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Byline: Jim Feehan The Register-Guard
Through 17 pastors, numerous floods that swamped their shanties, and the persistent denial of jobs and housing for parishioners, St. Mark Christian Methodist Episcopal Church always had Mattie Reynolds.
So on Sunday, the oldest African-American congregation in Eugene commemorated the start of its 55th year by naming a prayer room in Reynolds' honor. At 84, Reynolds is the only one of the nine founding members who remains.
About 75 people packed the small, wood-framed church on a street named for her late husband, Sam Reynolds, who helped build the church.
Roy Lee Samuels, an elder in the ministry at Bethel Temple Faith Ministries
in Eugene, was one of several church members who described how the woman, affectionately known as "Mother" Reynolds, touched their lives.
Samuels, who grew up across the street from...
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