Speaker: the Rev. Jimmy Brown, pastor at St. Luke Memorial Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis Music: Zion’s Anniversary Choir, St. Luke Memorial Music Ministry At the center of a kind of social ...

Springfield Baptist Church’s sesquicentennial celebration marks a long and proud legacy of spiritual leadership, social actions and active community engagements. A pillar of African American Society, ...

Mary Work had been in Springfield for nearly a decade searching for a church like the one she had left back home in Greenville, Mississippi, when she found herself at Zion Missionary Baptist Church on ...

Back then, with clouds of the country’s coming division looming, to create a church was nothing short of miraculous. In 1863, 25 people – 13 white and 12 black – joined together to start Galilee ...