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  • Joel Osteen Warms Up for ‘Night of Hope’ in DC

    04/17/2012 9:54:52 AM PDT · by CHRISTIAN DIARIST · 10 replies
    The Christian Diarist ^ | April 17, 2012 | JP
    Joel Osteen was in the Nation’s Capital last night. The popular pastor of Houston’s Lakewood Church threw out the first pitch at a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the visiting Houston Astros. Osteen, who boasts the nation’s largest congregation, running more than 43,000 worshippers through his megachurch every weekend, will return to D.C. at the end of the April when he holds his fourth annual “Night of Hope” at National’s Park. Not since evangelist Billy Graham has an American pastor so regularly filled arenas and stadia throughout the country. Osteen finds the ballpark an ideal backdrop for a...