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Article: Judge ousts pastor from Baptist church
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 20, 2007
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GLOBE SOUTH 1 / WHITMAN
A Brockton Superior Court judge has ousted the pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Whitman and returned control of the 115-year-old
church to a small group of longtime congregants.
The temporary injunction against the Rev. Michael Fernandez was to
remain in effect until a trial settles a dispute over who should run
the church. But Fernandez said he will move his congregation to
Hanover rather than stay and face a court battle. "I would just as
soon leave," said Fernandez, who took over as pastor at First Baptist
Church of Whitman in 2005.
It was Fernandez's 2005 decision to bring his former congregation
from Holbrook, where he had been pastor for 10 years, with him ...