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Sunday Services Go on … Empty Pews or Not

Sojourner’s Truth Staff

“Run and be not weary,” from Isaiah 40: 28-31 was the inspiration for Rev. James Willis’ message on Sunday as he addressed his St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church congregation on Facebook and via teleconference.

Willis, pastor of St. Paul, held his first Sunday service in church sanctuary empty of all but his media team, Bobby McDole, Sharon Hubbard and J’Vann Winfield, and reflected on the current coronavirus pandemic, or “plague,” and Old Testament teachings about the purpose of plagues which was “to get people to turn from their wicked ways.”

“This is one of those things,” he observed.

Further down the street on Detroit Avenue in the pulpit of Mt. Nebo Baptist Church, Pastor Cedric Brock also spoke to his church congregation on Facebook and radio, assisted in the sanctuary by Carlos Pettin and Alan Crawford.
 

“We’re in a ‘yay’ moment,” said Brock. “We don’t need to fear, we need to trust.”

Brock cited the words of Psalm 23: 4. “Yay, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil,” as he told his audience that in an evil moment, such as the present, “if we trust in God, we can make it through it.”


 

 

   


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Revised: 04/03/20 05:49:01 -0400.


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