Keith Caleb News Today

Wednesday, that “lift” is specifically for Natalie Rainer, the cyclist who was severely injured in a crash on August 13. Customer after customer came up to the register saying, “I’m here for Natalie.”

Formerly enslaved preacher John Jasper founded Richmond’s Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in an abandoned Confederate horse stable, two years after the Civil War’s end. Today, it’s a local pinnacle of faith and service and remains an essential source of support and sustenance for thousands in the region.