Dear Editor:
BNG published a wonderful article on the death of Keith Parks. There is one item you would not have had information about.
I was the national networking coordinator when Keith was hired at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Cecil Sherman was our first national coordinator and he was paid about what he was making as pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth. When Keith was interviewed to become our missions coordinator, he was offered almost as much money as Cecil was making.
He replied: “I cannot come for that. That salary is much more than our missionaries are making. I am a missionary. I have always been a missionary, and I will always be a missionary. I have always made the same amount of money as our missionaries. I will accept the job but will only earn the same salary as our missionaries.”
It was a great privilege to work with Keith. He was the real deal, a missionary in whom there was no guile.
Bill Bruster, Dallas