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Virginia pastor who defiantly held church service dies of coronavirus

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Published:	Apr 15, 2020
Author:	Lee Brown
Post Date:	2020-04-15 13:14:36 by Gatlin
Views:	8364

Virginia pastor who defiantly held
church service dies of coronavirus

He practiced what he preached — then he died of coronavirus.

An evangelical pastor died of COVID-19 just weeks after proudly showing off how packed his Virginia church was — and vowing to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.”

In his last known in-person service on March 22, Bishop Gerald O. Glenn got his congregation at Richmond’s New Deliverance Evangelistic Church to stand to prove how many were there despite warnings against gatherings of more than 10 people.

“I firmly believe that God is larger than this dreaded virus. You can quote me on that,” he said, repeating it a second time to claps, saying that “people are healed” in his church.

Happily announcing he was being “controversial” by being “in violation” of safety protocols — with “way more than 10 people” at the church — he vowed to keep his church open “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.”

“I am essential,” he said of remaining open, adding, “I’m a preacher — I talk to God!”

On Sunday, his church announced “with an exceedingly sorrowful and heavy heart” that the pastor had died a week after being diagnosed with COVID-19.

His wife, Marcietia Glenn, is also sick with the bug, with church members offering their prayers.

Their daughter, Mar-Gerie Crawley, told WTVR that her father initially dismissed his symptoms because he has a condition that often leads to fevers and infections.

She is now urging everyone to stay home.

“It becomes very real to you,” she told WTVR after her parents’ diagnoses.

“I just beg people to understand the severity and the seriousness of this, because people are saying it’s not just about us, it’s about everyone around us.”

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#1: Gatlin To: All (#0)

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 14:54:57 Reply Private Reply

#2: Hondo68 To: Gatlin (#1)

Did you croak and fall on the Submit button or what?

No content.

Hondo68 posted on 2020-04-15 15:05:57 Reply Private Reply

#3: A K A Stone To: Gatlin (#1)

Dear Mobberly Family, It is with great sadness that we share that Pastor Glynn Stone died today in a one-vehicle automobile crash. We know ...

A K A Stone posted on 2020-04-15 17:34:52 Reply Private Reply

#4: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#3)

Dear Mobberly Family, It is with great sadness that we share that Pastor Glynn Stone died today in a one-vehicle automobile crash. We know ...

Link to: Death joke culture needs to stop.
Looking at the projection chart in Post #2, we shall forever only wonder how many he passed it on to ...
But then, why should anyone since you obviously don’t care and can make a calloused joke about it …
Link to: We shouldn’t joke about death.
I sincerely hope and trust these links will be of assistance to you …

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 18:21:06 Reply Private Reply

#5: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#3)

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A link to to the funderal home memorial page for Gerald Glenn is located here.
Would you like to post your “Dear Mobberly Family” message with “A K A Stone - libertysflame.com” in the signature block – or …

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 18:48:57 Reply Private Reply

#6: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#3)

Dear Mobberly Family, It is with great sadness that we share that Pastor Glynn Stone died today in a one-vehicle automobile crash. We know ...

A link to to the funderal home memorial page for Gerald Glenn is located here.
Would you like to post your “Dear Mobberly Family” message with “A K A Stone - libertysflame.com” in the signature block – or …

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 18:50:15 Reply Private Reply

#7: A K A Stone To: Gatlin (#4)

Death joke culture. Are you a dumb ass? Nevermind. Dumb ass it is not a joke. People die every day in automobile accidents. If you were consistent, which you are not. You would be in favor of banning cars. Such a petal.

A K A Stone posted on 2020-04-15 18:50:49 Reply Private Reply

#8: A K A Stone To: Gatlin (#6)

Dr. Dimitri Bradley of City Church was killed in a car crash Wednesday night while coming home from service.

A K A Stone posted on 2020-04-15 18:53:30 Reply Private Reply

#9: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#7)

People die every day in automobile accidents.

Yes they do.
However, that has absolutely nothing to do with the death of evangelical pastor Gerald Glenn.
He died of coronavirus “just weeks after proudly showing off how packed his Virginia church was — and vowing to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.”
He forgot to add: “Unless I die from coronavirus” …

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 19:01:46 Reply Private Reply

#10: A K A Stone To: Gatlin (#9)

The Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Mr. James Ocholi (SAN); his wife, Blessing; and son, Joshua, on Sunday died in a road crash along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway, 57 kilometres to their Kaduna destination.

