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WASHINGTON _ When Jimmy Carter taught Sunday School there, First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C., wasn't just a house of worship. It was a tourist attraction.
Secret Service agents guarded the sanctuary. Bomb-sniffing dogs checked the pews. Television camera crews staked out the entrances. Sight-seers jostled for seats.
Today, the president is gone, and most of the pews are empty, but a Georgetown College (Ky.) graduate is working to rebuild the capital city's oldest Baptist congregation.
James Green Somerville, 43, former youth pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Georgetown, Ky., says he wants to help the 1,200-seat church "grow ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Pastor works to rebuild D.C.'s oldest Baptist congregation.(Knight...