For the first time in 138 years, two Baptist churches in Tampa, Fla., divided since the Civil War, worshiped together under the same church roof. Members of the Beulah Baptist Institutional Church, which was founded by former slaves, came to First Baptist Church, Tampa, Feb. 9 for the worship service. “All together, we must have had 700 people here,” said…
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