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Press Release on Pastor Tim Lubinus Endorsement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Rick Tyler |
News Release | Catherine Frazier |
October 19, 2015 |
Cruz Announces Addition of Key Evangelical Leader to Iowa Leadership Team
Earns Endorsement of Pastor Tim Lubinus
HOUSTON, Texas
– Presidential candidate Ted Cruz today welcomed the endorsement of
church missions leader and former missionary Tim Lubinus of Ames, Iowa,
who serves as the Executive Director of the Baptist Convention of Iowa.*
“I
am honored to welcome Pastor Lubinus to our team,” said Cruz. “His
commitment to Christ, and passion for seeing people of faith engage
every aspect of the world around them, is reminiscent of the bold
pastors who played such a key role in the founding of America.”
“I
believe Ted Cruz is the candidate that above all others is a bold
champion of liberty, is best qualified to be president, and has the
resources to develop a nationwide organization to win,” Pastor Lubinus
said. “I want to encourage pastors to step forward and to engage in the
political process. We do not relinquish our civic responsibilities when
we enter ministry. On the contrary, our love for Christ and our
fellow
man should motivate us to action all the more.”
Lubinus
will be active with the Statewide Leadership Team, and the “99 Iowa
Pastors” coalition as the Cruz campaign continues to organize in the
state of Iowa.
A
native Iowan, Lubinus was baptized while attending Iowa State
University and became a member of Grand Avenue Baptist Church. Tim, his
wife Darlene, and their children served as foreign missionaries in
South Korea and Central Asia, where Tim started, led, and expanded a
team of more than 100 International Missionary Board (IMB) missionaries
in 12 cities, while serving as the strategy associate on IMB's Central
Asia regional leadership team. In 2005, Tim also became a trainer for
ministry supervisors in Central Asia. The Lubinuses later returned to
Ames, where Tim served as the regional and global ministry director at
Cornerstone Church for eight years before being appointed as the
Executive Director for the Baptist Convention of Iowa in March of 2014.
Pastor Lubinus earned a master of divinity degree from Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry degree from
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City.
*Organization listed for information purposes only.
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