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'Where are all the Black people?': The racial divide in Prairie Christian churches


Posted: Apr 25, 2021 2:00 AM MT | Last Updated: April 27
Serena Prescott (centre) and her husband Kaelan Prescott (left) onstage with their child at City Life Church in Leduc, Alta.(Submitted by Serena Prescott)
This story is part of the Black on the Prairies project, a collection of articles, personal essays, images and more, exploring the past, present and future of Black life in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. 
The racial make-ups of the church Serena Prescott attends today and the south-central Edmonton church where her father was pastor when she was growing up are as different as night and day.  
It was very much a Black church, she said, recalling the Black American-style preaching she grew up hearing at Edmonton Community Worship Hour, the church known as ECWH. Think of Bishop T.D. Jakes it would be like that the singing, the choir, the movement. It was fun.   ....

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The power of music 
“This is my song, O God of all the nations, a song of peace, for lands afar and mine.” As a teenager, I learned “Finlandia” in church, but it really took hold of me when I was a camp counselor. As we sang it around campfires and in the dining hall, it taught me that God’s world is much bigger than the “cloverleaf and pine” in my own backyard and that God loves every land, not just mine. Years later, shortly after the United States invaded Iraq, I attended an Indigo Girls concert. Throughout the evening, the energized audience danced and sang along with the exuberant folk-rock music. To the audience’s surprise, the concert closed with an a cappella version of “Finlandia.” I was stunned at how still and quiet the concert hall became as the song seemed to bind us people of different faiths and none together in a prayer for peace. Such is the power of song.  ....

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