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November - December 1999 The Sabbath Sentinel
Calvin Burrell Third Vice President
Calvin Burrell, third vice-president of the B.S.A., is a
56-year old pastor and editor with the Church of God
(Seventh Day) from Houston, Texas. In a thirty-five year
career with that Church, he served as a teacher at
Spring Vale Academy in Owosso, Michigan and at Summit
School of Theology in Denver, Colorado; as a pastor in
Ft. Smith, Arkansas; Shawnee, Oklahoma; Denver,
Colorado; and Kearney, Nebraska; and as a
director/administrator at several levels of the
organization.
Calvin is the third of four children born to Lawrence
and Lottie Burrell, longtime secretary/treasurer of the
Bible Sabbath Association. Calvin says two of his
keenest memories of his childhood home were becoming the
designated "plowboy" on his father's Oklahoma wheat
farm, and assisting with dozens of various office tasks
for the B.S.A.-including typing out localized sunset
charts without the benefit of correction fluid.
Calvin and his wife Barb have been married for 33 years,
and have three adult daughters and three
grandchildren. His hobby is walking/hiking in the
outdoors, as near to the woods and hills as he can
get. While living in Colorado, he summited all 54 of
that states peaks over 14,000 feet in
elevation. Currently, he pastors the Houston English
congregation of the Church of\line God (Seventh Day),
meeting in Galena Park, TX, and also edits the Church's
magazine, THE BIBLE ADVOCATE.
TSS
November - December 1999 The Sabbath Sentinel
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