Into Life Eternal

Fred McClanahan - June 27, 1923 - June 22, 2001

Fred McClanahan was born in Faulkner, Kansas and came to salvation at the age of 22 through the preaching of an evangelist. He graduated from Rockmont Bible College in Denver, Colorado, and pastored his first church in Idaho Springs, Colorado.

Fred later attended BIOLA, Conservative Baptist Seminary (Denver, Colorado), and received a degree from Temple Baptist Seminary in Chattanooga, Tennessee. While attending Temple, he clearly felt God's call on his life to serve as a missionary in Brazil.

At ABWE's candidate class, Fred met his first wife, Virginia LeSuer, who was already serving as an ABWE missionary in Brazil. Following their marriage in 1956, Fred and Virginia worked together planting churches both in cities and in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte in northeast Brazil until 1983. They also opened an elementary school and, eventually, a junior high school for children in this remote area.

After Virginia's death from cancer, Fred pastored a church in Kansas. In 1989 he married Janet Roudybush, a missionary to Brazil with Baptist Mid-Missions. Fred and Janet served as ABWE representatives, traveling and speaking in churches and missions conferences across the United States.

Fred's life continues to impact Brazilians, as many of the young people he ministered to now are pastors to their own people. Fred is survived by his wife, Janet, a brother and three sisters.

Humbert Tentarelli - April 15, 1911 - April 13, 2001

Humbert Tentarelli came to salvation as a young man through the faithful witness of a fellow soldier. After spending three years in the South Pacific during World War II, he attended Moody Bible Institute. In March1949 he married Jeanne Wagner, an ABWE missionary nurse to the Philippines. Later that same year, the couple returned to the Philippines to work in Bukidnon province. Their only child, Jonathan, was born in 1950. Jeanne's nursing skills enabled the couple to set up a clinic, at which many Filipinos came to faith in Christ. During their tenure, the Tentarellis worked in both northern and southern Mindanao, helping to start churches, holding evangelistic campaigns, and strengthening established churches.

The Tentarellis returned to the USA in 1968, and retired from ABWE the following year. They settled in the Philadelphia area where Jeanne died in 1973 and Jonathan in 1977. After the deaths of his family members, Humbert relocated to New Jersey to be near his sisters.

Remembered by his colleagues as a "great man of prayer," Humbert Tentarelli's legacy in the Philippines lives on through the witness of Filipino Christians.