Yeah, Neck, you're up there in my neck of the woods.
I was baptized in Jesus' name at the old Elim Tabernacle when it was just a basement on its way to becoming a church. That was October 27, 1955. F.J. Ellis (no physical relation to me) was the pastor.
I received the Holy Ghost Baptism at Bethel Tabernacle on Lathrop when it was UPC and Bro. Lester Thompson was pastor. Now some of that congregation have become True Life in Sturtevant.
Our pastor recently visited Bro Lester Thompson in the retirement home where he now lives in Wiscosnin. He told our pastor that is bothers him to be filled the desire to minister but not be able... In his 90's he still has a zeal for the kingdom of God...
I might could talke my wife into the Houston one because there will probably be enough exUPCers there so that she would not stand out like a sore thumb as she did at the last one we went to back in 1999.
Well if the lamenting on some forums is to be believed no one will stand out but the very few who are still "holy."
Our pastor recently visited Bro Lester Thompson in the retirement home where he now lives in Wiscosnin. He told our pastor that is bothers him to be filled the desire to minister but not be able... In his 90's he still has a zeal for the kingdom of God...
Bro. and Sis. Thompson have been married for 68 years.
They met at ABI. I think she was no longer able to give him the care he needed at home and he had to move into a nursing home (hospice).
Bro. L.R. Mitchell baptized me at Bro. Ellis' church Oct. 27, 1955 and about that time he left for North Dakota to take the Jesus' name message there.
I started attending the church in Racine some time after I was baptized. It was some time before Christmas. At that time Bro. Thompson was pastor. There were several people in that church that were part of his family.
Our pastor recently visited Bro Lester Thompson in the retirement home where he now lives in Wiscosnin. He told our pastor that is bothers him to be filled the desire to minister but not be able... In his 90's he still has a zeal for the kingdom of God...
I don't know if you will see him or not.
If you do, tell him hello for me and let him know that I have been praying for him and Sis. Thompson.
He may not remember me.
A while back on Everyone's Apostolic I gave Sis. Thompson a quick update on me. She said she had wondered what had become of me. It had been many, many years since I had been in that church.
Not too long ago I left a comment on her page at EA asking about Bro. Thompson. She hasn't responded. I'm sure she has better things to do than spending time on the computer.
Bro. and Sis. Thompson have been married for 68 years.
They met at ABI. I think she was no longer able to give him the care he needed at home and he had to move into a nursing home (hospice).
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After I said that Bro. and Sis. Thompson met at ABI, I realized that I didn't know that for sure. One time he said that because he was so financially limited, he waited until she had ordered a hamburger before he came up and talked to her. I just assumed they met at ABI.
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Sam also known as Jim Ellis
Apostolic in doctrine
Pentecostal in experience
Charismatic in practice
Non-denominational in affiliation
Inter-denominational in fellowship
I hope we can get an AFF get-together going when the GC comes to Houston.
That would be awesome! So are we all coming to your house?
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
I was wanting to go this year. I've got a lot of friends in that area and haven't been in several years .... then the mrs got preggers and is due towards the end of May. So that's pretty much changed everything. *grin* But in a good way.
Maybe we'll go to the conference in Houston. I have friends and family near there as well.
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