Daily News | George W.M. Thompson Jr., church founder, senior pastor, and philosophy professor at East Stroudsburg, has died at 90
George W.M. Thompson Jr., 90, of Philadelphia, founder and former senior pastor of New Horizon Baptist Church, longtime associate philosophy professor at East Stroudsburg University, author, and mentor, died Friday, July 29, of failure to thrive at Ambler Extended Care Center.
Rev. Thompson served earlier at churches in West Virginia, Illinois, and Ohio, and, from 1975 to 1981, at Providence Baptist Church in Germantown. Organized, focused, and determined throughout his life, he established the Providence Baptist Federal Credit Union, and, at both Providence and New Horizon, created a Saturday school for young congregants, constructed a food bank, and provided a 24-hour spiritual telephone hotline.
A visiting professor and guest lecturer at Trenton State College, now the College of New Jersey, and Harvard and Fordham Universities, Rev. Thompson publishedreligion and technical science, in 1985. East Stroudsburg awards the annual Dr. George Thompson Jr. Award in his honor to recognize “exceptional accomplishments or life achievements in areas of community and human relations.”
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