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BAPTIST CHURCH

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Blended Worship Sundays @ 9:30am
Senior Adult Sunday School Sundays @ 8:00am and 10:50am

Sunday Night Seminary Sundays @ 5:45 // with snack supper

Discipleship Wednesday Nights // meal @ 5:15 // classes @ 6:30
Choir Wednesday Nights @ 6:30

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He was comforted by the presence of the married, but she remembered back in worship leader. Russ was ready. The
Lord throughout this time, but he also her Texas Tech days asking God that, if couple has moved back to Lubbock and
turned to Facebook and the support of she ever were to marry, would He please opened a new chapter in their story.
friends to help him grieve. One of the send her a “Russ Murphy type”. Russ Murphy has come full circle,
friends was Linda Huckabee, a college returning home to do a new thing. “We
friend of both his and Saralyn’s. She The last two and a half years, Russ are going to call our ministry at Indiana
reached out to Russ with a story about and Linda have lived in Spring Hill, ‘New Beginnings’, because no matter
Saralyn that touched Russ’s heart. Tennessee, ministering often together. In how old you are, every day is a new day
In January 2015, he contacted her in 2016, Russ met a man in Tampa, Florida and an opportunity for the Lord to use
Houston, and they began a month of who had been a Senior Adult Minister. you to touch the world.”
daily phone calls - just two friends He was inspired by all the things the
getting reacquainted after being apart man had been able to do with seniors,
for over 40 years. However, over time, including discipleship, community
Russ confesses, “My heart began to fall service, connecting seniors with
in love with her heart...A few weeks younger church members, and
after our first phone call, I met her for having a weekday worship service
supper in Houston. An hour into our that attracted over 1500 each week.
meal, I took her hand and said, ‘I think Russ was intrigued enough to
I’m falling in love with you.’” Less than consider a ministry shift.
a month later they were engaged, and
the two longtime friends married on In December 2017, Steve McMeans,
May 1, 2015. Linda was also a gifted pastor of IABC in Lubbock, called
Christian musician who ministered Russ to ask if he’d be their Senior
across the country. She had never Adult pastor, as well as the 9:30

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