Word: kingshighway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sunday morning at St. Louis' Kingshighway Baptist Church could pass for a slow day at a retirement-home chapel. The dwindling flock is a sea of white hair and bald heads. And the service, which kicks off with prayers for a colon-cancer victim, is heavy with talk of illness and grandchildren. But as a grandfather of 10 gets up to testify, an unexpectedly joyful noise seeps through the floorboards--the sounds of salsa-inflected guitars and tambourines. The musicians, practicing in a basement fellowship room, belong to a fast-growing young Latino Baptist congregation that has shared Kingshighway...
...white congregation is overshadowed by a planted 150-member Vietnamese Lutheran congregation led by a Vietnamese pastor. Mount Olive Lutheran Church has a white Lutheran service at 10:30 a.m., an African-American Baptist congregation at 12:15 p.m. and an Eritrean Coptic Orthodox congregation at 2 p.m. And Kingshighway Baptist, besides its white and Latino congregations, is host to a special church for street people and unaffiliated youth that meets Thursday nights...
...sign, most St. Louisans involved in church planting contend, that this kind of roof sharing can be a force for racial cooperation. "The first black baptized here I baptized six or seven years ago, and some of the people literally went into shock," says Paul Powell, retired pastor of Kingshighway Baptist Church. "It took some doing, but these old southside German Baptists are now in the racial forefront...
...biggest obstacle is cultural differences built into worship styles. Speaking of black Baptists who share his church, Lutheran Doubek says, "When they sing Amazing Grace, the song is the same but it sounds different." Our Redeemer's Haitians use Haitian music, and the Kingshighway Latino congregation integrates salsa, soul and tango sounds. Sermon styles differ: African Americans expect call and response from the pews and services that last twice as long as a typical white service. Roosevelt Clossum, minister of the African-American congregation at Mount Olive, says that when he went to give a guest sermon before the whites...