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Originally Posted by CC1
Back in the 80's when MH left the church over personal "issues" (don't ask I am not getting into it here) the church fell apart. The assistant pastor, whose name I forget, continued to try and carry on but over a very few years ended up in a church seating around 1500 or so with only one or two hundred people. I visited during that time. The congregation was not large enough or affluent enough to support the upkeep of that size church and it showed. Some time later, probably in the late 80's possibly early 90's the building was sold to a black congregation. I don't know of what denomination.
I visited the church duing it's heyday in the late 70's twice. The church was packed, the program was nationally telecast, and the church had started a Bible College. The prayer rooms were behind the platform and with several hundred people all praying starting an hour or more before church time when you entered the sanctuary you could hear kind of a muted roar. Maybe it was because I was an impressionable teenager at the time but I recall both visits just feeling the presence of God when you walked in that sanctuary like nothing I have before. Obviously I don't think it was the building or the pastor. I do think it was probably the presence of God being ushered end by those hundreds praying in those prayer rooms.
As others have stated over the years on AFF Mark Hanby was the premiere orator in the UPC in the late 60's through mid 70's. He and Kenneth Phillips were the UPC's top evangelists even though they both were also pastors.
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My experience was the same. Very impressive.
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