While he was living, Bishop Cornell had made some decisions about the church leadership that did not go well and after his passing there was much disagreement on the Elder Board, different ones were certain that they should be the pastor. When the dust had settled Bishop Milton Green, who had been the Assistant Pastor, became Pastor. Unfortunately for AFCOG this prompted an exodus by some of the leadership and members; leaving the church with a smaller congregation in an inner city area that was itself being decimated because of „White Flight‟.11 With the Church building having been taken by the Pastor James Shriver, Bishop Ray Cornell, Bishop Carl Angle and Bishop George A. Wade State for the new I-90 project, the congregations relocated to a much smaller, but very nice facility on Maple Avenue off West 25th Street. The Church desperately needed an influx of Fresh Oil and New Wine but it never came. Bishop Milton Green would pastor AFCOG until he passed away a few years later. Then, Bishop David Cornell, the son of the late Bishop Ray O. Cornell would pastor the AFCOG. These were difficult years for the Church. Gone were the heydays of the 1940‟s and 50‟s when people were streaming into the West Side of Cleveland to work in booming businesses. The environment in the 1970‟s and 80‟s was the exact opposite. Companies were moving out of the city or closing. The once vibrant steel industry was dying and the people who worked in many those places were moving out of the city. Bishop David Cornell pastored until they was finally closed the doors of AFCOG in Cleveland forever. Thankfully, the life work of Bishop Cornell has continued in the lives of his Spiritual sons. Bishop Cornell was himself a spiritual son of the late Bishop G. B. Rowe and he was blessed to have a number of spiritual sons among them Bishop George A. Wade, Bishop Sanford L. Wade, Bishop Milton Green, Bishop David Cornell, Pastor France Thompson, Pastor Frieda Thompson, Pastor John Pogue, Pastor David Pogue, Bishop William Pogue. I know there are dozens more that came from these ministers but I don‟t have all their names. Today, Apostolic Faith Church of God is gone. The building and property on West 25th Street was taken by the State of Ohio to build I-90. Where the Church building was is now community baseball fields, but the truths that we learned there and the impact on our lives will live forever. 11
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