Word: pastors
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Church planting puts Sunday in St. Louis on a busy schedule. At St. Peter's Lutheran, a 35-member white congregation is overshadowed by a planted 150-member Vietnamese Lutheran congregation led by a Vietnamese pastor. Mount Olive Lutheran Church has a white Lutheran service at 10:30 a.m., an African-American Baptist congregation at 12:15 p.m. and an Eritrean Coptic Orthodox congregation at 2 p.m. And Kingshighway Baptist, besides its white and Latino congregations, is host to a special church for street people and unaffiliated youth that meets Thursday nights...
Relations between planted and host churches are often not as warm as either side would like. "The interaction is not really close," says Frantz Sanon, pastor of the Haitian congregation. "We always seem to meet in a rush." This is partly by design--a half-hour gap between the two services cuts down on chance encounters in the chapel, which nobody really seems to want. Language can also be a barrier. "My congregation can't understand him even when he speaks English," jokes the Rev. William Doubek of his Vietnamese counterpart. Moreover, different denominations cannot worship together. "If we were...
...task force included Rev. Thomas B. Chittick, president of United Ministry and minister of University Lutheran Church; Rev. Richard N. Chrisman, associate minister of Old South Church in Boston, and Mikelson, who is also pastor of First Church in Cambridge...
Niebuhr narrowed his focus to religious philosophy and decided to enter Union Seminary in New York City after his graduation from the College. After several years as the pastor of a small church in Cornwall, Conn., Niebuhr says he "felt the pull to come back and enter a Ph.D. program." He received his doctorate in theology from Yale...
...person who needs to be jailed is the dead children's grandfather and family pastor, Charles Nixon, for filling the minds of his trusting parishioners with rubbish and for distorting Scripture. Nowhere does the Bible say that sick children should be denied proper medical treatment or that it's "God's will" for children to die. "Freedom of religion" doesn't mean condoning murder. How many more children must die before the Faith Tabernacle Congregation is shut down and the pastor defrocked? (The Rev.) SALLY L. CARPENTER Seelyville...