DCnDC - LIVE HOLY
March 28-30, 2008

Guest Speaker - Billy Leavell

Billy Leavell was born deaf. He was raised in Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from a private hearing school and attended David Lipscomb College (now University) in Nashville, TN, graduating in 1961. He immediately became full-time minister to the deaf at Central Church of Christ in Nashville. He held this post until 1975, when he and his family moved to Memphis, TN to become minister for the deaf there. He served East Frayser Church of Christ in Memphis until 1998, when he and the deaf group from East Frayser moved to the Church of Christ at White Station. They have been there ever since.

Billy also serves as a missionary and has gone to many different countries like the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Czech Republic, Belize (Central America), and more often has served in Africa, working in Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana.. He also serves as domestic missionary, traveling throughout the United States holding gospel meetings and workshops for the deaf.

He is editor of the publication Light for the Deaf which began in 1966.

He is married to the former Marilyn Jean Allgood and from this union they have had three grown children and eight grandchildren.

His hobby is drawing comic strips and collecting comic books, which led to his work on Light for the Deaf making Bible stories and doctrines clear for the deaf.