THE EVANGELICAL 'GATEKEEPERS'
Church leaders work to alter public perception
Author: Cathleen Falsani
Date: February 11, 2005
Publication: Chicago Sun-Times (IL)
Page: 20
Excerpt:
A few weeks before Christmas 2004, eight of the Chicago area's leading evangelical Christian pastors assembled for an unusual meeting in a hotel room near O'Hare Airport.
They were white, black and Hispanic, friends and strangers, charismatic, traditional, liberal, conservative, centrist, megachurch shepherds, rising stars, longtime vanguard pastors. Among them, they represent more than 50,000 Chicago area evangelical Christians.
The group, known informally as...
Date: February 11, 2005
Publication: Chicago Sun-Times (IL)
Page: 20
Excerpt:
THE EVANGELICAL 'GATEKEEPERS'
These evangelical leaders represent some of the largest and most influential evangelical Christian congregations in the Chicago area:
•Carlton Arthurs, 72, Wheaton Christian Center; Nondenominational, Carol Stream
Weekly attendance: 800 (at two suburban locations)
•Wilfredo De'Jesus, 40, New Life Covenant; Assemblies of God, Chicago
Weekly attendance: 1,700
•John Eckhardt, ...
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