Join us on Sunday, June 17th for Juneteenth Sunday.  Deacon Jackie Mcleod will be our preacher.  

“Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later.

Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as “Juneteenth,” by the newly freed people in Texas.” (Source: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/historical-legacy-juneteenth)

Juneteenth celebrates the moment when all were declared free.  Yet we know that freedom by proclamation is one thing, but true freedom is a dream yet unfulfilled for so many.  There is still much work to do.