Black churches, via phones and Facebook, bridging digital divide amid COVID-19
Black churches, via phones and Facebook, bridging digital divide amid COVID-19 by: Adelle M. Banks Apr 30, 2020 (RNS) — When Pastor Florine Newberry of Mattie Richland Baptist Church in rural Pineview, Georgia, realized her congregation wouldn’t be able to meet in the church’s blue carpeted sanctuary due to the coronavirus pandemic, “I just saw the sheep scattering,” she said. Many of the 45 to 50 members of Newberry’s independent church do not have computers […]