Darlena Alexander:  

Life I married in 1962 to a divorced man with cusjtody of his two girls. We had three more daughters, totalling 5 daughters. We both attanded and were graduated from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in 1978. We pastored 17 years in Grover Beach, CA, at First Baptist Church. We moved in 1995 and pastored First Baptist Church in Brownsville, CA. I was elected to the Lucia Mar Unified School District Board of Education in 1979 and served 1979 to 1995, elected to 4 four year terms. I had just been relected whe my husband accepted another church. When we moved in 1995, I had to resign my position. I served on California School Boards Association committees and presented state-wide workshops on Legislative Networking and Religion in Public Schools. I was also appointed to the Federal Relations Commission and lobbied in Sacramento and in Washington, D.C. annually. My husband, the Reverend Bob Alexander, died in his sleep December 3, 2000. He suffered from heart problems complicated by diabetes and multiple blocked arteries with a AAA. He was in gospel music 13 years before we went to seminary and he became a full time pas...Expand for more