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...good tax accountant, an unlisted telephone number and a veneer of skepticism. Virginia's lottery gives each winner an advice video. In it, David Snyder of Lynchburg, a $10.9 million winner in 1990 and a dedicated community worker, offers the sage counsel he received from his pastor: Don't have a guilty conscience about rejecting pleas. You cannot cure all the world's poverty. But you can help some of the poor. Snyder has made Meals on Wheels a favorite charity...
...happen overnight, and neither will our ability to reclaim it and reform it happen overnight. It's going to take a good half-generation to turn things around. The church for two full generations has been taking its brightest and its best and saying to them, Be a pastor or be a missionary. It's time we took our brightest and our best and said, Be a lawyer, be a judge, be a Governor, be the dean of a university, be the editor of a newspaper. We're involved in a cultural civil war. Right now there are very...
...provide not only Sunday school but also long lists of elective courses for adults or specialized ministries, for instance for the hearing impaired or developmentally disabled. Groups can be targeted to Vietnamese immigrants, young divorces, 50-plus singles or compulsive eaters. "When you help people, your congregation grows," says Pastor Tommy Barnett of the mushrooming First Assembly of God in Phoenix. Barnett's church has programs for AIDS patients, the wheelchair users, transients and alcoholics...
Gorman, former pastor of a 5,000-member First Assembly of God Church in New Orleans and TV preacher on 57 stations, led off the roundelay of forced sexual confessions. In July 1986, his fellow minister Swaggart summoned him to a makeshift tribunal at Swaggart's First Assembly headquarters in Baton Rouge, La., where Gorman was confronted with charges of adultery and pressured into resigning his ministry immediately. Gorman closed the circle two years later when he unveiled surveillance photos of Swaggart emerging from a motel room with a prostitute. That led in short order to Swaggart's ouster...
After the eighth grade, Fauth worked as a day laborer on the farms in the area, he says. At age 17, he moved, along with his parents, to Jerusalem, where his dad became the pastor of a church at which Fauth's grandfather had been the priest...