The Lecocqs’ daughter, Patty Wilson, was 16 when her parents started Lazarus Tomb. They took me in, and they loved me,” he said. While Waterloo met both of his wives there, he calls Rosetta one of the more Godly, nurturing and loving women he’s ever met. I was there every Tuesday, every Friday and every Saturday. “I never felt love like that from total strangers,” he said. He remembers the first song, “We Are One in the Spirit,” and standing in a circle with the others, holding hands. His first time was a Tuesday night Bible study. He is now an associate pastor at Rivers of Life Outreach Ministry in Arnold.Ī friend had hounded him, he said, to go there, saying there were good things happening. “We are here to show God’s love and extend a hand to help.”īob Waterloo, 69, was among the first to walk through the doors of Lazarus Tomb when the Lecocqs opened it in a bowling alley in Lower Burrell. “We like to feed the soul as well as the body,” Lecocq said. Lecocq is now a “director emeritus” of The Tomb, which is under the guidance of Shannon Santucci, a former Arnold police officer and chief. The celebration will continue next Saturday at the coffeehouse, 1821 Fifth Ave., with a performance by Risen to Save from 7 to 9 p.m. Lecocq, now 85 and living in Lower Burrell, said it meant a lot to her to see everyone gathering for the anniversary. People whose lives were touched in one way or another, or whose lives went through The Tomb, gathered from near and far to mark the milestone anniversary with Rosetta Lecocq, who started Lazarus Tomb with her husband, Bob, in 1972.
I developed relationships and learned more about Christ and what true love was really all about.” At The Tomb, “I was able to see Christians could have fun. “I probably wouldn’t be here today without Lazarus Tomb,” he said.īefore some co-workers invited him there, Crenner said he was “a real scuzzball.” He met his wife, Susan, at The Tomb - formerly Lazarus Tomb - and they were married for 35 years before he died in 2019. Daniel Crenner was among the first to walk through the doors of The Tomb in Arnold on Friday evening for a gathering celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Christian coffeehouse.Ĭrenner, 69, who had lived in Arnold and Washington Township, made the trip back from his home in Sugarcreek in central Ohio.
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