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To: Tax-chick
Cokesbury is a national chain, and a ton of churches are named that -- it's a conflation of the names of Bishop Coke and Bishop Asbury, two leading lights in the early American Methodist movement. IIRC, they were the first Methodist bishops sent over to America.

(I know this stuff bec. my grandfather-in-law was a Methodist minister, and I had the privilege of knowing him for the last 10 years of his life. He died full of years and honors in the mid-80s. If anybody is in Heaven, he's there.)

13 posted on 07/01/2007 6:13:51 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother

Well, now I’ve learned something! I’d seen “Asbury” Methodist churches, but I had no idea where the “Coke” came from. I figured they were both names of places back in England, and just happened to have the same ending!

I feel enriched just knowing your grandfather-in-law lived. Good people are a gift to us all.


17 posted on 07/01/2007 6:18:51 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Let all creation sing of salvation. Let us together give praise forever!)
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