COLUMBIA — Just moments before church begins on Sunday morning, show horses still prance around the dirt floor of the arena at the Boone County Fairgrounds. As the Rev. John Gray opens the 8:15 a.m. service with a prayer, the horses continue to gallop around the ring. For a more traditional service, this may have posed a problem, but for the Fellowship of Christian Cowboys, it goes unnoticed.
Fellowship of Christian Cowboys leads morning service at Boone County Fairgrounds
Sunday, July 20, 2008 | 5:41 p.m. CDT;
updated 4:27 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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