Think 50 years of preaching is a lot?

No, not all at once, although it may seem that long listening to some of the more long-winded pastors--not to mention any names. Those of you who start shifting and squirming when your service gets to its 55th minute or so on Sunday morning know what I mean though.

This Sunday, May 4, two Roanoke preachers celebrate 50 years each in the ministry: Rev. Lawrence Dodson, the only pastor that Windsor Hills Baptist Church has ever had, and Rev. John Fox, who came to Belmont Baptist Church in 1967 after a decade pastoring congretations in other states.

Yep, that's 100 years in total. To paraphase perhaps the most common sports cliche: One service at a time. So they have logged roughly 5,200 Sundays between them, plus all those virtually uncountable other events: weddings and funerals just to mention two.

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