Virgil F. Lowrance

FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PRIMITIVE OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINISTERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN: ELDER Virgil F. LOWRANCE I was born in Eastland County, Texas, March 14, 1904, to William Thomas and Minerva Susan Lowrance. I am the seventh child in a family of thirteenchildren: nine boys and four girls. I was married to Virginia Ann NettyMcDorman, Sept. 16, 1928. To this union four children were born, two girls and two boys, one passing away in infancy. I was reared by good, honest, Christian-hearted parents, but of anArminian faith. I held membership with them for about eight years; but never fully believed their doctrine. I never knew anything about what Primitive Baptist belief (only by hear-say), until I met and began to go to church with the girl that is now my wife. I will not go into the details of my conversion from Arminiansm to a knowledge of the truth of the gospel. Suffice it to say here that it was hardly three years until I became willing to forsake father and mother, brothers and sisters, and every earthly tie by the Lowrance name, and go ask this people for a home. I was received into their fellowship, and my wife and I were baptized together, in August 1930 at Afton, Texas. I was ordained October 19, 1932. Soon the churches were calling me as Pastor, including my home church, which I tried to serve in that capacity until I moved away. Before long I was trying to serve four churches. In 1946, we moved to Arkansas. Soon, by their call, I was trying to serve four churches again. At one time, in addition to trying to serve four churches as pastor, I had five monthly appointments extra; two weekly radio broadcasts of thirty minutes each, and one monthly broadcast, all on different stations. But I could not hold up to this pace and begin to give up, gradually, until now, I am only trying to fill two monthlyappointments regularly. I have been privileged to travel in 40 states and have preached in 30, including Washington D. C. I average about 30,000 miles a year. But again, I am having to slow down, but I hope to be active in the Master’s Vineyard as long as I live. Elder Lowrance passed away October 6, 1987.