Five years ago, a young Army veteran named Michael Delamarian, a graduate of South Carolina's Bible-teaching Bob Jones University, took over the rundown, 90-member Calvary Bible Churcha storefront operation on Chicago's Near North Side. It was an area crowded with similar churches, and within a year Delamarian decided that "it was more in keeping with the Lord's work" to move. He picked suburban Mount Prospect, 14 miles away, as his new place to serve.
Now Delamarian is pastor of the Mount Prospect Bible Church, which owns a $150,000 brick-and-stone building for services, a gymnasium,...
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