Word: pastorates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pastor of two country churches in Denmark's North Sea province of West Jutland, the Rev. Eilif Krogager, 56, has worked for 31 years to set the feet of his parishioners firmly on the road to heaven. Unlike other clerics, Krogager can also send his flock skyward by jet: he runs a tourist agency that is the fastest growing in all of Scandinavia. His Tjaereborg Travels this year will do a $30 million business booking trips for 170,000 people, including 10,000 leaving this week for Western and Southern Europe and North Africa. Through ten subsidiary companies, Tjaereborg...
...pastor got into the travel business almost by divine comedy. Eager to make a tour of Spain in 1949 but too poor to swing it, Krogager signed up 70 Jutlanders for the trip, went along, with expenses paid, as their guide. In Segovia, Krogager forgot the name of an inn where the group had contracted to eat dinner. He took the travelers to another place-only to be confronted at meal's end by the irate owner of the scheduled restaurant, who demanded payment for the uneaten meal. In the red by $150 as a result, Krogager decided...
Krogager wears a wristwatch with built-in alarm; when it rings during business conferences, he leaves to attend his pastoral duties for the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Denmark's national church. Along with separate Sunday services in the towns of Tjaereborg and Sneum, Krogager also works the 41-acre farm where he lives with his wife Gorma, a former actress, and Daughter Kirstine-Louise, 19. Krogager prefers not to ask for a curate to help with the church work in his flourishing parishes. "I am the only pastor in Denmark," he says, "who cannot allow himself...
...performance, which the Church's pastor calls "a kind of religious experience," will include several original compositions with a theological theme...
Profit from the performance will go to the Church's rennovation fund. Tickets are available at the door at $5, $8, $10. "We tought he did these concerts as a benefit," the pastor said. But we found out that he doesn...