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Rogers, Adrian Pierce
(b. 12 September 1931 in West Palm Beach, Florida; d. 15 November 2005 in Memphis, Tennessee), minister and religious broadcaster who, as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, helped lead a fundamentalist resurgence that turned the denomination in a dramatically more conservative direction.
Born to Arden Duncan and Rose Lee (Purcell) Rogers, Rogers grew up in Florida.
Dr adrian rogers biography
In 1950 he graduated from Palm Beach High School in West Palm Beach. He then attended Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, on a football scholarship, which he gave up in 1951 when he became convinced God was calling him to go into the Christian ministry.
He often told a story about feeling God’s call while lying face down on a football field and gained ordination by the Northwood Baptist Church in West Palm Beach at age nineteen. On 2 September 1951 Rogers married Joyce Louise Gentry, his childhood sweetheart.
They had two daughters and three sons, one of whom died in infancy.
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