Famous COGOP Connections

[Dr. Ron]

No dolfan, he just sang the song of all the reasons it makes sense for you to buy this airplane from a young stuggling preacher.

He was Oral Roberts pilot for many years. That is where he learned the business of "tape and book" ministry. He calls it that not me.....

[panhandler]

Kenneth Copeland .... acutally flew the GO on one flight.

I just want to know if he sang to Bro. Tomlinson about wanting his fanny brown.

(Joke stemming from thread about Copeland's doo-wop songs in the late 1950's).

I guess he didn't have a private place to tan or a tanning bed back then. It is pretty easy to get your fanny brown nowdays.

[wsmitty]

Just read this in a Southern Gospel Newsletter:

VISIT ELVIS PRESLEY'S CHURCH
WHERE HE DISCOVERED GOD AND GOSPEL MUSIC
Elvis Presley's boyhood church will reopen its doors to the world.. on August 9th in Tupelo, Mississippi. A news report in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette says,.. when Presley was a boy, his family attended a small, simple, First Assembly of God chapel in East Tupelo. Reporter Frank Lockwood adds: "Closed to the public for more than a half-century, the building was restored this year by the Elvis Presley Memorial Foundation." As part of its restoration, the Foundation moved the church to the Elvis Presley birthplace site."

According to the newspaper arrticle,.. Pastor Frank Smith, who died last year at the age of 80, is credited with teaching Presley to play a few basic chords on a guitar. Gospel music historian, Professor Jim Goff, said, "The congregation had a lifelong impact on young Elvis. In many ways, I think his musical tastes and his understanding of religion and worship, those things had already been formed at the Assembly of God Church in Tupelo before he set off for Memphis and worldwide fame."

Elvis Presley Memorial Foundation director Dick Guyton noted: "[We want] to allow the visitor, as he sits in the pew.. to become part of a worship service from an old Assembly of God church back in the 1930's and '40's."

[pastorables]

I believe someone mentioned Elvis did.

http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp ... 1&div=News




Here is an article concerning the Elvis connection. Brother Frank Smith, long time COGOP pastor, gave Elvis his first guitar lessons as noted in the article. Brother Smith was pastor of the Tupelo AG at the time of the first relationship.

pa

[Shepherd]

The famous saxophone player, "Boots" Ammons, brother to the RaZEr, was raised in the COGOP.

[Pianoman]

The famous saxophone player, "Boots" Ammons, brother to the RaZEr, was raised in the COGOP.

What was he famous for?

Sorry - couldn't resist! (Even if I don't know you from Adam!)

[pastorables]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cECEK69e ... pelo-2008/

Here is the video of Elvis' church unveiling ceremony.

pa

[THE RAzEr]

[quote="pastorables"]Paul Thorn
Steve Wariner (I could be wrong on this one)

You are right. When Steve was a kid (about 12) he filled out an altar card from a revival we held at a church called Mars Hill in Indianapolis. His Uncle was the Pastor (Sam Wariner). In later years, Steve's Father and some friends, provided music for a radio program my wife and I had called the Fountain.


The wariner's go way back in the COGOP.

I know of one of his first cousins who is married to a COGOP Pastor.

Ray

[THE RAzEr]

Kenneth Copeland .... acutally flew the GO on one flight.

I just want to know if he sang to Bro. Tomlinson about wanting his fanny brown.

(Joke stemming from thread about Copeland's doo-wop songs in the late 1950's).

Hey I don't know if Copeland sung to MAT. I wonder if MAY sung "Hear the tramp, tramp, tramping of the Army" to Copeland.

[Kenya]

Have you seen what Devin Pense has been up to lately???

http://www.devinpense.com/