A K A Stone posted on 2020-04-15 19:02:43 Reply Private Reply

#11: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#8)

People die every day in automobile accidents.

Oh, I see now – The article here in about pastor Gerald Glenn dying from coronavirus.
You are trying to shift the discussion away from that.
Why?

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 19:05:19 Reply Private Reply

#12: Gatlin To: All (#9)

People die every day in automobile accidents.

Glenn died of coronavirus “just weeks after proudly showing off how packed his Virginia church was — and vowing to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.”
So you are bringing in automobile deaths to cover this tragedy.
Does a pastor die every day from coronavirus?
Rationalize much?

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 19:10:08 Reply Private Reply

#13: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#12)

An evangelical pastor died of COVID-19 just weeks after proudly showing off how packed his Virginia church was — and vowing to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.”
In his last known in-person service on March 22, Bishop Gerald O. Glenn got his congregation at Richmond’s New Deliverance Evangelistic Church to stand to prove how many were there despite warnings against gatherings of more than 10 people.

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 19:12:06 Reply Private Reply

#14: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#13)

“I firmly believe that God is larger than this dreaded virus. You can quote me on that,” he said, repeating it a second time to claps, saying that “people are healed” in his church.
Happily announcing he was being “controversial” by being “in violation” of safety protocols — with “way more than 10 people” at the church — he vowed to keep his church open “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.”

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 19:13:37 Reply Private Reply

#15: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#14)

Their daughter, Mar-Gerie Crawley, told WTVR that her father initially dismissed his symptoms because he has a condition that often leads to fevers and infections.
She is now urging everyone to stay home.
“It becomes very real to you,” she told WTVR after her parents’ diagnoses.
“I just beg people to understand the severity and the seriousness of this, because people are saying it’s not just about us, it’s about everyone around us.”

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 19:14:52 Reply Private Reply

#16: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#15)

You cannot “abrogated” the importance of the article posted here by bringing up automobile accidents in order to try to deflect attention away from the importance of this article.
I will not let you do that …

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 19:30:54 Reply Private Reply

#17: A K A Stone To: Gatlin (#16)

Wife, unborn child of youth pastor die in Walker County car wreck

A K A Stone posted on 2020-04-15 19:39:22 Reply Private Reply

#18: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#17)

pastor die in Walker County car wreck

Did that pastor mingle with people in a packed church while he was asymptomatic with coronavirus and pass it to others thereby likely sentencing them to their deaths?
Any number of pastors dying in a car wreck does not excuse or justify one pastor with coronavirus sentencing other to die by closely associating with them in a packed church …
Jim Jones took 909 souls with him.
We shall never know many this pastor may take with him …
People who appeal to belief against logic, who revel in irrationality, are unteachable. Nothing anyone says to them about their belief can cause them to ponder, to reflect, to think again—which is what being teachable means. People who appeal to belief against logic, who revel in irrationality, also give Christianity a bad name—making it appear unintelligible to inquiring minds. “Check your mind at the door” (of the church or Christian school) is the message. To be a Christian you must sacrifice your intellect is the message. This is the problem of irrational, unteachable Christians.
Why do they have this problem?

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 20:16:19 Reply Private Reply

#19: A K A Stone To: Gatlin (#18)

MERRILL, WI (WSAU) A beloved minister from Merrill - Reverend Jim Weiland -- died yesterday 10 days after a serious car crash

A K A Stone posted on 2020-04-15 20:41:40 Reply Private Reply

#20: Deckard To: Gatlin, A K A Stone (#4)

Link to: We shouldn’t joke about death.

From a High school newspaper.

Jame Bowie HS, Austin TX.

What next - posting links to Dr. Seuss stories?

Stone - don't ban this clown Gatlin. He's an arrogant ass but he's hilarious - just a harmless old coot.

We should overlook his crankiness, after all he's just some lonely old man who can't function in a normal society.

He's probably a prick in real life too so cut the SOB some slack.

Deckard posted on 2020-04-15 21:19:30 Reply Private Reply

#21: Deckard To: Gatlin, A K A Stone (#9)

He died of coronavirus “just weeks after proudly showing off how packed his Virginia church was — and vowing to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.”
He forgot to add: “Unless I die from coronavirus” …

I can see the hatred oozing from your post.

