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Fantasia Barrino Taylor is celebrating her late grandmother's life by hosting a night of worship with big names like Tasha Cobbs and The Walls Group. The 33-year-old American Idol winner is calling on people everywhere to gather at Temple Memorial Baptist Church in High Point, North Carolina on August 27 to honor God.  She says it's what her grandmother, who served as a pastor for a number of years, would have wanted.  "Let us come together and do something my Grandmother always wanted before she left this troubled World. Praise, Worship & Prayer TOGETHER," Fantasia said on Instagram. Fantasia was struck by grief after her grandmother passed away from a massive heart attack in 2015.  "A real life Angel has left us. Lord help me please," she wrote on social media at the time. "I Love You Pretty Lady... Rest Baby REST tell God I Love Him More than ANYTHING."  Some other performers at her event include Domonic Ricks, Bishop Wend...

Fantasia Taylor is honoring her late pastor grandmother with the help of some of gospel music's biggest voices to bring a worship event to North Carolina. Taylor, the 33-year-old "American Idol" alumna who won as Fantasia Barrino, invited gospel stars Tasha Cobbs Leonard and The Walls Group to help celebrate her late grandmother, Apostle Addie L Collins, at the Temple Memorial Baptist Church in High Point, North Carolina . While the event will not take place until August 27, the singer who is often referred to as the mononym Fantasia, took to Instagram to call on the North Carolina cities of High Point, Greensboro, Winston Salem and surrounding communities to worship together during troubling times. "Let us come together and do something my Grandmother Always wanted before she left this troubled World. Praise, Worship & Prayer TOGETHER," Fantasia captioned the flyer for the event. "I have some of my dearest friends coming to Help us do just that...

Many churches call themselves the first Southern Baptist church. Now we explore the origin of the first Baptist church. Many historians and theologians claim that Baptists have existed outside and separated from the Catholic Church and Protestant denominations.   Baptist churches mainly existed in England, especially in Europe. The belief system was transmitted in the New World. The very first Baptist congregations in America were set up in the seventeenth century. From the very beginning, here comes the denomination membership in the U.S, which is assessed to be about 16 million people.   Baptist churches like Temple Memorial Baptist Church continue to grow in America for the next 200 years, at the time of civil war era, there was a schism amongst the fellowship. In 1845, The Baptist congregation get spilled over the issue of slavery. The Baptist from the southern states presented slave holding and the Northern Baptists tried to save slaveholders. Now the Southern B...