Morning Star Freewill Baptist Church was organized in the early 1900’s in Jacksonville’s Eastside neighborhood on Buckman Street, north of East 21st Street. The original building was destroyed by fire, and was relocated to its present site at 1528 East 20th Street. For years, this church has served the local community’s spiritual, educational, health, and social needs.

As a referral from Wells Fargo Bank, one of the Jacksonville Urban League’s business partners, Janice Murphy, Owner of Women On A Mission Inc., a non-profit organization which provides HIV and AIDS education and supportive services to the community, contacted the Jacksonville Urban League Entrepreneurship Center for assistance with re-establishing her non-profit status with the IRS.

While in the process of transitioning from the U.S. Navy to civilian life in Jacksonville, Florida, Chahn Chess began the process of pondering how he would earn a living with the skills acquired while in military service. Mr. Chess, specialized in Environmental Health and while stationed at the Hospital, located at the Naval Air Station Jacksonville, he decided that he wanted to make Jacksonville home.

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