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Senior Senior

Jimmy Evans

In Honor of

My Pastor

by Kate Pybus

reasons I am so which is dedicated to strengthening
happy to honor families. I am so thankful to have
Pastor Jimmy had the blessing of sitting in the
Evans. Pastor front section of our youth group on
Jimmy never Sundays to hear God’s plan for my
puts on an act. one-day marriage and how it should
f you’ve lived in Amarillo for a He brings a be. I know his messages, which have
long time, you may remember realistic perspective to how difficult been bathed in prayer, will prevent
IM.L. Evans Appliance. This life is at times if we are not focused me from making lots of mistakes in
appliance store was around years on Jesus, but He loves us too much my future.
before I was born. I only knew about to let us stay the way we are. He
it because one of the owner’s sons, wants our marriages and families to I started going to Trinity Fellowship
who is also one of my pastors, has be filled with joy and reminds us that when I was three years old. We
shared specific details about his life that can be a reality if we do it God’s moved away during my childhood
growing up. Pastor Jimmy Evans has way. but then moved back to Amarillo. I
shared many times with our church can’t remember my exact age when
family about his life as a young boy. Jimmy Evans has served as the Jimmy Evans’ sermons started
senior leader of Trinity Fellowship affecting me (after I started going to
Jimmy’s parents, Martin Lee (M.L.) Church for more than 30 years. Our BIG church with my parents!)
and Mary Wells Evans, had three church grew from 900 to over 10,000
sons: Michael, Jimmy, and Randy. under his leadership. Today he is a In the beginning of my teen years,
Jimmy started out, as some might senior Elder and still a member of I started taking notes on Sundays.
say, a typical teenage boy, trying our preaching team. He is also the Then I started really thinking
to look cool and act cool. He is senior pastor at Gateway Church about those notes throughout the
the first to share his mistakes and in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. week when I would hear different
some humorous stories with his Jimmy and his wife, Karen, co-host conversations in school about some
congregation. This is just one of the a television show, Marriage Today, tough topics.

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