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By Bob Campbell, Reporter
Odessa American
ODESSA, TEXAS - The Rev. Terry Tamplen started out to work in finance and earned a degree in agricultural economics, but an unshakeable feeling that he should go into the ministry led him to a career with the United Methodist Church and the discovery of a talent for church-building.
The 59-year-old native of Crowell, in the southeastern Texas Panhandle near Oklahoma, grew up on his parents’ farm, played football, ran track, graduated from Texas Tech University and became a management trainee with the Vernon Savings & Loan Association.
But when his father, Thomas Lee Tamplen, died, he returned to the farm for two years until he began talking with the Rev. Steve Martyn about his “sense that God was calling me to something” ...
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