Palin Wows ’em at Church in Her Pre-Nominee Days
"Let's give the Lord a hand for our governor," says Ed Kalnin, senior pastor at the Wasilla Assembly of God Church, after Sarah Palin holds forth about the role of God's will in her work as Alaska's governor in this widely circulated clip from Palin's visit to her former church last June.“Let’s give the Lord a hand for our governor,” says Ed Kalnin, senior pastor at the Wasilla Assembly of God Church, after Sarah Palin holds forth about the role of God’s will in her work as Alaska’s governor in this widely circulated clip from Palin’s visit to her former church last June.
The church she now attends, Wasilla Bible Church, is drawing attention for sponsoring a conference that will focus on the power of prayer to “transform the lives of those impacted by homosexuality” — or “pray away the gay,” as this report puts it.
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