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• The Rev. Copeland applies experience of starting churches

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
• Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - The Rev. John Bruce Copeland III has spent much of his career “planting,” or starting churches, and he is applying that experience to reviving one of Odessa’s oldest congregations.

The Rev. Copeland said attendance had been falling at Crescent Park Baptist Church, but it has rebounded to an average of 110 people at its 10:45 a.m. Sunday services since he became pastor on Easter Sunday ...

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