RETURN TO: James M. Lambert PO Box 1107

Cary, NC 27512 (919) 467-5100 (800) 222-3478

BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA

Date April 5, 1989

BIOGRAPIDCAL INFORMATION

Please type if possible or use black ink. Form 2, Paee 2 is confidential. for office use only.

FBC, Randleman Randolph 100 N. Main St. 370 Pastor

Name Bobby (Bob) Gene P~att Telephone~ 498-275l(H)( '?19) 498-8'.:.S~W)

Home Address 201 Forrest Drive

City Randleman State N. C. Zip 27317

Age_5_6_Birthday_5_/_9_/_3_2 Birthplace Wadesboro, N. C. (Anson County)

Marital Status Married Number of Children_2_ Children's Years of Birth 1_9_5_8_; _1_9_6_2_. ------------ Born in Akron, Ohio;

Wife's Home Town Grew up in Cassatt, S. C. Wife's Maiden Name Janet Glynn Hall

FORMAL EDUCATION:

High School Wadesboro High School, Wadesboro, North Carolina Year Graduated 1950 Wingate, 1950-51.

CollegeWake Forest University Year 1954 Degree B.A., cwn laude, Spanish, English, Secondary Education.

Semina~outheastern Baptist Theological Sernin~r 1957 Degree (B.D.); M.Di.v., 1987, updated. 1985 D. Min.

Post Grad or Continuing Ed?_Y_e_s_. Where? UNC-Chapel Hill, Er..glish-Secondary Ed.

Other School of Pastoral ·care, Baptist Hospital, 1984; Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J. (Institute of Theology); The Babcock Graduate School of Management,WFU.

Ordination: Date 5/5/57 Church Wade Baptist Church Address Wadesboro, N. c.

EXPERIENCE: Years

1969 to present

1965 to 1969

1962 to 1965

1961 to 1962 1961 1957 to 1960

Church/Org, Assoc. Address Members Position

Fairview Baptist Mt. Zion Hillsborough, NC Pastor

Rocky Mount Anson Polkton, NC Pastor

S. Burlington Baptist Chapel, New England, S. Burlington, Vermont,Pastor Piney Point Baptist Chapel, Piney Point, Md. Pastor

Eureka Baptist Church, Keysville, Virginia Pastor Mt. Tirzah Baptist Church, Charlotte C.H., Virginia Pastor

Form 1. Paie 2

BI-VOCATIONAL (jointly with church employment):

N~ Bobby (Bob) G. Pratt

Employer ---------- Hrs. per wk ------- C'MC'/CULTURAL ACTTVITTF.S: Randleman Community Chorale, Randleman High School Advisory :S-oara, C1v1tans, RanaoLpn-COunty Senior Citizens Association Board of Directors, Advisory Board for "Our Place," Senior Adult Day Care of Randolph County.

MILITARY AND/OR BUSINESS EXPERIENCE: salesman for B. c. Moore and sons and Belk's Department Stores, High school teacher of English, Spanish, and world history and U.S. history in Virginia, V~rm~n~~ ~nd SoMte Carolina. Moore's Funeral Home, and Wade Mfg. Co.

CHURCH MINISTRIES: in a s oz o , • •

(In 200 words or less, describe the major emphasis of your ministry and accomplishments) . . ..: The ma.jox: emphasis. 0£.m.y. minis_try .. ..is-pr-eaching the gospeJ:. through. ca:r;efully-: planned. worship services and the teaching opportunities of the church~ Visitation of members with known illnesses ~nd needs and of prospects for the church also are main ~~phases of my m i.m.a c ry , I have kept a strong emphas i.s on missions in all my pastorates, and, as two ladies voluntarily testified in Baptist Women, which my wife was attending last night, "We have learned more about missions since the Pratts came here than we have ever known, and our church is more deeply involved in missions of all kinds." I feel that is a fine Describe your present attitude toward changing locations for your ministry: accomplishment. I am very open to a change of locations for ministry, and I feel that I am more capable than at any other time in my life to render a good ministry in the pastorate preferably. However, I have other skills that I am willing to use in a good situation. DENOMINATIONAL ACTIVITIES: Wake Forest Ministerial Alumni Board, Randolph Baptist Youth VBS leader for clinic in the past, Annual sermon in Randolph and Anson associations, Home mission board worker with the SPfuC~ ~ONO~S: Spanish in New Mexico and .i'l.rizona, three summers in Vermont and later ~5~iafi~ ~~gm~aPI ic- gastored the first SBC work in Vermont which now has 13 daughter churches ~!~~A}1~2ouij~~dent r missions, Randolph Baptist mission to West Virginia. SPECIAL INTERESTS, ABILITIES, HOBBIES: Music (piano and choir), oil painting, writing (seven years journalism study and experience plus creative writing), seven years drama ex- perience, furniture refinishing, gardening, and reading. I have had special training in the spiritual approach to alcoholism and drug dependency and in working with the elderly.

Please list three books you have read in the past two years which impressed you: The Convention by Will Campbell; When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough by Harold Kushner; and Gracias by Henri Nouwen.

REFERENCES: Church-Related (including seminary professors):

Name Position Address

2.

