Croft Pentz Will Be Missed

This space has been reserved so often for "Zingers" by Croft
Pentz.

Croft Pentz passed on to his eternal reward on July 2, 2008.

Here is a portion of his obituary. He will be missed.

Rev. Croft M. Pentz, 77, of 13394 Meadow View Ave., Waynesboro,
PA, died at 10:55 P.M., Wednesday, July 2, 2008, in the Hershey
Medical Center, Hershey, PA. His death was unexpected and
attributed to natural causes.

Rev. Pentz began his ministry in Little Rock, AR, in August 1952.
He served as a minister to the deaf for 44 years (1952-1996). He
established The Calvary Chapel of the Deaf in Elizabeth, NJ, in
1954 and served as Pastor for 42 years. From 1996-2007 he served
as Pastor of the Senior Adults/Outreach of the Calvary Assemblies
of God, Waynesboro, involving services to four nursing homes,
teaching an adult Sunday School class, editing Senior Adult Paper,
which was published six times annually. While in Waynesboro, he
also assisted various local organizations in providing sign
language services for the hearing impaired.

He was also an accomplished author, having authored 30 sermon
outlines, several of which are still in print. He compiled two
books of quotes, The Complete Book of Zingers and 1001 Things Your
Mother Told You. He also compiled two book of Christian Poetry and
authored four Christian Handbooks with over 1 million books sold
and several translated into other languages. Rev. Pentz also wrote
numerous articles for national magazines and devotionals for
devotional magazines. He prepared gospel tracts which were
published in 7 languages with over 8 million in print. He wrote a
weekly column for The Record Herald from September 1997 -
September 2000 and was presently writing a weekly column called
Healing for the Hurting for the Record Herald.

Rev. Pentz was an avid New York Yankees and Dallas Cowboys fan. He
also enjoyed playing softball in various church leagues.