Gerald O. Glenn

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Gerald O. Glenn (born August 18, 1953 in Kingsville , Texas , † April 11, 2020 ) was an American pastor at the New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Richmond, Virginia and at the same time an Auxiliary Bishop in the Church of God in Christ .

Life

Born in Kingsville, Glenn was the son of a teenage girl and was raised by his grandparents. After a criminal youth in Portsmouth , he first became a police officer in the same town.

In 1995 he founded the New Deliverance Evangelistic Church and was pastor of the church as bishop until his death. He has also served as chaplain to the Chesterfield County Police Department and numerous sports teams. He managed to persuade the local groups of the NAACP , the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans to make a joint declaration in memory of the Confederation . He had been critical, however, still in 2000 compared to this commemoration and 2001 was a prominent leader in the protest against the Governor Jim Gilmore decided Confederate History Month . In 2006 he became the Church of God in Christ to the bishop charged.

During the COVID-19 pandemic , he declared at a church service on March 22, 2020 that he firmly believed that God was greater than the SARS-CoV-2 virus . He is also said to have stated in the service that he would not fear death and would continue to preach until he was in prison or hospital. This sermon was part of the debate about how to deal with spatial distance in religious communities. He had the congregation stand up at the service to show how many believers ignored the commandment not to gather in groups larger than ten people.

On March 27, 2020, he showed symptoms of a SARS-CoV-2 infection, which were initially attributed to a previous illness. Glenn suffered from diverticulitis . He was only tested for infection on April 3, 2020. He and his wife were eventually hospitalized for the viral disease. During the Easter service on April 12, 2020, it was announced that Glenn had died the previous Saturday of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary on the Church of God in Christ website .
  2. ↑ Mother of Bishop Glenn succumbs at 77 , Richmond Free Press, Jan. 20, 2015.
  3. ^ A b Valerie G. Lowe, Virginia Pastor Takes Bold Stand Against Divorce, Racism in Richmond , Charisma Magazine 2002.
  4. ^ A b c Samuel Northrop, Bishop Gerald O. Glenn, an 'extraordinary spiritual and community leader,' dies from illness related to COVID-19 , Richmond Times-Dispatch of April 12, 2020.
  5. ^ New Deliverance Evangelistic Church at USAchurches.org .
  6. ^ Homepage of the New Deliverance Evangelistic Church .
  7. ^ Courtland Milloy, Some Lessons In History Worth Taking , Washington Post, April 2, 2000.
  8. ↑ Jeremy M. Lazarus, A bishop till the end , Richmond Free Press, April 16, 2020.
  9. ↑ Rebecca Klar, Va. Bishop who defied social distancing recommendation dies of coronavirus complications , The Hill of April 14, 2020.
  10. ↑ a b Neil Vigdor, Pastor Who Defied social distancing This after contracting Covid-19, Church Says , The New York Times of 14 April 2020th
  11. ↑ Lee Brown, Virginia pastor who defiantly held church service dies of coronavirus , New York Post April 13, 2020.
  12. ↑ Pastor who vowed to preach 'unless I'm in jail or the hospital' dies of COVID-19 in VA , Miami Herald, April 13, 2020.
  13. ↑ 'A loving, compassionate, fair man': Virus-stricken wife grieves late bishop who died from COVID-19 , ABC8 News from April 13, 2020.
  14. ^ Bishop Gerald O. Glenn and wife hospitalized with the coronavirus , Richmond Freepress, April 9, 2020.
  15. ↑ Prominent Virginia pastor who said 'God is larger than this dreaded virus' dies of covid-19 , Washington Post, April 13, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Glenn, Gerald O.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Church, New Deliverance Evangelistic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pastor at the "New Deliverance Evangelistic Church" in Richmond (Virginia)
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingsville, Texas
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2020