Morning Star fourth burned church to get mobile unit

The March 27 delivery of a mobile chapel to Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church near Boligee made the congregation the fourth since the early February church arsons — and the second non-Southern Baptist church ever — to receive a mobile unit from the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM).
   
“It’s really neat to see what’s going on over here as a result of the mobile chapels,” said Ron Parnell, coordinator of the office of information and facility services for the SBOM. “It has helped to build good relationships, too.”
   
Morning Star Missionary Baptist members and B. Nelson Little, pastor of the nearby Galilee Baptist Church in Panola, met Parnell to ready the site for the chapel’s delivery. Little’s church, which burned the same day as Morning Star, was the first non-Southern Baptist church to receive one of the mobile units. Morning Star was planning to hold its first service in its mobile chapel April 2. 
   
On March 16, all of the first nine churches burned received a share of a total $105,717.96 given to them by the SBOM, bringing the total donated to the burned churches by the State Board to $190,717.96.