Glen Pence, Retired pastor and Chaplain.
Glen is a member of University Baptist Church of Shawnee. His wife, Lynda Lee (Hobbs), is a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University who teaches English at Dale High School near Shawnee. She is also vice president of the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of English. They have two children. Their son, Ron, is a graduate of Southwest Missouri State University and is vice president in charge of commercial loans for Mercantile Bank in Joplin, MO. He and his wife, Kathy, have two sons, Austin and Stewart. Glenn and Lynda's daughter, Jeneane, is a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University where she was an All American basketball player. She is head of the Physical Education department at Mountain View High School in Mesa, Arizona and a referee for college and professional basketball.
After graduating from Fletcher High School in Fletcher, Oklahoma, Glen earned a Bachelors degree from Oklahoma Baptist University, a Bachelors of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and received Clinical Pastoral Education at Presbyterian Hospital in Oklahoma City. He was licensed and ordained to Gospel Ministry by the First Baptist Church of Fletcher and Endorsed for Chaplaincy by the Home Mission Board of the SBC.
Glen has served as pastor at Paradise Valley Baptist Church in Lawton, OK (1953-57), at First Baptist Church of Washington, OK (1958-60), at Utah Avenue Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, OK (1960-62), at First Baptist Church of Mountain View, MO, at First Baptist Church of Buffalo, MO, at the First Baptist Church of Joplin, MO, and at University Baptist Church of Shawnee, OK (1982-86). He has served interim pastorates at First Baptist Church of Fletcher, OK, at First Baptist Church of Apache, OK, at First Baptist Church of Lamont, OK and at Emmanuel Baptist Church of McLoud, OK.
While pastoring in Missouri, Glen's sermons and Bible studies were broadcast over radio and television. When he pastored at Buffalo, MO the morning worship services were broadcast on radio and a daily week day Bible study was broadcast each morning. When he pastored in Joplin, MO the morning worship services were telecast over the four state area of SW Missouri, SE Kansas, NW Arkansas, and NE Oklahoma.
Rev. Pence has also served as an adjunct professor at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, MO. He taught courses in Old Testament History, Old Testament Literature (Poets), Old Testament Literature (Prophets), Pastoral Theology, Worship, Preaching, Christian Doctrine, Life and Teachings of Jesus, and the Person and Work of Christ (Christology) in the Redford School of Theology. IN 1981, He was a teacher at Taiwan Baptist Theological Seminary as part of a three year joint mission project between the Missouri Baptist Convention, the Foreign Mission Board of the SBC, and the Taiwan Mission.
Entering the hospital chaplaincy in 1986, Glen served at Greenleaf/Oak Crest Psychiatric Hospital in Shawnee (1986-91), at Willow View Mental Health System (RAPHA, and Senior Day Treatment) in Oklahoma City (1992-95), and as Spiritual Care Coordinator for Hospice of Oklahoma County (1995-96). Since his retirement in 1996, he has served as chaplain for Hospice of Shawnee.
Recognized as a servant leader, Glen served as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Home Mission Board of the SBC (1973-81), as Trustee and Secretary of the Board for Oklahoma Baptist University, as President of the Shawnee Minister's Association (1991), and President of the Oklahoma Baptist Chaplains (1991-92). He was a Conference leader/writer for the Sunday School Board of the SBC (1963-76) and Pastoral Advisor/Conference leader/writer for Missouri Baptist Men (1962-76).
Glen has been honored by his High School as Best Citizen, All-around boy, and received the Balfour Award. He was the William Pope Binns Fellow at William Jewell College in Liberty, MO, a first year winner of this annual award for outstanding ministry, and received the Trustee's medallion for outstanding service to Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, MO. Chaplain Pence was recognized as the Oklahoma Baptist Health Care Chaplain of the Year 1990-91. He is listed in Who's Who in Joplin and Who's Who in Religion.