City of Refugee Ministries holds Black Owned Business Shop 2025
The event was held in conjunction with Black History Month and offered a way for 25 black-owned local businesses so the church and community could 'patronize' the businesses, according to CORM's website.
It was held at the City of Refuge Ministries church in Bloomington on Saturday morning.
Pastor William Bennet said it's all about bringing unity to the community.
'The community has come out in a big way to help support this event, and purchase some of the items. And even if they're not purchasing, they're getting the information, you know, where these businesses. So we want it to also be able to affect and impact the economics of our, you know, local businesses. And the community has helped us out in a big way on that,' said Bennet.
They plan on holding more Black Owned Business Shop's in the future.
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