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It was an exhilarating Sunday service, one congregant recollected. Rev. Jerome McNeil, Senior Pastor of Christian Chapel CME Church, had the rhythm in his tone, and the spirit in his message, during a morning sermon.
“He walked down the aisle, like he always does”, church member Cherry Bullard said.
But that walk would be the final steps of Rev. McNeil’s life. The veteran pastor collapsed and died in front of crowded sanctuary of churchgoers. McNeil, the leader of the church known as the Temple of Faith, was a 21-year pastor for the church. Christian Chapel has a 150 year history in Dallas, but the church’s history is longer and richer.
He was the first black administrator for a Dallas County agency, second in command for the Juvenile Department in 1981.
“We are hurting, but we are a family,” Curry said of Sunday’s death.
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