Patricia "Pat" Jackson - On the Harrison's approach to church (clip)

Kathryn Wall: Did that spirit of thinking outside the Church walls and really connecting with people throughout the community, did that kind of take fire through the rest of the congregation?

Pat Jackson: Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it did. People felt the community back and the fellowship back around the Church because prior to their coming here, a lot of… it was activity at the Church but not as active as it was in our history back in the 60’s. And what I equate or wanted to have that side by side with the 60’s, everything happened around the Church. You came to the Church for rallying. You came for worshipping. You came for social. You came for Sunday School, church service, 7:00 service. You came annually for revival. You came back for all sorts of special event days. Everything was centered around the Church. So now in 2001, we’re doing everything again. We are continuing to get the Word. We are continuing for the Sunday School. We are back now to full Frangelism in the Park, going to other places, food ministry, and not only now we are not only just taking food sporadically, we have a full food ministry Monday through Friday where people can come in and we’ve set up provisions to get a van to go pick up the food and bring it here and sort it, where people can choose their self. Revivals, programs, Friday Night Lights for youth to come and share their talent. Brentton being a person of the spoken word. Again, youth all around remember it as five kids, so now they’re in our school, so they’re friends are coming, so lots of things are happening as we were used to prior. I mean you know when we were in the 60’s through to the 2000’s, you know of things happening, things going on. So, I would say yes it was felt throughout the congregation and community, because even…