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THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 5
MARCH 2020
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BY ERIN FLOYD | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
PHOTO BY HOLLIS MEREDITH
Authorities survey the damage to the
Refuge Church of Christ building.
NEVADA
LAS VEGAS — The North Las Vegas
Church of Christ hosted the recent
57th annual West Coast Preachers
and Leaders Forum, which drew an
average attendance of 200.
The event is designed to “edify,
exhort and unify” preachers, elders,
deacons and leaders in the Churches
of Christ North Las Vegas minister
Leo Gay. This was die fifth time his
congregation hosted die event
‘What happened in Vegas did not
stay in Vegas,” Gay said, noting that
the forum was available via livestream
across the nation.
OREGON
YAMHILL— Forty-eight attendees
from Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Colorado and British Columbia gath-
ered at Camp Yamhill for the recent
Expositor’s Seminar, an annual event
that serves Churches of Christ in the
Pacific Northwest
Speakers included Greg Sterling,
dean of Yale Divinity School,
and Carson Reed, vice president
of church relations at Abilene
Christian University.
Jay Hawkins, minister for the
Caldwell Church of Christ in Idaho,
said Sterling taught on key issues in
the book of Acts. Reed invited minis-
ters to think about why and how they
minister and how Scripture models
ways to reflect on those matters.
“Expositor’s continues to be the
only Northwest event in Churches
of Christ designed to cultivate
better teaching and preaching of the
Bible,” Hawkins said.
CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES — More than 300 brothers
and sisters in Christ gathered for
“Peace and Unity in Christ,” a recent
areawide evening worship assembly
at the Southside Church of Christ
Guest speakers included Stanley
Talbert of the Normandie Church
of Christ in Los Angeles, Jim
Gash of Pepperdine University in
Malibu and Ervin D. Seamster Jr. of
Southwestern Christian College in
Terrell, Texas.
The L.A. Mass Choir, an American
gospel group, and Won by Won, an
a cappella group from Pepperdine,
added their voices to the service.
M IB
A semi-truck heading west-
bound on Kentucky Route 90
recently crashed into the Refuge
Church of Christ in Eighty Eight,
Ky., causing major damage.
The driver, Phil Chaplin, fell
asleep at the wheel, causing the
truck to drift off the road before
striking the front of the church
building, authorities reported.
The collision, which occurred
at 5:19 a.m. Jan. 21, destroyed
the front porch and damaged
the front wall. Chaplin suffered
minor injuries.
Wednesday church services
were canceled the following
evening because of the damage,
according to a Facebook post
by member Hollis Meredith.
The 140-member congregation
worshiped that Sunday in its
annex building.
An official assessed the damage
and deemed the building unusable
for at least two more weeks, said
Dick Lee, a Refuge church elder.
Until the main building is
restored, the church will try
to adapt the annex building for
worship services, Lee said.
“Thankfully, no one was hurt
seriously,” he said. “But it looks
like we’re going to have to deal
with this for a while.”
OKLAHOMA
TULSA— Wendell Franklin, a long-
time member of The Park Church of
Christ, is Tulsa’s new police chief.
Franklin, a 23-year veteran who
became the department’s first
permanent African American chief,
began his new position Feb. 1.
At a recent Sunday service,
church members surrounded him
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wife Arquicia, sons
Coreon and Brendon
and daughter in-law
Lydia — as they
offered a special
prayer on his behalf.
“Wendell has been
given influence, and
a righteous man is
where he is,” preaching minister
Mitch Wilburn said. “And the
people today, we see the results
of that... and I know our city
rejoices.”
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SCOTT ELLIOTT
5-year-old leads singing, with a little help
Dylan Eliott, 5, leads "Step by Step" at the La Grange Church of Christ in Texas, assisted by
deacon Frank Smith. Minister Scott Elliott, Dylan's father, said the church loves children.
"I love that overalls are appropriate attire at our congregation,"Scott Elliott said. "At our
services, you may find one person wearing a suit and another person wearing jeans."
ARIZONA
PHOENIX — The Church of Christ at
the Vineyard hosted a free event
Feb. 8 to bring aware-
ness to how African
American girls are
being pushed out of
the education system,
Lisa Norwood said.
Norwood is a
member of the
Vineyard church
and the principal of a
local primary school.
Over 200 people from the commu-
nity attended the event, which
featured a viewing of the docu-
mentary film “Pushout The
Criminalization of Black Girls in
Schools” and a panel discussion with
Norwood and six other education
or organization officials. Norwood
quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in
regard to the importance of the
event “Power at its best is love imple-
menting the demands of justice.”
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