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Originally Posted by Roxanne Murphy
This was Phil Dugas? It sounds more like something His brother Paul would do. I grew up in, and still live in, the Oregon District. Joe Dinwiddie was my first pastor. I was only 5 years old in 1977 but I remember attending Oregon District Camp meeting and a Brother Johnson preaching the camp meeting. I was too young to be aware of any strife back then, but later I came to see Paul Dugas as incredibly critical and rather 'holier-than-thou' persona while on the platform during district meetings that he was 'gracious' enough to attend. Phil Dugas I knew later as one of my instructors at CLC (1991-1993), and then a few years later as pastor of the St. John's church here on the Portland Metro area. Phil seemed much more kind than Paul did.
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Yes, this was Phil. This is in the context of the Culture of the times.
A question was asked earlier on this thread if the acrimony between the district and the school existed before Don Fisher arrived. Yes, there absolutely was.
If I am not mistaken CLC has its own church(?). CBC didn't have that luxury, although in '78 or '79 (can't remember the year) the school made a proposal to the Portland area pastors to allow any students attending their churches to be able to prioritize school functions OVER local church functions. The PDX area pastors by this time were claiming ownership ( which included staffing of S.S. and financial $upport) of students in their churches. The pastors rejected the proposal OUTRIGHT. These things happened with Gary Geason in Oregon City, Bill Davies in McMinnville, B.A. King in Beaverton, Langley in Hillsboro, Barlow in St Helens, Phil in the church at Killingsworth and Paul in St John's just off Lombard Street. I don't know if they rejected the proposal over doctrinal "purity", needing control, or both.
It only weakened the structural integrity of the school and exascerbated the bad vibe between the school and local area pastors. It seemed that the pastors opposed any promotional activity of the school UNLESS it directly benefited their church.
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