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EULESS?A farmer-turned-evangelist and a retired Austin pastor were recipients of the SBTC’s annual evangelism awards given to ministry leaders who exhibit a lifetime commitment to winning souls.
Herman Cramer’s 28 years in full-time evangelism which followed a successful farming endeavor was lauded by SBTC Evangelism Director Don Cass before the award’s namesake, Roy Fish, presented to Cramer the 2008 Roy Fish Lifetime Achievement Award for Vocational Evangelism.
Harold O’Chester, who was pastor of Great Hills Baptist Church in Austin for 34 years, accompanied by his wife, Barbara, received the W.A. Criswell Lifetime Achievement Award for Pastoral Evangelism.
O’Chester told the Empower Evangelism Conference audience he treasured a letter Criswell wrote him after the legendary pastor spoke at Great Hills. O’Chester said he didn’t feel worthy to have an award named after Criswell.
Barbara O’Chester said, “Next to being saved, the greatest blessing of my life is to have been married to Harold O’Chester.”
