S T A F F • C H A N G E S
Aaron Brittain, to Park View Church, Portsmouth, as pastor.
Gary Chiles, to Calverton Church, Calverton, as pastor.
Mark Snodgrass, to Piney Fork Church, Gretna, as pastor.
Glen B. Lutz, to Bethel Church, Reva, as intentional interim pastor.
Tony Johnson, to Spurgeon Memorial Church, Norfolk, as interim pastor.
Jay G. Smith, resigning as pastor of First Church, Virginia Beach, effective Feb. 27.
Rick Perez, to Stuart Church, Stuart, as youth minister.
Terrace Crawford, to Cornerstone Church, Norfolk, as minister of youth.
G R A D U A T E S
Two persons with Virginia ties received degrees from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary on Dec. 18. Erin Pleasants Askew received the master of arts degree in missiology. Her home church is Onancock Church in Onancock. Mark Edward White received the master of divinity degree in Christian education. His home church is First Church, Bluefield, W.Va.
Cecil Chambers, interim pastor of Skipwith Church, Richmond, received the doctor of ministry degree in family and community from Truett Seminary at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in December.
D E A T H
John Mahon Tubbs died Jan. 16 in Locust Hill, at the age of 88. He had served as secretary of church training for the Virginia Baptist General Board [now Mission Board]; promoter of career education for the Baptist Sunday School Board [now LifeWay Christian Resources]; secretary of the department of Sunday school and church building for the Baptist Convention of Maryland; director of the educaton division for the Baptist Convention of New York; and assistant manager of Eagle Eyrie Baptist Conference Center until his retirement in 1984. He was a strong supporter of the separation of church and state and served a term on the National Advisory Committee of Americans United and was an active participant in religious liberty conferences of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs. At the time of his death he was a member and pastor emeritus of Harmony Grove Church, Topping. He is survived by his wife, Ann Byrd Tubbs; two daughters, Barbara Roark and Len E. Mitchell; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Jan. 19 at Harmony Grove Church with burial in Edge Hill cemetery, Nanticoke, Pa.