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COVER NEWS
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NEWS BRIEFS
Florida: Spiritual Growth Seminar
NATIONAL NEWS
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FEATURES
8-11
INTERNATIONAL
12-14
PARTNERS
15-16
Human interest
OPINION
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CHURCH GROWTH
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Interviews with church leaders
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Loutzenhiser leads in Minnesota
Laotian church ministry in Texas
Gene Stallings
Richland Hills gives $8 million
27 churches baptize more than 100
Weekend fasts raise $18,000
Tulsa: flood hits 60 church families
Donor found for Terri Lenz
Interview with Christiaan Barnard
Mission 1000 lists jobs
Hong Kong: Tucker begins work
Jamaica: Mahfood departs
Broadus leads at Great Lakes
ACU gets third national title
Nelson titles golf endowment
Editorial: can we hear the cries?
Lemmons decries schools
Perspectives: letters
Guest editorial: gambling
store. It wasn’t much at first. In its first
year it grossed only |75,000. When he
sold it three years ago, the Sweet
Publishing Company was grossing $10
million a year.
A pilot, Sweet has done missionary
work, most notably flying supplies to
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RALPH SWEET
.. .man of many careers^
the Navy for three years and was on Iwo
Jima for a while. He studied the Bible
and Greek in an Arkansas college.
He started a religious book retail
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• Im tailed: Ron Arnett, Vester Cooper,
J.C. Franks, Roy Hewitt, Tim Mason,
Harold Sigmund and Hank Tankersley as
elders of the Boulevard Church of Christ,
Lake Charles, La., on June 3.
• Moved: Gayle Napier from Lubbock
careers, but he retained his deep
religious faith.
He farmed in Oklahoma until the poor
soil stopped bearing crops. He served in
LANDO, Fla.-
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gmphis, Tenn.,
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Bdership, marri
nal evangelism
Additional lecti
I P. Black, Bob
Brl Breechen
Bulkner, Samm
W Barnett, Ja<
Inda Denton, J
IcMillon.
Youth speakei
on Williams, Di
n, Ronnie Nor
Feger and Stace
Hotel rooms a
bunted rate, bo
Lctureship and
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Lailable for th<
k the Sheraton.
Clj-istian College,
Lubbock, Teias,
to the Richland
Hills Church of
Christ, Fort
Worth, Texas, to
direct a new pro-
gram in guidance
and counseling.
• Honored: Sherri
Marchant, of Dun-
QAYLE NAPIER
canville, Texas, as teacher of the year at
tor Irving, Texas, school. Mrs. Marchant
is also a candidate for Irving's educator of
the year.
• Selected: David Vaughn, of the North
Boulevard Church of Christ in Mur-
freesboro, Toan., for Boy's State, held in
Cookeville, Torr. Middle Tonnsasoo Elec-
tric also selected Vaughn for an all*
expense paid trip to WssNngtan, D.C., for
bto winning oMay. As both events wore
scheduled for Ito same tons, Vaigto
ctoao to go too Washington.
• Mtoeteas: Tto Church of Ctatat in
Dodge City, Kan., will celebrate its 75th
anniversary, Aug. 12.
• Installed: Herbert Smith and Benny
Vickers as elders of the Church of Christ in
Warrington, Fla., on June 3.
• Debt Retired: Northside Church of
Christ, Jeffersonville, Ind., contributed
1120,000 on May 27 to retire church’s in-
debtedness and free 140,000 annually for
missions.
• Died: Ernest Stockton, former presi-
dent of Cumberland College in I^banon,
Tenn. Stockton was a member of the West
End Church of Christ in Nashville, Tenn.
• Milestone: Weldon B. and Edith Bennett
were honored June 10 by the Peak and
East Side Church of Christ, Dallas, for
their years of service. Weldon Bennett
began preaching 50 years ago, and has
since done mission work in Germany and
served as an evangelist, elder, teacher,
and counselor.
• Appelated: Shannon Roberts of
Carlsbad, Calif., to tto staff of the Chureh
of Artot in Vista, Calif. Roberts, with a
background in school and seminar
tMc^businsm and band organisation
and psychology and counseling, win s^*
ptownt in btum of preaching and dtodpl-
Ing- Tto ftooBontar church Is comprised
of ImsrlnsBs and Korsam.
