Pastor Bartholomew Orr, senior pastor of the Brown Missionary Baptist Church, says the American church has “big shoes to fill” when it comes to improving society.
Orr, whose Mississippi church is 10,000-members strong, told those gathered at the MLK50 Conference in Memphis, Tennessee, Wednesday that “we have some big shoes to fill,” and brought a pair of shoes to the lectern and spoke about how his father did a lot to provide both for his family and society through his work with the Civil Rights movement.
“My daddy had some big shoes to fill,” said Orr. “But my daddy was a provider. He worked by day at Hunter Fan in a factory and by night he was a shade tree mechanic and a part-time farmer.”
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