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...This is a case of man-bites-dog," said Louisville's surprised Bishop Charles Clingman. Instead of sending out a missionary to drum up a congregation and some money, here were congregation, money and building looking for a minister. How about the bishop's son, the Rev. Robert Clingman, who was visiting his father at the time...
...that first Christmas Eve, young Rector Clingman, 38, liked what he saw. There were 166 people in the little church -half of them children. "The children intrigued me," he said afterward. "They were underprivileged really . . . because of the estates they lived on, they had no playgrounds and little contact with other children...
Because of the children, Clingman agreed to stay for a year. He organized Saturday sports-soccer, football, baseball. Other boys began coming, sons of gardeners, or "river rats" who fish for a living. The children brought their parents, helped build the congregation up to its present 210, with a healthier cross section of rich and poor...
...Owsley's Fire Escape." For more than two years Rector Clingman's congregation met in their former Negro church with its old memorial windows ("Given in Memory of Big Boy Howard"). Two potbellied stoves heated it, none too well; Joe Heitzman's boat rental place next door brought confused customers stumbling into church. This spring the congregation moved into a new $200,000 church. The members voted to name it "St. Francis-in-the-Fields"-though not before some friends of Distiller Owsley Brown ("Old Forester" and other brands) had needled him with such suggestions as "Owsley...
...people of St. Francis-in-the-Fields consider themselves a long way from Christian perfection. Says Rector Clingman: "We're not good people. We're not a collection of saints but a group of sinners . . . who are trying to live by the lines from St. Paul: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners...