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The holy church
When Marie Meggs walked into Christ
the Cornerstone Community Church in 2006, Pastor Otis Adams was surprised.
Elderly white women don't drop by black churches often, and he assumed her
first visit would be her last.
"It's just not normal,"
says the pastor of the DeSoto church. "Sunday is still the most
segregated hour. ... Many times white people will come and once they recognize
that it's a predominately African American church, then some won't even finish
the service. And those who do, we never see them again."
Deacon Alfred Johnson gave Marie Meggs a
hug on Sunday at Christ the Cornerstone Community Church in DeSoto.
Meggs, 94, joined the church in 2006 and is one of two white members. The
church plans to name a fellowship hall in her honor next month.
But four years later Meggs,
94, is such a cherished member of the congregation, the church is naming its
new fellowship hall after her next month.
"She's become the mother of the
church," says Adams, explaining the decision to honor Meggs. "It's
not just simply her age, it's not because she's of another race, but her impact
on the church."
Meggs, whose energy and stylish
appearance belie her years, tears up when talking about her church home and the
honor it's bestowing on her.
"I have only belonged to four
churches and there's more love here," she observes while waiting for her
Life Enrichment Sundayschool class to start. "When they love the Lord,
they love the Lord."
Sitting in a small classroom or the
larger sanctuary at the DeSoto church, the great-great-grandmother is like a
pearl nestled in black velvet. One other white person has joined the church
since she did, but everyone else in the congregation, which numbers about 75
families, is black.
Meggs began attending Christ the
Cornerstone, a Baptist church, after her previous church sold its building and
moved to Midlothian. Members of her old church offered to give her a ride to
the new location. Or she could have attended other predominantly white churches
in the neighborhood.
But Meggs chose Christ the
Cornerstone because she knew some members, including Adams' wife, from the time
the two congregations shared a building.
"We would meet in the hallway
sometime or in the parking lot on the way to our cars," Ann Adams says.
When Meggs' church moved, "I was hoping and praying that she would
seriously consider coming with us."
Though the situation is unusual, no
one treats Meggs like an oddity. "They just took me in like I was one of
them," Meggs says. "It didn't make any difference if I was white.
They thought as much of me as they did their own people and they treated me as
such. They just loved me."
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