[Agamemnon]

I helped D. James Kennedy open his very first 'church' .. way back in the late 60's....

"Helped?" Did you, really? In what way exactly? Or were you just "there" at the time, perhaps?

IF that were such a bad thing then Dr Kennedy would have never been able to build his "Palace"....

What an odd way for anyone who claims to have known him to refer to Coral Ridge and to Dr. Kennedy in this way.

Dr. Kennedy was a family friend of ours for the better part of 35 years and all the way up to and until the time of his death I never once heard him refer to Coral Ridge as "his Palace."

Some regular "Kingdom Hall" attendee or JW "church" member might see the ranch-style prefab his group meets in as a drywalled "palace" of some sort or other, I suppose.

I'd rather doubt you were ever as personally close to Dr. Kennedy, as it appears that you are trying to represent, else you would know better the nature of both his spirit and his character than to have ever expressed yourself as you have chosen to do here.

Effective ministries will always have their "hangers-on," and maybe even a closet JW or two. And some will post to a forum like this occasionally using pseudonyms like "plinyelder."

[Agamemnon]

**BUMP**

FReegards!

[investigateworld]

Nail met hammer ;^0

[plinyelder]

Well yes, I and a number of friends of mine did help Dr Kennedy open his first ‘house of worship’ way way back, I’d say around 11967 or 68.
We remodeled and transformed the old firehouse on commercial blvd, (if you lived in the area as long as you say .. you’ll know the place) into his first group meeting area.
It was myself and friends of mine who came over from The House of Ichthus to lend a hand.

The House of Ichthus was a converted funeral home on Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors and a place for the kids, (and dopers) to hang out and Maybe find Christ, back in the sixties.

I don’t consider the new cathedral that Dr Kennedy built on Federal Hwy as just a ‘lowly’ drywalled barn .. Do you?

Yes, I knew Dr Kennedy and it would appear .. Long before you did.
So What?

[plinyelder]

Coral Ridge Presbyterian has come a LONG way from that little 1700 square foot firehouse .. Doncha think?

For those that don't know .. That is some 'Primo' real estate that Dr Kennedy's 'Church' is sitting on there.

Just across the bridge from Lauderdale Beach.