[Dialogue] Death of Gordon Cosby

[Lucille Chagnon]

Lynda and Forrest , 

Would you put Rev. Gordon Cosby's obit on the listserve, please?  Thanks.

Lucille Tessier Chagnon

Chincoteague Island, VA

www.teachtwo.net

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> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Lynda Cock <llc860 at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>> Forrest Craver sent the message below about Gordon Cosby's death.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> During our time in the WDC House and during the Local Church Experiment, the
>> Cocks, Cravers, and others were pleased to have Rev. Gordon Cosby,
>> co-founder of the Church of the Savior in WDC, speak and be part of our
>> House Church.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This was especially significant for us because Gordon and Mary Cosby had
>> been the influential and challenging leadership of a college CSM (Christian
>> Student Movement) retreat that we attended back in 1960. After seminary and
>> in an early parish, we studied the books written about the Church of the
>> Savior, as well as the article in Time magazine about the Ecumenical
>> Institute. We were in Virginia at another congregation when Bill Newkirk and
>> Carl Ennis visited, urging us to recruit a PLC and then an RS-I.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> So we were torn between Church of Savior and EI. EI provided a place to
>> live. Trusting the mystery and George Holcombe, Jim Addington (PLC), Marilyn
>> Miller, and Phil Townley (RS-I for our parishioners), we made our big
>> journey to the West Side in a blizzard during March 1969 ... 44 years ago
>> this month. The rest is history.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Journey on, Gordon (and Joseph), with deep gratitude for your combined
>> history-changing work.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Lynda Cock (and John)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> From: Forrest Craver [mailto:forrestecraver at gmail.com]
>> 
>> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:34 AM
>> 
>> To: JPC/LLC
>> 
>> Subject: Please post this list servs
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Our colleague Rev. Gordon Cosby, a 4th generation Baptist minister ,died
>> yesterday. A four decade colleague of JWM, every summer Gordon and JWM would
>> meet at Kirkridge with Oliver Nelson to plot church renewal strategies.
>> Gordon's obit will appear in today or tomorrow's Washington Post. His
>> memorial service will be held at Foundry UMC in DC.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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