Don Wilson (footballer)

Don Wilson (1930 – 2003) was an English football player and manager, who played in the Football League for Bury.

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Donald Wilson

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Don Wilson (pastor)

Donald Wilson (born 1949, Alta Vista, Kansas) is the founder and senior pastor of Christ's Church of the Valley in Peoria, Arizona, one of the largest churches in the United States, with an average attendance of 21,000 a week. Wilson also helped begin four other Valley-wide churches: Christ's Church of the Crossroads, The Refinery Christian Church, Journey Christian Church, and Praxis Church of Scottsdale.

Education

Wilson attended Manhattan Christian College, Kansas State University, and earned his Ph.D. from the California Graduate School of Theology.

Wilson and CCV

Don is the founder of Christ’s Church of the Valley, which has been in existence since 1982; he began services in a rented movie theatre. Since that time, Christ’s Church of the Valley has held services in an elementary school, a strip mall, and a building known as ‘The Castle’. In 1996, Christ’s Church of the Valley raised over $1 million in one day, purchased 50 acres (200,000 m²) of land in the northwest area of Phoenix for a permanent home. In 2006, CCV raised over $8 million on one weekend for the Ripple Effect campaign. This campaign is built two new buildings for Children and Youth ministries. These buildings opened fall 2008.

Don Wilson (baseball)

Donald Edward "Don" Wilson, (February 12, 1945 – January 5, 1975) was a professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of nine seasons in Major League Baseball with the Houston Astros.

Biography

Career

Wilson's professional career began after he graduated from Compton Community College in Compton, California and was recruited by the Astros in 1966, where he played until 1974. Especially early in his career when he was prone to wildness, Wilson was known as one of the hardest throwers in the National League.