[ag-news] AG NEWS #1807: April 26, 2010

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**Accident claims lives of district director and pastor's wife

AG South Texas District Women's Ministries Director Sandra
Bass-Palmer, 54, of Humble, Texas, and Gloria Budzowski, 55,
wife of Thomas Budzowski, pastor of Calvary AG, Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, died Friday when van they were in struck from
behind by truck. Funeral services are scheduled for this
week -- see article for details.


**Kidney donor husband is perfect match

After experiencing kidney problems for almost two decades,
doctors determined Dorothy Miller needed kidney transplant.
Husband Dean Miller, who drove her three times a week to
hospital for dialysis, offered to donate kidney ? proved to be
million to one match. Couple attends Lawson (Missouri) AG.


**This week in AG History -- April 26, 1924

Featured in this week's April 26, 1924, issue of the
"Pentecostal Evangel" are articles by Donald Gee, Smith
Wigglesworth, J. Narver Gortner and others!


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**ACCIDENT CLAIMS LIVES OF DISTRICT DIRECTOR AND PASTOR'S WIFE

The Assemblies of God South Texas District Women's Ministries
Director Sandra Bass-Palmer, 54, of Humble, Texas, and Gloria
Budzowski, 55, wife of Thomas Budzowski, pastor of Calvary AG in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, died Friday when their van was struck from
behind by a truck.

According to the Pennsylvania-Delaware District office, Bass-Palmer
was to be the Saturday evening speaker at the Assemblies of God
Women of Purpose Spring Celebration at Glad Tidings AG in
Middletown. Budzowski had just picked up Bass-Palmer at the
Harrisburg International Airport. While stopped for traffic on
Interstate 283, their van was struck from behind by a box truck,
pushed off the road and into a tree. An investigation is being
conducted on the accident.

Originally from North Carolina, Bass-Palmer served as the Women's
Ministries director for the North Carolina District for 10 years.
She's been the Women's Ministries director in the South Texas
District since January 2003.

"Sandra was known as a leader of distinction," says Arlene Allen,
director of the AG national Women's department. "She loved
ministering to women and had a big heart for missions. Not until
eternity will we know her influence on the many lives she touched."

Bass-Palmer is survived by her husband, Mark Palmer; her parents,
Vondrue and Alma Jean Bass; and her sister Vonda (Bass) and Les
Robinson.

The family of Bass-Palmer will be receiving friends at the Wilkerson
Funeral Home in Greenville, North, Carolina, Wednesday from 7-9 p.m.
The funeral will be at Faith Assembly of God in Winterville, North
Carolina, at 1 p.m. Thursday. Graveside services will be held in
Dunn, North Carolina, following the funeral service.

According to the South Texas District office, a memorial service is
planned to be held at First AG in Humble, Texas, with a tentative
date of May 7.

Budzowski is survived by her husband, Thomas; her mother, Helen
Pinkerton; five married daughters ? Rachel and Bryon Grim, Rebekah
and Charles Steele, Sarah and Joshua Garman, Hannah and Earl George,
and Abigail and Roberto Jimenez; and seven grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements for Budzowski, according to the AG
Pennsylvania-Delaware District office, will be 11 a.m. Thursday at
First Assembly of God, 4100 N. Progress Avenue, Harrisburg. Stephen
Tourville, the district superintendent, will be officiating.

--AG News


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**KIDNEY DONOR HUSBAND IS PERFECT MATCH

Dorothy Miller of Lawson, Missouri, had been experiencing kidney
problems for two decades when she went on dialysis in October 2008.
Her situation continued to deteriorate and doctors quickly placed
her on a list of patients in need of a kidney transplant.

By last fall, husband Dean Miller drove her three times a week 32
miles to a Liberty, Missouri, hospital for dialysis. On other days,
Dorothy felt weak and tired.

"I was getting awfully discouraged," says Dorothy, whose parents
served as Assemblies of God pastors. "Dialysis had taken over my
whole life."

Seeing his wife of 53 years waste away, Dean then offered to donate
one of his kidneys for her survival. Doctors initially didn't give
much credence to the proposal because donors past 70 aren't
considered viable. Dean is 76.

Yet after a battery of tests, medical personnel determined that Dean
indeed proved to be a million-to-one match.

"The Lord knew when I met Dorothy that she was going to need this
match," says Dean, a retired trucker. "I always told her the Lord
put us together. She didn't believe it until I gave her a kidney!"

The Millers met in a Sunday School class at what is now Northland
Cathedral in Kansas City, Missouri. Dean calls it love at first
sight.

For the past 40 years, the couple has attended Lawson Assembly of
God, a congregation of 275 in a town of 2,900. All five of the
Miller children attend AG churches.

Lawson AG Pastor Roger Cook credits Dean's tenacity for convincing
skeptical physicians that he could be a donor.

"Dean was unwilling to take no for an answer when it came to the
health of his wife," says Cook, who has been pastor there for eight
years. "Through perseverance he was able to prevail."

Cook says when he prayed with the couple before the transplant Dean
sincerely told his wife he was willing to die so that Dorothy would
live.

The November surgery went well and Dorothy's quick recovery amazed
doctors. It probably helped that Dean never smoked cigarettes or
drank alcohol. He walks four miles a day, and his father is still
alive at 100.

"I give God all the praise and glory," Dean says.

"Dean's feeling good, and I'm doing wonderful," Dorothy says. "God
has really blessed us."

"We're thankful for medical technologies and the ability that
surgeons have, but we recognize that all healing comes from God,"
Cook says. "This miracle supersedes medical capabilities."

--John W. Kennedy, Pentecostal Evangel


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**THIS WEEK IN AG HISTORY -- APRIL 26, 1924

Gary McGee once quipped that the charismatic evangelist is both the
agony and the ecstasy of the Pentecostal movement. Expressing
similar concern, British leader Donald Gee, in a 1924 "Pentecostal
Evangel" article, warned against "being led astray by magnetic and
attractive personalities."

Gee lamented "the carnal way in which big campaigns are often
conducted today" ­ but also affirmed that God works through one's
personality.

How does one balance personal charisma with humility? Gee suggested,
"it must be a personality utterly surrendered to the principle of
the Cross (Matt. 16:24), and the stronger the personality the deeper
will be the need of continual acceptance of crucifixion with Christ
(Gal. 2:20)."

Read Gee's article, "The Danger of Personality," in the April 26,
1924, issue of the "Pentecostal Evangel."

Also featured in this issue:

* "Paul's Conversion and His Baptism," by Smith Wigglesworth

* "Modern Towers of Babel"

* "The Kingdom of God," by J. Narver Gortner

And many more! Click here to read this issue now:
http://s2.ag.org/apr261924

"Pentecostal Evangel" archived editions courtesy of Flower
Pentecostal Heritage Center: http://iFPHC.org. For current editions
of the "Evangel," click here: http//www.pe.ag.org. 


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