Tenacious civil rights advocate follows his new life's path to change hearts

What time is it?” the preacher asks.

“Preaching time!” comes the collective response.

“What time is it?” he repeats.

“Preaching time!!” they answer, louder.

“What time is it?”

“Preaching time!!!”

“Gospel means ‘good news,’ and there’s no better news than the Book of John,” the Rev. Nelson B. Rivers III begins, steering the congregation at Charity Missionary Baptist Church to Chapter 9, Verses 18-25, which recount the story of the blind man made to see.

Read it all from the Faith and Values section of the local paper.

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