Cochran installed in Augusta
 The
First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Augusta formally
installed the Rev. Charles Cochran on Oct. 28 as its new pastor.
Church members, friends, and a contingent of fellow
Disciples from Augusta’s Central Christian Church (DOC) were on hand for
the formal ceremony at which Regional Minister Ray Miles presided.
Cochran earned a Masters of Divinity degree in May
from Erskine Theological Seminary in Due West, South Carolina. He was
ordained in July at Guyton Christian Church (DOC), where he first became
a Disciple in the early 1990s.
He is a second-career minister, having spent most of
his professional life as a print journalist. Most recently, he was a
reporter and editor at the Savannah (Ga.) Morning News, where he worked
for nine years. He left the newspaper in September 2006 to complete
seminary.
“The good Lord has a record of making good use of tax
collectors and other sinners,” Cochran notes. “I figure he can also make
use of an old reporter.”
He has been married for 15 years to Julia Cochran, a
licensed counselor whom Charlie describes as one of the smartest (and
sweetest) people he knows. Julia holds a Ph.D. in counseling from the
University of Georgia.
Charlie also has a 22-year-old stepdaughter, Frances
Ross, a paralegal employed by a law office in Athens, Ga. |
