[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5417]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



     WELCOMING REVEREND CHIP LINGLE TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I introduce 
the chaplain of today, the Reverend Chip Lingle.
  Chip comes to us from Faith Lutheran Church in Savannah, the mother 
city of Georgia, founded in 1733. He has been there with his wife, 
Ruth, for 5 years.
  Reverend Lingle grew up in North Carolina and did his undergraduate 
studies at the University of North Carolina in Raleigh. He received his 
master's from the Lutheran Theological Seminary of the South in 
Columbia, South Carolina and has served in churches in North Carolina, 
South Carolina, and in Georgia.
  I have gotten to know the Lingle family over the past years and have 
become great friends with his son Ben, who also served as a page here. 
Ben goes to Jenkins High School and is a member of the National Honor 
Society. He is a member of the marching band and concert band. He is on 
the Mock Trial team and has been very active in Boy Scouts and church 
activities and plays in a rock and roll band called Sweet Pig.
  Ben is also here with us today; and so is Reverend Lingle's mother, 
Isetta Lingle, who is with us in the gallery.
  So please join me in welcoming Reverend Chip Lingle.

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