[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 53 (Thursday, April 22, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E632]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 IN RECOGNITION OF CECIL O. SEWELL, JR.

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                            HON. MIKE ROGERS

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 22, 2004

  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to 
Cecil O. Sewell, Jr., who on April 25, 2004 will celebrate his 50th 
year in the ministry.
  Pastor Sewell was born on August 12, 1936, and was called to the 
ministry in April of 1954. He continued serving as a minister while he 
attended college and divinity school. He graduated from Samford 
University in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1958, and went on to graduate 
studies at the University of Alabama. He then attended Divinity School 
at Houston Baptist University, where he graduated in 1982.
  Pastor Sewell has been pastor to six churches. He has gone on 
missions and done evangelism in twelve states and eight foreign 
countries, including three missions to Romania and six missions to 
Brazil. He has served on numerous state and national convention 
committees and as Trustee of the Baptist Health System. One of the most 
telling things about Cecil Sewell is that he has been an interim pastor 
for four churches in his most recent years, having retired from the 
ministry and been called back to service on these four occasions. He is 
now interim pastor of First Baptist Church in Saks, Alabama.
  I am so very proud to salute Cecil O. Sewell, Jr., for his 50 years 
of ministry, and appreciate the House's attention today in observance 
of his ministry.

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