Richard C. Halverson

Richard Christian Halverson (* 1916 in Pingree, North Dakota, † November 28, 1995 in Arlington, Virginia) was an American clergyman of the Presbyterian Church, and from 1981 to 1994 chaplain of the U.S. Senate.

Life

Halverson was one of the key founding members of the evangelical network The Family, which organized in the United States since 1956, the National Prayer Breakfast. There he was involved since 1956, Deputy Executive Director and in particular on the internationalization of the network, but helped in 1968 in the United States itself, for example, build the paramilitary organized Black Buffers as right-wing answer to the Black Panthers. Although after the resignation Vereides Abraham, the founder of the network, managing director, he was in 1965, ultimately failed in his attempt to succeed Vereides as leaders of the network; but he continued to be involved in addition to Douglas Coe in the movement's leadership.

In addition, Halverson was next to Robert Pierce also a founding member and first vice president of World Vision Inc., one of the largest Christian relief organizations, in whose structure and internationalization he was involved. From 1956 to 1983 he served on the board of World Vision Inc., which he there from 1966 to 1983 as chairman diente.Als Vice President of World Vision, he served there in the absence of Bob Pierce 1964/1965 as Executive President. He was also Executive President in the transitional period after the resignation of Robert Pierce in 1967, to Stanley Mooneyham was in 1969 appointed president of World Vision. He was also president of the charity Concern Ministries Inc.

The post as chaplain of the U.S. Senate, he received in 1981 after Republican Mark Hatfield had convinced his Senate colleagues to choose Halverson to succeed Edward Elson. In March 1995, he gave the Office of the Chaplain Lloyd John Ogilvie on.

Awards

In 1977 he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Valley City State University and in 1994 he received the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award from the state of North Dakota.

  • Relevance: The Role of Christianity in the Twentieth Century, 1968
  • Somehow inside of Eternity, January 1981
  • Timelessness of Jesus Christ, January 1982
  • Word of a Gentleman: Meditations for Modern Man, December 1983
  • Man to Man, January 1984
  • Living Fellowship, January 1986
  • No Greater Power: Perspective for Days of Pressure, August 1986
  • We the People, July 1987
  • Wisdom on Faith, April 1995
  • Wisdom on the Church, April 1995
  • Wisdom on America, December 1995
  • Wisdom on Life, December 1995

In addition, he wrote the introduction to:

  • My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers
  • Our Presbyterian Heritage, by Paul R. Carlson
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