[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3348]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         BISHOP PAUL S. MORTON

  (Mr. JEFFERSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. JEFFERSON. Madam Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a 
peerless religious leader in our country, Bishop Paul S. Morton, who 
has been on a mission for God as pastor of Greater St. Stephen Full 
Gospel Baptist Church for the past 33 years.
  He took the helm of Greater St. Stephen when he was 24 years old, and 
at that time the church had nearly 1,000 members. Over the next 30 
years, through dynamic leadership as a premiere pastor, teacher, and 
award-winning gospel singer, the membership of the church grew to over 
20,000 members, the largest church in my State of Louisiana, and one of 
the largest in the Nation. He is now retiring as its pastor.
  In 1994, God gave Bishop Morton the vision to found the Full Gospel 
Fellowship. The fellowship now has over 1,500 churches nationally and 
internationally, including churches in Western Europe, Western and 
Southern Africa, India, Japan and the Caribbean.
  Bishop Morton will continue to serve as International Presiding 
Bishop of the Full Gospel Fellowship. We thank God for his service to 
our community, to our Nation, to the international community, and to 
almighty God. We wish him God's choicest blessings as he repositions 
himself for greater service.

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