"Doc" Churchill, Bray Cook professor emeritus of agriculture at ACU, was a Change the World profilee in the Spring 2002 issue of ACU Today magazine.

Francis Churchill died Feb. 19, 2002, at age 83, riding into the sunset with saddlebags full of corny jokes and droll one-liners as well as the hearts of one of the largest self-made, extended families in the world: his. For more than 50 years, Churchill's homespun Texas humor made fast friends among his students in the Department of Agriculture and Environment and in the dozens of rural churches in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico that hosted "weekend outreach" events he organized. Doc and his wife, Mayme, recruited students from all corners of the campus and traveled the backroads of the Southwest with them to help small churches conduct worship services. Along the way, he changed the world of scores of future preachers, elders, deacons and song leaders while modeling his own brand of selfless ministry.

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