Liberty University - Selah Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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Some 35 students have grad- uated from Liberty Baptist Sem- inary in the first four years of its experience, and several more did not graduate but came and went, and therefore joined the ranks of seminary alumni. The school began in 1973, offer- ing a three-year Master of Divinity degree for preachers and pastors and a two-year Master of Arts de- gree in Christian Education. It might prove interesting to see what some of the seminary alumni are doing at this time. The first seminary graduating class consisted of two students, John Lynn Horner and Donald James Pendley, in 1975. They both received the M.A. in Christian Education. Horner since has been ordained to the Gospel ministry and works as a school administrator at Calvary Baptist Church in Marion, Ill. Pendley also was ordained and now is associate pastor at First Baptist Church in Spring Lake, Mich. 7 In 1976, four students received the M.A.,,degree. Of them, Dr. Cheppanalil Thomas Abraham. now is a church pastor ministering to his own people in Kerala State, lndia, Robert William Farnsworth is princi- pal of a Christian day school in Ashland, KY., Leslie Woodrow Smith has been ordained and serves as principal of Gateway Christian Academy at Luster's Gate Baptist Church in Blacksburg, and Don- ald Banks Swanson is principal of Greenwood Village Christian Schools in Houston, Texas. That year also saw the first Master of Divinity degree gradu- ates. There were 11 of them. John Beck Cartwright is pastor of Cal- vary Baptist Church in Sharon Hill, PA., Don Lewis Crain is pastor of the First Christian Church in Holt- ville, CA., and Gary Glendon Elmore pastors the Faith Bible Church in Theodore, AL. Cartwright, Crain, and Elmore have all been ordained. James Lee Flanagan teaches part-time at Boulevard Baptist Schools while working on his Doctorate from Southwestern Bap- tist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX., and Norman Lynn Hedding, an ordained preacher, directs the Jolly 60's Senior Citi- zens Outreach here at Thomas Road Baptist Church. Peter Lewis Hilmar, also or- dained, teaches at the Hartford Christian Academy at Farmington Avenue Baptist Church in Hartford, CN., Harry Wayne Lewis also is working on his Doctorate at South- western, and John Grimsley Napier is working on a Doctorate from Dallas Theological Seminary. And last but not least, three other 1976 Master of Divinity gradu- ates are all pastors. David B. Overton leads the Mitchell Hollow Mission Church in Windham, N.Y., Frank Demetrio Papandrea serves at Union County Baptist Church in Clark, NJ, and Donald Wayne Rey- nolds ministers at Calvary Baptist Church in Denton, MD. There were 11 Christian Educa- tion graduates in 1977. Eugene Samuel Albert, Jr., has a tape ministry in Hurst, TX, Patricia Mc- Daniel Bellosa is on the staff of the soul-winning ministry at Thomas Road Baptist Church, Stephen

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Bowman, an ordained minister, pastors the Ellsworth Baptist Temple in Ellsworth, ME, Barbara Doane Stewart is on the faculty of a Christian day school in Tallahassee, FL, and Ronald Edward Gatlin teaches at Lynchburg Christian Academy. Michael Paul Gass and Robert Roy Gass are two brothers who graduated together with M.A. de- grees in 1977 and went to Medford, OR., together to start a church. Bob is pastor of the Harvest Bap- tist Temple, and Mike is minister of youth. Other 1977 M.A. graduates were George Edward Gray, now pastor of the New Testament Baptist Church in Indiana, PA, Patricia Greenhalgh, who teaches physical education and coaches softball at Liberty Baptist College, Steve Raymond Vandergritf, minister of youth at First Christian Church in Holtville, CA. CDon Crian's Churchj, and Larry Witt, pastor of the People's Bap- tist Church in Buena Vista, Va. There were only seven Master of Divinity graduates in 1977. James Cornelius Allen is pastor ofthe Tabb Street Presbyterian Church in Petersburg FL, Frederick Jackson Beyer is the undershepherd at Community Bible Church in Altoona, PA, Donald Jasper Ellison pastors the Maynard Baptist Church in Forsyth, GA, William Stan Hower- ton, pastor of Community Bible Church in Harper, KA, Gregroy Miller Sprau, who works in Lynch- burg, Marvin Earl Wood, pastor of Harvest Baptist Church in Charles- ton Heights, S.C. Other alumni include Kenneth M. Waggoner, Robert Gallagher, Al Henson, Richard Whitaker, Ronald E. Biggers, Larry Lusk, Robert C. Elness, T.P. Johnson, Randy Brooks, Louis Lakatos, Robert Geh- man, John Houghton, Gary Byers, Mr. and Mrs, Kevin Hartman, and Bryson Wood. A Waggoner is pastor of Shippens- burg Independent Baptist Church in Newburg, PA, Gallagher is pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church in Farmville, VA, Henson has started the Lighthouse Baptist Church in Nashville, TN, and Antoine B. Alexis is director of the Eglise Baptiste de la Providence of Strategic Mission in St. Marc, Haiti. Whitaker pastors the Berean Baptist Church in Charlottesville, VA, Biggers leads the Southwest Baptist Church in Richmond, VA, Larry Lusk pastors the Hendrix Road Baptist Church in Florence, AL, Elness is pastor of the First Baptist Church of Windon, MN, and T.P. Johnson pastors the New River Valley Baptist Church in Pulaski, VA. Other alumni who are now past- ors are Randy Brooks at Northside Baptist Church in Tallahassee, FL, Lakatos at the Old-Time Gospel Church in Youngstown, OH, Robert Gehman at the Baltimore County Baptist Church in Reisterstown, MD, Houghton at the First Baptist Church of Clay, WV, and Byers at the Fredericktown Baptist Church in Fredericktown, MD. Mr. and Mrs. Hartman have joined the faculty and staff of Greenwood Village Christian Schools in Houston, TX, and Wood is a Christian teacher in Kingston, TN.