In the News ... "Jackson’s road to ministry"

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• Minister graduated from Texas Tech in 1989 before seminary school

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - Having come to the Episcopal priesthood relatively late in life, Father Les Jackson looks back on his careers as a caregiver, social worker and hospice chaplain as a divinely guided progression toward St. John’s Episcopal Church at 401 N. West County Road.

The 59-year-old Abernathy native was a caregiver at Lubbock State School till earning a bachelor’s degree in social work at Texas Tech in 1989 and becoming a school caseworker and MH-MR social worker. Then he was a deacon at St. Christopher Episcopal Church and chaplain at Nurse Care Hospice in Lubbock, where co-worker Rosemary Patterson urged him to consider the ministry ...

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