GC Ministerial Secretary James Cress Dies Suddenly

[CGMedley]

The Adventist World Headquarters staff are stunned by the sudden death of GC Ministerial Secretary James Cress. He was 60 years old. Here's the latest update.

http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2986

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

Wow. Struck down by a rare pathogen that he must have picked up in his travels abroad. That's terrible.

[BobRyan]

Dec 2 - 2004 Dave Cress (President of Georgia-Cumberlan conference) died in a freak accident - (Private plane crash).

http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=366

http://www.gccsda.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=962&Itemid=136

I happened to meet Dave Cress on an overnight Academy field trip - when he was a senior in Academy.

As I recall - Dave had an older brother, Jim. Do I have that right?

(OK now I see that connection is confirmed at this link -- http://news.adventist.org/2009/11/james-a-cress-minist.html )

Also in that same plane crash was Jim Frost whose first-wife (Marsha) and daughter Brittany I knew while Marsha was helping him pastor a two-church district in Virginia.

All very surprising.

in Christ,

Bob

[BobRyan]

Indeed - Dave could not have been much older than 49 or 50 when he died and it appears that Jim was only 60.

How tragic for them, their families and the church!

And also what a strange set of circumstances for both of them to perish in such unlikely ways.

I am not aware of this kind of thing in the same family in so short a time nor even any of these events by themselves happening to other conference administrators -- in a long long time. It goes on my "wall of weird things that happened".

in Christ,

Bob

[CGMedley]

BobRyan

What about the Kennedy family?

Carlos