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Minister
Date: October 2, 1997
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: Clifford L. Willis
Email: CWillis@oc.disciples.org
on the web: http//www.disciples.org

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    INDIANAPOLIS (DNS) -- The Rev. Ralph E. Glenn
has been called as regional minister for the
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the
Southwest. He began the new ministry Sept. 15. 

    For the past four years Glenn has been an
area minister with the Christian Church (Disciples
of Christ) in Mid-America. Since 1989 Glenn also
has worked as a fund-raising consultant. 

    He previously served as vice president with
the Disciples Division of Higher Education, St.
Louis; Phillips University, Enid, Okla.; and
Columbia (Mo.) College. The Alabama native also
has served congregations in Austin, Texas, and
Kansas City, Mo.  

    Glenn now heads the largest of the 36 regions
of the Disciples of Christ. The Southwest Region
serves 427 congregations in Texas, New Mexico and
parts of Oklahoma and Kansas. He will be based in
Fort Worth.

    A graduate of Millsaps College, Jackson,
Miss., Glenn earned a bachelor of arts from the
institution in 1962. He has a master of divinity
degree from Lexington (Ky.) Theological Seminary
(1966) and has done further graduate work at
Indiana University, Bloomington, and Phillips
Theological Seminary.

    Ralph and his spouse, Margarite (Peggy), were
members of Broadway Christian Church, Columbia,
where she was moderator of the congregation. Peggy
also was an officer with Boone County National
Bank in the city. She is a graduate of
Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky. The couple
has two grown children, a daughter, Heather, and a
son, Clayton.

    The Revs. Howard and Darlene Goodrich,
Hannibal, Mo., are serving during the interim for
the Northeast Area, working out of Hannibal and
Columbia. The Goodriches are former Disciples
missionaries to Lesotho and Botswana and have
served as interim co-regional ministers in
Tennessee and North Carolina.

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