Houston, TX, United States
Damascus Missionary Baptist Church. This congregation traces its history to 1866, when the Rev. I. S. Campbell was sent by the National Baptist Convention to organize African American churches in Texas immediately after the Civil War. Assisted by Joseph smalley, Campbell organized Damascus Missionar
y Baptist Church to serve residents of the West End and Chaneyville neighborhoods, part of Houston's Sixth Ward. The Rev. Louis Hansburg served as first pastor of the new church, which met in the home
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