[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13921]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    WELCOMING DR. KEITH BOONE, PASTOR, FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

  Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, I thank the Speaker for having my pastor here 
to pray over this Congress and to pray over the Nation. Keith Payne 
Boone is a native of Dallas, Texas, a graduate of my alma mater 
Southern Methodist University. He has Methodist in his veins from head 
to toe. His grandfather was the legendary Bolton Boone who headed up 
the Golden Cross. It was the first ecumenical charity. I was a member 
of that board some 50 years in Dallas. Keith was not around at that 
time, but he is a leader in the Methodist Church of Rockwall, Texas. 
The Dallas News carried, I think 3 months ago, that Rockwall County was 
the fastest-growing county in the United States. That is how fast our 
church is growing with the great pastor.
  I thank Pastor Keith Boone, my friend, friend of my family, Mary 
Ellen and my entire family, friend of Methodists, Baptists, and all 
denominations alike in Rockwall. Thank him for the prayer. Thank him 
for what he has done, what he is doing, and what he will do for this 
Nation.

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