What are you doing on DOOMSDAY?

[Sam]

Originally Posted by AtlantaBishop

Oh Sam, I have been meaning to ask you. I preached years ago for W.V. Grant in a big building in Cincinnati called the Charismatic Cathedral of Compassion.
It seemed to me that on the cornerstone (inside the building) there was information about it being built as an Apostolic Church. I am am not sure as it was the late 70's but I think I remember the name Sizemore being on the inscription. Can you tell me anymore about all that? I am not sure how long WVG owned the building but he did draw pretty big crowds there in the 70's before moving back to Dallas and before prison.

That was in the Cincinnati area in an incorporated city called St. Bernard. It was a theater at one time. Then it was a Primitive Baptist Church. The Primitive Baptists had a split and had to sell the building. They sold it to the First Apostolic Church, which was a UPC church. I was a member of that UPC church at the time. Frank Curts was pastor and Norman and Mary Alice Paslay were assistant pastors. That was some time around 1960. In 1963 or 1964 my wife and I left that church and started going to Carthage Apostolic Church which was pastored by Joe David Sizemore. He was in the ALJC. Around 1968 there was some kind of falling out between Bro. Curts and Bro. Paslay. Bro. Curts brought in Leroy Buller as assistant pastor and Bro. Paslay and a group left and formed Calvary Apostolic Church. I'm not sure if Bro. Paslay and the group left before or after Bro. Buller was brought in. Bro. Paslay's new church was also UPC. I think Bro. Curts died in 1969. First Apostolic's congregation was too small to keep up the building and they sold it to Bro. Grant. First Apostolic moved to the Kenwood section of Cincinnati in the early 1970's, meeting first in a house, and then building a new church where they still are today. A few years, Bro. Buller retired. They have had a couple of different pastors there and Joel Urshan is the current pastor. I don't know when Bro. Grant left this area. The building at 4828 Vine street has been torn down and in 2001 the property was transferred from the City of St. Bernard to the Public Library of Cincinnati. I don't know just when the building was torn down.