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Bishop Jack DeHart, Sr.
GRAND PRAIRIE – Bishop Jack DeHart, Sr., 75, joined his Lord and Savior peacefully Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, surrounded by his wife and children at his home in Colleyville.
Celebration of Life is to be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, at Calvary Church, 4401 N. Hwy 161, Irving, TX., 76028, followed by private interment at the historical Bear Creek Cemetery. Guerrero-Dean Funeral Home, 500 East Main St. Grand Prairie, TX 75050, 972-263-5570, has charge of arrangements.
Visitation is to be from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday, at Heartland Church, 4020 Nazarene Drive, Carrollton, TX, 75010.
He was born Dec. 16, 1934, to James and Mary White DeHart in Port Arthur, the youngest of five children. Orphaned at the age of nine upon his mother’s passing, he was raised by his eldest brother, Harold and his wife, Helen Morgan DeHart. He graduated Port Neches-Groves High and shortly after felt a calling to help others.
He married his childhood sweetheart, Doris Martin, Nov. 1, 1952. In 1952, he began his long journey from layman to evangelist to pastor. Ordained in 1955, he served as pastor in LaFeria (08/1956-07/1958), Port Arthur (08/1958-03/1963), and Paris, (04/1963-06/1971). He then moved to Irving, in July 1971, taking the helm of what is now Heartland Church, where he remained senior pastor until elevated to Bishop in 2000. He remained active in the church until his death, even managing to attend the final service at the Irving location and held in the sanctuary he dedicated, this past Sunday, Jan. 10.
Along with his distinguished pastoral resume, he served in numerous other capacities including: Board of directors for Texas Bible College; sectional youth leader, sectional presbyter, Texas district youth president, national home missions board and home missions ethnic director for UPCI; and board of elders and recently chairman for the Global Network of Christian Ministries. He traveled extensively to Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Germany, Britain, France, the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, along with other developing nations, where he counseled pastors and ministered to hundreds of thousands of people. In one service in Ethiopia, over 200,000 came forward to accept Christ and receive his Holy Spirit. He has published three books along with numerous other writings that are still used as text and reference in numerous churches, Bible colleges and seminaries around the globe.
He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Harold and Kimmie DeHart; sisters, Etta Eves and Hazel Bedair; and the sister-in-law that raised him, Helen DeHart.
He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Doris Martin DeHart of Colleyville; son, Jack “Bo” DeHart, Jr. and wife, Candi Cotton DeHart, of Grand Prairie; daughter, Rebekah Ann Dean and husband, the Rev. William Daniel Dean, of Colleyville; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Should friends desire, the family kindly requests memorials to the Jack DeHart Memorial Foundation, c/o Heartland Church, 4020 Nazarene Drive, Carrollton, TX., 75010. Florists are requested to make deliveries to Heartland Church after 9 a.m. Monday.
Published January 17, 2010
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