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Greater Union Baptist Church is a historic church located in Chicago's Near West Side. Built in 1886 and designed by the father of the skyscraper, William Le Baron Jenney , in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, the building originally housed the Church of the Redeemer , a Universalist congregation.
Rev. John J. Dussman served as OLPH’s pastor for approximately thirty-four years, from 1934 until his retirement in 1971. [1] Fr. Dussman was succeeded by Rev. Myles P. McDonnell, who served the parish until 1989. [1] Rev. John E. Flavin served as pastor between 1989 and 2007, when recent pastor Thomas E. Hickey, was appointed to the role. [1]
Colin S. Smith (born April 27, 1958) is an evangelical pastor and author. Smith is currently the senior pastor of The Orchard Evangelical Free Church in Illinois, where he has been since 1996. The Orchard Evangelical Free Church has six campus locations: Arlington Heights, Barrington, Itasca, Marengo, Northfield and Vernon Hills.
In 1985, James Meeks, pastor of Beth Eden Baptist Church in Chicago, shared the vision of founding a new church in a sermon. [1] [2] After a meeting with 205 members that same day, the church was founded. [3] The new congregation held its first services January 20, 1985 at 8201 South Jeffrey Boulevard and remained at this location for five ...
Trinity's first pastor, Kenneth B. Smith, was appointed by the Chicago Congregational Christian Association of the United Church of Christ (formed only in 1957) to expand the denomination toward southern Chicago, where blacks had recently begun to migrate from the "Black Belt" of Chicago's South Side to the more southerly urban areas whites had ...
On Saturday, Dec. 21, the Gladiator II star, 69, was baptized at the Kelly Temple Church of God in Christ, located in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. He also was presented with a ...
John Wilkerson is the senior pastor at First Baptist Church. [4] Leaders in the church have faced accusations, lawsuits, and convictions for sexual crimes over decades. These in include the Preying from the Pulpit expose in 1993 and the 2013 conviction in federal court of former pastor Jack Schaap of the sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl.
Pilgrim Baptist Church is a historic church located on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, USA. The landmarked building was originally constructed for a synagogue, Kehilath Anshe Ma'arav . The church is notable both as an architectural landmark and for the cultural contributions by the congregation of the church.