Alabama evangelist honored for service

Alabama evangelist honored for service

INDIANAPOLIS — Alabama Baptist Evangelist Johnny Tucker of the International Missions Association in Citronelle was honored recently for his 25 years as a full-time, vocational evangelist.

Recognized during the June 14 annual session of the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists, Tucker said, “In 42 years of preaching, with 25 of those as a [traveling] evangelist, there is not one second where my Father ever failed me. My father was also a preacher, and he used to say, ‘I don’t want another [heavenly] Daddy; He’s the best one I know; God is ever faithful.’”

New officers for 2004–2005 are: president, Keith Fordham, Keith Fordham Evangelistic Corporation, Fayetteville, Ga.; vice president, Bill Britt, Compel Outreach, International, Mansfield, Texas; secretary-treasurer, Margaret Allen, The Allen Family Singers, Edmund, Okla.; secretary-treasurer elect, Betty Moni, Sacred Music, Inc./Betty Moni Ministries, San Antonio, Texas; music director, Dean Forrest, Forrest Ministries Inc., Pike Road (Ala.); assistant music director, Vernon Chandler, Vernon Chandler Ministries, High Point, N.C.; and pastor advisors, H. Dean Haun, pastor, First Baptist Church, Jonesboro, Ga.; and Stanley Hughes, pastor, Richland Baptist Church, Richland, Wash.

Parliamentarian is Jerry Chaddick, Spirit-Truth Ministries Council, Laurel, Miss.; and council members are Carl Carrigan, Carl and Carolyn Carrigan Evangelistic Ministries, Shreveport, La.; Ray Jenkins, Action Growth Ministries, Fayetteville, Ga.; and Leon Westerhouse, Leon Westerhouse Music Evangelism, Birmingham.