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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
| 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate Dr. Randy Perry on |
| 4 | | the occasion of his retirement as Directing Pastor of Calvary |
| 5 | | United Methodist Church in Normal; and
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| 6 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Perry was born in Shelbyville, Indiana; he |
| 7 | | attended elementary school in DeKalb, middle school in
Albia, |
| 8 | | and the laboratory high school at Western Illinois University |
| 9 | | in Macomb; he earned his
bachelor's degree from Iowa Wesleyan |
| 10 | | College, where he worked with Dr. George LeMore, a highly |
| 11 | | respected professor and preacher; he
earned his license to |
| 12 | | serve as a student pastor at the United Methodist Church of |
| 13 | | Nauvoo; and
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| 14 | | WHEREAS, After graduation, Dr. Perry traveled to Durham, |
| 15 | | North Carolina to complete his theological training at Duke
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| 16 | | University; while there he served as youth pastor for First |
| 17 | | United Methodist Church in Siler City, North
Carolina; upon |
| 18 | | graduation, he returned to the Midwest to accept his first |
| 19 | | appointment as Pastor in the Great Rivers
Illinois Conference, |
| 20 | | and was assigned to Cornell Blackstone United Methodist Church; |
| 21 | | while at Cornell, he met
his future wife, Kandis Mills; and
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| 22 | | WHEREAS, In 1976, Dr. Perry was appointed to Forrest United |
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| 1 | | Methodist Church and began his doctoral studies at
Vanderbilt |
| 2 | | University; the Perrys were married at Forrest Church in June |
| 3 | | of 1981 and the couple welcomed their
first child, Rachel; and
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| 4 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Perry moved his family to Gibson City to serve |
| 5 | | the United Methodist Church, and
during these years, the |
| 6 | | couple's 2 other children, Rebecca and Nathan, were born; he |
| 7 | | was then appointed to First United Methodist Church in |
| 8 | | Taylorville, and during his years in
Taylorville, he served as |
| 9 | | a member of several non-profit boards, including the YMCA, the |
| 10 | | Hopper Foundation, the
Felheimer Trust, and Iowa Wesleyan |
| 11 | | University; and
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| 12 | | WHEREAS, In 1999, Dr. Perry's appointment to Calvary United |
| 13 | | Methodist Church brought the family to Normal, and under his |
| 14 | | leadership, the church grew from 775 members to over 1700, |
| 15 | | becoming
the third largest church in the Illinois Great Rivers |
| 16 | | Conference; he was instrumental in the church's
building and |
| 17 | | expansion projects; therefore, be it
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| 18 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
| 19 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
| 20 | | we congratulate Dr. Randy Perry on his retirement as Directing |
| 21 | | Pastor of Calvary United Methodist Church, and wish him the |
| 22 | | best in all his future endeavors; and be it further
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