[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 41 (Wednesday, April 9, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1343]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   THE REVEREND DR. JERRY L. SPENCER

  (Mr. EVERETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EVERETT. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to welcome to this body 
a good friend and distinguished clergyman from my congressional 
district. Dr. Jerry Spencer, pastor of Ridgecrest Baptist Church of 
Dothan, AL, is well known throughout the South for his dedication to 
God and for his active evangelism, which has taken him to such farflung 
places as Russia and India.
  A native of Tennessee, a graduate of the University of Tennessee and 
the world's largest seminary, the Southwestern Baptist Theological 
Seminary in Fort Worth, TX, Dr. Spencer has pastored for the past 40 
years while ministering in over 30 countries.
  Dr. Spencer has recorded four albums, authored numerous books, and 
has penned articles appearing in many popular Christian periodicals. 
Furthermore, he is the past president of the National Conference of 
Southern Baptists and a current member of the executive board of the 
Southern Baptist Convention.
  Since 1988, he has made Dothan, AL, his home, where he is a senior 
pastor of the nearly 3,000-member Ridgecrest Baptist Church, one of the 
South's fastest growing churches.
  Mr. Speaker, it is my great honor to welcome my friend, Jerry 
Spencer, to the U.S. House of Representatives, and I join the entire 
House in thanking him for offering this morning's prayer for this 
esteemed body.

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