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SHREVEPORT, La. - Located at 1057 Texas Avenue you will find the oldest active African American church in Shreveport Antioch Baptist Church. Â
â73Â Black people came together, organized the first colored church,â said the Rev. Bruce Carroll, the current pastor who shared history of the church that dates to 1866.Â
Those members were honorably dismissed from First Baptist Church to start their own, according the Handbook of North Louisiana Online. In 2021, the church has about 75 members, very close to the original number. Â
âIt was designed that they could have a place to worship freely, in whatever manner that they chose,â said Carroll. âThe Avenue was full. It had Black businesses up and down the avenue. The people that came here were people of prominence, people of resources.â Â
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SEVIERVILLE â A Sevier County church has been removed from the Southern Baptist Convention for employing a pastor who was convicted of statutory rape involving a teenager at another local church 20 years ago.
The Southern Baptist Conventionâs executive committee voted Tuesday to disfellowship four churches, including Antioch Baptist Church on White School Road. The decision means the churches are no longer part of the organization; it has no other impact on the churches.
Information released by the SBC indicates the local church was removed due to âknowingly employing a pastor convicted of statutory rape.â
Additional information from the SBC indicates the pastor was John Randy Leming Jr., who is listed on the churchâs website as Randy Leming. SBCâs report indicates he had served as pastor at Antioch since 2014.
The Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee voted on Tuesday to expel four of its member churches, ousting two for policies that “affirm homosexual behavior” and the others for employing pastors who are convicted sex offenders. “The last year has revealed areas of weakness in our beloved convention of churches,” J.D. Greear, the S.B.C. president, said in a fiery opening address to the committee on Monday night in Nashville. “Fissures.