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Traditional Elmcrest Baptist gives Rise to hipper worship, both at the same site
The large sign outside reads Elmcrest Baptist Church. The white steeple atop the red brick building screams “traditional.” That’s exactly the same response Rey Sandoval had when he first ...
Rebuilding one of the nation’s oldest Black churches begins at Juneteenth ceremony
Ground had been broken in Virginia for the rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches. Thursday's Juneteenth ceremony was at Colonial Williamsburg, a museum that owns the land where the ...
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Summit Church’s JD Greear Wants to Take the Southern Baptist Convention Into the Twenty-First Century. The Old Guard Would Rather He Not.
Twenty years ago, Homestead Heights was a traditional, red-brick Baptist church located off of Duke Street in northern Durham. Founded in the early sixties, the congregation had swelled and then ...
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Rebuilding the historic First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, brick by brick
more than 4,000 bricks have been signed. Work on rebuilding the First Baptist Church is estimated to be completed in 2026.