Minister to Pay Whites to Come to Church
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From Times Wire Reports
A black Baptist minister looking to diversify his church wants to pay white people to attend his sermons.
In August, whites who go to Greenwood Acres Full Gospel Baptist Church in Shreveport, La., will get $5 an hour on Sundays and $10 an hour on Thursdays, Bishop Fred Caldwell said.
Caldwell said he didn’t think Jesus wanted his church to be exclusively black, as it nearly is.
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