- May 15th, 2008, 11:12 am
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You might add this family and church to your prayers following this devastating plane crash.
From the Florida SBC website ...
From the Florida SBC website ...
Pollock remembered as godly denominational leaderClick Here for Full Story
By JONI B. HANNIGAN
Managing Editor
Published May 14, 2008
POLLOCK
BRANDON (FBW) –Forrest Pollock, pastor of Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Brandon, and his 13-year-old son, Preston, did not survive a May 12 plane crash in the rugged North Carolina mountains his church confirmed May 13.
Pollock, 44, had been pastor of the 6,000-member Tampa-area church since 2002 and the two went missing after a “quick stop” in North Carolina May 11 on their way to a conference in Texas. The St. Petersburg Times reported Pollock had gone to North Carolina to see his mother on Mother's Day.
The Times also reported Brooke Pollock, 14, had gone along but decided to stay with her grandmother in North Carolina. Forrest Pollock planned to stop in Arkansas to pick up a friend before piloting his personal single-engine aircraft to Texas.
“We grieve with hope and assurance that our Lord Jesus will lead us and carry us through these difficult times,” a message on the church’s Web site reads. “We have lost a great brother, pastor and friend in Forrest Pollock as well as a precious little brother in Christ, Preston Pollock.”
Pollock's plane left Rutherford County's airport in Rutherfordton, N.C. at about 5 a.m. Monday bound for North Little Rock, Ark. Rescuers did not search by air Monday because of dangerous high winds of up to 60 mph, said Lt. Clint Parker, of the Civil Air Patrol, according to the Citizen-Times of Asheville, N.C.
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