First Baptist Church, Pell City
St. Clair Baptist Association
Favorite Verse: Philippians 4:19
Favorite Hymn: “In Christ Alone”
Hobby: Working in workshop
Family Status: Married to wife Ann for 10 years; late wife, Blanch Bain Dendy (married for 48 years until her death); late children, Freida Ennett and Chris Dendy; five step-children, Tom Mann, Jim Mann, Susie McClanahan, Cindy Alarid and Judy Shockey; three grandchildren; nine step-grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; one step-great-grandchild
Q: What influences in your life pointed you to Christ at the beginning of your faith journey?
A: An uncle who was a minister. I was raised in a Christian home. That had a big influence. That was the largest influence — the influence of my mother, my father and my uncle.
Q: When and how were you led into the ministry?
A: Edgewood Baptist Church in Gadsden in ’48 or ’49.
Q: What does the ministry demand?
A: It demands total commitment.
Q: What do you get from the ministry?
A: A sense of fulfillment and purpose.
Q: How do family members support you?
A: Wholeheartedly. Ann goes with me as a partner in our ministry in the nursing home. She’s supportive of my missions trips.
Q: How do you see yourself involved in this in the future?
A: I’ll continue as best I can to serve as chaplain with the police department and supply preaching. I also do a monthly chapel program at the Village at Cook Springs (nursing home and assisted living facility). I’ll continue to do chaplaincy with disaster relief.
Q: What difference will this ministry make for you in the future?
A: I trust that it will maintain a sense of fulfillment and purpose, knowing that I am doing God’s will. One of the blessings of foreign missions trips and disaster relief is seeing people come to faith in Jesus Christ in a much more open way than every day in the United States.
Q: What difference has Jesus Christ made in your life?
A: Peace of mind, contentment, purpose and a sure hope, joy.
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