Bishop Keith W. Reed, pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in West Philadelphia, brought the hundreds gathered at the Mount Airy Church of God in Christ’s Golden Jubilee Celebration to their feet.

But the lots at Sharon Baptist Church are all full ... and Lancaster Avenue is its fourth “new” location in West Philadelphia since pastor Willie Richardson and a handful of charter members ...

Mary Ellen Hope, a microbiologist and one of the first women ordained into the gospel ministry at Sharon Baptist Church ... She also attended Philadelphia College of Bible, where she became ...