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|name=Kevin F. O'Brien

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|name=Kevin F. O'Brien<br>

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(Independent Baptist pastor)

|birth_date=October 31, 1955

|birth_place=[[El Paso]], [[Texas]]

|death_date=February 27, 2008

|death_place=[[Lubbock]], Texas

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~~|religion=[[Independent Baptist]]~~

|spouse=Darlene Frances Turbeville O'Brien (married 1976-2008, his death) (subsequently Darlene Schwab)<br>

Children:<br>

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'''Kevin F. O'Brien''', usually known as '''Brother Kevin''' (October 31, 1955 – February 27, 2008), was an Independent [[Baptist]] clergyman who was the [[pastor]] of Bethany Baptist Church in [[Lubbock]], Texas, from October 1996, until his death from [[prostate cancer]]. In 1998, O'Brien was among a group of [[Fundamentalism|fundamentalist]] pastors instrumental in the establishment of Heartland Baptist Bible College in [[Oklahoma City]], which was renamed and relocated from Orange, [[California]], where it had been founded in 1966. At the time of his death, O'Brien was serving as Heartland's secretary-treasurer.<ref>[http://www.heartlandbaptist.edu/]</ref>

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A son of Claude L. and Angeline E. O'Brien, he graduated in 1974 from Irvin High School in his native [[El Paso]], Texas.<ref>http://irvin.episd.org/</ref> O'Brien then completed a three-year theology program at the conservative Baptist Bible College in Springfield, [[Missouri]], from which he graduated in 1977.<ref>http://www.baptist.edu/</ref> On June 12, 1976, he married his childhood sweetheart, the former Darlene Frances Turbeville (born ca. 1958). Their three children are Jeremy Daniel O'Brien, Jenilee Danielle (Tyler) Prater, and Juliana (Nicholas) Carr. There was also a grandson, Griffyn O'Brien, at the time of O'Brien's passing.<ref>http://www.sandersfuneralhome.com/obituaries/02_February/obituary_obrien.kevin.htm</ref>

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A son of Claude L. and Angeline E. O'Brien, he graduated in 1974 from Irvin High School in his native [[El Paso]], Texas.<ref>http://irvin.episd.org/</ref> O'Brien then completed a three-year theology program at the conservative Baptist Bible College in Springfield, [[Missouri]], from which he graduated in 1977.<ref>http://www.baptist.edu/</ref> On June 12, 1976, he married his childhood sweetheart, the former Darlene Frances Turbeville (born c. 1958). Their three children are Jeremy Daniel O'Brien, Jenilee Danielle (Tyler) Prater, and Juliana (Nicholas) Carr. There was also a grandson, Griffyn O'Brien, at the time of O'Brien's passing.<ref>http://www.sandersfuneralhome.com/obituaries/02_February/obituary_obrien.kevin.htm</ref>

==Bethany Baptist Church in Lubbock==

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==Tributes to O'Brien==

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Tim Spradling, an O'Brien friend and Bethany member, recalled in an interview with Beth Pratt, the religion editor of the ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal'', O'Brien's last Easter sermon in 2007, which celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ and His ultimate victory over evil and death: "His faith was that the Lord is in absolute control ... Like any of the rest of us, he didn't want to leave his family, his church, his friends, but he had a deep abiding faith in the Lord that became even deeper in the last year and a half. When you face your own mortality, it's different. You have questions, but you get closer to the Lord, closer to each other, and stronger in faith. We still ask why, and a lot of whys won't be answered. That's where your faith comes in." <ref>Beth Pratt, ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal'' Religion Editor, "In his time here, Kevin O'Brien preached, lived the meaning of Easter", March 23, 2008, p. 2:http://lubbockonline.com/stories/032308/loc_260760659.shtml</ref>

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Tim Spradling, an O'Brien friend and Bethany member, recalled in an interview with Beth Pratt, the religion editor of the ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal'', O'Brien's last Easter sermon in 2007, which celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ and His ultimate victory over evil and death: "His faith was that the Lord is in absolute control ... Like any of the rest of us, he didn't want to leave his family, his church, his friends, but he had a deep abiding faith in the Lord that became even deeper in the last year and a half. When you face your own mortality, it's different. You have questions, but you get closer to the Lord, closer to each other, and stronger in faith. We still ask why, and a lot of whys won't be answered. That's where your faith comes in." <ref>Beth Pratt, ''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal'' Religion Editor, "In his time here, Kevin O'Brien preached, lived the meaning of Easter", March 23, 2008, p. 2:[http://lubbockonline.com/stories/032308/loc_260760659.shtml]</ref>

Delwayne Ivey, the Bethany youth minister who was named associate pastor after O'Brien's illness, called his mentor "an eternal optimist. . . . He was easy to get along with, full of grace . . . a man very strong in his faith; he never complained or blamed God. He just praised the Lord."<ref>http://lubbockonline.com/stories/032308/loc_260760659.shtml</ref>

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