![]() ![]() The town began as a stopover for California-bound immigrants, but developed into a city with the Comstock Lode, a silver strike in the mountains to the northeast. The city is named after the mountain man Kit Carson. The majority of the city's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada, about 30 miles (50 km) south of Reno. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,639, making it the sixth largest city in the state. We just have a wonderful and loving (church) family.Carson City is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. ![]() Henderson, 72, added, “I think about retiring (from) time to time and quite often.” But he also talked about heading to Arkansas a couple of weeks ago and hearing from a presenter who was in his late 70s who said “how do you retire from a calling?”Ībout the church now, Henderson said, “We’ve never had as much of a loving and as much support and as close of a family as we do now. “We had a couple of chances where we though that we were going to move. “I think it’s something where God’s been with us and God’s calling to stay,” he said. Henderson noted his two daughters were 3 years old and 3 weeks old 45 years ago. “A lot of things have happened in those years.” “I had more hair and more weight back then,” Henderson said. Henderson celebrated 50 years in the ministry in May.Īfter five years in New England, Henderson moved to Carson City in 1973. He married his wife, Wanetta, in 1967 and the two began their full-time ministry in 1968. Henderson celebrated his 45th year at the church last Sunday. ![]() The church has had just one pastor during that time and that’s Bruce Henderson. A lot has happened in the last 45 years, but there has been one constant during that time at Airport Road Church of Christ. ![]()
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