Saturday, October 30, 1999
Ex-pastor returns for service
Rev. L.V. Booth celebrates church's 15th anniversary
BY ALLEN HOWARD
The Cincinnati Enquirer
SILVERTON — The Rev. L.V. Booth will return to Olivet Baptist Church Sunday, the church he founded 15 years ago, to deliver a 4 p.m. sermon during an anniversary celebration.
He retired three years ago, but serves as pastor emeritus at the church on Montgomery Road.
“I am glad to return to help in the celebration,” the Rev. Mr. Booth said. “I plan to expound on the theme of the celebration which is "Our future is bright with God.' This is taken from the 119th Psalm, 105th verse.”
The Rev. Mr. Booth founded the church in 1984 after leaving Zion Baptist Church in Avondale, where he had pastored for 31 years.
He now lives in Muncie, Ind., where he is an interim pastor at Calvary Missionary Baptist Church.
The 80-year-old minister has had a distinguished career in the ministry as well as civic work in Cincinnati.
He was one of the founders in 1961 of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, which was started at Zion Baptist, where he was pastor.
The church named its chapel in his honor last year.
“When we named the chapel after him he made note that when they gathered to start discussing the formation of the Progressive National Baptist Convention that they first gathered for prayer in the chapel before moving to the meet ing room,” said the Rev. James H. Cantrell, pastor of Zion.
The Rev. Mr. Booth started the ecumenical prayer breakfast in 1975, a service that offered prayers for newly-elected public office holders.
“We need to pray for them to help them as the leaders we have elected,” he said when he founded the organization. The prayer breakfast lasted until 1996.
The Rev. Mr. Booth was the first African-American to serve on the University of Cincinnati board of trustees. He was appointed to the board in 1968 and served until 1989.
He also was among four ministers from different races and religious backgrounds who were chosen to discuss issues related to race relations and brotherhood on a television program called Dialogueduring the mid-1960s.
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