National Ministries Awards Winners

[Haruo]

[Haruo]

Notice how ecumenical we are, giving Molly Marshall an award that honors the Lutherans, Methodists and Mormons.

[Ed Pettibone]

[Ed Pettibone]

[Haruo]

[Ed Pettibone]

[Haruo]

[Ed Pettibone]

[Haruo]

My apologies. No denigration or mocking of either Dr. Marshall or Luther Wesley Smith was intended. I posted it in a followup so it wouldn't appear to be part of the ABNS story. It looks to me so obviously like a harmless one-liner that I will admit your reaction to this leaves me just scratching my head. Maybe my fellow moderators and ex-moderators can try to decluelessize me.

[Big Daddy Weaver]

Oh good gosh, Ed. Have a laugh or at least try to "get it" even if you don't find the joke funny.

[Ed Pettibone]

[pastormikejordan]

Just to chime in, Dale Miller was my area minister for 6 yrs in ABCOPAD, Southeast area. A real gem, a great guy and I'm very proud of him!

[Haruo]

FWIW even though "Leland" is indeed a "good old Baptist name", enough so to be all too popular for convenience sometimes - I think I've mentioned that when I joined Fremont Baptist, in a membership list that probably didn't exceed 200 there were already three other Lelands - yet I don't think I was named Leland, even though my dad was a Baptist minister, because of its Baptisticity. I think it was pure Scottish tribalism, witness my siblings, Graham, Alan and Margaret. (All of which rrrrroll well off a Scottish tongue, and none of which as far as I can tell has any strong Baptist associations.) And no, Ed, I am not suggesting that there is no one in MMBB's inner circle or at Judson or Broadman or wherever named Graham, Alan or Margaret.

As for Ross, when I was in first grade there was a kid in second grade named Ross Leland. He was a problem child. I was a cutting edge come-on-let-me-start-college-now type. And the school office repeatedly sent his Poor Work Slips to my parents. The first time they were upset, but it soon became a family joke. He moved away the next year, I think, at any rate I have no later recollections of or related to him - until about a year ago, that is, when I received a recorded collections call on my home phone. It asked, if I was Ross, Leland, to press 1. Thinking I might be, I pressed 1. Then I was informed that this was a call to collect a delinquent debt owed by Ross, Leland, DOB such and so such and so 1953..." Well, I am a 1954 baby, but guess what year I'll bet Ross Leland was born!? Anyhow, I tried calling the number I was given by the recording, but it was a dead end, and I've heard nothing from or about him since.

[Haruo]

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[Ed Pettibone]