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FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PRIMITIVE OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINISTERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN:
ELDER GEORGE WALKER
I was born in Shelby County, Tennessee on November 17, 1943. Iam the youngest boy of 14 children. My father and mother were both Primitive Baptists and took the service of the Lord very serious. I had one brother named David that passed away a few years after his birth. All the rest of my brothers and sisters united with the church sometime in their life with three of us being ordained to the full work of the ministry.
I united with the church in Martin, Tennessee at the age of 13 years. I wasbaptized by my Uncle, Elder Clyde Moak who was pastoring a church inMississippi.
In 1965 at the age of 21 years I moved to Texas feeling that someday I might have to preach, but not willing to give in to those impressions.
Then I met the one person in my life, Eleanor Lee Norwood that captured my heart, we dated a few times and were married on July 2, 1966. The Lord has blessed our marriage with two children, a boy and a girl of which both are the members of the church that I now pastor.
Ten years after Eleanor and I were married, I was ordained to the full work of the ministry at Mt. Zion Church in Ft. Worth, Texas. This was on November the 28th. 1976. Since that time I have pastored the church at Blossom, Texas, the church at Farmersville, Texas, Joseph Lane Church in Ft. Worth, and the church in Stephenville, Texas. I am now pastoring New Hope Church in Ft. Worth, Texas and have been there since April 7, 1991.
Farmersville, 2009 - Brother George Walker at the Chambers Creek Association
Pictured: (Front) Elder Sonny Huckaby, Elder Vernon Johnson, Elder Tony Parker, Elder Ed Kirkpatrick, Elder George Walker, Elder G.H. Crain (Back) Elder Mike Hughes, Elder Ward Rowell, Elder David Wattenbarger, Elder Mike Montgomery, Elder Luke Addison, Elder Clifford Gowens, Elder Owen Rushing (Pastor), Elder Chris Blevins and Elder Greg Dorough. Not pictured: Elder Thomas McDonald, Elder Harley Stripland, Elder Keith Ellis and Bro. John Clark.
Update, November 29th, 2011
Elder George Walker passed from this little ground of sin and sorrow for better worlds on high, November 28th, 2011. |
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