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PFR presents award to missionary couple
GA04078
June 30, 2004

PFR presents award to missionary couple

Frederick and Margie Stock 'loved people' of Pakistan for 48 years

by Bill Lancaster

RICHMOND, June 30  - Presbyterians for Renewal (PFR) has awarded its
Bell-Mackay Award for 2004 to the Rev. Frederick Stock and his wife, Margie,
who served as evangelistic missionaries in Pakistan for 48 years.

Stock has specialized in outreach to tribal peoples but has also supervised
and mentored other pastors. Margie has taught at two schools in Egypt, led
Bible studies and done literacy work in Pakistan, and "provided the ministry
of hospitality in the home, without which in many cultures there is no
prospect of developing meaningful relationships for witness to the gospel,"
said Marian McClure, director of the PC(USA)'s Worldwide Ministries Division.

McClure said the Stocks and others who have reached out to tribal people have
brought the PC(USA) "back to its roots as a premier frontier evangelism
mission society." She said one of the Stocks' children told her that a
missionary once asked Fred what was the most important thing he had done in
Pakistan, and his simple answer was, "We've loved some people.'"

PFR presented its Lydia Fund Award to Irene Pak, a Korean-American student at
McCormick Theological Seminary.

The featured speaker at the Wednesday morning breakfast was the Rev. Lloyd
Ogilvie, a former chaplain of the U.S. Senate. In his address, "The Red Ember
in the White Ash," Ogilvie said the flame of passion for ministry sometimes
dies down to an ember that needs to be fanned with the wind of the Spirit to
get it burning again.

Ogilvie said God wants all of us, and wants to use us where we are. "If you
can't be used where you are, you can't be used," he said, "because that's
where you are."

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