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Reverend fightsBy MU. ALNOft Sunday Times Staff Writer BETHEL — The Rev. Frederick Drummond said a tsst of his character as a man and a of God ia that ha haawithatood every inveaHgation and every controversy dining the peat eight yean and haa choeen to stay pot and not ranDoeont that aay something about my character? Drummond asked in a telephone interview last week.Drummond, the pastor of the Church of Our Saviour in Concordville, said investigations included those by the FBI, state police, the Immigration and Naturalisation Service, and the District Attorney’s Office. And each ini cleared his name.Yet, lies and slanders have to be spread about him by former members of his church, Drummond said. In sofyy* cases, slhigstinna have been disproven, the South African-born minister said.For example, allegations ^that he ■ftdnwii—d a youthful follower aboard his yacht in the late 1970s were lies” which had been “disproven, said Drummond, speaking emphatically.his church was known as the First Baptist Church of Concordville, lad to a major church split hr 1979.Drummond agreed to a lengthy to rofcwxft oIoudjk 2XUfedt by numerous former members of his church who have left in the past eight months. (Although interviews with the pmmCoj* Immxd csftrBBioly' rare, Drummond, who speaks with a Br**idi sounding that hehaa always been accessible to tho press.)Ho also added that ha gave his Rolls Royee automobile—given to him as gift — away to the church last year. “How many people do you know who give away a $17,000 car?” He asked, adding that he awarded the title of the car to the church last year.He also said a test of his ministry is the effectiveness of a great institution of God” — his church. 'There's no other church in the area that's saving as many souls for Jesus Christ than the Church of Our Saviour, Drummond said, adding that mors than 750 people in the past year have received Jesus Christ through his ministry.When reminded that on each SundayMV.FRBDCMCK DRUMMONDmorning's altar call at the Deliverance Evangelistic Church on North Breed Street, Philadelphia/itas than 50 “receive Jesus Christ, Drummond responded that Deliverance ia an ethnic chinch.”The cose of the $10,000 deskBy MU ALNORSunday Tanas Staff Writer WILMINGTON, Del — In 1983 wood-crafter Wayne Schwartskopf received an order to build an elaborate, $10,000 desk.But the order didn't come from the governor's mansion near Dover where some of the woodcraftet's work eventually wound up. It came from the Rev. Frederick Drummond, the controversial pastor of the Church of Our Saviour in Concordville.But now Schwartskopf, who has s woodshop in Wilmingtdp, says ha's sorry he took the order. He’s suing Drummond in Superior Court in Wilmington alleging that the pastor ordered the $10,000 deck, changed his mind about its specifications at least five times, then refined to pey for itDrummond did not return s phone cpll concerning the lawsuit Schwartskopf, who described the deek as battleship-sized,” said he's never worked on something that elaborate in his life. He said the desk was about 6% feet deep and about 10 feet long, it had several wings cm it He said Drummond ordered him to install several *^B6cret compartments” in it Schwartskopf said that when Drummond came to him with his order he said he was the top gun in the Durawtiod firm” and that he could keep me in work for years and years to come.Drummond has denied having anything to do with the Durawood firm.But the woodcrafter said that not long after he began doing work for the pastorhe began to believe Drummond waa “deliberately deceiving me, trying to rob me Mind when he began changing the Specifications of the desk during so many visits to his shop.T had a sign in my shop that any changes would void the contract, said an angry Schwartskopf.But Drummond would not accept that, he said, g that he ^ to throw the minister out of his shop over the dispute.Drummond is the only customer ever in 20 years that's pulled something like that, ha said. Schwartskopf said the dispute has not been settled yet Court records show that a replevin action was filed that resulted in a court order permitting Drummond to keep the until the was S^tlsd.
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Upper Darby Sunday Times
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Jul 20, 1986
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