CEDAR RAPIDS — Pastor Ray Coleman calls all of the children at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church the same name: my baby.
If he greets one, saying, “Hey, my baby!” all the others turn their heads. Coleman has five babies and seven grandbabies of his own, but he embraces every child he meets as if they were his, too.
Like any parent, Coleman wants to know when something is wrong. So if any of the children in his congregation are struggling and don’t feel like they have an adult they can talk to, they just need to whisper one word to him: McDonald’s…