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4:30 am
Fri February 8, 2013

As One Year Passes, MiddleTree Church Stays Committed To Breaking Racial Divides Through Faith

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Signage directs attendees to Sunday services at MiddleTree Church, located in the Eddie Mae Binon Center near the corner of Union and Delmar Boulevards
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Greeters welcome guests for Sunday services, which typically begin at 10:30 a.m. at MiddleTree Church
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The church commemorated their first anniversary with cake after service.
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Pastor Brian Schmidgall leads the congregation in prayer. He moved to St. Louis from Wisconsin in 2009, and embarked on a mission that eventually became opening MiddleTree Church
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Attendees stand for prayer during Sunday service. MiddleTree averages between 60 and 80 people in attendance on a typical Sunday.
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The congregation stands on its feet during praise and worship.
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Three years ago, Pastor Brian Schmidgall moved from Wisconsin to St. Louis on a mission: to try to right the racial wrongs of St. Louis City through faith. He bought a home on the north side of Delmar Boulevard, and spent the next two years learning the folds of what the community needed in order to come together and move forward.

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6:30 am
Fri February 10, 2012

New church looks to heal racial divides, both internal and external

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A sign advertising Middle Tree Church outside the Eddie Mae Binion center, its home.
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Brian Schmidgall preaches to members of Middle Tree Church on Super Bowl Sunday - just the third service for his labor of love.
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Middle Tree attendees listen as Schmidgall preaches on the book of Nehemiah. Schmidgall says he identifies with Nehemiah, who is called by God to heal a broken city (Jerusalem.)
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Sharon Parker takes notes during Schmidgall's sermon. Parker says she had been praying for a church like Middle Tree for five years.
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On Sundays, rows of chairs, a city made of cardboard, and a praise band transform the auditorium of a local community center into the home of Middle Tree Church.

It's the first church associated with the Assemblies of God to open north of Delmar in almost 20 years. Its website asks, "What would communicate the love of God louder to a racially, socio-economically divided city than a church that truly unites the community that surrounds it?"

It's one man's effort to use a once racially-divided church to help heal a racially divided city.

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