On Sunday, six congregations gathered at First Baptist Church of North Tulsa to mark the centennial of the massacre and to honor the persistence of the Black church tradition in Greenwood
People attend a joint service for the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre at First Baptist Church of North Tulsa on May 30, 2021, in Tulsa, Okla. | John Locher/AP PhotoTULSA, Okla. — When white attackers destroyed the prosperous Black neighborhood of Greenwood 100 years ago this week, they bypassed the original sanctuary of the First Baptist Church of North Tulsa.
He said the centennial both honors the victims of the massacre and “celebrates the resilience and the resurgence of an amazing people of God.” “The main problem is that our nation is always trying to have reconciliation without doing justice,” Faison said. “Until repentance and repair are seen as inseparable, any attempt to reconcile will fail miserably.”
“We don’t want it ever to happen again anywhere,” said the Rev. Donna Jackson, an organizer of the recognition.Pastor Deron Spoo of First Baptist Church of Tulsa, a Southern Baptist church less than two miles from the similarly named North Tulsa church, told his congregation that the massacre has been “a scar” on the city.
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