Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Traveling Evangelist Del A. Fehsenfeld, 38, settled down last fall as pastor of the Argentine Baptist Church† in Kansas City, Kans., he started right out"preaching hard - hard against sin." But after a while, Pastor Fehsenfeld began to get on the nerves of some of his parishioners. He acted like a dictator, they said - expelling people from membership, illegally changing the church's affiliations, preaching against lodges and fraternal orders. He even denounced Santa Claus from the pulpit. "He said Santa Claus is a dirty lie," reported one member of the congregation. "Then he cupped his hand...
Last spring a dozen of his 300-member congregation brought suit for Pastor Fehsenfeld's removal. The judge decided that he had violated the customs and laws of his church, and perpetually enjoined him from occupying the parsonage or conducting services in the church building...
...excitement last week, La Sarre's Mayor François Xavier Martel was stricken with a heart attack. Members of the sobered town council motored 52 miles to talk things over with Baptist Pastor Barnhart. They would withdraw all charges against the group, they said, and would give the Baptists police protection for further street meetings. All they asked was that he not press charges of false arrest. Said Pastor Barnhart: "You can't fight...
...president of the Alliance the messengers elected scholarly Dr. F Townley Lord, pastor of Bloomsbury Central Church in London, England, where the Alliance will meet for its Golden Anniversary...
...Abundant Life. In Seattle, the Central Lutheran Church bulletin said that while the pastor was on vacation, Assistant Pastor Luther Jansen would be "in complete charge of church services and pastoral cuties...