Crawford W. Kimble is Pastor Emeritus of the Good Hope MBC, Houston, TX, where he served for nearly thirty-five years. He was the long time pastor of several tall Texas citizens, including, Dr. L. E. Smith, plaintiff in the NAACP case that won black Texans the right to vote in the Texas primary, and Barbara Jordan, first black congress person from Texas.

Being politically attuned to Houston‘s social problems, Kimble was acclimated early on to the political environment, being a writer and a Managing Editor of the Houston Informer chain of newspapers. Calling on the experiences of his various talents, Kimble has written twelve books, including, Watch The Tree It Fall On You, Preaching Portable Sermons, and Rush Limbaugh An Apostle Of Hate, and to celebrate his 90th birthday, he completed a 350 page book, The Adventures Of Love in order to kick-start his “The Council Of Love” foundation.

1975 was the crucial year of Pastor Kimble‘s ministry, when under the direst of local prognosticators, took on the challenge to save Good Hope’s failed building program. Inflation, the cost of steel and the sudden death of the contractor caused the unfinished frame to commence rusting for five years. He fought off the attack of a devastating depression, put on a red hard hat, and went to the weed covered sight, hired men off the streets. With blueprints in hand, and without any previous experience, and without missing a day in the pulpit, nor a day on the job at the building site, and in two and a half years, completed a 2 million dollar edifice, debt free. All done according to a preset schedule.

Kimble has since summarized this experience in “words to live by” --the motto of The Council Of Love Foundation: “The Defining Act of LOVE Is Revealed Solely In The Rituals of SACRIFICE.”

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