topic series cataloged in a file according to
their Bible chapter and verse! He keeps the
file with him in his of
Roger Byrd and it helps lighten the church’s load just a bit.”
ask, he’s willing to share.
fice and for those who
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Byrd says his family has long had a tradition of lay
have most of them,” he adds with another
Roger Byrd (’80), a
speaking, and his nephew is the pastor at Mt. Zion
warm smile.
former Brewton-
Baptist Church in Hazlehurst.
P
Rhoades, who says that he’
and Georgia state
arker College trustee
“There are a lot of active lay speakers in my family
heart” and “by calling”, doesn’t always call
s “a teacher by
representative for
he says. “I love to prepare a sermon and to see
,”
himself a teacher either.
more than 20 years,
people respond to the message. I love to do it, to
knows the power of
see people get it,” Byrd said. “I also get to visit and
“I call myself a facilitator
serving others before
meet a lot of folks that way
up to the individual to understand what God
,” he said. “I leave it
serving self. In fact,
churches. I grew up in one so they’re special to me.”
, especially in small
wants them to do with the knowledge they
t
Director of
he newly-appointed
Byrd is currently enrolled in classes at Brewton-
are receiving.”
Relations has served
Alumni
Parker
as a lay speaker in
science. Byrd attended Brewton-Parker in 1976-77
. He is completing a degree in political
And he encourages all his students to seek
area churches since
and again in 1979-80.
God’
teaching child psychology or the Gospel.
s wisdom in their lives, whether he’s
the mid ‘70s.
Byrd was first elected to the Georgia House in 1980
Byrd’
to represent what was then District 138. From
“I think the Lord really does want me at a
in Lothair
s most recent “fill-in” was at Red Bluff Baptist
1982-92, his representing body was known as
small, Christian college,” he adds. “I’m not
gives the evening services during the month of July
, Ga. (Treutlen County), and he regularly
District 153.
going to compromise my principles and I
at Hopewell United Methodist Church in
District 170. His representing area always included
Then from 1992-2002, it was labeled
have the freedom to say some things here I
County while the pastor completes his further
Appling
Appling, Jef
would not have in secular colleges. I like to
bring the principles of Christ to the subject
education classes in the month of July.
three redistricting processes.
included others, including
f Davis and W
Toombs and
ayne Counties, but
Telfair, in the
that I’m teaching. My belief is all knowledge
starts with Christ, thus the process of
“Red Bluf
church in Lothair
f was searching for a pastor,” Byrd said of the
He and his wife,
education and trusting God, they merge and
basis. I do that a lot. It gives me a chance to preach
. “I was helping out on a short-term
10.
April, have one daughter
marry perfectly.”
Ailey by the start of 2007.
They reside in Baxley, but plan to relocate to
, Olivia,
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