Seventeenth Street Mission, Richmond VA
The Seventeenth Street Mission Paula Skreslet, D.Min. and Alice W. Campbell In 1911, Murray Grey and other students from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (later, Union Presbyterian Seminary) started an urban ministry outreach program in Shockoe Bottom, the most impoverished neighborhood of Richmond, Va. The area suffered from unpaved streets, inadequate sewage facilities, and…
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