

31, 2018 and Boswell will retire on March 31. Robert White, left, and Assistant Executive Director Bobby Boswell will retire within three months of each other.

Boswell had always been a strong supporter of Sunday School and believed that was the way to grow a church.Įxecutive Director J. The soft-spoken Hogansville native came to the Mission Board in 1983 on the invitation of the late Julian Pipkin, who was then serving as director of the Church Services Division which included Sunday School, pastoral ministries, church music, brotherhood, and church training. Those are some of the things that dominated the exit interview The Index encountered with Boswell who is stepping down as assistant executive director on March 31. Of course, after spending more time with Mattie, his wife of 52 years, and his two children and four grand-children. That’s one of three things he keeps mentioning that he is looking forward to after retirement. That is the Number 1 thing that comes to mind when Bobby Boswell thinks about what he has enjoyed about his job of the last 35 years.įishing. 9) at the chapel service at the Missions and Ministry Center. Thomas Boswell had been one of the court favourites of James IV and he died with the king at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.Bobby Boswell opens the January Bible study yesterday (Jan. His son, James Boswell, the diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson, was born at nearby Auchinleck House, and is buried in the churchyard in Auchinleck. It was Alexander Boswell who had Auchinleck House built. On his appointment as Lord of Session in 1754, Alexander Boswell (1706-1782) took the title of Lord Auchinleck. His son, James Boswell, the diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson, was born at nearby Auchinleck House, and is buried in the churchyard in Auchinleckīalmuto in the parish of Kinghorn, in Fife, was an estate with a mansion, the latter just over 4 kilometres northwest of Burntisland. Thomas had been one of the court favourites of James IV and he died with the king at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. The town has a population (based on 1991 figures at least) of 4,160.Īuchinleck is associated with the Boswell family through the granting of the estate to Thomas Boswell, a 'cadet' of the Balmuto line, on his marriage to the daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Auchinleck in 1504. Auchinleck is situated in Ayrshire, in Scotland's large Strathclyde region, 21 kilometres east of the town of Ayr.
