Damiano Beltrami

RADIO REVEREND: Fort Greene's Institutional Church of God in Christ, led by Bishop Carl Williams Jr., is broadcasting its services on the radio after a 30-year absence from the airwaves.

Church Regains its Radio Voice

April 11, 2009
Damiano Beltrami
The Local

Brooklyn —

Small girls in pink prom dresses held their breath. Young choir members cleared their throats quietly. Senior congregants like Lillian Ede drifted back to the times when gang members would sit in the back pews, craning their necks to see the pretty girls.

Then Bishop Carl Williams Jr. took the microphone, and the Institutional Church of God in Christ was back on the air after an absence of more than 30 years.

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