Deckard posted on 2020-04-15 21:20:49 Reply Private Reply

#22: Gatlin To: Deckard, A K A Stone (#21)

I can see the hatred oozing from your post.

Why not try looking for the truth.
Can you possibly?
I fear you would not recognize it anyway.
Edit:
Did Stone run away and hide and are you not the “second team” coming in for relief?

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 21:23:10 Reply Private Reply

#23: Deckard To: Gatlin (#22)

Why not try looking for the truth.

A pastor died from coronavirus and you cheer his death.

What a sick little man you are.

Deckard posted on 2020-04-15 21:26:38 Reply Private Reply

#24: Gatlin To: Deckard (#20)

What next -

Whatever I want.

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 21:27:27 Reply Private Reply

#25: Gatlin To: Deckard, A K A Stone (#20)

Stone - don't ban this clown Gatlin.

Likely it was just another of his idle threats made in capitulation.
We shall see …

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 21:29:58 Reply Private Reply

#26: Gatlin To: Deckard (#20)

We should overlook his crankiness,

You obviously have extreme trouble doing that.
Since you dwell on my every post …

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 21:31:46 Reply Private Reply

#27: Gatlin To: Deckard (#20)

He's probably a prick in real life too so cut the SOB some slack.

There you go again – I explained to you before about the difference in using “probably” as an adjective when you should be using “likely.”

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 21:34:17 Reply Private Reply

#28: Gatlin To: Deckard (#23)

A pastor died from coronavirus and you cheer his death.
What a sick little man you are.

I never in any way cheered his death and neither did the article I posted.
I am not sick – I haven’t congregated in chuch.

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 21:37:28 Reply Private Reply

#29: watchman To: Deckard (#23)

A pastor died from coronavirus

Not necessarily.

The pastor "initially dismissed his symptoms because he has a condition that often leads to fevers and infections".

He had an unknown and rather severe underlying condition that no one seems to be addressing.

watchman posted on 2020-04-15 21:38:43 Reply Private Reply

#30: A K A Stone To: Gatlin (#28)

James 5:14-15 - Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

A K A Stone posted on 2020-04-15 21:39:00 Reply Private Reply

#31: Deckard To: watchman (#29)

The pastor "initially dismissed his symptoms because he has a condition that often leads to fevers and infections".
He had an unknown and rather severe underlying condition that no one seems to be addressing.

Even if his death was caused by an underlying condition, it will still be considered a coronavirus death.

Deckard posted on 2020-04-15 21:40:56 Reply Private Reply

#32: A K A Stone To: Gatlin (#28)

18For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

A K A Stone posted on 2020-04-15 21:41:33 Reply Private Reply

#33: A K A Stone To: Deckard (#31)

I looked at a job today. Then I shook the mans hand.

Then I put hand sanitize on my hand. :)

A K A Stone posted on 2020-04-15 21:42:32 Reply Private Reply

#34: watchman To: Deckard (#31)

it will still be considered a coronavirus death.

Everything about his death is very convenient to the hoaxers.

watchman posted on 2020-04-15 21:42:45 Reply Private Reply

#35: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#30)

James 5:14-15 - Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

How did that work out for the pastors who had coronavirus and died from it.
You think maybe – just maybe – that they did not cll out loud enough for the elders of the church to hear them.
Huh …

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 22:58:03 Reply Private Reply

#36: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#32)

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1:18

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-15 23:00:46 Reply Private Reply

#37: A K A Stone To: Gatlin (#35)

I know you think Christians are fools. There is a verse about you.

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

A K A Stone posted on 2020-04-16 07:25:06 Reply Private Reply

#38: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#37)

I know you think Christians are fools.

I never said I think “Christians are fools” for I definitely do not.
What I have always said – and I will forever continue to say until proven otherwise – is that I see “some fools thinking they are Christians.”
You as present company accepted …
If you proclaim yourself to be a Christian, then you should demonstratively start conducting yourself as one.
Will you …

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-16 09:46:11 Reply Private Reply

#39: Gatlin To: A K A Stone (#37)

There is a verse about you.

Link to: Reasons using the Bible to prove your point is wrong.

Gatlin posted on 2020-04-16 09:51:18 Reply Private Reply