Dr. Roger T. (for Theophilus) Nooe, 69, pastor of Nashville’s Vine Street Christian Church, has already had almost every honor that his denomination, the Disciples of Christ,* could bestow. Dr. Nooe (rhymes with oh-he) has now received a new honor—and a new kind of retirement. His church has commissioned him to be “minister to the world at large,” and instructed him “to go out . . . in the proclamation of the Gospel of Our Lord and the unity of His people.”
Dr. Nooe began his “retirement” by holding a series of seminars for young ministers in Indiana. Last week he went to Florida for a mission.
-The eighth largest (1,738,605 members) Protestant church in the U.S., also known as the Campbellites, from Founder Alexander Campbell (1788-1866).
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