Church Of God In Christ, Holy Convocation, Pastors and Elders Council, Presiding Bishop By koinoniacafe November 17, 2014.Los Angeles, CA — The fiery preacher with a booming voice delivered a final message from the pulpit Sunday morning.JUST IN: Sunday, Ma 1:58 p.m.
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Recording artists Pharrell Williams, a Virginia Beach native, and Missy Elliott, who grew up in Portsmouth, also called Throroughgood their pastor and contributed to the Pentecostal church he led. ROBERT LEE HAMILTON, THE WELL-KNOWN PASTOR OF GOLDEN GATE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST (COGIC) IN NEW ALBANY, MISSISSIPPI, DIED FROM A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK TODAY AFTER HE FINISHED PREACHING A SERMON AND SAT DOWN.In those congregations within the COGIC that enforce the ' double pulpit. The opportunity to become ' pastors in truth ' when an elderly pastor dies or. “You shall live and not die,” Bishop Barnett K. Thoroughgood shouted in his signature baritone, exhorting his congregation of more than 2,000 members to squeeze as much as they can from their lives before going to meet their maker.Thoroughgood, 62, wiped sweat from his forehead as he finished the sermon at New Jerusalem Church of God in Christ, sat down on stage, and collapsed in his seat.Teary-eyed church members embraced and prayed together as paramedics were called to the church on Bishop Thoroughgood Avenue, but they couldn’t revive him, according to members who were present.“He died doing what he loved,” church member Mable Beckett said Monday, still in shock a day after watching her pastor of 30-plus years take his final breath. Memphis COGIC Pastor Arrested on Sexual Abuse of 16-Yr-Old Family Member, Church Members Knew About It and Prayed For Him By Memphis Rap A Memphis COGIC pastor has been arrested and charged with sexual battery for molesting a 16 year-old family member for years and the secret was even kept by fellow church members.The pastor of a large Virginia Beach church died Tuesday in a farm accident.
She allegedly reported that to Carter, who then claimed online that Bishop Blake was the molester.‘Earl Carter needs to get his facts straight,’ Lassiter told Daily Mail Online. He has been through therapy for years to cope with the incident.His father, Sidney Lassiter Sr., a COGIC elder from Suffolk, Virginia, mentioned in passing that a member of his family had been molested as a child during a conversation with a friend, Denise Hall. It’s like picking at a scab.’Lassiter, 32, a church minister in Richmond, Virginia, told Daily Mail Online a now-dead worker in the Church of God in Christ — known by the acronym COGIC — molested him when he was 12 or 13. I repressed my memories for a long time and now it has all been made public.‘All I want is to heal and for my family to heal and now this comes up. Bishop Charles Blake (left), head of country's fifth largest Christian church has angrily denied claims by Pastor Earl Carter Florida (right) who has falsely named a man molested by the church’s top bishop‘I have been trying to put the horrible thing that happened behind me for years.
She never called me back and said ‘Sidney, is what I’m thinking true or is it a lie?’The video war is the latest move in a fight that has roiled COGIC for 18 months. She never verified the information with me. The only contact they had, he shook his hand and said ‘Thank you for coming to my church and singing the way that you all did tonight.‘I don’t understand how Denise Hall could do something as ungodly and wicked as she did. ‘But the perpetrator was not Bishop Charles Blake.‘This is not OK, it is blatantly wrong and insensitive,’ added Lassiter, who called what happened to him as a boy ‘a very horrible and filthy act.’His father said: ‘Denise Hall lied about the whole subject, took this information that I gave her and, for some reason, imposed Bishop Blake’s name.Blake, who President Obama appointed to the White House Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, is suing Carter asking for $75,000 and an order to stop his crusade against him‘Bishop Blake didn’t even meet my son till he was about 19 years old in Los Angeles at a concert. ‘A cruel and nasty act did happen to me actually at the age of 12 or 13,’ the younger Lassister said.
Lassiter is demanding the post be taken down and is threatening legal action if Carter does not comply.Carter’s video in which he names and shows a photo of Lassiter, claiming he was Blake’s victim, has been viewed by nearly 14,000. Johnson's son EJ, who appears on the E! reality show Rich Kids of Beverly Hills, is gay, and Carter linked that fact to his claim that Johnson paid the bishop offCarter alleged Blake, whose LA congregation includes Magic Johnson and Denzel Washington, ‘raped’ Lassiter when he was just 14 in his own YouTube video. Louis where the Holy Convocation was held.He even claimed that Bishop Henry Ford, a former COGIC presiding bishop who died in 1995, regularly referred to Blake as ‘Charlene.’Carter also alleged that basketball great Magic Johnson gave Blake $20 million for the apology. Ever since, he has repeatedly attacked him in YouTube videos, claiming that he not only molested Lassiter, but also slept with an openly gay Harvard professor, traveled to South Africa to have sex with young boys and received $60-a-room kickbacks from hotels in St. During a speech denouncing homosexuality, Carter said about gay men ‘if you really want to be a woman you should get the whole package, meaning a woman’s monthly bleeding from the butt.’He was immediately attacked both within the church — which preaches against homosexuality — and in the media for the inappropriateness of his language, and Blake was forced to apologize.But Carter, 66, said the bishop ‘threw him under the bus’ with the apology.
This man destroyed my preaching reputation and all the doors have been closed.‘Charles Blake is a pedophile, he needs to go to jail,’ said Carter. (Bishop Blake) cut my income, that’s why I don’t have no money to afford a lawyer. ‘If 500 people give $50 I will have what I need to fight this thing. He is the kind of person that has a false balance and that’s disgusting.’In his videos, Carter repeatedly asked supporters for money.
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