My aunt attended a Ladies retreat in Chicago area in the 1980s. Marilyn Gazowski was the featured speaker. My aunt enjoyed it and was impressed with her ministry.
__________________
"Le sens commun n'est pas si commun."
(Common sense is not so common.)
Voltaire
Common sense is genius dressed in working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James
CCI - I find that interesting. If I remember correctly, you were raised UPC. She was well known for her music ability and talents and directed choirs several times at General Conferences. I was raised in a small UPC church in the south and even I had heard of her before I ever traveled to California.
I would not have paid attention to who was directing choir at GC. I was raised in UPC churches in Alaska, then the Deep South, then Texas and had never heard her name until the 90's in conjunction with her son.
This doesn't mean others like yourself had not but in the UPC churches I was around not a peep. For one thing I don't think most of the churches I was around approved of female pastors so she would not have been talked about except maybe in the privacy of their homes.
I also don't recall a single meeting in Alaska, Mississippi, Lousiana, or Texas that I knew of her speaking at. She was a West Coast personality.
I have heard wonderful things about her from UPC acquaintances who traveled in ministry within the UPC and were familiar with the West Coast and her work in SF.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
True, although I must admit this made me chuckle, seeing it posted on AFF where all of us have opinions!
That's why what's said here doesn't amount to very much when the day is over.
__________________ ...MY THOUGHTS, ANYWAY.
"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
Marilyn's mother was my first piano teacher. Marilyn can best be described as eccentric and flamboyant but she towed the UPC line. She was quite musically talented.
Now her son Richard......
__________________ "I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
Sister Gazowsky's passing was mentioned in the obits section of this website.
She was a remarkable lady !! I first met her in 1979. But since I have not lived in California for many years, I have lost touch with anyone who lives in SF.
I would not have paid attention to who was directing choir at GC. I was raised in UPC churches in Alaska, then the Deep South, then Texas and had never heard her name until the 90's in conjunction with her son.
This doesn't mean others like yourself had not but in the UPC churches I was around not a peep. For one thing I don't think most of the churches I was around approved of female pastors so she would not have been talked about except maybe in the privacy of their homes.
I also don't recall a single meeting in Alaska, Mississippi, Lousiana, or Texas that I knew of her speaking at. She was a West Coast personality.
I have heard wonderful things about her from UPC acquaintances who traveled in ministry within the UPC and were familiar with the West Coast and her work in SF.
You are probably very correct in the fact that lots of churches didn't approve of female pastors / ministers and you were raised in that environment, therefore, no mention was made of her. That was not the case in the area of the south that I was raised. MANY female evangelists came through our area - and even some female pastors. That could change the whole dynamics of what we learned and knew of the UPCI. I never attended a General Conf, but my mother's close friend went to almost every one. That is where I learned of her directing the choirs. I think you have mentioned being at the GC in Ft Worth ? If I remember correctly, she directed that choir - but my memory is often incorrect. LOL! That is why I thought you may have heard of her or have seen her.
Reformed Dave's comment of her being eccentric is absolutely correct. I met her personally in the 90's and found her to be very sweet and kind - but yes, a bit eccentric - but very loving and loveable.
__________________ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11
MANY female evangelists came through our area - and even some female pastors. That could change the whole dynamics of what we learned and knew of the UPCI. 
I never attended a General Conf, but my mother's close friend went to almost every one. That is where I learned of her directing the choirs. I think you have mentioned being at the GC in Ft Worth ? If I remember correctly, she directed that choir - but my memory is often incorrect. LOL! That is why I thought you may have heard of her or have seen her. 
Linear Mode
