If you’re an early bird in need of a place to worship on Sunday morning, a small church gathers for a service at 8 a.m. at Shoney’s, located at 4032 N. Broadway. The congregation meets in the private banquet room.
“We meet at 8 a.m., we worship, we have a prayer board we pray over, and then we have breakfast,” said Dr. Kenneth Link, who pastors the church, which was previously Churchwell Avenue Baptist Church in North Knoxville. “We want to welcome people.
“We want to be real. I mow my grass like everybody else and I work every day like everybody else. We want people to be real and we want people not to resent who God is and we don’t want to mold people.”…