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Warm welcome
Meggs lives independently in her own
home. And she still drives.
She pulls up to the church in a small
gray Toyota Echo about 30 minutes before Sunday morning services. An
usher hustles out of the church to open her car door. Someone else carries her
Bible and a third person lends her an arm to lean on.
The chairman of the hospitality
committee greets her with a hug. She takes Meggs' car keys so she can later
leave several prepared meals – meat loaf, green beans, candied sweet potatoes,
pineapple raisin and apple salad and cornbread – in the car for her to take home.
Meggs walks slowly, balancing on her
high heels with a cane. Even so, Pastor Adams says she is among the church's
most active members. She participates in special events like a recent women's
conference. She bakes goodies, sews costumes for church pageants, raises money
and recruits new members.
Meggs was born in 1915 in a log cabin
in Dexter, Texas, outside Gainesville. Racial
segregation was the norm when she was younger, but, she says, "I have
always loved people, no matter black, yellow, white whatever."
The worship style at Christ the
Cornerstone includes guitar and drums, piano and a choir with tambourines. It's
different from what she's accustomed to, but Meggs enjoys it. She doesn't sway
during hymns, but rhythmically taps the back of the chair in front of her. She
doesn't shout the way some congregants do, but claps her hands and murmurs the
occasional "Amen."
"The only thing against it is
it's too loud," she says.
But there's no question Christ the
Cornerstone is her church. When her only son died, she asked Pastor Adams to
conduct the service. Her white family was there, and her black church family
turned out in force.
Though Meggs has lost her husband and
her son, she's not alone. She has two grandchildren, four great-grandchildren
and two great-great-grandchildren. Some of them occasionally attend services
with her, and great-grandson Max Meggs says the family has been surprised but
supportive of her church choice.
Pastor Adams says Meggs' presence in
the congregation has been a growth experience for other members.
Initially some were skeptical, he
says, but now she is "revered." Many of them call her during the week
or drop by to visit. "It has brought the reality of our faith into
practice," he says.
On April 9, the weekend Christ
the Cornerstone celebrates its fifth anniversary, a short ceremony will be held
dedicating the Marie Meggs fellowship hall.
"It surprised me so much, I
can't begin to tell," Meggs says. "Only God knows how much I love
those people."
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