JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – In 1926, a small group gathered in a living room and made a promise. One hundred years later, Wells United Methodist Church is keeping it.
Wells United Methodist Church started small. But when a few Mississippi ministers dared to speak during the Civil Rights Era, Wells did. Its leaders publicly declared that all people are welcome.
“I have members that are still here today whose story is: we were a young interracial couple, and Wells was the first church that didn’t ask us to leave — and we’d never left,” said Pastor Susannah Carr…