DALLAS — A Baptist woman in Dallas has given $1 million to start a community center in Oak Cliff, an inner-city neighborhood just south of the city’s downtown area.
Officials of Buckner Children and Family Services and Cliff Temple Baptist Church in the Oak Cliff community said the community center will be built on church property. “It is a pleasure to give back something that I’ve been given in this holy place over 84 years,” said Jeannette Sadler, a longtime member of the Oak Cliff church. “I was practically born in the basement [of Cliff Temple Baptist] and now I teach the oldest Sunday School class in the church.”
The Cletys and Jeannette Sadler Community Center will be named for Sadler and her late husband, who was a teacher and east Texas rancher. Plans call for the community center to work with other partners in the community to provide crisis relief and assistance, after-school and youth programs, adult and family education and programs for senior adults.
Buckner Children and Family Services is a Baptist charity affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
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