GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — Robert H. Schuller, founding pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., announced June 7 that he has turned over the administrative duties of the ministry to his daughter, Sheila Schuller Coleman. The transition comes after Schuller’s son, Robert A. Schuller, resigned late last year as senior pastor of the church. In October, his father said the two men differed over the “direction and the vision” of the megachurch and its related “Hour of Power” television program.
“I believe God has called me back to give leadership once again to this ministry,” the elder Schuller, 82, wrote in a June 10 statement on his Web site. “So, I have committed to giving two more years of casting God’s vision for this ministry and Sheila has accepted my request to put legs to the vision.” Coleman, a 58-year-old author, has been the director of family ministries at the church and the superintendent of its private school. Now she will be the administrative leader of Crystal Cathedral Ministries.
Juan Carlos Ortiz, who has served as interim senior pastor, will continue at the church as a teaching pastor, Robert H. Schuller said.
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