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Middle Tree
6:30 am
Fri February 10, 2012

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

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Credit (Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio)
A sign advertising Middle Tree Church outside the Eddie Mae Binion center, its home.
Credit (Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio)
Brian Schmidgall preaches to members of Middle Tree Church on Super Bowl Sunday - just the third service for his labor of love.
Credit (Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio)
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.)
Credit (Rachel Lippmann/St. Louis Public Radio)
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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