With a seating capacity of 10,000, the church building is recognized as one of the world’s largest houses of worship. Price founded Crenshaw Christian Center, also known as the Faithdome, in 1973. That is such an incredible, awesome, amazing legacy and I am so proud to be a part of it,” she explained. People met their spouses at CCC, brought their kids up there, sent their kids to school there, met their life-long friends there, ministers started their own ministries from there. “I admire him so much for starting a ministry that birthed a community of worshippers that spans my entire life. He was brilliant, a true man of God, always sharply dressed and he loved God’s people and wanted the absolute best for them,” she said.īuchanan praised her father for starting his megachurch, which still boasts 28,000 members. “He was not two faced and as he often said ‘what you see, is what you get.’ He loved his wife and us kids and he protected and took great care of us. If he showed you how to use the new TV remote you better listen to his full commentary on how to use it and where to put it back on the TV or you would get an earful about how you didn’t,” she recalled of her father, whom she described as organized, disciplined and honest. “He was the ultimate teacher and not only with faith but with taking out the trash, not running out of gas in your car and coming home at curfew. since a global pandemic was declared last March.īuchanan shared fond memories of her father, whom she called “the epitome of a great man” and who was a mentor to many. Price’s family announced that he died from COVID-19 at age 89 on Friday after a weekslong battle with the virus that has killed nearly half a million people in the U.S.

Your baby girl,” she noted of the Crenshaw Christian Center founder. I will always honor him.He was my hero, my first Valentine.my heart broke Friday night and a piece of it went with him. But my heart.He will always be the absolute best. “I know he’s in glory, I have peace knowing that. I even planned his 90th birthday party while waiting for him to get better,” Buchanan wrote in a post on Facebook. I planned on reading him all his birthday cards. I was waiting, praying, sending him emails to read when he got home. “On this Valentine’s Day my heart is heavy.I never thought he would go to the hospital and never come home. Price, remembered the beloved televangelist in a touching tribute in which she called him her “first Valentine.” Two days after her father's death from COVID-19, Stephanie Price Buchanan, the youngest daughter of the late Frederick K.C. Price | Facebook/Stephanie Price Buchanan

Stephanie Price Buchanan and her father, Frederick K.C.

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