A prayer at a special meeting of some kind. Special Bethel speaker. 20 minute prayer, give or take. I was about 10 or 11. I remember shuffling from side to side, shifting my weight without losing my balance while my eyes were closed.
When he was finally done the "amens" that followed seem more audible than normal prayers. I don't think that it was in agreement with his rambling prayer as it was more of an exclamation of "finally! He' done!" It was enough that some people chuckled about it.
GB body members gave long prayers at Disctrict Conventions but not 20 minutes worth. By the time they got to the prayer, they were already 30-40 minutes overtime on their concluding talk. By Sunday afternoon all I wanted was OUT. Finish it up, pray, let's go home. And then.... Brother GB gets up and give the concluding talk and rambles on and on and on and on. No manuscript, just pulling shit outa his ass. Some were more personable and decent speakers...others were out and out torture. Even Dick Cheney wouldn't have subjected terror suspects to that incessent drone. A crime againg humanity, it was. The horror...the horror...
