Ellisville pastor the Rev. Leander Bridges can now add author to his repertoire. Bridges, pastor of Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church at 1403 Dubose
Street in Ellisville, has penned a book that was recently released by
Tate Publishing of Mustang, Okla. However, the book, Building the Black
Church: 7 Curses Facing the Black Church, was actually written seven
years ago.
"I tried to get it published back then, but nobody would pick it up," said Bridges. "I got a bit discouraged about it, so I laid the book to the side."
He let the manuscript remain idle until last year. That's when, while watching television, he heard three different ministers talk about what God had told them to do and how they had let it fall by the wayside.
"God spoke to me and told me, 'You know what you have got to do,'" said Bridges, as he sat in his church office. "So I got the book out and begin to refine it."
Still, the minister had no idea if or when his manuscript would get published. A breakthrough came when his daughter, Krista, the church's music director, began working on her first recording project.
A talented singer and praise leader, Krista McKenzie, signed with Tate Publishing, a company headquartered in Mustang, Okla. McKenzie's friend, who was working with her on the recording project, knew that in addition to music production, Tate Publishing also had an arm of the business that published books.
He suggested that Bridges submit a copy of his manuscript to the company. Bridges followed through and as the old adage goes, "the rest is history."
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Source: LeaderCall.com | Charlotte Graham, countyreporter@laurelleadercall.com
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