Event included singers, vendors and mobile prayer teams throughout downtown Fredericksburg.
WATCH: FailSafe-ERA focusing on April being Second Chance Month
FailSafe-ERA is a Fredericksburg area program that works with familes and inmates impacted by incarceration.
WATCH: The JM principal asks for more community volunteers at Martin Luther King service
Two community leaders also honored for their work for justice.
WATCH: Many begin Easter Sunday at a sunrise service
Sunrise services were held around the region to begin Easter Sunday. Among them, Mount Hope Baptist on Gordon Road in Spotsylvania.
WATCH: Happy Birthday Josh Hardy
Josh Hardy would have turned 18 on March 31, 2024. Ten-year-old Josh passed away in 2016 from a rare form of cancer and complications from years of treatment. The Fredericksburg area–and far beyond–got behind the #savejosh movement as his mom fought to get him an experimental drug.
City church honors ‘living legends’ in Black history
Former City Councilman and local historian recognized for their efforts.
Coldest Night of the Year asks walkers to ‘look closer’ at homelessness
This year’s event raised more than $164,000 to combat hurt, hunger and homelessness in the Fredericksburg area.
Fredericksburg added to U.S. Civil Rights Trail
On Thursday, at the Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site) that served as the backdrop of many of those milestones, Mayor Kerry Devine announced that the city’s Fredericksburg’s Civil Rights Trail: “Freedom: A Work in Progress” has been accepted to the U.S. Civil Rights Trail.
WATCH: Senator Kaine talks about religious freeom on Senate floor
Virginia Senator Tim Kaine spoke on the Senate floor on National Religious Freedom Day that honors the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (written in Fredericksburg) that became the basis of the First Amendment’s protection of religious freedom.
PHOTOS: Christmas Eve candlelight services around the region
Goshen Baptist in Spotsylvania
St. Peter’s Episcopal in Oak Grove to hold service of prayer and hope Thursday at 5:30pm
Historic church destroyed by fire this week
PHOTOS: Fire destroys Oak Grove Church
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Oak Grove destroyed early Tuesday.
PHOTOS: Scripture and song in Market Square downtown
Micah’s Scripture and Song…third time it’s been done
WATCH: Micah Ecumenical Ministries Lessons and Carols in Market Square
Micah Ecumenical Ministries third annual Lessons and Carols
WATCH: World Series champion comes home: Caroline honors Tony Beasley
Tony Beasley was the focus at a Thursday night program at Meadow Event Park. The third base coach for the World Champion Texas Rangers spoke about family and faith.
WATCH: Thanksgiving Sunrise Service in Fredericksburg
It began at Shiloh Baptist Church Old Site in 1865
Thanksgiving sunrise service in Fredericksburg
Shiloh Baptist Church Old Site downtown holding a Thanksgiving morning service
WATCH: Family Day this Saturday at south Stafford church
Bishop Ron Willis says the event is 11-3 and is open to the community. The church is on Deacon Road in south Stafford…
WATCH: $10,000 check from Mount Hope Baptist to the Food Bank
Pastor Bell and Mount Hope Baptist present check to Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank during worship service.
WATCH: Spotsylvania church makes feeding the hungry a priority
Mount Hope Baptist Church in Spotsylvania gave the Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank a $10,000 check on Sunday.