12.20.2008 9:47 am
Live at the Apollo…Jesus Christ!
Special to the Post-Dispatch
Waiting in line for the Apollo's first worship service. (Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times)
The House that James Brown built has had a new first. It hosted its first worship service: “Harlem Hallelujah.”
The event was led by the prominent New York City minister, Rev. Dr. Suzan D. Johnson Cook (known as “Dr. Sujay”), pastor of the Bronx Christian Fellowship Baptist Church. It packed the house. And it is the first in a series of worship services at the hallowed Harlem landmark.
I’ve been wondering how (or if) something like this would translate in St. Louis. Where would it be held? The Fox? Who would have the civic gravitas to take the lead on it? Could it cross racial/demographic/denominational lines? Would it pack the house?
