wfn.org | Jackson to highlight assembly closing

["Disciples Off. of Communication"<wshuffit@oc.disciples.org>]

Date: May 21, 1999
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: Clifford L. Willis
E-mail: CWillis@oc.disciples.org
on the Web: http://www.disciples.org

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	INDIANAPOLIS (DNS) -- The senior minister of the 
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)'s 
"national cathedral" in Washington, D.C., will 
preach during closing night of the Oct. 8-12  
General Assembly in Cincinnati.

	The Rev. Alvin O. Jackson, pastor of National 
City Christian Church, will address more than 
8,000 persons, Oct. 12, gathering under the 
assembly theme, "The Journey Now." He is serving 
as alternate to the Rev. Andrew Young who 
canceled his General Assembly preaching 
engagement.

	Jackson was installed as pastor of the historic 
Washington, D.C., church in October 1998, after a 
successful 18-year ministry at Mississippi 
Boulevard Christian Church, Memphis, Tenn. Under 
his leadership, the African American congregation 
grew from 340 members to more than 8,000, making 
it the largest in the Disciples of Christ.

	The nearly 500-member National City Christian 
Church, was established in 1926 and was the 
spiritual home of U.S. Presidents James Garfield 
and Lyndon Johnson.

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