Cher Phillips

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Mis-heard Messages

We weren’t able to post the packages yet, so I don’t have a link to the video. But this is the text from our project.

African-American Churches: Mis-heard Messages
By CHER PHILLIPS and BRITTANY RAJCHEL
One of 15 traditional black churches in Gainesville, Fla., deals with stigmas of racism and misunderstanding, while their real message remains buried in daily services, Bible studies and community outreach – not in the speeches and press statements of the politically active.
Jesus People Life-Changing Church, 800 N.W. 39th Ave., has about 350 black parishioners who continue on learning about life and ignoring the very public outcry about issues that won’t ever enter the walls of their community. Why? The church is above it. In fact, it doesn’t have anything to do with it at all, says their pastor, Horace L. Mingo.

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