| _ Bishop Bobby R. Allen op abby Allen hails from Laneville, Texas. He is the son of len and Mary Vanzandt-Allen. He married Annie E. Branch in nd ‘they added three children to their union. As the Lord would have | ise the then Brother Allen moved to Utah and sonen with the 1971 of Barstow, California _ She was a single mother of three and a licensed evangelist onary under the leadership of the late Bishop N. Jones, Jr. Together they combined their ilies and continued worshipping and doing the work of the Lord at Griffin Temple Church Bi: /in Christ. jsp Allen accepted his calling to the ministry in I 974, h he served as Choir President, Trustee licensed in 1975 and was ordained ini 1976. Board Chairman, Deacon, Sunday ntendent and Y.P.W.W. President. He also served as the District Sunday tendent, Jurisdictional Y.P.W.W. President and Jurisdictional Choir President. School School | | | Elder and Missionary Allen were installed as Pastor and Wife of the+ Comminnity Church of : LT ‘Christ, Idaho Falls, Idaho, for a period of seven years. (Where they did not move but muted every weekend even occasionally attending during the weekday services.) In 1984 their e of call changed and they were installed as Pastor and Wife of Ebenezer Church of God in 7 st, Salt Lake onan Utah. (Yet living in Ogden, they commuted “a After seven years of worship he year of 1 993, Elder Bobby Allen was consecrated by ihe: late Bishop L.H. Ford, presiding : elate ee the International Churches of God in Christ, to the call of Utah Jurisdictional ‘Aandoeteu Bishop Service Theme Scriptures: the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. . stle not against flesh and blood, but principalities, against powers, against the rulers— Lc rkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places; Wherefore, take — you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evilday, | and having done all, to stand.” a [Ephesians 6:11-13]