RALEIGH, N.C. - About halfway through Sunday service at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, as worshipers passed around the collection plate, a chorus of screams pierced the air. Chunks of the ceiling in the 52-year-old church near Hickory came crashing down on the crowd of 200 or so, striking about 14 who were later treated and released from nearby hospitals. A jagged piece of the ceiling, roughly 10 feet by 10 feet, dangled from exposed wires over the back pews as deacons struggled to guide panicking worshipers from the building.
David T. McBride, 26, of Columbia died Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011, in Columbia. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church. Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Saturday at the church.
Saturday Russell Chapel CME Church, 108 E. Ash St., will host Watch Night services beginning at 10 p.m. Bring in the New Year by celebrating your faith and giving praise until well past midnight. Carolus Taylor of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church will be the speaker for the evening. This is a nondenominational service, and everyone is welcome. For more information, call the Rev. Williams at 443- 6028.
Damascus Missionary to mark 50th anniversary with service Damascus Missionary Baptist Church, 2447 N. 27th St., will mark its 50th anniversary with a pre-anniversary service at 3 p.m. Sunday, including as guest churches Friendship Missionary Baptist Church and Greater Faith Progressive Baptist Church. The main anniversary celebration will be at 3 p.m. June 29 and will include as guest churches Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church and Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church.
HAMDEN -- After a brief tenure as interim pastor, the Rev. Brian Odem Bellamy of New Haven will be installed as pastor of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church. Services for Bellamy's installation will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the church, 26 Edwards St. They will conclude with the formal rites of installation at 4 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Hillhouse High School auditorium in New Haven. The Rev. Keith Alan King of Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church will be the speaker. For more information, visit www.friendshipmbc.net.
Anna Lee Tucker-Freelon, 70, of Kansas City, formerly of Columbia, died Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, at her home. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until the service time at the church.
A gospel concert celebrating the first anniversary of the founding of the Reverent Praise Music Ministry will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, 506 Lincoln Drive. The Reverent Praise choir evolved from a group of vocalists and musicians who took part in a gospel music workshop organized by musician Todd Handy. The group was directed by Bret Lane in learning 10 songs, which they performed in a concert that evening.
Community members must unite and dedicate themselves to helping area youths if they want to reverse a recent increase of violent crime in Columbia, speakers at a community meeting said yesterday. Residents gathered at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, 1707 Smiley Lane, during a town hall meeting that included a panel of community leaders.
[Gaston Smith], the senior pastor of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Liberty City, faces the charges in relation to a $25,000 grant from the Metro Miami Action Plan Trust (MMAR) The money went to Smith's non-profit, Friends of MLK, in 2005, but prosecutors charged in an indictment last year that Smith withdrew more than $10,000 of the funds at various ATM machines in Florida, Texas and Nevada. He's maintaining that he is not guilty of what he's been charged with," [Larry Handfield] said Tuesday, Feb. 24. "He's charged with grand theft, which is the permanent taking of property with the intent to deprive. The issue is $25,000, [and] he has expenditures that exceed that amount, therefore whether or not any moneys were taken, we disagree on the issue whether moneys were taken with...
With a recent spike in violent crime across Columbia, teenagers often have been in the spotlight of high-profile crimes. Participants at the "Let's Talk, Columbia!" event Friday and yesterday at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church tried to get a handle on crime and pinpoint difficulties young people face in Columbia, including how they sometimes feel outside the normal bounds of society.
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