Tennessee had Tri-City services planned for Knoxville, Nashville and Memphis. An outside speaker was brought in. Memphis’ meeting took place in Ellis Auditorium and the scheduled speaker was T. L. Lowery.
I served as chairman of the usher committee. It was a simple task and all went well except I had forgotten to tell the ushers we needed a head count. When we turned in the offering to the state council men in a room off from the auditorium they ask me for a head count. Hastily I gathered the ushers and said we need a head count. The auditorium was large and people were scattered. The ushers got counts in their designated area and the total was (I can’t remember) but it was below 300 maybe around 200. I wrote the specified number and went to the councilors and gave them the written number and they all laughed at me. I had no idea what they were laughing about.
Several months later the West Tennessee Camp meeting took place and Orville Hagan, state overseer gave an exciting report of the tri-city services and Memphis had over 500 in attendance.
Then a few months later we attended the Dallas General Assembly and again Hagan spoke about the success of the Tennessee tri-city meetings. Memphis had over 1000 in attendance!!
This is what the Church of God refers to an evangelistic count. It is an exaggerated count to glorify the meeting.
Well, Charles, I see you’re still at it — digging up any trash you can find to try to discredit the entire Church of God organization, instead of just saying what one person said (which is just gossip anyway)! You can’t be happy about continually criticizing the Church of God and it’s ministers/officials — unless you’ve been given over to a reprobate mind! Also, I see you haven’t changed the misleading title of this forum yet. Why don’t you just put a notice somewhere that every disgruntled person can dump their trash regarding the Church of God on your forum?
Once again the person attacked( I’LL be nice and change it to accused )is dead and can’t defend himself.
My Pastor Victor Massey made a statement from the pulpit Sunday morning that may just ring true here for certain people. Pastor said “You’ll never have a truly successful future as long as your controlled by the pains of your past.”
Iinteresting I think.
Still it has not been unusual to have numbers exaggerated both in attendance and in numbers converted, healed.etc.. Just another example of how we should be very careful with numbers and other details.
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