Bishop Rayford Lee Jennings

BISHOP RAYFORD L. JENNINGS IS A PRODUCT OF TERRELL, TEXAS. HE IS A GRADUATE OF W.H. BURNETT HIGH SCHOOL AND TERRELL HIGH SCHOOL, THE CLASS OF 1969. AFTER COMPLETION OF HIGH SCHOOL, HE ENTERED THE U.S. ARMY, SERVING IN THE VIETNAM WAR. HE WAS STATIONED AT FT. LEWIS, WASHINGTION AND RECEIVED HIS ASSOCIATE DEGREE FROM TACOMA UNIVERSITY. THE NEXT CHAPTER IN HIS LIFE WAS WHEN HE MET THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, FIRST LADY, EVANGELIST IVE JENNINGS FOR 48 YEARS, WITH TWO CHILDREN, FOUR GRAND CHILDREN, AND SIX GREAT GRAND CHILDREN. HE RECEIVED HIS B.A. IN SOCIOLOGY AND CRIMINOLOGY FROM BISHOP COLLEGE, AND DUAL MASTER IN (MEAD) AND ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT FROM CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, AUSTIN, TEXAS. LATER IN LIFE, HE WENT BACK TO SCHOOL TO GET HIS CERTIFICATION IN BEING A DRUG COUNSELOR. ALSO, IN HIS LIFETIME HE TAUGHT ADULT G.E.D. CLASSES. HE WAS A HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY TEACHER FOR SEVERAL YEARS AT THE LOBIAS MURRAY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, AS WELL AS BEING IN LEADERSHIP ROLES AT THE SCHOOL. BISHOP RAYFORD LEE JENNINGS WAS AT BREEZY HILL, CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, P.G.T. FOR TWENTY YEARS, AND PASTORED FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS. HE HAS DONE A TOTAL OF FORTY YEARS IN MINISTRY IN THE DALLAS AREA, AS WELL AS TERRELL, TEXAS.

BISHOP RAYFORD LEE JENNINGS WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER 22,1950 TO THE PARENTAGE OF L.C. AND NOVELLA GREER JENNINGS IN TERRELL, TEXAS. BISHOP RAYFORD LEE JENNINGS WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY: HIS PARENTS, L.C. JENNINGS, NOVELLA GREER JENNINGS, BROTHERS’; L.C. JENNINGS JR, CARL JENNINGS, BILLY JENNINGS, AND JAMES THOMAS JENNINGS, SISTERS’, AUDREY LUSK SMITH, AND HELEN JENNINGS.

BISHOP RAYFORD LEE JENNINGS LEAVES TO CHERISH HIS MEMORIES TO HIS WIFE OF 48 YEARS, FIRST LADY, MIN. IVE JENNINGS, DAUGHTER; GALE ALLEN (MIKE), SON; IVAN RAY JENNINGS; GRAND CHILDREN, LA’BARION PERKINS, TIARA PERKINS, DEVON ALLEN, AND BRAYLIN JENNINGS; GREAT GRAND CHILDREN, NI’KYHA PERKINS, LA’BREA PERKINS, LA’SHAE PERKINS, ZAYVION ROBINSON, ZION ROBINSON, AND CHRISTIAN SMITH. OLDEST SISTER; ANNIE JENNINGS, AND BABY BROTHER, KENNETH WAYNE JENNINGS. SISTER IN LAWS; CHARLOTTE JENNINGS(JT), RUBY JOHNSON(WILLIE), VARONA JOHNSON(C.D.), PAT CRAWFORD(SELVIN), DIANE PETERS(OSCAR), SFC MELINDA REED(BRYANT). BROTHERS IN LAW; L.A. LACY(PAT). GOD MOTHER; MOTHER DEAN ROYAL, GOD SON; JOSEPH COBBS, AND GOD DAUGHTER; PATRICIA WALKER, AND A HOST OF NEICES, NEPHEWS, RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.