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This is a Faith column.
Throughout church history, the Lord has raised up special leaders for various generations.  Two from this generation recently passed away within a month and a half of each other: Peter Lord, 91, on March 4, 2021 and Jack Taylor, 88, on April 25, 2021. Only eternity will reveal the impact they had on the church and countless individual lives for the final three decades of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.
Peter Lord, born in Jamaica, was the founding pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church in Titusville, FL, the home of many NASA employees, who were drawn to the Space Coast because of the Apollo program. He served as pastor there for thirty years.  Even though he did speak at various conferences on a limited basis, the church was set up with an in house training program for church leaders to come there for spiritual enrichment.Â