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• Retired: Geoffrey Ellis, after serving
president of Great
Lakes Christian
College, Beams-
ville, Ontario, for
23 years He will
enter full-time
preaching in the
area.
• Appointed:
Flavil Yeakley as
director of church
growth research and studies at Abileffl
Christian University, Abilene, Texas, m
fective June 1.
o Imtalled: J.W Booker, of the W
Church of Christ, Jasper, Texas, as ’’i*
on June 3.
• Moved: Thomas B. Warren fr*J
Cookeville, Tenn., to Seagoville, Texas .Il
will be doing extensive writing.
• Moved: George Gurganus, retired n*
sions professor nt ACU, to Boston, Ms*
Gurganus Is serving in an advisory rd*’
tto Boston Church of Ctotot mission c*
mittee.
• Appointed: Jim Woodruff, for"*
minister of tto Coiloge Station Churrt*
Chriet, College Station, Texas, a* nun*®
for tto iBlUtolig, Maas., church, **
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Guatemala after the damaging earth-
quake that devastated that country'
several years ago.
He is a hydroponic gardener of note,
trying to develop a square-shaped water-
melon, and turning that experiment owr
to a college agriculture department for
further wort.
He to a writer who has published nine 1
books.
For a time, Sweet and his wife, I
Margie, owned Goodies, a restaurant I
specializing in ice cream and video fl
games, in Taylor in eastern Williamson 1
County.
There are four children in the Sweet
clan, three daughters — Taffy, Candy
and Judy — and a son, Paul, who is a stu-
dent at Abilene Christian University.
Sweet, now in a sheriff's uniform, en-1
joys talking with and working with I
youngsters from kindergarten to post-
college age. It worries him that some j
mothers frighten their children by tell- 1
ing them the police will “get them" if |
they are bad. “We try to help people, and j
youngsters ought to be taught to turn to J
an officer if anything to wrong or if they I
need help,’’ Sweet says.
He takes about 50 children a week I
from various schools to Georgetown to I
tour the jail, getting some understanding I
what being arrested and confined to jail I
really means.
They get a look at the treatment for I
drunken drivers. He expects to give I
these tours to about 3,000 children in the I
county this year.
Sweet also to a certified home securib I
inspector, providing free surveys fori
Williamson County homes and!
businesses to offer advice to prevent I
break-ins.
He also is an accomplished hypnotist I
using that skill in assisting crime vic-1
tims or witnesses in recalling details I
from their subconscious.
Texas: Ralph Sweet turns to crime
TAYLOR, Texas (AP)-Ralph Sweet
has farmed poor soil and studied the Bi-
ble, tried to grow square watermelons
and flown supplies to earthquake vic-
tims, published religious books and run
an ice cream parlor.
Now he’s turned to crime - preven-
tion, that to.
Sweet's work as Williamson County
Sheriff Department's crime prevention
officer to the latest in a series of mini-
careers the native Texan has under-
taken. But with the goal of keeping the
nation’s youth on a straight line, he to
pursuing his new venture with as much
energy and dedication as anything he’s
done.
Financed partially by Gov. Mark
White’s office, Sweet to visiting schools
throughout the county promoting the
Ident-A-Child program, a project to help
parents, law enforcement officials and
schools find missing children. His pitch
includes alerting parents to the need for
supervision and close relationships with
their children.
He says he believes his work with
youth may help them realize how crime,
drug abuse and alcohol can destroy their
futures.
One way Sweet is reaching the young-
sters to by actually showing them what
the inside of a jail to like. They get a look
at the process after arrest and observe
breathaltoer testing and videotaping.
Despite high crime rates. Sweet
believes that there is a turn in the tide
and that youngsters are increasingly
willing to be themselves instead of just
clones of their peers.
A native Texan, Sweet grew up and
graduated from high school in Wichita
Falls, where his father was the minister
of a large church of Christ congregation.
After his college work, Sweet also
became a minister, leaving the ministry
after 12 years to involve himself in other
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Norton, Howard W. & McBride, Bailey. The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 41, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, June 1, 1984, newspaper, June 1, 1984; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1308124/m1/2/: accessed May 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.