Doris Wellington

Ballad of the Old Feed Shop Doris Wellington

Pastor John H and Dodie Osteen started Lakewood Baptist Church in an "abandoned dusty fed store" in northeast Houston Texas, May 10, 1959. "Ballad of the Old Feed Shop" celebrates the vision to see into the realm of the unknown the possibilities of an idea and then formulates and builds that prophetic insight into a practical blueprint that sustains the vision for generations to come. Such was the vision of Pastor John Osteen when he started Lakewood Baptist Church in an old abandoned fed store. The life of that vision and the story of that old feed store have coalesced in a continuing legacy in the remarkable confluent vision of Pastor Joel and Victoria Osteen and the Lakewood family building Lakewood into an awesome and world transformative ministry. "Ballad of the Old Feed Shop" salutes the visionary spirit that proclaims in the midst of abandonment and neglect that "vision lies in the eye of the builder"