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Article: ST. MARK CHURCH CELEBRATING ITS 80TH ANNIVERSARY
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- Herald-News (Joliet, IL)
- Article date:
- October 22, 1999
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JOLIET -- It was Oct. 22, 1919. Thirteen people met in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Ingram to conduct a worship service.
That worship service was the beginning of the church now called St. Mark Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
It was a fairly new denomination.
In 1870 in Jackson, Tenn., a group of people split from the United Methodist Church to form the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church.
By the 1950s the church, although still primarily attracting Afro-Americans, was found believers of other races joining the ranks.
This led to the changing of the denomination's name to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
The membership of St. Mark's continued to meet at the homes of ...