Good People

Today was a good day at the Seminary. We inducted Dr. Hollis Gause into the Hall of the Prophets and named the administration building after him. Dr. Gause began teaching Bible and theology at Lee University in 1947. He was a guiding force in Lee's original accreditation and later the transition to a four year liberal arts college serving as Academic Dean. In 1975 he was the founding Dean and Director of the Church of God Graduate School of Christian Ministry (now Church of God Theological Seminary). He continues to serve as an active faculty member at the Seminary. As his pastors, Cheryl and I were asked to participate in the honors. What an honor for us.
















We had an overnight visitor last evening, Juanita Brownlow. I first met Juanita and her late husband, Lamar, in Guatemala City, Guatemala about twenty years ago. They were missionaries in Central America at the time. I was teaching an intensive course at a Church of God Bible college. (Alethea made the trip with me.) Juanita, ever an intense, enthusiastic, visionary student, with Lamar came to the Seminary and completed degrees; Juanita focused on Discipleship and Christian Formation under Cheryl and myself. They then spent some time ministering in Russia and as Overseer for the Church of God in Italy. In recent times Juanita has been widowed and battled cancer. Next week she is moving to Africa to serve as a missionary.