Sunday service at Shreveport’s oldest Black church looks much different than it did in years past, when the congregation would pack the iconic downtown house of worship for prayer, singing, breaking bread and building community.
Now, lifelong and new members of Antioch Baptist sign on via Zoom or meet in different spaces around town as they raise money to fix the interior of their church that has served as their homebase since it was built in 1903.
Antioch, founded the year after the Civil War, is used to adapting…