Word: pastorates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...society shook down $4,200 the first year, has already topped $3,000 so far in 1960. Members send materials and food, as well as money. One member contributed 900 cases of slightly damaged canned goods, and another collected enough money to buy Father Kern a new car (the pastor sent it back, kept his 1955 Ford...
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Countered Negro Pastor William James of Manhattan's Metropolitan Community Methodist Church: "The commission report tries to say to Negroes 'You be good boys and we'll give you what you want in the way of appointments, but if you try to integrate, we'll shut you out.' The young people engaged in the sit-downs are not going to take this." The most vociferous lay delegate, Chester A. Smith, 75, of Peekskill, N.Y., a retired court reporter who is a veteran of twelve General Conferences, joined with Pastor James in picketing the report...
...Cherokee Indian, his other grandparents white). Most of his constituents know the sting of poverty; Powell has never lacked money. His mother, Mattie Powell, was an illegitimate heiress of the Schaefer brewing fortune, according to her son, and his father dabbled in Harlem real estate and was the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, with the largest Protestant congregation in the world (present membership: well over...
...young Adam unhesitatingly took over his pulpit in the emergency. A tall (6 ft. 3 in.), handsome man and a spellbinding orator, he was a roaring success; his maiden sermon left the congregation weeping and shouting amen. Five years later, when Adam Sr. retired, his son became full pastor of the church...