Word: pastoralized
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...House of Hope Presbyterian Church, a black Baptist choir mourned Humphrey's passing with stirring spirituals, and the church choir sang the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah. There were eulogies by President Carter and Vice President Mondale. The service lasted more than two hours. Said Pastor Calvin Didier, a Humphrey friend: "The only service we ever had here that ran as long as this one was when Hubert was the preacher." Afterward Muriel, in a pink dress and fur jacket, stood in the cold greeting guests, including Coretta King, whom she embraced. While the honor guard lifted...
...crawl over broken lives," says Michael Haynes. describing the walk from his small apartment in the black ghetto of Roxbury. Mass., to the Twelfth Baptist Church, where he has been pastor for 13 years. Haynes was a broken 15-year-old himself when a Roxbury social worker "lassoed my life." coaxed him back to Christianity and into seminary...
People are also paramount at Pastor Jimmy Allen's First Baptist Church in fading downtown San Antonio. In the past decade, it has grown from 7,000 to 9,000 members, 1,000 of them Chicanos. Allen, currently the honorific president of the Southern Baptists, combines Bible preaching with 20 ministries to meet every imaginable need. At the Fourth Street Inn restaurant, 55 volunteers offer low-pressure "witnessing" to paying customers and use the profits to offer lunch to anyone who is hungry, no questions asked. Upstairs, counselors are ready to chat. There is also a hostel for the homeless...
...size and speed of its growth, in the range of needs to which it caters, in the promises and visions it offers, Pastor Smith's Calvary conglomerate illustrates both the dangers and the opportunities implicit in the success of the Evangelical movement. Smith started Calvary eleven years...
Stubbins was also the architect for the church, which has five entrances from the street or the plaza. None have steps. This was Pastor Peterson's idea. "I wanted Saint Peter's to be related to the side walk," he explains. "We're all handicapped. We all need to move in." The sanctuary, into which people on the street can freely gaze, has movable pews, a movable altar and a 2,175-pipe German organ that stands like a sculpture on one wall. Pastor Peterson persuaded premiere Sculptress Louise Nevelson, a Russian Jew, to design the interior...