Telephone Number(s) ( 919) 625-4175

Dr. Donald cook _P_r_o_f_·~~ _s_o_u_th~e_a_s_t_e_r_n~B_a_p~t_i_s_t~T_h_e_o_1_o_g_i_c_a_1~s(11ina)y (919) 556-3101

(19 ) 969-5144; 969-2115

I. Dir. of Rev. Judson Rotan.. . 1106 Farmer Road, Asheboro, N. C.

~--~~~~- ~M=l=SS~l~O~ns"'--

3. Dr. Charles Lee Hutchens, Pastor, FBC, Rural Hall, N. C.

Other. (please identifv-. banker, lawver, doctor, merc-han~ etc.): (minister of sefiior aduli::s, Green St., teacner}

4_ Dr./Mrs. Elliott Steward; P. O. Box 55, Trinity, NC 27370 l919 ) 431-3598

5. Mr. Barney Walker teacher 123 N. Oakland Avenue, Eden, N .. C. 2(7288) (919) 623-6630

Rev. E.· Glen Holt pastor FBC, Fayetteville, N. C. 402 Wayberry Drive, 28303

. ( 919) 483-04 77

RESUME for

Bobby Gene Pratt (Sob)

Home Town: Home Church:

Wadesboro, North Caro Wade Baptist Church, Wadesboro, North Caro

Current Address: 201 Forrest Drive Randleman, North Carolina 27317

Present Position: Pastor, First Baptist Church 100 North Main Street

Randleman, North Carolina 27317

Telephone: Home: Church:

(919) 498-2751 (919) 498-8255

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND; Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, N. C.

Year 1985

Degree D. Min.

School of Pastoral Care, NC Baptist Hospital, 1984 Winston-Salem, N. C.

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1982 Wake Forest, N. C. (1957)

M. Div. (8. D. >

The University of NC-Chapel Hill, N. C. 1969 Graduate Work <English-Educcition)

1954 8. A. Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N. C. (English, Education, Spanish cum laude)

CONTINUING EDUCATION STUDIES; Genetic Decision-Making and Pastoral Care Bowman Gray School of Medicine Winston-Sal~m, N. C.

November, 1986

Ministry with the Elderly Seminar High Point College High Point, N. C.

Fall, 1986

National Seminar on Aging <Sponsored by the Sunday School Board, SBC, Nashville, lennessee and the Gerontological Studies Program, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, in Atlanta, Georgia)

January, 1985

CPE

RESUME: BOB PRATT (continued) Page 2

Managing Today's Church Seminar (The Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University)

February, 1985

Church Leadership Seminars (High Point College, High Point, NC>

Fa 11, 1984

The Institute of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ

Summer, 1978

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC

(Post M. Div. work, 1968. 1970. 1973)

Mars Hill College, Pastor's School Mars Hill, NC

1970

Furman University, Pastor's School Greenville, SC

1971 ' 1972' 1974

Randolph Technical College, Asheboro, NC Death and Grief, Drug Abuse, Oil Painting

FULL-TIME CHURCH-RELATED WORK: First Baptist Church, Fairview Baptist Church, Hillsborough, NC Rocky Mount Baptist Church, Route 2, Polkton, NC South Burlington Baptist

Chapel South Burlington, Vermont Piney Point Baptist Chapel, Piney Point, Maryland Eureka Baptist Church and Keysville, Virginia Mt. Tirzah Baptist Church Charlotte C.H., Virginia

(!served as pastor of each of the above churches or missions, helping to begin the first Southern Baptist church in the state of Vermont, the South Burlington Baptist Church, which is now the mother church of about thirteen other SBC churches or

Randleman, NC 1969-present 1965-1969 1962-1965

1961-1962 1961

1957-1960

missions.)

OTHER CHURCH-RELATED WORK: Summer missionary to Spanish-speaking

peoples in New Mexico and Colorado Home Mission Board,

SBC Summer

1953

Summer missionary to Vermont Vermont Church Council

Summers 1954-56

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: Randleman Ministerial Conference Currently president, and I

have served as president and secretary-treasurer in the past.

RESUME: BOB PRATT (continued> Page 3

Randolph Baptist Christian Affairs, Ordination committees

Randleman Community Chorale Randleman High School Advisory Board

Civitans Randolph Baptist Executive Board Board Member, Randolph County Senior Citizens Association Advisory Board, Our Place, Senior Adult Day Care

MARITAL STATUS: I am married to the former Janet Glynn Hall, Cassatt, SC. She is a career teacher, graduating from Wingate and Carson-Newman Colleges.

We have two married daughters.

HOBBIES: Furniture refinishing, gardening, oil painting, music,

reading, and writing.

REFERENCES: Dr. Donald Cook, Professor of New Testament, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, N. C.

Rev. E. Glen Holt, Pastor, FBC, Fayetteville, N. C. 402 Wayberry Drive, Fayetteville, N. C. 28303

Mr. Barney Walker, Jr. 123 N. Oakland Avenue Eden, N. C. 27288 Telephone: (919) 623-6630

Chaplain (Maj.) Robin L. Aplet, Brooke Army Medical Center, Dept. of Ministry and Pastoral Care Fort Sam Houston, Texas 7~234

Rev. Irvin_W. Adcock, Pastor, Bethlehem Baptist Church

539 N. New Hope Road, Gastonia, N. C. 28052 Telephone: (704) 866-0940

(704) 864-0406

Dr. and Mrs. Elliott Stewart P.O. Box 55 Trinity, N. C. 27370 Telephone: (919) 431-3598

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, RANDLEMAN, N. C., 1880-1947 (NCCF)

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Bobb>' G. Pratt. formerly pastor of Fairview Baptist Church, Hillsborough, N. C. m'm-ed to Ran­ dlernan today lo assume pastorate of First Baptist Church. Randleman.

I Pratt. 37, is a native of Wadesboro. and is married to the former Janice

I Hall. of Cassatt, Va. Thev have two I I children, Carolyn, 11. and Kimberly. ~ I

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I He attended Wingate College. re- I

ceived his BA degree from Wake 1 Forest, and his Divinity degree from; I Southr=stern Seminarv. where he h:i_q I also done post graduate work He · has also done graduate 'study at 1

Chapel Hill.

He did missionary work in Mary land and Vermont. and has served churches in Rocky Ml. and Polkton ~~-A-µ~WS'-~'&"'•

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