Word: pastoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leroy Attles, pastor of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, said yesterday his church has circulated petitions and plans a fast next Sunday to coincide with a student march in Atlanta protesting the killings--all of which remain unsolved...
...When the pastor of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Paul arrived at the church early one morning this month, he tried not to wake the Laotian refugee family that had been staying in the basement while waiting for permanent lodging. Suddenly Cha Mang, one of the refugees, appeared and beckoned the clergyman to follow her to the room where the family, which had arrived in the U.S. just five days earlier, slept. There she pointed to the bed where her husband Lue Thao, 36, was lying. Lue Thao was not asleep; he was dead...
...nothing else, the Pope's visit will serve to regularize a number of informal liaisons among Filipino believers. Father Melchor Dano, pastor of a parish in Tondo, last month performed a mass wedding for 36 couples who had been living in sin. He followed that with a mass baptism for their children-so that all concerned could greet the Pope as bona fide Catholics...
...presbytery again approved Kaseman, again conservatives appealed, and a final hearing was scheduled in Philadelphia before the Permanent Judicial Commission. Maryland Pastor Stewart J.Rankin asked the 14 black-robed judges to bar Kaseman, declaring, "The eternal destiny of mortal souls hangs in the balance." Defending Kaseman, Washington Pastor Arthur R. McKay insisted that Presbyterianism had crossed a "great divide" in 1967, which conservatives simply refuse to recognize...
...pentecostal movement in America was founded by a Black man who was interpreting the scriptures in the context of Black American society. The Harvard group is named after that founder. Around 1912 William J. Seymour was an associate minister of his church but lost the approval of his pastor because he belived in the working of the Holy Spirit and the charismatic Spirit were completely consistent with Biblical doctrine as he preached miracle working and healing. Soon after Seymour was locked out of his church he founded the large and well-known Azusa Street Church in Los Angeles, an establishment...