PONCHATOULA (LA)
The Advocate
By STEVEN WARD
sward@theadvocate.com
Advocate staff writer
PONCHATOULA -- Former Hosanna Church pastor Glynn Fendlason believes in his heart that Louis David Lamonica walked into the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office and told detectives that he had sex with children and animals because a lost soul was searching for redemption.
"I absolutely believe it was God who brought him there. It was partly his repentance," Fendlason said Wednesday morning.
Fendlason, a 59-year-old manager of a Ponchatoula finance company, was the pastor at First Assembly of God -- now known as Hosanna Church following a 2002 name change -- from 1982 until 1989. Fendlason took over the job after church founder Louis Lamonica died of stomach cancer at age 49.
Louis Lamonica's son, Louis David Lamonica, became pastor of the church on U.S. 51 in 1993 -- a few years after Fendlason left.
Louis David Lamonica was pastor of the church for a decade -- from 1993 until the church shut down in 2003.
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