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Old 07-16-2007, 07:39 PM
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Well, I can give you Jimmy Greer's phone number if you'd like to interview him. He lives here in Memphis.

WM Greer was his uncle.
LOL!! Now Rendagirl, not sure I'm ready tonight to go that far...though I'd sure like to.

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Old 07-16-2007, 07:56 PM
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WM Greer was here in Jackson for years, and was still alive until just a few years ago. He was a little short round guy with white hair whose wife always died her hair jet black. She was a hoot!! Then she died and he remarried; I didn't know the second wife. He was a funny, funny man, but full of tidbits of wisdom like TF Tenney. We loved him!
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Old 07-16-2007, 07:57 PM
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Young 'uns, young 'uns.

I heard of them all though I did not personally know them all. I probably knew brother Wynn T. Stairs the best. He was a tall skinny Canadian who became the Foreign Missions Director of the UPC. He later left the UPC and went back to Canada to assist in the formation of another organization which name I forget at the moment. I knew this good man very well.

The only other one of the group that I knew personally was brother Greer. These men I knew since they were UPCI though they were both of the PCI persuasion in regards to the NB.

I heard a couple of the others preach in conferences in years gone by but I did not personally know them. I have an old recording on a 78 rpm record of Bro. Beesley singing. Interesting.
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Old 07-16-2007, 07:59 PM
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WM Greer was here in Jackson for years, and was still alive until just a few years ago. He was a little short round guy with white hair whose wife always died her hair jet black. She was a hoot!! Then she died and he remarried; I didn't know the second wife. He was a funny, funny man, but full of tidbits of wisdom like TF Tenney. We loved him!
Yes.

At one time, he was a great friend of R. G. Jackson who was from up there somewhere...maybe even in Jackson. He (Greer) came to Gulfport, Ms to visit the church where R. G. Jackson pastored a church for a while. I saw him there on one occasion.
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Old 07-16-2007, 08:12 PM
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Young 'uns, young 'uns.

I heard of them all though I did not personally know them all. I probably knew brother Wynn T. Stairs the best. He was a tall skinny Canadian who became the Foreign Missions Director of the UPC. He later left the UPC and went back to Canada to assist in the formation of another organization which name I forget at the moment. I knew this good man very well.

The only other one of the group that I knew personally was brother Greer. These men I knew since they were UPCI though they were both of the PCI persuasion in regards to the NB.

I heard a couple of the others preach in conferences in years gone by but I did not personally know them. I have an old recording on a 78 rpm record of Bro. Beesley singing. Interesting.
Bro. Beesley singing? Now that would be a rare item for sure.

It wasn't a new organization exactly that Wynn Stairs was involved with. What happened is that the AD separated from the international body and formed the United Pentecostal Church of New Brunswick.

They later reaffiliated with the UPCI during our 2nd year of Bible School. That would have been 1973.
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This is all SO interesting...it brings tears to my eyes again...I have been weepy most of the day.

Bro. Strange...did the powers that be know that the elders you mentioned were PCI in NB view?!
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Old 07-16-2007, 08:30 PM
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This is all SO interesting...it brings tears to my eyes again...I have been weepy most of the day.

Bro. Strange...did the powers that be know that the elders you mentioned were PCI in NB view?!
Oh yes....

In those days there was such a brotherly kindness among them for the sake of unity on the basis of the merger that there was no issue between them as I could at first detect. They very often exchanged pulpits at churches and campmeetings alike. They were careful not to be a nuisance to each other.

I shall never forget that bro. Oscar Vouga came to the La. Camp. He preached a really great message one night...though he was usually rather boring, I though. I mentioned to my pastor...a very strong PAJC man how much I like the preacher of bro. Vouga. My pastor said expressed his desire to see him quickly go back where he came from. That was my first indication that there were underlying dissatisfaction or intolerace with the other (PCI) view. I quickly saw that they were united as far as organization was concerned but not as far as doctrine was concerned. I always felt that the PCI folk were much more tolerant with the PAJC folk than vice/versa.
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Oh yes....

In those days there was such a brotherly kindness among them for the sake of unity on the basis of the merger that there was no issue between them. They very often exchanged pulpits at churches and campmeetings alike. They were careful not to be a nuisance to each other.

I shall never forget that bro. Oscar Vouga came to the La. Camp. He preached a really great message one night...though he was usually rather boring, I though. I mentioned to my pastor...a very strong PAJC man how much I like the preacher of bro. Vouga. My pastor said expressed his desire to see him quickly go back where he came from. That was my first indication that there were underlying dissatisfaction or intolerace with the other (PCI) view. I quickly saw that they were united as far as organization was concerned but not as far as doctrine was concerned. I always felt that the PCI folk were much more tolerant with the PAJC folk than vice/versa.
This is a huge understatement!!
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WM Greer was here in Jackson for years, and was still alive until just a few years ago. He was a little short round guy with white hair whose wife always died her hair jet black. She was a hoot!! Then she died and he remarried; I didn't know the second wife. He was a funny, funny man, but full of tidbits of wisdom like TF Tenney. We loved him!
He always reminded me of Humpty Dumpty - - when he would sit on the platform, it looked like his legs were just stuck out from his belly - - lol!

He was a very funny man.
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He always reminded me of Humpty Dumpty - - when he would sit on the platform, it looked like his legs were just stuck out from his belly - - lol!

He was a very funny man.
He was quite rolly polly. LOL...

He was in Gulfport at the same time as sister Vouga was there. Those two were a riot. Sister Vouga was a little crusty old gal that would not bite her tongue. I remember how brother Greer would react to her in a very humours way.
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