You can tell a lot about a community from the inside of a barbershop. Just about everyone, at some time or another, needs a haircut.
Yet of all the patrons at the beauty and barbershop operated by Sean and Taquella Boone in metro St. Louis, one group stood out to the couple -- young African-Americans who wanted no part of the traditional church.
The Boones saw them every day. They needed to hear about Jesus, but most wouldn't have felt comfortable in the aging churches nearby.
"There's this huge generation of people who just have never heard the Gospel in a language they can understand," Sean Boone said.
So Boone started a church, New Beginnings Christian Fellowship, three years ago to reach people no one else was reaching -- the kind of people who frequented his barbershop. Now a North American Mission Board church planter working bivocationally, he is one of a handful of church planters engaging metropolitan St. Louis with the Gospel in new and fresh ways. To read more, click here.
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