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Word: kennett (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before leaving California, Abernathy repeated his vision to several other pentecostal congregations. Most of them, too, have decided to move. Last month more than 100 members of a church in Avenal, 50 miles southwest of Fresno, emigrated to Kennett, Mo. A 50-member congregation in Porterville transferred to Independence, Mo. One hundred members of a church in Lompoc also trekked to Georgia. The Rev. Robert Theobold, pastor of the Friendly Bible Apostolic Church at Port Hueneme, plans to resettle his congregation of 90 men, women and children in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Theobold, who claims to have received mystical confirmation of Abernathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sects: Run for Your Life | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

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