”
STAN HELTON,ministerofthe
Tammany Oaks Church of Christ in
Mandeville, La., on challenges faced by
New Orleans area congregations five years
after Hurricane Katrina.
Helton
“If I’m busy, I don’t have
a whole lot of time for foolishness.”
GARY SMITH, pulpit minister of the Fifth Ward Church of
Christ in Houston, on Christians focusing on the Lord's work.
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LAURA LIE, 7, resident of Son Light Children's Home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
“I launched on June 15th, and so I
haven’t had a shower since June 15th.”
DOUG WHEELOCK, International Space Station astronaut,
joking about his months in space while addressing an
Oklahoma Christian University chapel assembly members of the congregation died, as did 36 nursing students. In addition, 51 of the church's
from 250miles above Earth. 650 members perished in the quake, and 350 were left homeless, minister Jean T. Elmera said.
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