| | Mahalia Jackson, Billy Preston and the Great Western Forum… (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | “She was a great lady of gospel; a great lady of the Church; and she there was actually a period in her life -- in her career -- where she was accompanied and worked with Billy Preston whose funeral we are and life we’re celebrating now in Los Angeles. |
 | | “When we bought The Forum, we felt, and we still believe, that part of purchasing that building and its location relative to southern California; its accessibility to the various the main freeway arteries; moved us further into God’s call and mandate for our church to be more and more multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural. |
 | | “When we bought The Forum, we did not buy it to turn it into a physical building of a church per say, where people think of a church building, but it is merely a tool to reach this community and also to reach into the entertainment community and to serve economically our community. |
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