Word: maranatha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newest structure in town is Maranatha Baptist Church, result of a schism precipitated in the Plains Baptist Church by a racial dilemma in the wake of Jimmy's election. The newest organic matter seems to be a small garden given by the citizens of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In a chill evening wind, the shrubs seem afflicted and huddled in gloom along streets as empty as Sagebrush at midnight. And, I discover as hunger mounts, Faye has closed her restaurant and moved the mobile home. The old Plains may be buried past finding...
...acre former dude ranch outside Tucson became Maranatha House two years ago, and now houses 40 young evangelists and draws 600 people to weekly services. At Virginia Beach, Va., under-25s predominate in the congregation of 1,200 at robust Rock Church; Pentecostalist Pastor John Gimenez is a former heroin addict from Spanish Harlem with a sixth-grade education...