User:Gayle Smith/Joe Turman

Joe Garner Turman is a Christian author, speaker and retired missionary living in Marshall County, Alabama. A native of Noonday, Texas. Attended Noonday and Tyler schools. Played football for Tyler HS. Upon graduation from Tyler High School, volunteered for service in the United States Marines.

After receiving an honorable discharge from the USMC, worked in New York City on Fifth Avenue. Underwent a life-changing experience in a conversion at a Billy Graham Crusade in Madison Square Garden.

Married Gloria Ann Reece from Brownsville, Tennessee.

Education includes a B.A. from Carson-Newman College, in Jefferson City, Tennessee, in English Literature, and a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Served with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Zambia and Slovakia, over a period of thirty years. Speaks Vietnamese, Indonesian and Tonga (Zambia).

Retired in Guntersville, Alabama in 2000. Retirement years used for family time, working in local church, traveling, speaking and writing.

Joe and Gloria have four children and six grandchildren.

Lives in the Georgia Mountain Community.

Author of three books: Getting On With the Going, a missionary autobiography, Buddy, and Sling Creek, a novel.

Links

 * Joe Garner Turman - Author - Speaker
 * Google Books: Sling Creek