Hundreds attended a Pentecostal church Sunday despite the governor's order to avoid large gatherings.
to stay home: He leaped into the pews, paraded, hugged and laid hands on worshipers’ foreheads in prayer.
mobile home parks and public housing in low-income neighborhoods. More than 1,100 people of various races worship by age group at seven sanctuaries on the property. In addition to spiritual guidance, the church offers free breakfast. Only about 10% have stayed away, said Spell’s father, the Rev. Tim Spell, 66, including his own 90-yearA volunteer at Life Tabernacle Church outside Baton Rouge, La., checks a woman’s temperature before she can enter Sunday’s service.
As people entered the church Sunday, Life Tabernacle volunteers checked their temperatures before allowing them in. Hand sanitizer was available inside; few in the crowd of several hundred in the main sanctuary wore gloves or masks. “This is the America we’re living in now, where people are being persecuted for their faith,” Spell said as he took the singer’s hand.Wall Street, he noted, “is still open.”“If you’re going to persecute our church for staying open, don’t go to Walmart, don’t go to Planned Parenthood, don’t go to the liquor store because you’re a hypocrite,” said Spell, who was greeted with applause.
But the church, he said, has remained open for all these years despite floods and storms, including Hurricane Katrina, which ripped off the roof. Woody Jenkins, a former state representative and lawyer who runs Central City News, livestreamed the morning service. He said the church has been vital not only to Central, a town of about 29,000, but to some of Baton Rouge’s poorest residents.
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