[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12005-12006]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               WELCOMING THE REVEREND DR. PAUL W. POWELL

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Gohmert) is recognized for 1 minute.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker, our guest chaplain today has been 
Reverend Dr. Paul W. Powell. He is retired dean of Baylor University's 
Truett Theological Seminary and is a distinguished graduate of both 
Baylor and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has also been 
the president of the Southern Baptist Annuity Board and Baptist General 
Convention of Texas, along with a vast array of offices with many 
charitable institutions too numerous to mention.
  He is an author of 36 books and has been pastor of churches all over 
Texas

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and spanned two decades as pastor of Green Acres Baptist Church in 
Tyler, Texas, leading our church from about 700 members to over 7,000, 
where it fed and clothed the poor through founding the Good Samaritan 
Outreach Center and People Attempting to Help. Under his direction, our 
church began Hispanic church ministries, a Korean church ministry, 
dental and medical outreach ministries, as well as churches in Mexico, 
Belize, and many other places. Green Acres became the largest single 
donor to missions in the entire Southern Baptist Convention.
  He and his wife, Cathy, have three children: Kent, Mike, and Lori; 
and three grandchildren: Jordan, Katie, and Matthew.
  He is now the interim pastor of First Baptist Church in Tyler. He 
brings wisdom, accountability, growth, life, and light wherever he 
serves and truly has a heart after God's own. Seeking always to serve, 
he has been pastor, dean, president, chairman, director, officer, 
trustee of so many entities, but of most importance to me, he has been 
a friend, mentor, confidant, encourager, and inspiration.
  May God bless Paul Powell and his family.

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