Originally Posted by Jeanie (Post 220872)

I love it when you all share pictures! tim looks like tim-he's a cool guy.

Originally Posted by freeatlast (Post 220870)

Hoping he comes back to add his wonderful wit and wisdom to this forum.

Originally Posted by Jeanie (Post 220872)

I love it when you all share pictures! tim looks like tim-he's a cool guy.

Originally Posted by CC1 (Post 221040)

I miss Timlan also but more importantly it is clear I need to visit this Strange man also as that breakfast sounds wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Sherri (Post 220901)

Originally Posted by Steve Epley (Post 221123)

Has Timlan not been posting?????????????? He and Thad are in cohoots.:sshhh

Originally Posted by Praxeas (Post 221185)

Man you people in the south have the strangest names for cities

Originally Posted by CC1 (Post 221040)

I miss Timlan also but more importantly it is clear I need to visit this Strange man also as that breakfast sounds wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by seguidordejesus (Post 221120)

I should have stopped by, I drove by the "Rockland" sign on Hwy 69 Friday night. Food was good where I was at anyway, though :D

Originally Posted by DividedThigh (Post 221248)

Tim is a great guy, would be an asset to aff, i only knew him from afar in college, good man, i want some of that food bro strange, you make me miss home, the south, dt:poloroid:hypercoffee

Originally Posted by Brother Strange (Post 221251)

Oh man!

For you, the wife would put the little pot in the big one (an old southern expression). She'd fix a great cajun dish that would make your tongue slap your forehead. :D

Originally Posted by Trouvere (Post 221260)

Poor Mah Ree...take those boys to Waffle House or at least make them wash
the dishes.

Originally Posted by DividedThigh (Post 221257)

in that case we must talk and i would drive all the way from where i am for that, my dad used to say that would make your tongue slap your teeth out, lol, that is a fur piece but we will work something out, lol,dt:hypercoffee

Originally Posted by Brother Strange (Post 221441)

You just let me know when, my friend. :D

Originally Posted by Brother Strange (Post 221447)

Deer season is from the latter part of Nov through Jan. Good deer hunting here. In fact, I can sit on my front porch and kill all the deer you want.

Originally Posted by Brother Strange (Post 221447)

Deer season is from the latter part of Nov through Jan. Good deer hunting here. In fact, I can sit on my front porch and kill all the deer you want.

Originally Posted by Brother Strange (Post 221243)

The next time you don't stop by after passing that Rockland sign, I'm coming looking for you. Woe be unto you! :D

Originally Posted by DividedThigh (Post 221448)

ok well we need to talk, cool , that sounds like the next best thing to heaven to me, dt:hypercoffee

Originally Posted by seguidordejesus (Post 221693)

How far are you from 69?

BTW, there was no way I was stopping, I had jumbalaya waiting for me!!! :D But I bet I could manage next time!

Originally Posted by Brother Strange (Post 221439)

Chocolate gravy?

What is that? A melted Easter Bunny?

Originally Posted by philjones (Post 221744)

No, sir! That is the best thing in the world over about 3 of them cat head scratch biscuits. My momma and my grandma have made it all my life. My kids and now my grand daughter are all addicted to it. It is a staple at the Jones house.

I will have to get the recipe and send it to you so Sister Marie can fix you up!:)

Originally Posted by Brother Strange (Post 221796)

You sure are gonna have to. I gotta have that recipee.

Better still, since you know where I live, come on by and you and I will put on an apron and fix up some of that chocolate gravy. Say, I'll forget the commandment, "thou shalt not kill" and go kill a squirell or two and we can also have squirell gravy on some of those big ol' catheads too. :D

Originally Posted by timlan2057 (Post 222034)

Okay.

I needed to tell Brother Strange to thank his wife for the wonderful breakfast last week. Sister Strange had to leave on an errand before I left.

So I may as well do that here.

Number one: NO WAY that man on the far right of the first row is Marvin Treece. That man, whoever he is, is obviously in his late forties or early fifties or even older.

Some of you are forgetting what era this is.

Prominent UPC preachers of course have always dressed in the latest styles.

And those ties SCREAM "late sixties or early seventies." Tommy Craft was wearing the brighter ties of the mid-seventies by the time I got to JCM in September of 1975 so this picture is most probably a few years before that.

So my guess is this was around 1970-71 or so.

That's almost 40 years ago, people.

Marvin Treece would have still been Youth President of the Louisiana District around this time and no more than 35-38 years old.

He had a full head of sandy blond hair, was thinner and had a boyishly handsome face with full eyebrows and wasn't wearing glasses.

Here's my contribution:

Tommy Craft: Obvious. Treece is about his age and as you can see, Craft is still pretty close to Conquerors' Age here.

Ron Newstrand: Obvious. He was REALLY a fresh-faced kid back then.

Jess Williams: Obvious.

That's DEFINITELY G. A. Mangun on the far right, second row. This was around the time they moved from 16th and Day and built the first "big" church on Rapides and Meyer. Back then it was "Greater First Pentecostal Church."

(It always amused me how some ignoramuses thought they were bragging with that name when "greater" was a common term for the Alexandria metropolitan area.)

Anyway, Mangun definitely wore his hair slicked back with the wet look during that time. Anthony would have probably been a senior in high school around this time.

Far left third row: I THINK that is Glenn Chance, pastor of First UPC Monroe and at this time just beginning a 35 year long tenure as presbyter of Section Nine of the Louisiana District.

Third Row Second From Left: That's T. C. Bonnette, pastor of First UPC in Oakdale, La. and Foreign Missions Director of the Louisiana District at the time. Bonnette is quite elderly now and I see him around town occasionally.

I'd just about declare for sure that is Fred Foster, third from right, third row.

Back row, second from left, David Theobald.

And ... I THINK the guy on the far right, back row, is John Hattabaugh.

It's interesting to guess the occasion. I know that Craft and Newstrand served on the foreign missions board in the past.

I wonder if this was some kind of impromptu picture at a general conference? Looks like a fancier hotel.

My impression?

Many of these guys like Craft, Fisher, Newstrand, etc. were in their late thirties and early forties and already prominent pastors, leaders and administrators in the UPC.

Generation-wise, NOBODY has replaced them.

If I were the UPC, I'd be highly alarmed about the miniscule number of ministers under thirty and I'd be realizing that - for whatever reason and despite what the rose-colored glasses people are saying - I am a stagnant and dying organization.

Thanks again for the fine hospitality, Brother Strange.