Alumni News
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Alumni Updates Fall 2011
Fred Delano Kerr (1972) has retired after serving for 39 years as pastor at Greenville Southern Baptist Church, Greenville, CA.
C. Preston North (1973) is currently serving as senior pastor at Mountain View Baptist Church, Lake Isabella, CA.
James Alfred Smith, Sr. (1975) was a visiting scholar at Gardner-Webb University, School of Divinity, Boiling Springs, NC, from January through May 2011.
Clarke McGriff (1980) was recently inducted by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Army ROTC into its 2011 Hall of Fame.
Ferebe Gasque (1982) and
Gary Pearce were married on December 11, 2010, in Florence, SC. Ferebe serves as music therapist at McLeod Hospice House in Florence, SC. Gary is a retired chaplain with the Louisiana Department of Corrections.
Rudy Aguila (1983) serves as co-pastor of Redrock Baptist Church in Las Vegas, NV.
Gary Lukas (1983) wrote
Seven Years in Sodom: San Francisco, An Urban Mission, published by Xulon Press.
Bobby Lowman (1984) has served as executive director of Metrolina Baptist Association in Charlotte, NC since 2006.
Rhonda Russell (1984) recorded her song “The Last Amen” as the Gospel representative on a Nashville independent label. She was accepted as member of the ASCAP/writer-publisher, and appeared in the film “Heaven’s Rain” in 2010. Her husband, Joel, died from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Charles Conn (1986) celebrated his 30th wedding anniversary in May 2011. He retired on January 1, 2011 after serving as Christian counselor. He was also a team leader for five Arizona state departments of public safety and highway patrol chaplains, and was a chaplain for 11 years.
Alcides Guajardo (1988) became the first person in the 64-year history of Baptist University of the Americas to receive an honorary doctor of divinity on May 14, 2011.
Eduardo Docampo (1991) retired after serving with North American Mission Board Alpharetta Staff. Prior to that he served as chaplain with the U.S. Army National Guard.
Dr. Roger Barrier (1992) who serves as pastor of Casas Church in Tucson, AZ, wrote
Got Guts? Get Godly: Pray the Prayer God Guarantees to Answer, published by Xulon Press.
Scott Longwell (1996) serves as the lead pastor at First Baptist Church of Worland, WY.
Hun Lee (2000) serves as a church planter in Edmonds, WA.
Diane (Ratcliff) Holford (2001) serves as human resource director for Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale.
James Tille (1988, 2000) was named Cambridge Publishing's 2009 Professional of the Year in Christian Counseling.
John McDaniel (2001) is currently serving as Director of Music and Worship Arts at Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church, Fair Oaks, CA.
Bruce Edwards (2003) serves as pastor at Hope Fellowship in Branson, MO.
April Welch (2004) was accepted into the Doctor of Ministry program at Bethel University Seminary in St. Paul, MN. She is pursuing a Church Leadership degree in Organizational Systems.
Elijah (2006) and
Stacey (Harris) Tafao (2001), now live in East Tennessee where Elijah is serving as minister of music at Robertsville Baptist Church, in Oak Ridge, TN. They have two children, Olivia (3 years old) and Isaiah (10 months old).
Chris Lynch (2007) and his wife, Angie, announced the birth of their son, Caleb, on January 26, 2010. They live in London, England, where they minister to teenagers and their families.
Elizabeth Reust (2011) is currently serving as a volunteer in Cambodia at a house of rescue. She is also studying the language and the culture, and serves as a children’s tutor.
In Memoriam
Beulah Childress (1950)
E. Hardy Childress (1950)
Hugh J. Morgan (1952)
Charles Edwin Bush (1956, 1958)
Max Kell (1958)
William E. Kolbe (1958)
Robert Julian Daugherty (1959)
George L. Ray (1965)
Marvel G. Upton (1968)
Doyle W. Phillips (1969)
Evelyn May Boyles (1971)
Alice N. Hyatt (1971)
Judith Mae Beane (1972)
Norris Wayne Fulfer (1951,1972)
Edward Winston Sterner (1963, 1972)
David Yi-kum Cha (1976)
Joseph Kokaly (1979)
Terry Tooru Nomura (1979)
Marion Lee Pryfogle (1979)
Dolores C. Kokaly (1981)
Chanborin Mok Samnang (1993)