Clark Taylor, founder of Christian Outreach Centre movement, dies
The founder of one of Australia’s fastest growing church movements and the nation’s first TV evangelist Clark Taylor has died, aged 87.
Clark and Anne Taylor started Christian Outreach Centre in Brisbane 50 years ago in 1974 when a group of 25 adults and some children met together in their home in Keperra.
A charismatic preacher known for praying for the sick, he hit the airwaves on Channel 9 in 1977 with a “New Way of Living’ which led the rapid growth of the Chriwtian Outreach movement throughout the 1980s.
Pastor Taylor was being remembered as ‘one of God’s great generals’ of the faith, despite his very public fall from grace years ago which forced him to resign from the Christian Outreach Centre movement he started.
Ps Taylor’s affair with his secretary was announced to his congregation and was front page news at the time with Sunshine Coast pastor Neil Miers taking over the movement around 1990.
Note that he married Kate Kendall yoga instructor, and not Kate Kendell of Neighbours fame. I made that mistake while reading the article a few minutes ago.
Journalist Marcus Casey, who filed entertainment for the Daily Telegraph, has died aged 58.
The newspaper reports he passed suddenly from a heart attack in Newtown over the weekend.
Manly rugby league star Daly Cherry-Evans married his long time partner Vessa Rockliff on Friday.
Australian cricket great Ian Redpath has died at 83. He played 66 Tests and five ODIs in an international career that ran from 1964 to 1976. Herald Sun reports he passed away in his home town of Geelong at 7 o’clock this morning after recent illness.
He was honoured in November this year with the Geelong Cricket Club renaming the main scoreboard at Kardinia Park after him.