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Pastors' School 1975 and Others
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I’ve heard him speak on a few occasions. He’s a good storyteller.
A sermon ripping my pastor and his buddies... (well deserved though) He didn't mention them by name, but you KNEW he was talking to them.
Service at the Hammond Civic Center.
Service in Chicago, Curtis Hutson preaching and the horrible echo.
The crappy McDonalds off Columbia.
Staying at a Motel off of Cline Avenue.
Eating White Castle Hamburgers and instantly regretting it.
Going to visit my first home after I got married, a dumpy Mobile Home Park off of Ridge Rd. and Burr Street in Gary IN.
The obligatory visit back to HAC for the Alumni Meeting.
Thanking God that I didn't live there any more.
Was it owned by Pete and Christine Reuskin?
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No, actually I bought it from Bro. Highfill.
The opening post tells of the '75 Pastor's School...which would've been the first held in the new & expanded auditorium.
We had been meeting at the Civic Center for 6 months for the Sunday's services and the church had no problem filling
the new auditorium for Sunday services & Pastor's Schools.
Bro Hyles took a lot of flack, as he loved telling how he designed the color scheme and style of the new auditorium. During
the first baptismal service, the curtain opened and there was no cross in the baptistery where in the '64 auditorium, there was a
huge wooden cross. Many people didn't like that there wasn't a cross visible in the new auditorium....Bro Hyles came back and said that the exterior
facade of the new building had hundreds of crosses. Many may not know, but the facade actually covers four different buildings that were built at different times (i.e. Miller Hall, the '64 auditorium, the educational building, and the '75 auditorium).
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Thanks for the post. I remember processing through, "Oh, there's a facade....."
1976 Pastor's School marked the event of the very first time I set foot in Hammond. It would turn out to be a pivotal week in my life. It was very cold for this southern boy. I don't believe it was snowing. It was the 200 year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, so Pastor's School had a patriotic theme that would continue with the Hyles' ministry of "saving America" for quite some time. I can still see Duke Morales in front of the church wearing a colonial outfit, though I wonder how many Hispanic people were involved with the war for independence in colonial America. The image of Duke in my memory still makes me smile.
On Monday afternoon, we took a bus to the college and for the first time, I laid eyes on the place that would consume so many personal moments over the next five years. We took the tour. I can't believe that I can still remember that Cindy McCormick was the tour guide.
My dad went with me. It was the only time he went to a Pastor's School. I remember the Church with a Heart on Monday night, Gail McKinney's "Little Things" class on Tuesday and what was for my dad and me, the climax of the week on Thursday afternoon when Bro. Hyles preached his "Fresh Oil" sermon to an overflow crowd in a hot auditorium. I was blown away by the experience. I enrolled at Hyles Anderson a few months later in the fall of the year.
Today, I wonder why I was so affected and wonder how different my life might have been if I had been too ill to make the trip that week to Hammond. But life is what it is and that week was one that changed mine forever.
On Monday afternoon, we took a bus to the college and for the first time, I laid eyes on the place that would consume so many personal moments over the next five years. We took the tour. I can't believe that I can still remember that Cindy McCormick was the tour guide.
My dad went with me. It was the only time he went to a Pastor's School. I remember the Church with a Heart on Monday night, Gail McKinney's "Little Things" class on Tuesday and what was for my dad and me, the climax of the week on Thursday afternoon when Bro. Hyles preached his "Fresh Oil" sermon to an overflow crowd in a hot auditorium. I was blown away by the experience. I enrolled at Hyles Anderson a few months later in the fall of the year.
Today, I wonder why I was so affected and wonder how different my life might have been if I had been too ill to make the trip that week to Hammond. But life is what it is and that week was one that changed mine forever.
I never realized Duke Morales had been there that long.
He was still there when I went to college in 1990.
He was still there when I went to college in 1990.