John onwuchekwa books5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Then came Onwuchekwa’s 2020 essay, “ 4 Reasons We Left the SBC,” published in The Front Porch. When a building became available, the SBC helped the church secure a loan and in 2019 provided a grant of $175,000 for refurbishing it. Native Texan and son of Nigerian immigrants, Onwuchekwa founded Cornerstone Baptist Church in 2015, with funds from another SBC congregation and $1,800 of his own money. Written by Maina Mwaura, it details Onwuchekwa’s public ascent in the Southern Baptist Convention as preacher, church planter and the hopeful presence of people of color in America’s largest Protestant denomination, a membership 85% white, 6% black, 3% Latino/a. John Onwuchekwa, lead pastor at Cornerstone Church, Atlanta, when a friend sent me a Religious News Service article about him. ![]()
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