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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives wish to congratulate Paris Donehoo on the | ||||||
| 4 | occasion of his retirement as senior pastor of
the First | ||||||
| 5 | Congregational Church of Elgin; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Paris Donehoo was born in Atlanta, Georgia on | ||||||
| 7 | August 14, 1952 and raised in the
Georgia towns of Decatur and | ||||||
| 8 | Roswell; he attended Kennesaw College and was ordained by the | ||||||
| 9 | First Baptist Church of Roswell in December of 1973; he
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| 10 | received his Bachelor of Arts from Georgia Southern University | ||||||
| 11 | in 1974 with a major in
history and a minor in journalism; he | ||||||
| 12 | graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary in | ||||||
| 13 | 1977 with a Master of Divinity; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Paris Donehoo served as pastor of the Sardis
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| 15 | Baptist Church from 1977 until 1980, and then as pastor of the | ||||||
| 16 | Lost Mountain Baptist Church until
1990; in 1988, he received a | ||||||
| 17 | Doctor of Ministry from Columbia Theological
Seminary; from | ||||||
| 18 | 1991 until 2000, he served as senior minister at Park Ridge | ||||||
| 19 | Community Church
in Park Ridge; he briefly served as hospice | ||||||
| 20 | chaplain for the West Suburban Hospital in
Oak Park and then | ||||||
| 21 | returned to the pastorate in 2002 as senior pastor of
the First | ||||||
| 22 | Congregational Church of Elgin, where he served until his | ||||||
| 23 | retirement in 2018; for 11 years, he served as an adjunct | ||||||
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| 1 | professor in the Doctor of Ministry in Preaching
program at | ||||||
| 2 | Chicago Theological Seminary; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, Paris Donehoo is the author of Prayer in the Life | ||||||
| 4 | of Jesus
and numerous articles in various magazines and | ||||||
| 5 | journals such as Christian
Ministry, The Other Side, Eternity, | ||||||
| 6 | and Christian Century; his upcoming book, Polarized:
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| 7 | Confronting the Collapse of Truth, Civility, and Community in | ||||||
| 8 | Divided Times, is due in
the fall of 2018; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, Paris Donehoo has two children from his first | ||||||
| 10 | marriage, Meg Pfister and Kathryn Kennon, and two
stepchildren, | ||||||
| 11 | Rachel Georgakis and Matthew Holihan, with his current wife, | ||||||
| 12 | Penny; between
them they have six grandchildren; therefore, be | ||||||
| 13 | it
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| 14 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 15 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 16 | congratulate Paris Donehoo on his retirement as senior pastor | ||||||
| 17 | of
the First Congregational Church of Elgin, and we wish him | ||||||
| 18 | the best in all his future endeavors; and be it further
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| 19 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution presented | ||||||
| 20 | to Paris Donehoo as a symbol of our respect and esteem.
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