[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 22 (Tuesday, February 5, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S862]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                REMEMBERING BISHOP PAUL ALEXANDER BOWERS

 Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. President, today I wish to honor the life and 
legacy of the late Bishop Paul Alexander Bowers. Known as the Preaching 
Machine, Bishop Bowers pastored the congregation at Greater Emanuel 
Apostolic Temple in my hometown of Cincinnati, OH, for over 40 years.
  Bishop Bowers attended his first Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, 
Inc., Convention in Cleveland in 1947, where he slept on the floor of 
the church due to the lack of delegate housing. He was ordained in 1950 
and began preaching in Cincinnati in 1957. Bishop Bowers was elected to 
general secretary from 1968, elevated to bishop in 1976, and elected 
and served as presiding bishop of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the 
World from 1992 until 1998.
  Bishop Bowers' ministry reached communities across Ohio and the 
United States. His devotion to the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, 
Inc., and Greater Emanuel Apostolic Temple in Cincinnati changed 
countless lives as he used the gospel to help people fulfill their God-
given potential and better serve their communities.
  I would like to recognize former presiding Bishop Paul Alexander 
Bowers' many accomplishments and his decades of service to Pentecostal 
Assemblies of the World, Inc. I would like to offer my condolences on 
his passing to his family, his friends, and his church, and I hope his 
legacy continues in the thousands of lives he has touched.

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