Sunday Best

ID: 2902 ~ Source: “Members in front of church,” photograph. Saint James United Methodist Church Archives, Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/wacostjameshistory/photos/a.2312466825647652/2312490958978572
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Sunday Best

Ella Mae Jones (left), Ethel Gooden (middle), and Mildred Ballou (right) pose in front of the church steps on a Sunday morning.

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By Allie Roberts
St. James United Methodist Church, originally a Methodist Episcopal church, has existed almost as long as the city of Waco itself. Founded in 1874 by Anderson Brack, a formerly enslaved man, the congregation started with roughly fifty-three members.…