Read these clips from area news papers:
1. Sun News, The (Myrtle Beach, SC) - August 19, 1999
CHARLOTTE COUNCIL URGED TO SQUELCH STREET CLERIC
Rather than shutting down uptown Charlotte's street preacher, at least one city leader is trying to quiet him down. Rob Walsh, president of Charlotte Center City Partners, has no problem with Terry Roberson praising Jesus to the thousands who cross his path each day at Trade and Tryon. It's Roberson praising Jesus with the use of a microphone that has provoked Walsh to push Charlotte City Council to turn down his volume.``The issue,'...
3. Charlotte Observer, The (NC) - August 14, 1999
PREACHER IS NO QUITTER, EVEN IF WE WALK ON BY
Let's be honest. To thousands of people who walk past his pulpit each day at Trade and Tryon, Terry Roberson is more of a pain than a prophet. You're on your way to lunch or an important business meeting and here's this street preacher with a microphone and two speakers, breathing fire about Jesus, Satan and the need to repent before it's too late. We can handle a little bit of that old-time religion on Sunday morning in the quiet...
4. Charlotte Observer, The (NC) - November 18, 1998
UNPLUGGING THE PREACHER
Christianity flourished for about 1,900 years without electricity, so street preacher Terry Roberson shouldn't fret too much about the City of Charlotte's decision to unplug him. He can still give his midday sermons along Tryon Street. He just can't amplify them any more by using city-owned electrical outlets for his microphone and loudspeakers. People in uptown office towers had been complaining about Roberson, saying his preaching and singing...
1. STREET PREACHER UNPLUGGED
BLAIR ANTHONY ROBERTSON, Staff Writer
He stands on the corner and preaches the word of God, his fist pumping, hair flying, finger pointing - at the ground, the sky, at all the blank stares and smirks that stream past.
He uses a microphone and loudspeakers to talk over the traffic noise.
But Terry Roberson's midday message to the masses is being unplugged. The power source he hooks into - one of many city-owned electrical outlets along Tryon Street - is forbidden territory for anyone without a...
Published on 1998-11-14, Page 1 A, Charlotte Observer, The (NC)