More from the above:
Donna Schuller said her husband, Dr. Robert A. Schuller, the son of Dr. Schuller, has a document detailing precisely how the older Schuller wants his memorial service to be held.
“He gave it to my husband 10 years ago,” she said. “Perfectionist that he is, I’m sure he has planned out and specified every little detail.”
Donna Schuller said passing during the holy Easter week would be a fitting exit for her father-in-law.
“He always did everything in a grand fashion,” she said. “It’s just like him.”
Dr. Robert. H. Schuller started the Garden Grove Community Church in 1955, renting the Orange Drive-In
Theatre and conducting services from a snack bar roof. As the congregation grew, the Protestant ministry began broadcasting its services through the “Hour of Power,” a syndicated TV program broadcast to millions of viewers worldwide.
In a separate story, the OC Register said that the Crystal Cathedral was dedicated in 1980. The cathedral and the grounds were sold in early 2012 for $57.5 million in bankruptcy-court proceedings to the Catholic Diocese of Orange. The facility has been renamed Christ Cathedral.
The ministry moved to St. Callistus Catholic Church about a mile away and is now called Shepherd’s Grove. Schuller’s grandson, Bobby Schuller, is now pastoring the church and is now the host of The Hour of Power TV telecast.
Although the name of the church is Shepherd’s Grove, the congregation’s corporate name continues to be Crystal Cathedral Ministries and continues to produce the “Hour of Power”
program.
Arvella Schuller, the wife of the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, who was said to be the force behind the church’s iconic “Hour of Power” television program, died in February of 2014 at the UCI Medical Center after a brief illness. She was 84.
Shepherd's Grove is an interesting choice of a name because shepherds are usually found in pastures, not groves. Just as Crystal Cathedral struck me as an odd name for a denomination that has no bishops.
I’m sure that if he thinks positively enough, he’ll be able to reverse it and recover.
/doubleplussarc
Dr. Schuller is a fine man; he has changed many lives for the positive and he avoided the dreck of many mainline Protestant ministers today which is a social gospel where illegal aliens are undocumented, anything goes in your personal life and liberalism has replaced the Bible. But like too many, Dr. Schuller appeared to get caught up in fame and money, employing far too many family members and not paying attention to the cost of operating the Crystal Cathedral and his ministries; perhaps he lived too long. Not uncommon in the world of religion; he needed to take a page from Fulton J. Sheen.