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Cleveland, TN–Friends, church leaders, and members of the Cleveland community filled the Dixon Chapel at North Cleveland Church of God last week to honor Dr. Wallace J. Sibley with the Spirit of Azusa Award. The award is given annually on the occasion of the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center’s Azusa Lecture to someone whose ministry represents God’s work of revival and renewal exemplified in the 1906 Azusa Street revival and continuing in the world today.

The year was 1944 and the United States was at war on two fronts. In this atmosphere decisions were made quickly. Nineteen year old Baswell Smith had met his love, Cornelia Groover, and she had agreed to become his wife. Baswell went to her home and asked her father for permission to marry her.

Atheists are trying to eliminate the free speech of Christian athletes and coaches.

If I could choose one more course for ministry training and preparation, it would be “Courageous Leadership.” I hear from so many pastors and staff who are trained well in the classical disciplines, but who are ill-prepared for the real world of church ministry.