Church ‘runs out of people’ after 166 years and closes for good [View all]

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DALLAS — For 166 years, they came to pray and sing, to see loved ones baptized and married, to grieve and console.

The congregation at Pleasant View Baptist Church wasn’t the biggest or best known in the buckle of the Bible Belt. But it was a constant presence — until earlier this year, when the doors closed quietly and without ceremony for the last time.

The church “just ran out of people,” pastor Bob Hendley, who is overseeing the shutdown, told The Dallas Morning News.

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