Barnetts Creek Baptist Church is...
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Barnetts Creek Baptist Church is an all-white congregation in Thomasville, Georgia. In 1996, the church was about ready to remove the remains of a little baby who had died shortly after birth and had been buried in their cemetery. They were going to do that because the church had found out that the baby had a white mother and a black father. And as one of the church members said, "This is a 100 percent white cemetery. We don't allow half-
breeds here." This reading reminds us that we are all the same in God's sight. So the distinctions we make between one another are contrary to what God intends. -- Bowen
breeds here." This reading reminds us that we are all the same in God's sight. So the distinctions we make between one another are contrary to what God intends. -- Bowen
