Word: congregationers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arthur S. DeMoss, who died in 1979, began his working life as a bookie. He ran two profitable Albany, N.Y., "horse rooms" and owned three Cadillacs by age 24. A year later, however, a revival-tent conversion redirected his energies. He embarked on what Tony Campolo, a Philadelphia-area pastor...
Harvard enters the equation because it legally has the second right of first refusal--meaning that, after the congregation, the University has the first chance to make an offer on the building.
But Harvard's decision is complicated by several obstacles. First, at least the building's exterior must be preserved, making development of the site as classroom space difficult. Second, the congregation still wants to remain in the church--creating further public relations problems for any potential development.
Lars-Erik Wiberg, the congregation's president, says that even with Harvard as a landlord, the chapel is committed to staying.
"It's awfully difficult," Wiberg says. "For a congregation that has been in one place for almost 100 years to imagine someone else owning [the chapel]."