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Karen Estes Dudley was born in Reydon, Oklahoma and is the mother of three. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in 1995, specializing in Urban and Pastoral Ministries. Dudley is an Ordained Minister and for the past decade has been ministering the Word of God in the streets and jails throughout the metroplex of the Dallas/Ft Worth area.

In 1997, Karen founded and is currently pastoring the DALLAS INTERNATIONAL STREET CHURCH (DISC) in Dallas, Texas. The DISC is a ministry geared to meeting the needs of God's most broken people through Spiritual, Emotional, Physical and Educational Renewal. In February 2004, DISC moved from downtown to South Dallas, a notorious drug area. Children and families, whose lives are splintered, are being affected by nightly church services, programs for children, Bible Studies and free clothing distribution. 

In Rev. Dudley's ministry to the most broken of God's people, she has established men's and women's discipleship programs, children's programs, ministered to families, the homeless, those in jail and coming out of jail, male and female prostitutes, crack addicts and alcoholics. She has truly reached down into the trenches and brought God's people out, one by one, as He has led, with the unending Love and Forgiveness of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Karen Dudley is an inspirational and dynamic motivational speaker. In her presentation, she shares the "How To" of planting an inner city work, as well as sustaining and growing this work. It has been a total walk of faith as she has been completely dependant on and taught of the Lord. Her work, as been said, is a "Modern Day Miracle of God". She is eager to share her knowledge and experiences in an effort to assist you in establishing your urban work, or to show you ways in which your church or organization can become involved with The DALLAS INTERNATIONAL STREET CHURCH reaching into this vast harvest of souls in urban America.
  

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Curtis came to the ministry about three years ago from the depths of addiction and a broken man.  He identifies himself as a "preacher on the run". He had a good position in the electronic field and was in the midst of completing his seminary education - preaching the gospel and living life!  Crack cocaine took him down.  Curtis  is a great man of faith - a diligent man - and has become the Assistant Pastor of the Dallas International Street Church.  A testimony of what God will do when we are willing.  He has a story to tell and is available for speaking engagements.

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A TRIBUTE TO OUR FRIEND....

MELVIN "POPS" SIMPSON

BORN APRIL 1951 - DECEASED MAY 12, 2008

Pops came to the Dallas International Street Church seven years ago.  He was such an inspiration to all who knew him.  He was our first Deacon; he was in charge of our "free store"; and he was wise counsel.  He was a loyal friend to all who knew him.  We loved him and will miss him.

His wake will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday, May 18, 2008, at Cooper and Wilson Funeral Home, 3114 Martin Luther King Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75216.  His Funeral Service will be held at 11 a.m., Monday, May 19, 2008, at the Dallas International Street Church, 2706 Second Ave., Dallas, Texas 75210.  Dinner will be served at 4 p.m. at the Dallas International Street Church for family and friends following his service and his burial at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery.