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| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | doyle: How we celebrated "Holyween" instead of "Halloween." |
| When Linda and I moved to Long Island, New York near New York City, our goal was to help rescue a church that had split leaving only eight people. Six months previously, we had bought a new home in Cleveland where I had been working with Forward In Faith.As much as any other time in my life, I strongly felt God's leading to try and rescue that church. We sold the house and used the small profit to support ourselves until the church grew enough to help us some.The religious demographic of Long Island was 80 percent Catholic, ten percent Jewish and all the rest of us; Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals etc., were in the other ten percent.Halloween has grown in popularity everywhere now but on Long Island, it was a very |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Dave Dorsey: Re: How we celebrated "Holyween" instead of "Halloween." |
| When I saw the thread title I thought, Why on earth would you call it Holyween when you can just celebrate Reformation Day?But now I understand. |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Cojak: |
| Man, I liked that idea. I enjoyed the read and reasoning. Like DD, the title and entry made complete sense once put together. Thanks Doyle for a great read this time of the year.I was blessed to do a Children's church at Camp Meeting on Long Island and a youth camp. I loved those folk. S.A Lankford was Overseer at the time. Thanks for kicking in some memories. Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/ |
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