Word: congregationers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five church members stood on stage behind microphones and led the congregation in gospel songs. The crowd sang along, clapped and swayed rhythmically.
The applause reached its peak for Farmer, who had come from his congregation in Berlin to speak at John Hancock Hall.
In the audience, Harvard students sat next to Roxbury residents. Blacks, whites and Asians listened to the speakers and sang with linked hands. On stage, blacks and whites led the congregation in singing, which never failed to bring the crowd to its feet.
According to Farmer, the BCC has churches throughout the world. Disciples from his congregation recently set up parishes in Vienna and Prague. The Berlin church, which has 240 members, is the largest congregation meeting in the "godless, secular, humanistic" city, Farmer said.
With only 20 members and services just once a month, New Liberty never played a part in the civil rights movement. But like every other black church in every other black community across the nation, the modest pine-plank structure meant something special to its congregation. "The church stands as...