HISTORIC BLACK CHURCH CLOSINGS

Ironically, Brooks Chapel A.M.E. Church in Butler, Bates County, Missouri, also founded in 1871, has closed this year. I formerly pastored that church, 1995-2004, and was blessed with people who had “a mind to work!” We formed the Amen Society and erected a statue to the first black troops to fight in the Civil War in 2008, on the main square in Butler on the Courthouse grounds. In 2012, the State of Missouri dedicated a 40 acre park site at the Battle of Island Mound location; to honor the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry, who fought October 1862! They defeated Confederate cavalry twice the size of their infantry before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. Visit Butler, Missouri, and see it yourself! https://www.wftv.com/news/trending/historic-black-church-boston-be-sold-after-nearly-150-years-worship/RZTG63AUOJD7VDPKXTGOTAQHVA/?fbclid=IwAR361yab_DnQjVG_jK98Js4lDOmsnqmRwlswcu4ARRBQ6q9alp_IC-plN7c