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Eddie Lee Long (May 12, 1953 – January 15, 2017) was an American pastor who served as the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, from 1987 until his death in 2017. When Long started as pastor for New Birth Church, there were 300 church members, which grew to 25,000. [3]
Eddie Long took over as pastor in 1987. At the time, the church had only 300 members. In 1994, New Birth became a member of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship. [2] In 2001, it dedicated a new building including a 6,056-seat auditorium. [3] [4] In 2002, New Birth was chosen to host the live recording of Dorinda Clark-Cole.
On November 5, 2007, United States Senator Chuck Grassley announced an investigation into the tax-exempt status of six ministries under the leadership of Benny Hinn, Paula White, Eddie L. Long, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, and Kenneth Copeland by the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
Attracting some of the largest churches by membership from the oldest black Baptist denomination—the NBC USA—New Birth Missionary Baptist Church became a notable affiliate before leaving the fellowship during Bishop Eddie Long's pastoral tenure after multiple controversies surrounding their leadership at New Birth. [11] Eddie Long was ...
Transparent in Your Presence is the second and final gospel CD recorded by Byron Cage & Purpose.It was recorded at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA (Bishop Eddie L. Long, Pastor), and was released in the summer of 1996.
Bishop Eddie Long: Senior Pastor, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, Lithonia, Georgia Lillian M. Lowery: Superintendent of the Maryland State Department of Education Jeanne Lucas: first black elected to the North Carolina Senate Daniel Sharpe Malekebu: 1913 first Malawian medical graduate; doctor, missionary, and anti-colonial activist ...
The church was the setting for her mother's funeral. Despite her leaving of the church coinciding with Bishop Eddie Long's settlement agreement in sexual misconduct lawsuits he had fought since September 2010, King said that she had planned to leave New Birth Missionary Baptist Church for weeks.
Over 14,000 people gathered for Coretta Scott King's eight-hour funeral at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, on February 7, 2006, where daughter Bernice King, who is an elder at the church, eulogized her mother.