On Sunday the Reverend Sheila Coleman told her congregation that the only change was that her role had been made official by the Reformed Church in America.

Rumors ran rampant Sunday that Robert H. Schuller, founder of the Crystal Cathedral and Christian TV show ‘Hour of Power,’ was retiring. But Schuller’s daughter has shot down the rumors, saying that his father is not stepping down.

On Sunday several reports from different tabloids spread across the media and the internet stated that the 83-year-old Schuller, who serves as host of the long-running ‘Hour of Power’ televangelist program, will retire after 55 years in the pulpit.
Schuller still reigns
But Crystal Cathedral’s senior pastor and Schuller’s daughter Sheila Coleman expressed outrage over her father’s retirement reports, insisting he will not be leaving the church.

In an interview Sunday, she said, “That’s wrong. He’s going to continue to preach until the day he dies.”

According to The Orange County Register, Schuller will assume the newly created position of chairman of the church’s consistory, which is its board of directors.

But Crystal Cathedral’s senior pastor and Schuller’s daughter Sheila Coleman expressed outrage over her father’s retirement reports, insisting he will not be leaving the church.
Coleman told the Los Angeles Times that she took the role of lead pastor in the church, where she had been serving as mega-church’s unofficial senior pastor for the last year, and that doesn’t mean the retirement of her father, instead he moved into a new role as head of the church’s board of directors.

On Sunday she told her congregation that the only change was that her role had been made official by the Reformed Church in America.

“Dad is not retiring,” she said. “I told [the congregation] that Dad’s role would not be changing and mine would not be changing.”

Despite clearly telling the congregation about her father’s move to higher position and her confirmation as the lead pastor, the reports began swirling that Schuller has stepped down.

According to LA Times, 59-year-old Coleman said she carefully explained to the congregation that the change was largely symbolic, “just an affirmation and celebration from the denomination.”

“I told them dad’s role would not be changing, mine would not be changing,” she said.

However, soon after she arrived home, Coleman said she learned the media were reporting her father had announced his retirement in a tearful ceremony at a Sunday morning service.

“Its irresponsible journalism that nobody asked me to clarify,” Coleman said. “It’s troubling because we have a lot of viewers all over the world thinking: ‘My pastor’s leaving.'”

The shuffle in 10,000-member all-glass Crystal Cathedral megachurch comes two years after Mr. Schuller’s son, the Rev. Robert A. Schuller, split from the church during a family rift over the future of the ministry.
The younger Schuller, who had been groomed to take over for his father, is now part of Dallas-based American Life Network, a cable channel aiming to produce family-oriented programming.