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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]
Noel Jones (born January 31, 1950) is a Jamaican minister and a Pentecostal bishop. He is the senior pastor of the City of Refuge Church in Gardena, California , which has about 17,000 members, and was formerly the Greater Bethany Community Church.
In 2005, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that between 1997 and 2000, Eddie Long received more than $3.07 million worth of compensation and benefits from his non-profit charity, 'Bishop Eddie Long Ministries Inc.' Long contended that the charity did not solicit donations from members but instead gained its income from royalties, speaking fees and several large donations. [17]
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.
Once, after the late Miami Herald Columnist Charles Whited had visited a Black church and enjoyed the preaching and choir singing, he sat down to write his weekly column and had this to say about ...
The presiding bishop is the head clerical and executive leader of the fellowship, exercising authority along with other episcopates to provide administration. Within the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, its bishops claim apostolic succession through Bishop Morton's consecrator, the excommunicated Roman Catholic George Augustus Stallings ...
Noel Jones (born 1950) K. Bill Keller (born 1958) D. James Kennedy (1930–2007) ... Eddie L. Long (1953–2017) Max Lucado (born 1955) Gilbert Lumoindong (born 1966) M
Season 3 of Netflix's 'Catching Killers' investigates the New York Zodiac Killer. The killer, Heriberto "Eddie" Seda, eventually admitted his crimes.