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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.

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November - December 1999 The Sabbath Sentinel