Traditional gifts on a 21st anniv. are brass and nickel. A brass plated or brushed nickel set of praying hands would be appropriate. PErhaps add an inscription commemorating the event.
Gery D.
If there are no impediments (eg: previously married and divorced without an annulment), all you need to do is talk to the pastor and arrange for the marriage to be blessed by the Church. Now, if there is some impediment, you will also need to talk with the pastor to regularize the situation.
I would say Baptist, since the couple was married by the power in authority to the Baptist pastor, the place doesn't matter. If they're married outside their not under the denomination of wind, they'd be under the denomination of the pastor.
WHAT?! No, a pastor of ANY church cannot ask someone to move out of town and any good, Christian pastor would never do that! The only thing a pastor may do is if he feels that a member of a church has committed a bad sin and will not confess, the pastor can have the church vote on it and the person may be asked to leave the church, but NO PASTOR can kick someone out of town and if that is what's happening, than that pastor is not a good, Christian pastor and he should be reported to the head of the district for whatever denomination his church is.
Roman Catholic AnswerIn the Catholic Church, the pastor is the priest in charge of a particular parish. Outside of particular circumstances, the pastor would be the ordinary person who would perform a wedding.
In most mainstream denominations the congregation "owns" the church not the pastor. Some churches are created by one person who would "own" it, but in most cases the church is not owned by the pastor. I would be weary of a church where the pastor owns it. The when the denomination or congregation owns the church it provides checks and balances to avoid corruption and megalomania by a pastor or sole person running the church. If a person is a secondary worship leader and desires to be a senior pastor, then since most churches seeking a pastor have a "pulpit committee" that would help vet the candidates you would need to seek out churches that need a pastor and talk to the committee that is charges with finding the pastor. Each church has it's own set of requirements. My husband got out of seminary and got a church right away as a senior pastor and we have been at this one and only church for 22 years. Every congregation is unique and you will just have to contact each one like any other job you seek to have with resumes, recommendations etc.
The best answer would come from the pastor of the church in question.
The Church of Satan's membership list is not made public, so unless Pastor Christ Onyakilome is public about his affiliation with the Church of Satan; he would be the only one who knows if he is or not.
If you'd like to invite another church to your church, it would probably be best to send the pastor of that church a letter or e-mail inviting them to your church. Explain why you would like them to come, what the activities will be, etc. To be friendly, you may want to invite that pastor to deliver a short message or say a prayer as a part of the gathering.
This may be considered a misuse of funds and, depending on the circumstances, could be illegal if the house would actually belong to the pastor. However, if the house remains the property of the church and the pastor would only occupy the house at the discretion of the church, it could be acceptable. That would then depend on whether proper procedures and authorities were followed in allocating those funds.
If you are going to get married in a Church and follow the laws of the Church, why would you lie about it?
I am not entirely sure what you meant by this question, but I think you are asking who leads A pentecostal church rather than THE pentecostal church, but I could be wrong. A pentecostal church is lead by a Pastor who is usually selected by members of the church and has been ordained as a minister. My father is a Pentecostal minister. We attended the church before he was the pastor. The former pastor was asked to leave because of some personal issues and my father had just graduated from Bible College. My father was appointed as interim pastor which means they made him the pastor until they decided who would be the permanent one. Another man from the church also thought God wanted him to become the new pastor, so the church members voted and they chose my father. This may not be how every church does it. I do know of another church where the pastor died of old age and the assistant pastor became the new pastor, although I believe they still voted on it. HOWEVER!, if you were to ask my father who leads a pentecostal church, he would answer, without blinking and without a second thought,"God leads a pentecostal church". :)
That would be none of your business.