Shady Grove Baptist ... shade of a black oak tree. They used bales of hay and straw as pews arranged in a semi-circle around the natural chancel. For the price of $75, the church founders were ...

A fully built out city with little room to grow, Garden Grove is turning toward a weedy ... closer to construction on the site of Grace Baptist Church. A staple of Garden Grove’s spiritual ...

Friendship Missionary Baptist Church sought to have a judge disqualified from a case overseeing a lawsuit that alleges Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May was involved in a plot to transfer ...

Congregants of the First Missionary Baptist Church in Leetsdale are celebrating an impressive milestone. The house of worship along Beaver Street marked its 135th anniversary in August.

Orange Grove Missionary Baptist Church hosted its community clothing and backpack giveaway on Saturday. Families were able to receive clothing and backpacks filled with school supplies during the ...

A page of a hymnal lay in front of the Greater Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church, its edges charred. Shattered glass from the windows glittered on the ground and an acrid mix of smoke and ...

The Rev. Dr. Douglas Cook Sr., the longtime pastor of Jordan Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Liberty City who was a mentor to many young ministers and a friend to the Liberty City community ...

Harold Eugene Dalton ... has been his home for the last 6 years.He was longtime member of Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church and served there faithfully as a deacon, sunday school superintendent ...

Fifth Ward’s historic Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church — and its iconic dome seen from the highway where I-10 crosses U.S. 59 — may soon be demolished to make way for an apartment ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Sunday morning, students at First Missionary Baptist Church were dressed in their caps and gowns, ready for graduation. But before they hit the big stage, their names are ...

Bell Missionary Baptist Church was instrumental in the civil rights movement. Now, its pastors are taking steps to help people remember their church's important history. Community leaders on April ...

In 1881, five families, many of them former slaves, held the very first church service under an oak tree ... pastor of First Missionary Baptist Church. It would be another 30 years until ...