New Hope Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Newark, New Jersey, located at 106 Sussex Avenue in University Heights. It is affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA.
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Emily "Cissy" Houston was an American soul and gospel singer and choir director. Nicknamed The Duchess of Gospel, she is best known as the mother of American singer and actress Whitney Houston and the
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…singer Whitney Houston, who grew up attending the church and singing in the choir, as well as her cousins Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick. Whitney's mother Cissy Houston was also a lifelong active member of the congregation, and served on the Deaconess Board. A group of teenagers who sang in the James M. Baxter Terrace…
Houston in 1975
Houston's daughter Whitney Houston was mentored by Cissy during her adolescence and teenage years.
Houston in 1996
A makeshift vigil of flowers outside the hotel where Whitney Houston passed, February 2012.