Graham Pulkingham
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The Reverend W. Graham Pulkingham (c. 1927 - 12 April 1993) was the minister at the Church of the Redeemer in Houston, Texas, during the 1960s.[1][2] He and his wife Betty began the developments that led to the founding of the Community of Celebration and the worship band The Fisherfolk. He wrote several influential books including They Left Their Nets, and spoke worldwide at meetings and conferences.[3][4]
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[edit] Birth, childhood and education
Graham Pulkingham was born in Ohio c. 1927 and brought up in Canada. He received his training for the priesthood at the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas.[5]
[edit] Building up a run down church in Houston
Graham Pulkingham took over as rector at the Church of the Redeemer in September 1963 and found it in a very poor state. Few people attended, and although the institutional forms were still carried out weekly, there was a sense of terminal decay. By 1966 there was a thriving community providing practical and spiritual needs and reaching out to the people living in the surrounding area. And by 1972 the average weekly attendance figure had reached 2,200.
[edit] International ministry
The work at Houston became widely known through speaking engagements and publications. Out of this grew a developing international ministry of praise and worship, community living, music, and a worldwide teaching and preaching role for Graham Pulkingham throughout the 1970s and 1980s.[6] He was influential in Australia and New Zealand between 1972 and 1975, encouraging Christians there to recognise their part in the worldwide renewal of the time.[7]
[edit] Leading figure in the Charismatic movement
He was one of a number of key people involved in the early days of the Charismatic movement, writing a number of books, recording teaching cassettes, and speaking at many international events. In 1972 Graham Pulkingham moved to Scotland where he set up a community at the Cathedral of the Isles in Cumbrae.[8] The Community of Celebration begun by him and his wife is still in existence.[9]
[edit] Circumstances of death
On April 1, 1993, he was in a grocery store when there was a shoot out, during which he suffered a heart attack and died following complications on April 17, 1993.[1]
[edit] Bibliography
Books published by Graham Pulkingham include the following:
- Pulkingham, W Graham: "Gathered for power". New York, Morehouse-Barlow Co. 1972. ISBN 0819211303
- Pulkingham, W Graham: "They Left Their Nets: A Vision for Community Ministry". Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1974. ISBN 0 340 18553 8
- Pulkingham, Graham, Hinton; Jeanne: "Renewal: an emerging pattern". Celebration Publications, 1980. ISBN 0906309107
At the point when he suffered the heart attack he had been reported for abuse and the church was investigating the issue.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Ailing minister dies two weeks after shoot out", April 17, 1993. "complications from a heart attack he suffered during an April 1 grocery store shoot-out."
- ^ "Episcopal Leader Scheduled at Truro", Washington Post, February 13, 1971.
- ^ Pulkingham, W Graham: "They Left Their Nets: A Vision for Community Ministry". Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1974. ISBN 0 340 18553 8
- ^ Harper, Michael: "A new way of living; how the Church of the Redeemer, Houston, found a new life-style". Plainfield, N.J., Logos International, 1973. ISBN 0882700669
- ^ The Voice of Integrity, Vol. 2 No. 4, Fall 1992 (retrieved March 27, 2008)
- ^ Episcopal News Service Archive (retrieved July 1, 2007)
- ^ Breward, Ian: "A History of the Churches in Australasia". Oxford University Press, 2001. pp 329-330, ISBN 0 198 26356 2
- ^ Celebration UK, Library (retrieved July 1, 2007)
- ^ "Episcopal priest admits his role in sex scandal", Denver Post Religion, August 30, 1992.
