Memories From the Past. Graduating from Lee College in 1974,…

Memories From the Past. Graduating from Lee College in 1974, Bro Raymond Crowley, State Overseer of Northern Ohio CoG appointed me as a State Evangelist. Preaching revivals that were 1-3 weeks each time, I needed several suits. At the General Assembly, there were selling 100s of suits. You could buy them for $75 each and they would even finance them for $5 down and $5 a month per suit. I purchased five suits on their finance plan. I was preaching a revival in Urbana, Ohio. The Church of God there was a converted house. They had built a room onto the side which they made into their sanctuary. God was blessing our meetings. As I was preaching one Sunday morning, and wearing one of my General Assembly suits, I was in a big way of preaching when I noticed my suit coat was coming apart at the seams. That did not bother me too bad. I just removed my coat and kept on preaching. Often times while preaching I would take my suit coat off and continue preaching. But on that hot Sunday morning, with a fan in the window, I felt a new fresh breeze of cool air. I soon realized that my pants had split open right in the seat and I was in the pulpit preaching. I immediately had the congregation to bow their heads, and asked that every eye closed. I said, “No one is to be looking around.” Meanwhile, I grabbed my suit coat, did my best to wrap it around my waist and slipped out the side door of the church while the Pastor finished the altar service. The five suits I had purchased at the CoG General Assembly were all dry rotted and the thread failed. So much for my CoG GA suits.