{"id":2446,"date":"2019-02-06T10:16:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2019-02-06T10:16:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:16:03","slug":"a-tribute-to-delbert-gene-belcher-1932-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/a-tribute-to-delbert-gene-belcher-1932-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to Delbert Gene Belcher (1932-2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

November\u00a012, 1932 – January 30, 2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Delbert Gene Belcher passed away on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 in Okmulgee, OK. Delbert was born to the late Earl and Bertha (Newfield) Belcher in Princeton, WV on Saturday, November 12, 1932. He was 86 years old. Delbert was a pastor in churches in West Virginia, Virginia, Texas, and Oklahoma, as well as, a missionary in Mexico. He is known as a biblical teacher and scholar. He traveled all over the world doing what he loved. Delbert was an avid reader and attended the Crosstown Pentecostal Holiness Church in Okmulgee. He is preceded in death by his parents, son, Delbert Belcher, Jr., brothers,\u00a0Glendall, Jewel, and William Belcher, and sister, Elizabeth Belcher.<\/p>\n

Those left to cherish all the wonderful memories of Delbert are his wife of 61 years, Sallie Jane Belcher, son, Curtis Belcher and wife Dayna, grandsons, Phillip Belcher and wife Amanda, Wyndsor Belcher and wife Hannah, Blake Belcher, and five great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

A funeral service for Delbert will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, February 9, 2019, at the McClendon-Winters Funeral Home Chapel with Pastors Greg Richardson, Richard Carender, and Wesley Berry to officiate. Interment to follow at the Okmulgee Cemetery. Friends may visit the funeral home on Friday, February 8, 2019, from 12:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. Arrangements have been entrusted to the McClendon-Winters Funeral Home of Okmulgee. Memories, condolences, photos, and videos may be shared with the family on Delbert’s Tribute at www.mcclendon-winters.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(McClendon-Winters Funeral Home, 303 E. 7th Street, Okmulgee, OK, 74447)<\/p>\n

The IPHC missionary family extends its condolences to the family of Rev. Delbert Belcher. He, along with his wife, Sallie, served as missionaries to Mexico from 1972 to 1993. Rev. Belcher was committed to Kingdom expansion, and he did so through planting and constructing churches throughout Mexico, teaching in Bible schools, evangelizing, and mentoring upcoming leaders. In The Simultaneous Principle<\/u>, Dr. Frank Tunstall recalls a portion of Rev. Belcher\u2019s ministry: <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen starting a new work, Belcher would take young men from the Bible school with him to the selected target area, where they began having services in a house or rented building. Belcher put the young men to work, leading the singing and doing visitation. Then, with the approval of the conference, he would appoint one of them as pastor. Usually, Belcher would begin construction by the time the church had gotten off to a good start, using funds he raised in the U.S.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

World Missions Ministries is grateful to Rev. Belcher and his family for their service to the Kingdom and the IPHC as Career Missionaries. We honor his life and missionary\/ministry legacy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\r\nEl reverendo Lawrence Arnold Pfaff, de 89 a\u00f1os, fue a estar con el Se\u00f1or el 14 de julio de 2018, en Greenville, Carolina del Sur. Le precedieron de pasada sus padres, Walter Merle y Goldie Cooper Pfaff, su esposa de 50 a\u00f1os, Lola Rankin Pfaff, y una hermana, Ada Mae Walberg. Naci\u00f3 el 14 de febrero de 1929 en Sugar Township, Pennsylvania.<\/em><\/span> Creci\u00f3 en Greenville, Pensilvania y pas\u00f3 muchos veranos en la granja con sus abuelos, Calvin y Ada Pfaff. El reverendo Pfaff comprometi\u00f3 fielmente su vida a una relaci\u00f3n con Jes\u00fas y respondi\u00f3 al llamado al ministerio a la edad de 19 a\u00f1os. Despu\u00e9s de graduarse de Penn High School, asisti\u00f3 a Holmes Bible College, Furman University, y se gradu\u00f3 con una maestr\u00eda de William and Mary.<\/em> Reverendo Pfaff pastoreaba iglesias en Virginia y Pennsylvania. En 1979, la familia se mud\u00f3 a White River, Sud\u00e1frica para ser misioneros y dirigi\u00f3 el Colegio B\u00edblico y plant\u00f3 iglesias. Despu\u00e9s de diez a\u00f1os, aceptaron el llamado a Nigeria, donde recaudaron fondos, compraron tierras y construyeron y comenzaron el Colegio B\u00edblico de \u00c1frica Occidental en Lagos.<\/em><\/span> El Reverendo Pfaff vivi\u00f3 cada d\u00eda al m\u00e1ximo. Amaba a sus hijas: Ethelyn C. Peyton de Dalton, GA, Barbie McDonald de Greer, y la Dra. Cheryl Bailey de Colgate, WI, estaba involucrada con sus cinco nietos: David, Jonathan, Benjamin Peyton, Karl y Christopher Stefan, como as\u00ed como su bisnieta, Olivia Peyton. Tambi\u00e9n le sobreviven su hermano, Ralph Pfaff de Greenville, PA.<\/em><\/span> \u00a0<\/em> Los servicios funerarios se llevar\u00e1n a cabo a las 2:00 pm el martes 17 de julio de 2018, en Praise Cathedral, dirigido por el pastor Jerry Madden, el pastor Bob Russo y el reverendo Ray Boggs. Un entierro privado ser\u00e1 en Graceland East Memorial Park.<\/em><\/span> \u00a0<\/em> En lugar de flores, se pueden hacer memoriales en Praise Cathedral, West Africa Bible College, 3390 Brushy Creek Road, Greer, SC 29650.<\/em><\/span> Se pueden hacer condolencias en l\u00ednea en<\/em> www.thewoodmortuary.com<\/a><\/span> \"Rev. Lawrence y Lola Pfaff fueron aprobados para servir como Misioneros de Carrera de la IPHC en 1969. Llegaron a Krugersdorp, Sud\u00e1frica, en 1970. Todav\u00eda recuerdo su llegada a Sud\u00e1frica. Su primera asignaci\u00f3n en Sud\u00e1frica fue servir en el Freeman Bible College en White River, donde m\u00e1s tarde se convirti\u00f3 en el director. Despu\u00e9s de esta asignaci\u00f3n, hicieron la transici\u00f3n a Nigeria, \u00c1frica occidental, en 1980, donde revivi\u00f3 la visi\u00f3n de Johnny Brooks y \"recaud\u00f3 el dinero para erigir el primer edificio permanente de tres pisos en el campus del Colegio B\u00edblico de \u00c1frica Occidental\". Hoy en d\u00eda, West Africa Bible College disfruta de la inscripci\u00f3n m\u00e1s grande de cualquiera de nuestros colegios b\u00edblicos en todo el mundo.<\/em><\/span> \u00a0<\/em> Siempre record\u00e9 al Reverendo Pfaff como un hombre amable y un hombre de gran visi\u00f3n y pasi\u00f3n. El Ministerio de Misiones Mundiales extiende sus m\u00e1s profundas condolencias a sus tres hijas: Ethelyn, Barbie y Cheryl, y sus familias cuando lloran la p\u00e9rdida de este gran hombre \". - Obispo J. Talmadge Gardner<\/em><\/span>","author_name":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/In-Loving-Memory.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb62Ar-Ds","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}