services expecting a show, only to find real conviction. Farley’s preaching blends past and present—he keeps 200 period sermons in boxes in the RV—but they leave no room for middle ground: you are saved, or you are not. Each service closes with an altar call.


“It’s the same message men 150 years ago were preaching,” he said. “That never changes.”


The preacher has no patience for chaplain reenactors who dress the part but lack the passion. “I run across men out here who portray chaplains and have the mannerisms and the dress of a Civil War chaplain down to a ‘t,’” Farley said. “But when they preached, I realized they were not genuine. They were just reading a sermon that someone else preached.”—Daniel Burke


Lee University Earns Presidential Service Award


NEW YORK—In honor of its commitment to community service, Lee University was one of six colleges nationwide to be named a Presidential Awardee as part of the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. Mike Hayes, Lee’s vice president for student development, received the school’s award conveyed by President Obama through the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). The honor was bestowed at Radio City Music Hall on June 28


during a three-day conference attracting more than 5,000 service leaders. Hayes said, “Receiving this award on behalf of Lee Uni- versity was a signal honor. It rec- ognizes the transformative service engaged in by our students, facul- ty, staff, and community partners. This will continue to inspire us to meet pressing needs in our com- munity and around the world.” The other schools named as Presidential Awardees were Ohio Wesleyan University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Emory & Henry College (VA), Rari-


NewslineNewsl ne DECEASED MINISTERS and COMPANIONS


BAKER, Dean W.; 75; exhorter; Arkansas; Geneva Baker (wife)


BASS, Earl; 90; exhorter; Alabama; Pauline Bass (wife)


BRYANT, Charles E.; 54; exhorter; Georgia; Brenda Bryant (wife)


CAGLE, Leamon Lee; 74; ordained bishop; South Carolina; Nancy Cagle (wife)


EVANS, Forrest Ezzell; 87; ordained bishop; North Carolina; Louella Evans (wife)


FORTNER, Ettie O.; 88; ordained minister; Florida; Lisa Baylous (daughter)


GUNTER, Brenda S.; 64; exhorter; Georgia; Keith Gunter (husband)


HARKINS, Burton; 87; ordained bishop; Kentucky; Charlotte Faye Clark (daughter)


HUGHES, Finnabea; 94; ordained minister; Texas; Roy Hughes (son)


Mike Hayes receives Presidential Award for Lee University.


tan Valley Community College (NJ) and Willamette University (OR). According to informa- tion released by CNCS about the Honor Roll, “Lee students completed more than 60,000 hours of volunteer service last year [2009], in projects aimed at poverty relief, food collection and distribution, and helping students with autism and other developmental disabilities.”


JOHNSON, William M.; ordained bishop; Bahamas; Vernicka Johnson (wife)


LINDSAY, Darrell L.; 89; ordained bishop; Canada; Marian Aspinall (daughter)


MERKES, Peter Andrew; 69; ordained bishop; Alaska; Judi Merkes (wife)


MINTZ, Lee Wade; 81; ordained bishop; South Caroli- na; Priscilla M. Cook (daughter)


MITZELFELT, Robert E.; 74; ordained bishop; Virginia; Charlotte Mitzelfelt (wife)


SMITH, Jack Albert; 78; ordained minister; South Caro- lina; Evelyn M. Smith (wife)


VILLEGAS, Sixto; 88; exhorter; Massachusetts; Maria Villegas (wife)


WHITE, Deborah Jo; 58; exhorter; Alabama; Timothy L. White (husband)


WILBOURNE, Robert Earl; 55; ordained bishop; North Caro- lina; Lois Wilbourne (wife)


The Honor Roll is a list com- piled each year, generally recog- nizing each college or university for its students’ service efforts. The 2009 Honor Roll included over 700 schools. For exception- al efforts, the Honor Roll includes a list “with distinction” including fewer than 100 schools. Lee Uni- versity has been on the Honor Roll with distinction since the list’s inception in 2006.


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