Complex sentence: He taught Sunday School at Richmond's Second Baptist Church, served as a Deacon there for 47 years, as Secretary of the State Mission Board of Virginia for 45 years and on the national Foreign Mission Board for 20 years.
Split into simpler sentences: He taught Sunday School at Richmond's Second Baptist Church and served as a Deacon there for 47 year. He also was Secretary of the State Mission Board of Virginia for 45 years and on the national Foreign Mission Board for 20 years.