Full Text of HR0880 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to honor Bishop Horace E. Smith on | 4 | | his 32nd anniversary as Pastor of Apostolic Faith Church in | 5 | | Chicago; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, He graduated as an honor student from the Lindblom | 7 | | High School in Chicago, received his Bachelor of Science (with | 8 | | honors) degree from Chicago State University; his M.D. from the | 9 | | University of Illinois Medical Center; completed his Pediatric | 10 | | Residency at the University of Illinois Hospital; and completed | 11 | | his Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at | 12 | | Children's Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, He served as director of the Comprehensive Sickle | 14 | | Cell/Thalassemia Program at Children's Memorial Hospital; he | 15 | | currently serves as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at | 16 | | Northwestern Medical School, and is recognized world-wide as an | 17 | | outstanding pediatrician in his field; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, He became pastor of the Apostolic Faith Church on | 19 | | March 28, 1980; he was appointed a District Elder of the | 20 | | Illinois District Council (I.D.C.) of the Pentecostal | 21 | | Assemblies of the World in 1983; he served as Chairman of the | 22 | | I.D.C. from 1986-1991; he was appointed to the Board of Aenon |
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| 1 | | Bible College of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World in | 2 | | 1989; and he was appointed a Suffragan Bishop in 1994; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, He served as the General Secretary of the | 4 | | Pentecostal Assemblies of the World 1996-1997, and was elevated | 5 | | to the office of Bishop in August of 1997; in June 1998, Dr. | 6 | | Smith was installed as Diocesan Bishop of the 14th Episcopal | 7 | | District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, which | 8 | | includes the states of Kansas, Colorado, and Western Missouri; | 9 | | on July 29, 2004, Bishop Smith was elected to the office of | 10 | | Presiding Bishop of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World and | 11 | | served 2 full terms until August of 2010; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Smith serves on the Board of the historic | 13 | | Wabash YMCA, which was purchased by 4 community churches, | 14 | | including Apostolic Faith Church; the churches redeveloped and | 15 | | reshaped the Y for community services, including SRO housing; | 16 | | since 2001, Dr. Smith has also served as a Board Member of the | 17 | | Family Institute at Northwestern University, as a member of the | 18 | | University of Chicago Cancer Research Center-Community Health | 19 | | Advisory Board, and more recently, as a member of World Vision | 20 | | International; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, In 2002, Dr. Smith and the Apostolic Faith Church | 22 | | partnered with World Vision to sponsor orphaned children whose | 23 | | parents died as a result of HIV/AIDS; to date, over 1,000 |
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| 1 | | children have been adopted by members of the congregation; Dr. | 2 | | and Sis. Smith have traveled to South Africa, along with World | 3 | | Vision, to view first-hand the devastation caused by the AIDS | 4 | | virus; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Smith is an avid and accomplished Bible | 6 | | scholar and has been part of many organizations within the | 7 | | church, from the Boy Scout Troop of his youth to singing in the | 8 | | choirs; his dedicated ministry reaches not only the | 9 | | congregation but his belief in God and the power of salvation | 10 | | and healing extends to his medical profession as a concerned | 11 | | and committed pediatrician (specializing in | 12 | | hematology/oncology) for critically ill children; through his | 13 | | prayers and faith in God as a healer, Dr. Smith has seen God's | 14 | | healing power reverse the course of illness in the lives of his | 15 | | patients;
and | 16 | | | 17 | | WHEREAS, Bishop Smith has been happily married to Susan | 18 | | Davenport Smith since 1976; they met at the University of | 19 | | Illinois where Susan graduated with a B.S. in Pharmacy; they | 20 | | have 3 beautiful daughters, Lauren
Elrod, Rachel Horton, and | 21 | | Emily Green, along with their sons-in-law, Brian Elrod, | 22 | | Courtney Horton, and Patrick Green; and granddaughter, | 23 | | Lillian; therefore, be it
| 24 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| 1 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 2 | | we congratulate Bishop Horace Smith on this anniversary | 3 | | occasion and wish him continued success in the future; and be | 4 | | it further
| 5 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 6 | | presented to Bishop Horace Smith as a symbol of our respect and | 7 | | esteem.
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