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Del Parkerson is a native of Georgia, a graduate of Mercer University (B.A.), Southeastern Seminary (M. Div. and Th.M.), and Campbell University (D.D.). He has served as pastor of one church in Georgia and five churches in North Carolina. Following retirement as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Sanford on Sept. 30, 1996, he has served 10 North Carolina churches as interim pastor. His column, The Paper Pulpit, has appeared weekly in a few newspapers and other publications since 1958. He and his wife, Jessie, live in Wilmington near their daughter and family.

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on November 22, 2011 at 1:23 am | Reply eleanorwhitmore

Dear Dr. Del Parkerson, I am so pleased to have discovered this website and I look forward to reading your blogs on a regular basis. I posted on Facebook your recent one on Thanksgiving you wrote Nov. 18, 2011. I am sure you remember my husband, Harry, and I visiting the Warsaw Baptist while you were interim pastor there a couple of years ago. But you and I share great memories of you officiating at my first wedding to Gordon L. Sims Oct. 21, 1961. If Gordon had lived, we would have been married 50 years this year. You also officiated at the wedding of my sister, Sandra and James Dunn’s wedding on June 23, 1963. She said you teased them and said you were going to marry them for 50 years! They are still together. We miss you.
In the Lord’s service, Eleanor Whitmore, Nov. 22, 2011
on September 24, 2015 at 7:36 pm | Reply Christi Patterson

So good to see you and this post! This is Christi Patterson from the OF and Sally Patterson clan. I am teacher and often used your Sanford Herald guest column from years ago – the extended riddle about gossip. I believe it started “Do you know me?” It followed with a series of statements such as “I attend church regularly, the dirtier I am, the faster I spread, etc. I kept a copy for YEARS, but ended up losing it. I’d love a copy!!! I sincerely hope you are well!
on November 3, 2017 at 11:54 pm | Reply W E Hollemon

I’m looking a copy of the paper pulpit was printed in Wilmington star newspaper around 1974 about the space scientists at green belt running computer looking for missing time to fill fill in for further space loach satellite from earth to get the correct time that’s was missing.