{"id":141185,"date":"2011-11-12T05:30:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=141185"},"modified":"2011-11-13T17:29:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T23:29:07","slug":"longview-man-heads-new-ministerial-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=141185","title":{"rendered":"Longview Man Heads New Ministerial Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=141186\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-141186\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/11\/Tim-Watson-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tim Watson\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-141186\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLONGVIEW &#8212; Dr. Tim Watson, LeTourneau University&#8217;s director of church and campus relations for the Center for Faith and Work, has been asked to lead a new interdenominational ministerial alliance called the Longview Clergy Coalition. The LCC was formed in early 2011 to promote community wholeness and build bridges of communication and cooperation among ministers from a variety of the160 congregations in the Greater Longview area. Membership currently includes about 30 ministers who seek to provide a unified voice from a Christian perspective to the community and give spiritual leadership to important community-wide events such as the Martin Luther King Jr., worship service and the National Day of Prayer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LETU is privileged to have a leader like Dr. Tim Watson whose experience uniquely equips him to help build relationships among local churches and the university,&#8221; said Bill Peel, executive director for the Center for Faith and Work. &#8220;Our new Center for Faith and Work at LETU encourages developing strong relationships among pastors and improving communication and cooperation. We are committed to the local church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watson has been a pastor for 25 years, most recently as senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Longview. His experience, both as a pastor and as a director working in church relations at LETU, provides him with unique perspective as he leads this clergy coalition. &#8220;I see the partnership with the university and the Longview Clergy Coalition as vitally important, since LETU&#8217;s new Center for Faith and Work attempts to strengthen and equip pastors and congregations in the area of workplace discipleship,&#8221; Watson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Dr. Tim Watson, LeTourneau University&#8217;s director of church and campus relations for the Center for Faith and Work, has been asked to lead a new interdenominational ministerial alliance called the Longview Clergy Coalition. The LCC was formed in early 2011 to promote community wholeness and build bridges of communication and cooperation among ministers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=141185\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Man Heads New Ministerial Alliance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 12:32:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141185"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141397,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141185\/revisions\/141397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}