Word: pastoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marble came former Rhodes Scholar George Drake, 27, a divinity student at Chicago Theological Seminary; he held services at 10 a.m. each Sunday, and Wednesday-evening songs and games for teenagers. A sign in the ground outside the building identified it as Marble Community Church, and this summer Pastor Drake and his congregation had things humming along so smartly that a reporter wrote a feature story about it in the weekly Sage of Glenwood Springs, Colo., 40 miles away...
Married. William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman Jr., 28, Harvard-bred son of Liberia's President; and Wokie Rosalind Tolbert, 23, pretty, English-educated daughter of Liberian Vice President William Tolbert; at Bensonville, Liberia, in a ceremony performed by (among other clergymen) the father of the bride, who doubles as pastor of the local Zion Praise Baptist Church...
...muleta at Malaga to receive his almost annual goring (a 6-in., 14-stitch groin wound), but, following a one-hour surgical mano a mano with death, was expected to return to the ring by month's end; and West Germany's pugnacious pacifist, Evangelical Church Pastor (and World War I U-boat Skipper) Martin Niemoller, 69, who, while vacationing in Denmark, suffered near fatal injuries in an auto crackup that killed his wife and housekeeper...
Like God. Greek Orthodox church authorities wondered whether tradition did not demand greater fidelity to existing Byzantine structures. Even Pastor Emmanuel N. Vergis was at first hesitant. His main problem was how to communicate with Wright: "How do you speak to a divinity? I mean, I do that when I pray, but what about on earth? That's the way I felt about him." Wright did not help matters with his opinion of Milwaukee itself: "It's hardly worth blowing...
Once he had learned to distinguish between Wright and God, Pastor Vergis found the architect reassuring and even reverent. "Mr. Wright used to say, 'We'll all be right here, in the palm of His hand,' " recalled the pastor, cupping his hands as Wright had. In the concrete and steel teacup church that followed the pattern of his cupped hands. Wright ringed the rim with a wide balcony to bring more worshipers closer to the altar...