Milburn Richard Cockrell was born on a cotton farm in Itawamba County
near
Mantachie, Miss., Jan. 24, 1941, to Ershel and Onita
Cockrell.
He was converted in a spring revival at the First Baptist Church,
Mantachie,
in 1956, while Elder Ralph Brand was preaching a meeting and when Elder
Arthur Smith was pastor. Some days later he asked for membership
in the New Hope Baptist Church, Dorsey, Miss. The church received
him, and Elder G. S. Rayburn baptized him on Sunday afternoon in a farm
pool.
Later he moved his membership to the First Baptist Church of Mantachie.
He made known his call to preach in a revival meeting at the Bethel
Baptist
Church, Dorsey, Miss., while Elder Carl Seal was preaching and Elder
Alfred
Jones was pastor. He was licensed to preach by his home church at
the age of 16, and he preached his first sermon on March 22,
1957.
The First Baptist Church of Mantachie ordained him on Feb. 27, 1960,
the
year he graduated from Mantachie High School.
During his first pastorate at the Big Oak Baptist Church, Dorsey,
Miss.,
he married Bettie Sheron Burcham on June 7, 1960. This union was
blessed with four children, Gayle, Marsha, Christopher, and Derek.
Elder Cockrell has pastored churches in Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri,
Kentucky, and Ohio. He has preached for 40 years on various radio
broadcasts. He presently is the speaker on The Berea Baptist
Broadcast
heard on nine stations in the U.S. and two in the Philippines.
From
his pen has come many articles in Baptist papers. He is presently
the founder and the editor of The Berea Baptist Banner, a paper with an
international circulation.
He has authored many tracts and eighteen books. He has assisted
in
printing three different editions of The Berea Baptist Hymnal.
For the last several years Elder Cockrell lived near Mantachie, Miss.,
and pastored the Berea Baptist Church of this town.
Pastor Milburn Cockrell departed this life on September 14, 2002 at
around
10:15 p.m. from a massive heart attack.
"And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a
prince
and a great man fallen this day in Israel?" (2 Samuel 3:38)
The Kind Of Baptists We Are
by Milburn Cockrell
Nickles & Noses by Milburn Cockrell
Salvation - Sermons To Sinners Kindle / ePub
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