Word: pastorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ultimately You'll Leave." The Lutheran mission church at Hsuchang had originally been a stable. When Chen Yi's troops took Hsuchang for awhile last month they turned it back into a stable. "Instead of pews," said 30-year-old Pastor Anders B. Hansen last week, "there were stalls. . . . Light poured in through a mortar hole in the ceiling, and horses stirred in the stalls. ... It looked like the Christmas scene turned upside down...
...Minton of Covington, Ind. launched a 74-hour marathon reading of the Bible's 1,189 chapters. The reading was done by some 150 of his Assembly of God Pentecostal parishioners in 30-minute shifts, was broadcast day & night over a public address system. Said Pastor Minton: "We hope the idea catches fire in other communities...
...find I still preach best," Pastor Edmund Wylie once said, "when the congregation is against me." His son, Author Philip Wylie, felt much the same way. As a slick-paper fictioneer and essayist (Generation of Vipers'), he had profitably entertained large congregations, often as not by insulting them. But as a newspaper columnist he had emptied the church. Off My Chest was a vitriolic series of sermons against clericalism, bigotry, and the worship of "Mom." Last week, after three years as a syndicated columnist, Philip Wylie admitted defeat...
When two couples from another congregation asked to join his church because there were two opposing factions in their own, Pastor Sanders sent them away. "Why, in my church there are seven factions," he said. "You go back and try your church for another year. If you still can't get along, then come back and you can join my church." As Sanders expected, they never returned...
Valley Christian's pastor has a direct, put-up-or-shut-up banker's approach to most problems. At the church's annual fund-raising he says: "Give what you think this church is worth to you. If you think it's worth a dime, don't let anybody talk you into giving a dollar...