Following the split of the Washington church congregation, Adventism’s foremost Black evangelist, Lewis C. Sheafe, preached a series of evangelistic meetings in 1902, held in a tent on 16th and R. Streets, NW. Sheafe empowered Black Adventists in D.C., forming “The People’s Church.” Read more at https://columbiaunionvisitor.com/2024/what was peoples church washington dc. Images courtesy North American Division Office of Archives, Statistics, and Records and General Conference of Seventh day Adventists Archives