Rev ev hill biography

LOS ANGELES (BP)–E.V.

We are giving you a four-year scholarship. In his “Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide,” Dobson answers a question about the ways men need their wives by giving an example of Hill and his first wife, Jane Edna Hill, who died in 1987.

As a struggling young preacher, Dobson said, Hill had trouble earning a living and decided to invest in the purchase of a service station.

A woman he called “Momma,” who was of no relation to him, announced to her church when he was in the ninth grade that, “My boy is gonna finish high school.” Most young black men in rural Texas dropped out of school in the 10th grade and started working for $2 a day. Hill, the pastor of Mt.

Zion Missionary Baptist Church is Los Angeles who became a leader in the civil rights movement and was honored by Time magazine as one of the seven most outstanding preachers in the United States, died Feb. 24 at age 69.

Raised in poverty in Texas, Hill grew to be an early confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. and a close friend of Billy Graham. But Hill finished high school just as “Momma” said he would.

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Hill went on to write two books late in his ministry, one called “A Savior Worth Having” in 2002 and another called “Victory in Jesus” to be released in May. In “A Savior Worth Having,” he told about being one of five children raised by a single mother during the Great Depression in rural Texas.

As Satan whispered into his ear that he had no business being there, he remembered “Momma’s” promise, “I’ll be praying for you.” So he stayed in line.

As he was just about to step up to the counter, someone put a hand on his shoulder and asked, “Are you Ed Hill?” The man then told him to get out of line, and as they walked off to the side, the man said, “Son, didn’t you get our letter?

Reverend E.V. Hill proudly served as leader of the California State Baptist Convention from 1972. He also worked with other Pastors who shared the same goals. If you smoked and drank, you would have lost as much as you lost in the service station. “He had failed at something important, and his wife would have been justified in saying, ‘I told you so.’ But Jane had an intuitive understanding of her husband’s vulnerability.

As a Civil Rights leader Reverend Hill worked with Dr. Martin Luther King. At age 21, he joined Martin Luther King Jr. in forming the Southern Baptist Leadership Conference and became a pastor in Houston.

Hill went on to launch The Lord’s Kitchen Project For The Hungry where his church built homes for the elderly, created a community bank, and gave out clothing.

Hill was born November 11th, 1933 in a Texas log cabin. As he stood in line at the registrar’s office, he noticed a sign that read, “$83, cash, cashier’s check or money order.” Hill didn’t have $83 and didn’t know what to do. It will pay your tuition, room and board and give you $35 a month for spending money.”

Hill said he heard “Momma” saying, “I’ll be praying for you.”

Hill is survived by his second wife, La Dean, whom he married in 1992; a son, E.V.

Hill II, pastor of Calvary Temple Pentecostal Holiness Church in North Hollywood, Calif.; a daughter, Norva Rose Kennard, a Boston attorney; three grandsons; and a stepson, Lawrence Anthony Donald of Orlando, Fla.

He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was admitted Feb. 8 with what an aide said was an aggressive form of pneumonia complicated by other medical conditions, the Times reported.

Funeral services are pending.
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