PRINCETON, Ind. (AP) - A southwestern Indiana church that's marking its 150th year is celebrating the milestone with a feast.
Sunday's catered meal at the Olive Branch Missionary Baptist Church in Princeton will be followed by cake and a special service.
Deacon Andrew Paris tells the Princeton Daily Clarion (http://bit.ly/2gF1Mav ) the church founded in 1866 is considered the first African American Baptist church in the city about 25 miles north of Evansville.
He says the church's first congregation worshipped in a shed until the current church building was built in 1871.
The congregation once had 180 members, but now numbers about 30 people, including 85-year-old Gloria Portee.
Portee says the church is filled with memories, but she wishes more people "would just walk in" to worship and join the small congregation.
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